Not seeing much rain in the last few months, these cows were a little on the skinny side but they should shape up well on our 10 acres of grasses and legumes. Right now they are in a small paddock of their own. We’ll wait a while to introduce them to the rest of the herd.

We’re growing in another area too but this was a much cheaper purchase. Two Saturdays ago we picked up a buff rooster and a red hen at a local poultry sale. We’re hoping that one of our hens will decide to sit on some eggs and eventually hatch us some more chickens! We could have used this rooster a few weeks ago when we had an especially broody hen. The rooster is proving to be very well behaved and so far is doing his job.  :-) His name is Bruce and he’s a big buff colored bird that must have some Cochin in him because he’s got feathers on his legs.  Geri has been saying for months that we needed a rooster named Bruce.

The hogs continue to eat thier fruit, nuts, bread, corn, and grasses and adding on pounds! I’m picking up persimmons every day to feed them and yesterday was able to get about 2.5 gallons from our 2 trees. The loved it. I also had a neighbor come and ask if I wanted his walnuts so I hope the hogs develope a taste for them too!

I’ll try and get some pictures up this weekend.