Donkey

We got a donkey on Friday! I have been looking for a donkey. We got Jenny for $200 and that included delivery! She is great! She spent a few nights in our rabbit barn, but today she is out and about in her 1/4 acre pen Daryl put up for her. She loves it too! Soon as I get done with lunch I will go see how she is doing. We went ahead and used our fence we were gonna put up at the front of the property. Jenny needs her own space. Plus rabbits were ready for her to move out--haha! She was knocking all the rabbit feeders off the cages and we had a few, "jail breaks". Everybody has been caught though. Jenny either smelled the food in the feeders or she was bored. She is looking great in her new pen now though. There is a donkey that lives way back behind us. We don't see him, but we hear him and she does too. When he HeeHaws she does too. It is great!

i will have pics up soon!

MARY

New fence.

Here is our new entry way. We are putting up new fence around our five a acres.

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Fencing

Fencing has been going well. Daryl & I are out there working every day he is off work. I would say we have 90% of the wood posts done! We also talked with neighbor on other side of us. Her old horse fence was on our property. Tomorrow I think we will be taking it down so we can put up our last posts. We're getting there! By next  payday we will be buying another roll of fence & metal posts.

MARY

rabbit breeding

Last night we headed out to the rabbit barn and bred some rabbits. We were out there well over a hour and I think we got some good matches. We left them together over night too. And the plan is to rebreed the same ones next Saturday to make sure it took. I am so ready to have kits again. I miss having the baby buns! (we really need new ones to sell too)

Also groomed our giant angora Popcorn. She is so pretty, but poor girl gets so knotted. Daryl gave her a trim, but after that she wasn't in the mood for breeding so we will breed her next week.

I was still thinking about getting the Leghorn chicks. After spending the $1000 on fencing the budget is a little low so I will have to see how much they are. Won't hurt to wait a month or so on them. I just get excited when it comes to the chickens and getting a few more was pretty exciting!

Ok...gonna finish up breakfast then head outside with Daryl to start the fence! It is cooler today so we better work hard so we warm up!

Fencing

Yesterday I went with the next door neighbor and I bought fencing. $1000 worth & still do not have it all. Still need 2 rolls of fence and a million metal posts...ok really 60 posts. Today we work on fence and I am thrilled!

MARY