Missing Willow Farm

Our new buck Sam came home today.  Hermione and Bella were very happy to meet him.  We also moved Lizzie into the big pasture for the first time.  I predict she will drive everyone crazy over there.  🙂  Jack, as per usual, relaxes in the background watching all of the fuss.

Our garden is officially in for this year.  Now we just need to keep the weeds, deer, bugs and drought at bay.

Our chicks got moved from their brooder to a giant portable dog pen in the chicken barn.  They are separated from our older hens for their own protection.  This gives the older hens a chance to get used to them before merging the flocks.  That one giant white one is the same age as the brown.  It’s the only Cornish Cross left after our hen-pecking incident where our older hens figured out how to get underneath the brooder and pecked them through the flooring, dang it.  That issue has been rectified for the next batch.  It’s always something.

This needs to hurry up and mature!  Aren’t the leaves a pretty color?

It’s strawberry season, and our goats are very happy about that.  We shared a few of my mother’s day brunch berries with them.

Lizzie is happy to see me when I show up to feed or visit her.  Mama sheep is just wondering if I have any grain for her.

We’re just a few weeks from having garlic scapes, then a few more from harvesting heads.  We changed our starter garlic supplier for this season and have much healthier, happier plants than last year.   Two full raised beds full.  Yeah… we love garlic!

Lizzie is learning to watch over both sheep and chickens.  She’ll be a multi-species guardian.  🙂

We had a lamb born this year that’s developing horns.  That’s a first for us, it must be a recessive gene.   It’s too late to disbud/remove them.  We’ll have to keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn’t grow into a bully.

We’re trying something new in one of our raised beds this year, watermelon from seed.  It should be a fun experiment!