Archived posts from the 'Critters' Category

Sadie’s Baby

Sadie had her baby this morning during a rain shower. It took her a few minutes to find her feet with Sadie’s encouragement. Banjo got in the way at first as he found out Sadie was giving milk again. Her name (for now) is Salsa.

Sadie and baby Salsa

Auction visit

If you go to a horse auction with your horse trailer, you won’t buy anything. If you go without it, you’ll need to make an extra trip back home to get it. We went to an auction without it. Here’s what we brought home.

Kash
This is Kash. Looks mostly like a Foxtrotter with some Quarter horse mixed in.

Sadie and Banjo
Here’s Sadie (right) and Banjo (left). Mom and year old (guessing) son.

The meow mix is a little gamey

Cat chasing Deer

Motivational Posters

Here’s the Posters we’ve made so far. If you see/found/made a good one, send a link to it.

Day old Ducklings

Yesterday I was wondering when the ducks were going to hatch, this morning I see Mom and 4 ducklings wandering around.

Day old Ducklings

Momma Duck was sitting on 11 eggs. She hatched 7 but 3 didn’t make it. There’s one still trying to get out of the shell but I don’t think he’ll make it either since momma has left the nest now. There’s another Duck on eggs still, she started a week after this one. Maybe she’ll have better luck. They’re Rouen ducks, basically mallards but much heavier so they don’t fly away. They can fly, but just short distances.

Critter Cam

Finally got a digital camcorder. Welcome to the future. It’ll be a handy accessory to carry in my shiny metal aircar (was listening to Rush yesterday). So I’ll be putting together some strange and mostly boring videos of the farm and the rag-tag motley collection of critters and other items of general interest.

Here is our channel on the YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/exoticgamedotcom

And here is our first video posted :

 

It’s a few minutes of the Bison lazily grazing in the field. There’s 11 of them currently, 9 are coming up on 2 years old and you’ll see 2 that are about 1 year old. At some points it’ll seem like I’m 8 feet away from them, that’s because I was about 8 feet away from them. They’re still definitely wild animals but they are constantly exposed to people and are even hand feed cattle cubes some times so standing calmly near them is possible. As they’re getting bigger and they’ll be mature this year for the fall mating season, we’ll be giving them more space and most interaction will be from the other side of a fence or from the bed of a truck.

Bookmark our YouTube channel, we’ll be adding more videos.

Critter Pictorama

A bunch of critter pics.

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