Wehner Homestead

[Wehner Homestead]

@MiniSilkys The opossums, raccoons, skunks, rats, rabbits, and squirrels keep their distance from the barn. Too many dogs to contend with. We’ve seen evidence of all in varying distances from the house to the perimeter but they avoid the barnyard like the plague!

Our 8 cats mainly stay at the barn. Oscar wanders with us some but they don’t like loud noises so the chainsaw kept them at bay.

Pic I got of Oscar following me out through the pasture to check Abby Jane on one of our trips. (He stopped to check things out when I stopped at the top of that hill.)

My other two shadows that had to be penned because they were making Abby Jane nervous as they made every trip out with me.

Queenie feasting when I made initial rounds after daylight this morning.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

I forgot to mention the hormonal Indiana weather! A Carhartt was required on some of my trips outside but others just required a hooded sweatshirt. It was cloudy then the sun was shining and it started snowing while the sun shined. None of that snow accumulated. Fast forward a bit and it’s cloudy, windy, and frigid. A bit longer and it was sunny and then snowed so hard that the kids were making a big deal. No accumulation from that round either but Maddie has some on her back. I tried to get a pic but it didn’t turn out. Got warmer and sun was shining when DD1 got off the bus to get cloudy and windy again. DH just came in from checking on Abby Jane and her bull calf again and said his truck was covered in snow! What a skewed weather day!!

DD1 is on her first Spring Break officially. She’s fighting allergies and needs the chance to get some extra rest and avoid germs so she doesn’t catch something else.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Scarlett came in heat today! That means cattle breeding season will be here before we know it. I started a breeding thread to keep everyone up on the progress as it occurs.

The chicks are growing! It’s time to updgrade their space. The new chicken area isn’t ready yet so another temporary fix will be required...

@Latestarter I had to include a pic of the “Mexican vulture chick” for you! Lol

I got new shavings in all of the laying boxes today. I need to order an apron for one of the hens. She has almost no feathers from another hen mounting her.

 

[CntryBoy777]

They sure don't stay little for very long....and ducks grow even faster....

 

[Latestarter]

In that first pic, the little vulture seems to be giving you the stink eye... Can sure see the velociraptor background in them.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

... I’m not exactly a dinosaur fan...

 

[Bruce]

“Mexican vulture chick”

Is that a Barred Rock?

 

[BoboFarm]

I love the dinosaur stage! I got a barred rock roo as a packing peanut with BO chicks some years ago and he, more than the BOs, looked so much like a dinosaur when he first feathered out. Very much like your little vulture

 

[CntryBoy777]

... I’m not exactly a dinosaur fan...

I've been and am still putting together a study about dinosaurs and how they are accounted for in The Bible. Something very interesting is the fact that all animal forms are represented in Heaven except for the reptiles....and the dinosaurs all died at the cursing of the serpent in the Garden of Eden.....a little over 6,000 yrs ago.....

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Is that a Barred Rock?

That is a Silver Laced Wyandotte.