The New Critters

LUCKY

WAY back in March, Karryn hatched a duck egg in her incubator that Jim bought on Ebay.  The little guy was so cute as a baby.

Lucky Ducky Patrick (hatched right before St Patrick's Day - thus the name....) loves Karryn.  He follows her around and snuggles her.  

And he loves a bath.

Patrick lives with the chickens and seems to rule the roost.  The pair of chicks shown on the blog last year are a hen and a rooster.  The hen, Mrs Captain Davy Jones, is a sweet little hen.  She will let us hold her, lays eggs for us and then sits on the last few eggs to hatch them.  Snufflles is a really pretty rooster and produced a few chicks.  Then he got aggressive and we shipped him off to the farm down the street (really - the farm down the street really did take him).  We also took another rooster down there and traded for 4 baby chicks............ALL of which turned out to be roosters!  We took them back to the farm plus another rooster chick that was hatched here and traded for a hen from the hen house.  The first night we had her we went down to the barn to check on her a few times, each time she was out of the chicken stall and somewhere else in the barn.  The chickens are locked in the stall but she must have flown over the wall.  Her name is Houdini. 

  Karryn just hatched 3 baby chicks, also from Ebay, and they live in the kitchen............yay!  So the final count is 1 duck, 2 hens, 2 roosters, and 3 baby chicks.  Thank goodness there is NO partridge in a pear tree!  (Actually, the pear tree fell down across the road during a storm this last summer - but that's another story.)

SALLY

We got Sally the first part of August, right before Brennan's birthday, so he got to name her.  When we got her we thought that Maggie would help train her - she spent the first couple of months completely ignoring her.  They have recently started to play together.

and she grew, and she grew and she grew.......... (and I bought a carpet cleaner!)  She is now almost 5 months old.