Happy HALLOWEEN !

Henni wanted to dress this year.....She is a little indian

The cats...

I think every farm needs some cats....

                                  Here is Aladdin, and buttercup in the background
      Aladdin is Buttercup`s baby.......my oldest daughter  model lady had a solid black cat before
and when she seen Buttercup had a almost solid black kitten, well she just had to keep it...the other black cat we had was named Midnight....

 

Here is Aladdin playing in the shrub while I was out in the garden.

 

 

Here is Buttercup, with her babies, yes, she had them in a bucket...

She sorta likes buckets.

 

Here is Buttercup and her mama Tigeress( tigeress is a bob-tailed)

 

Like I said Buttercup loves being in a bucket, I happened to take this one during the summer months, she was taking a nap in the bucket...

 

Here is the three cats we had over winter...

Cookie, tigeress and buttercup...

We no longer have cookie, she took off and haven't seen her since...

Cookie is Tigeresss mama...

 

 

Here are just a few of the kittens we have had here on the farm,,,I always find a good home for all of them...We have had several generations of cats here on the farm...Several that have been Siamese, as I do so like the Siamese cats....or rather those ones that are colored up like them, don't really like the apple head ones...I think that is what you call them....and we have also had a few that have been bob-tailed...

Well I hope you so enjoy looking at the cats that are here on the farm...

Cochins....

 

I thought would post some of my chickens today, I have both the Bantam and the standard size....todays post will be on the bantams...My cochins, I just love the breed of the cochins...I only have the bantam size.

The Above picture is Dancer, my splash bantam cochin, Last year I decided to name all of the roosters that are here on the farm....Dancer got his name because when I first got him he would dance alittle with his neck...Some of the hens are named as well.

 

Here is the hen I got with him when I got Dancer at a swap meet.

She doesn't have a name....Unless I could call her splash.

 

This is Bluebell, When I got her at the swap meet she came with a bunch of little chicks....Some turned out to be frizzles...most of them were roosters and a couple of them have been rehomed.

 

 

This is my frizzle pen....the rooster is Bluebell`s baby, all grown up, his name is blue beard...He is the frizzled
The light tan chickens are bantams, not sure on the breed as they was given to cameo girls....and so is the little blue cochin in here as well. The white one came out of my Bert( Columbian Project)....and then the other one is from the bantams and Bluebeard`s baby, kind of of black, blue and a little tan on it...

 

 

This is Belle, one of Bluebell`s babies all grown up and setting on two eggs...yes she is setting now, I think it is kinda of late in the season to be setting, but she wanted to set , so I put some eggs under her..

This is Bert, the Columbian cochin rooster for my project in that color...I have a birchen colored hen and Belle in with him, hopefully will have a buff Columbian project going as well next year, maybe.

 

Here is the birchen colored hen that is in with Bert, no name.

 

 

This is my Barred bantam cochin Rooster named Broden...Right now I have him in with 2 white and a red bantam cochin hens. Got him originally to try a project of the buff barred, maybe one day I will get me some more buffs.

 

This is Hershey, a Chocolate colored cochin, I asked the person I got him at the swap what color could I put with him to keep this color going, they told me a white, but am not sure ...Right now I got him in with a black hen...He was just to pretty of a color to pass up, when I got him...

 

I also have a pair of partridge colored bantam cochins, but they are alittle camera shy...the rooster is named scout.

 

Cochins are a very gentle breed of chickens, they are not heavy on the egg laying, but make excellent mothers and setters....they are just little fluff balls.

Can you tell that I love the breed of cochins....

 

The muscovy....

I was going to do a blog on a breed of my chickens That I so love, but since it is raining here today, decided  to a post on the ducks here.....My Muscovy.....
I have had Muscovy ducks for quite awhile....When I was growing up we had Muscovy , I remember  one of them their foot froze off at that time when I was growing up we didn't have any water for them to get in....they were in with the chickens...and pretty much stayed penned up....

My Muscovy as a adult free-range....I never hardly penned them up, unless the hens have babies...I have a small kiddie sandbox, the ones shaped like a turtle, neither one of my two girls rarely played in,  besides they are too old now to play in a sandbox, so that is the duck pond...
Muscovy really don't need water to play in, but I like to have them water to take a bath and play in and besides get a drink...
Muscovy duck are a quiet duck, hardly do they ever quack....they do quack, but not very often . Their quack is not like any other duck...

As you can see in the picture I use both the top and the bottom....but mainly the bottom of the sandbox....This is Boss, my drake, he is a dark blue pied....I trade a hen for him a few years ago, He has produce me some whites with blue eyes....I named him Boss since to me he looks like some mob boss type ....yes all of my ducks are named....

 

The above is lavender, a blue pied....Something got her this year....she always produce  very pretty babies.

 

This is Mary with one of her babies...at the duck pond

 

This is one of the babies as well,,,,something got him

 

Mary, with her brood

 

 

This is Lillie, I rehome her to someone that was looking for a hen....don't really know what color she would be considered....

 

This is either Mary or Miah...they look alike

 

Lavender with her brood

I traded for these, I really wanted the white drake seen in the picture, we named him cotton, then let him out and he disappeared, Boss chased him off and I rehome the other drake in the picture and kept the chocolate pied hen...named her Miah

 

Here is Boss and mascara...

Mascara was from a chocolate pied hen and a chocolate drake....The drakes name was chocolate,...I don't remember what the hen was named....

The Muscovy I have now are pretty much all related except for miah...That is why I wanted the white drake for....but I guess I should have penned Boss up ...

 

Well I hope you enjoy the Muscovy pictures.....

Enjoy!

Squirrel...

Was doing the Facebook thing the other day....looked out the window while I had my camera...seen this squirrel in the yard outside the window.....thought I would post a picture....no very often is a squirrel in the yard....Bandit or Tux usually chases it further up the tree....we have quite a few hickory nuts in our yard.....sometimes we can see the squirrels playing with Bandit.....the squirrels run up the tree and just sound their little laugh....they are fun to watch ...

The chihuahua`s..

Yes, We do own some those little ankle biters here....I just love our Chihuahuas....Frist off, I will introduce you to Trixie, who is a very good little Chihuahua. She has litters of pups for me , once with our first male Chihuahua, Jake , who we not longer have ,and sad to say I don't have any pictures of him....Jake love Hot Dogs...more on him later...this is about Trixie....first , Trixie has howled when a tornado was near the house....she is not your typical Chihuahua, she loves to take long walks, go after critters when Bandit goes after them( can read about bandit on a previous post)...she loves to snuggle with you on the couch , but don't move, she sometimes lets you know she doesn't want you to move.....she is getting up in years , but we love her dearly...Trixie loves to be outside and sun .
             
                                        Next Is princess....

 

 

Princess is longer with us, don't really know what happened to her...we went to St Louis and came back home and she was gone out of the pen and no wheres to be found...she was a very sweet Chihuahua, her and Trixie grew up together...Jake was her father..we got her from Stud service fee with Jake...her mama is no longer living as well. Trixie and Princesses was just like sisters, they did have moments where they did fight , then they would cuddle up with each other....she would always dry Trixie off by licking her whenever she got wet after a bath...We do so miss her.....

 

Next is Frosty.

 

Frosty is no longer with us either, I rehomed him to someone else...he started out as a solid white pup and as he grew he got light cream colored spots...he was a very active little Chihuahua , who loved to run....He was a leggy type of Chihuahua...

 

Next is Tux...

Tux doesn't like his picture to be taken. He is Trixie and Frosty son...We named him tux, because when he was a puppy he looked just like he had a little blue tux on....he is blue in color and like Trixie, loves to go for walks and go after critters...he will help Bandit go after armadillos ...they are a sight to see...first bandit goes in the hole , then Tux....He loves to run and is always, very happy....only keeps one ear up...Tux is a outside dog unless it is freezing outside.

Jake was a very sweet Chihuahua , kinda of set in his ways...he was suppose to be 5 years old when we got him....he didn't like to snuggle  except with me....He just disappeared one day...he didn't hardly have any teeth, So I am thinking he just went off somewhere and lay down and went to Doggy Heaven....We have never found any remains of him.......

Well I think that sums up the Chihuahuas....Chihuahuas maybe little , but they are mighty and act like they are much bigger then they really are....They need to be inside during the frigid cold weather we get here sometimes.....and yes they do come in the house.....
Hope you enjoy looking at these critters, the Chihuahuas