Wehner Homestead

[Wehner Homestead]

Still awaiting arrivals from the maternity ward - 2 does to kid and a cow to calve.

Weather here is horrible right now. Rain was so bad we couldn’t see the fence at one point. I snapped this image to show y’all when the downpour subsided some. (The first stream before the fence is our driveway. The waterlogged cattle pasture is next with the true creek after it. You can also see the stream of water coming down the hill from the farmer’s grain field beside our farm.

The sky while DS and I were waiting on DD1 to get off the bus. You can see the stark contrast that a major change was building.

The waterfall before all of the rain late this afternoon. DS and I walked through the cows while DD2 took her nap. We then went to the waterfall for him to throw rocks in. The kids love that!

An interesting rock at the waterfall.

A cave that has become visible in a large rock since we’ve lived here. Used to be able to drive the tractor over this rock. It’s now eroded too much and not wide enough.

So...this happened today! Easter surprise for kids from DH and I. There are 12. These are straight run from an incubation from a friend that was waiting on their chickens to clear from being combined to breed to the separate roosters. There are at least 3 blue Americans mix, other possibilities would be Mottled or Lavender Orpington or Swedish Flower Hens. I couldn’t pass up free! (I’ll try to get better pics soon so you can see the beautiful colors.)

Pics of bottle time:
CeCe and her milk face!

Sparkle nibbling on hay after her bottle. (@Goat Whisperer the girls ignore the chopped alfalfa but love alfalfa pellets.)

 

[Bruce]

Have the kid's tried rafting the drive in their plastic snow sleds yet?

 

[Wehner Homestead]

No. If they were a bit older and it wasn’t lightning, I’m sure they would though. They like to sled down it in the snow before DH scrapes the snow off.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Maxine had her heifer calf this morning! Thinking it’s baby day around here...I think Snowflake is going to release the hostages! Updated pics and info on the kidding thread. Nellie isn’t far behind her...

Took some piggy pics while in their pen feeding them this morning.

Had to make a quick necessity run to the local general store yesterday and had to check the maternity ward when I got home. Found this...Cowboy, Jewel, and Minnie (cat.) Pic from inside my vehicle as I was afraid they’d move if I got out before I took the pic and they did! Lol

 

[promiseacres]

Your Aussies are calm when a car drives up? Our Maizy goes nuts around vehicless. Cute pic though. Piggies look good too.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Your Aussies are calm when a car drives up? Our Maizy goes nuts around vehicless. Cute pic though. Piggies look good too.

Only our vehicles.

 

[animalmom]

Ahem, pictures of the new wee cowette? Please and thank you.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Ahem, pictures of the new wee cowette? Please and thank you.

Beat ya to it! Lol! They are on the Calving thread.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Pics and stories of the two litters of triplet goats in less than 18 hrs are now up on the kidding thread. I’ve got some other farm news and pics to post on the journal that I’ll try to work on tonight.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

It’s been a very busy and tiring weekend here!

We took another creek walk on Friday afternoon. DH and the kids were wanting to see Maxine’s heifer and she was out in the pasture. Gave us a great chance for some exercise and to check everyone over.

Cowboy in the creek. (Oscar is on the rock behind him.)

Chester followed us out there too!

Sophie was afraid she was missing the fun too! (3 of our 8 cats were in the pasture with us! Lol)

DD1 loves to play with CeCe and Sparkle. They “knocked” her off her seat in this one. She’s giggling hilariously!

Friday evening chick pic! The kids keep making over them.

CeCe and Sparkle were letting us know that they felt completely neglected yesterday because they only got their bottles and didn’t get all of the usual extra attention, extra lovins, and walkabout. Needless to say, today we made up for it. Lots of hugs and they helped with some small outside projects. No outside pics because they were on the move. These were in the aisle while I was putting in some more hay to the male pen.

CeCe is “queen of the bale” as Queenie supervises!

Sparkle was headed to jump on the bale too!

The calves got a creep feed pen today.

The pigs are right next to the calf creep pen so they were being nosy. They got a bale of straw for bedding and entertainment too.