Sep. 12, 2009 - Our Farm Animals
God's Creatures On Our Farm
I love animals. I believe I inheirted this love for animals from my daddy. I would have a farm full of animals if we had the room and money to care for them. DH loves them too and indulges me in this area. Right now, we have 10 chickens and 3 dogs. We have talked about getting a pig to raise for meat but DH is hesitant. He knows I get easily attached. We have also toyed with the idea of goats. Anyway, lets get to the few animals we do.
As I said we have 9 chickens; 1 rooster and 8 hens. Our rooster's name is Cornflake. You will see why we named him that when you see his picture. He used to roam free in our yard with a hen. When the hen was killed, we put him back in the hen house with our other hens.
Cornflake is a dandy. He likes being the center attention. Can you tell? He is a beautiful bird. If I knew more about showing chickens, I believe I could have won with him. We like the looks of the Buff Orpington and hope to raise more in the future.
Our other 8 chickens are Barred Rocks. They are all hens and live in the chicken house. We raised them from peeps. They don't have individual names. We refer to them as the pee-pees. Our chickens provide us with 8 eggs a day . I use as many as I can and sell the rest.
We have dogs; 1 outside dog and 1 inside dog. Our outside dog is a lab mix. She was set out beside our mailbox on a cold winter day. Her name comes from the fact we found her on a snowy morning. We named her Snowflake. Her name surprises everyone. You will know why when you see her picture. We have to keep her on a runner because she won't stay out of the road. She is our alarm dog. Her runner is near our garden beds. That has kept alot of critters out of our garden beds, including rabbits and groundhogs. She is great to have around. She keeps the opossums and racoons from coming in our yard. She has also kept the coyotes from coming to close. Her doghouse use to be an old well pump-house.
 |
 |
Our inside dog is our my spoiled child. Her name is Annie Oakley. We call her Oakley. She has bought alot of joy to our lives. (I know alot of people don't understand how people can become so attached to a dog or any other animal for that matter. All I can say is that she fills a void in our life that because of certain circumstances couldn't be filled any other way. I will explain that fully one day.) She is a very intelligent dog and can do several tricks. Here is our Annie Oakley.
I love the first picture. It really looks like she is talking to her toys. She can identify each one of them. We can tell her to go get her puppy and she will return with her puppy. The same with the bunny. The second picture is her begging trick which usually insures that she will get what she wants, especially if she sticks her tongue out too. The third picture she is waiting for her daddy to get home. I don't know how animals do it but they can tell time. She knows what time he will be home and if he is a little late she will stare at the door until he comes home.
Well, that is our very small collection of farm amimals. If we add to our collection any time soon I will let you know.
| 
