I hope that everyone is having a good start to 2012. How many of ya'll have made resolutions? I have made quite a few... too many actually. How many have we bombed out on already? Hmmm... I'm not ready to divulge that information yet! lol
So far, things are pretty quiet here on the farm. I had a chat with a few of the hens. The Easter Eggers were not laying at all, so I let them know in plain terms that they needed to get into action if they didn't want to end up as stew meat. It was really an idle threat, because I could not do them in myself. If John wants to try his hand at it, fine. Anyway, they seemed to have gotten my message. We've had quite a few green eggs in the last couple of weeks.
The boys are all in dry lot until spring. We had all of the fields reseeded in late fall and so the boys will have to make do with grain and hay until it's warm and dry enough to let them back into their pastures. Hopefully by March we'll have a nice pastures of orchard grass for them to eat!
The girls have been more fortunate. We created a containment area for future visiting alpacas (primarily for females coming in for breedings). Since we currently have no visitors, our girls have had the fortune of grazing there. They have to take turns. The bred females and Kisses go in one group. The open girls and the baby boys go in the other group. It's fun to watch them charge down there and then back up to the barn later! Sometimes they will even prank!
Oh, we did have a vet procedure done on our male llama last week. He was neutered last Monday. I'm happy to say that he survived the surgery quite nicely and is already totally healed. That should help calm him down. He was getting pretty rowdy with the alpacas.
Have a great week, everyone! I hope to give you some more photos by next week.
