Today, I drug the wee one out with me to do chores. We gave the goats their corn by hand, out in the field (we're trying to keep them on their toes *shiftily look around* you never know what'll happen next!) so, if they wanted their corn (they always want their corn :) they'd have to put up with me looking at their hooves. The snow? or something has softened them!!! To the house! Collect; Cutco Scissors :), toothbrush, and in my pocket already was some needle nosed pliers. I'm not sure what I'd need them for, but I already had them in my pocket :). To the barn! They came, and I caught Slash, held her up to the barn, and cleaned out and trimmed all 4 hooves. *HUGE grin* YES!
These guys are almost a year old, and have never had their hooves trimmed. I've been waiting for... some guts, I suppose.
Today, we had all 12 ducks dive under!!! Which may or may not have been partly due to the broccoli we put in the water. The past 2 days, we've put in lettuce (it floats), so they kind of had to dive a bit to get all the broccoli. :) Ducks (ours, at least) LOVE broccoli (chopped up, of course!).
Oh my gosh, I forgot, I took out the 7 chickens that will make it past May this year last night--they are in a tub, in my living room, which is also our bedrooms and Ben's play area. They are doing fine. They are quiet, subdued little ones, but hopefully they'll perk up. The bonus for us is that we do not have another heat lamp, so they are as close to the heater as possible, and it's turned up a bit--I think it's probably close to 70 in there!!! (warmer as you get closer to the heater :)
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