So, a lot of people don't know this about us, but we have become backyard farmers within a matter of months. We moved from our apartment in Rexburg, ID to rent a home, and I guess we felt like we had so much freedom that we went kind of wild with this. It started with two baby chicks from Cal Ranch, in a cardboard box, and turned into a full on urban homestead. We currently have all of the following animals: 27 Chickens (some are roosters), 2 ducks, 2 goats (both of which are going to have babies this month), and 5 rabbits.
Honestly, I absolutely love all of our animals! I love when I go to feed the chickens in the morning and they all follow and swarm around me. And I love those cute goats. The other day we got 2 new bunnies just to have as pets. They are the cutest little things! The other rabbits don't have names and are just big and scratch when you try to hold them. They are just meat rabbits anyway.
Our neighbor was so nice and let us borrow her incubator to hatch out all of our chickens. It was really quite the experience to watch all those little chicks come into the world. Now its fun to watch them run around the yard chasing grasshoppers. Layton built them a nice chicken coop with some old pallets and a saws-all. After he did the same with the Rabbit hutch, I figured it was about time to get him a circular saw. So he built the goat house a lot faster.
We are getting ready to kill a bunch of the chickens now that they are getting big enough to kind of tell which ones are chickens that will give us eggs and which ones will annoy the neighbors with their crowing. I plan on having lots of chicken on the menu for a while :)
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| Feed time! |
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| Me with Big Mama |
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| Luna |
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| The chicken coop |
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| Goat shelter |
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| Our flock |
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| Our pet bunnies: Chester and Dotty |
Love,
The Waltons
