Last weekend we let the kittens out of their cage for awhile to explore the barn. They are supposed to stay in with mama cat until she gets spayed, but that is sad so we let them out from time to time.
Shortly after I took these pictures Miss L climbed up on the big barn storage dresser to look behind it at the kittens. She lost track of her place on the dresser and fell off, knocking down a mason jar full of pencils in the process. The jar broke and she got a big cut across the ball of her foot from the sharp glass.
A trip to urgent care and about 5 hours later she came home all bandaged and glued. They x-rayed the cut to make sure that there was no glass in it. I had to carry her around for the next three days so that she would not walk on it. We brought the kittens in the house to entertain her. She had a rough time with the pain that first night and I had to give her Tylenol twice before she finally fell asleep at 3 am.
Another batch of chicks hatched this week. We had 18/19 eggs hatch, but one chick only lasted a few hours.
The big teenage chicks next door are almost ready to go outside now.
No pictures, but I butchered the two meanest geese this week. I intended to butcher all 5 of the extra ones, but it was a LONG process because of how hard it is to pluck them and the cold weather. After 3.5 hours I decided to be done. We had
spiced roast goose for dinner today. The other geese have become a lot more mellow and mama goose decided to set on her eggs.
My broody hen has been setting on 4 turkey eggs for 3 weeks now. One more week to hatching time!
I have about a dozen other turkey eggs in the incubator. I just put them in on Thursday, so they have a long way to go.
AND one of our rabbits had 7 kits last week. It really feels like Spring!
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