What the heck?

"How DARE you tell us we can't sleep in the barn??"

There is a good reason why naughty Maggie and May have been kicked out of the barn....LOOK!:

Amelia had twins on Monday! One boy and one girl. Nathan watched the entire birth (I rushed home from work and missed it by 10 minutes) and apparently it went really smoothly for Amelia. 

The little girl is smaller and more delicate than the boy - he is the one with more black on him.

I already saw them hopping straight up in the air last night. They are so so so cute!

Tiny hoof:

Tiny altogether:

Less than an hour old here:

The little girl:

The little boy:

I probably should have split this into two posts...so many photos!

Saul leading one of his ladies around.

He has become quite the looker:

Broiler chicks getting huge:

Sheba is also huge. She is one of the original heritage birds that was intended for meat, but at the time we had so few laying hens that we kept her for eggs. She is a fatty...

Can you spot the puppy?

What about now?

Zoey is 15 weeks old now and she's getting faster and faster. She is also becoming a good little farm dog. She pretty much ignores the chickens and mostly just wants to eat their food and poop. Yum.

Closely supervised goat sniffing. I don't trust May not to head butt the puppy!

Totally unrelated shot of the delicious oysters that Nathan made after our landlord gave them to us. Ham, onions, hot sauce and lemon juice...so good.

Squishy!

I wonder if she'll go broody again this spring or summer. As much as I loved SoZH, it will be better to have SoS (Sons of Saul) running around. SoZH was just way too big. Saul is a normal sized rooster. I'm also wondering whether Saul x 'regular' hens offspring will lay blue-ish eggs? Saul is an Ameraucana, but I'm not sure how those genetics work when combined with non Ameraucanas. If blue egg genes are recessive then I guess we wouldn't see them in any off Saul's offspring, except for Saul x Gus (Gus is the Ameraucana hen). We might find out when Magpie's eggs hatch - she is on day 12ish of brooding 4 of her eggs, 2 'regular' eggs and 1 blue egg.

Happy happy farm dog:

Slightly less happy farm dog with his ear being eaten by the puppy devil:

Abby and Zoey play all the time now.

Zoey looking almost grown up.

Another happy farm dog.