Animals and signs of fall

A lot of pictures around the farm of the animals, lot of pics and a lot of animals too. Here I am trying to get Daisy to let me know when the kids are gonna be here. She's not telling. Guess that nice stroke on the nose just don't do much for her.
The ducks always come to see if the steers left and food for them. They are little bums. We feed these ducks several times a day and they still come running everytime they see one of us.

The trusted farm dog. Smokey Bear. How could ya not love that face.
Cheif, our buck pygmy just hangin out.
Liv talking it over with one of the goats. I bet their talking about me. I just know it.

Our little Honey Girl had a surpise for us today, 3 black puppies. Not sure about the father of these pups, probably a wanderer just passing through. She likes the "ruff" type.
From that look I belive I have taken enough pics of her baby's.

Our oldest calico cat, patches, enjoying the day outside with us.
This is one of Honey Girls pups too.. Bandit is about 4 years old now and still so little. He's my little grandson. haha!!!
Liv and Katie with 2 of patches kittens, I think Katie is holding Fluffy and Liv has Iddy Biddy. Patches is in the floor keepig and eye on things.


There are sure sign s of fall around there these days and not just the cool nights. The trees are starting to change their color.

Sir. Loin and T-Bone eating a little hay. Hang in there boys, won't be long until your in the freezer.

Mooooooved the cows !!

Finally moved the cows to what we call the "Top Field". This move has been awhile coming, needed to get the fence repaired and some replaced. Feed is getting way too high to keep them in the feeder lot so now they can graze and we get a break from the feed bill. There's plenty of room in this field for them to enjoy themselfs, about 2 1/2 acres fenced. Lots of good grass and trees for shade, we water them in a large tub behind the pump house.
Smoke Bear checking on one of the cows.

View from the topside of the field.

These are taken from the bottom of the top field.


This is a picture of the overflow from the pond. This is a pretty normal rate of flow about 5 gals a min. Hope to use this potential energy to generate some electricty.

This could be my turbine for the micro hydro power system. If you enlarge the picture you can see fish in the pond.
Smokey Bear cooling off in the pond.

The Royal Steer

Ladies and Gentlmen, this is our new ( and our first ) Steer. We have named him Sir. Loin. His weighs about 350 - 400 lbs right now. We are not really big meat eaters but if we are going to eat any we would like to have control over what goes in it if you know what I mean.

This is our neighbor, and Olivia's uncle, Howard, that we bought the steer from. He raises cattle and we decided that he was the guy to buy from. Here we are unloading Sir. Loin. Man that is a cool 6 wheeler he has. We hope to put a few hundred pounds on him and then to the slaughter house. Should have plenty of steak around for a while. I'll keep you all posted on this new project for us.