Free at last!

That probably exactly what all the chickens were thinking today, "Free at last!" During the spring and summer months, all the chickens, ducks and turkeys get the run of the yard. Not only is it beneficial to them, but it's beneficial to us. When they're running free in the yard, they tend to catch all kind of bugs. And with living out of town - practically in the boonies - it really helps.

Anyway, the lighting was beautiful today and allowed for great photos. It didn't hurt that the subject of my photos were so darn cute. ;) So naturally, I have a million photos to share.

I suppose that's all for now. Hope you enjoy the photos...  :O)

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day:  The Wishing Well by Jake La Botz (my fellow Rambo fans will know all about this song)

Here are the pics:

 All the chickens foraging in the yard.

 Gandalf the gorgeous. :)

 The Blue Slate turkeys foraging for bugs.

 They need names.

 I think it would be best to wait until they get older, I can't really tell them apart.

 Our beautiful White Silkie Bantam, Gandalf.

 Gandalf's profile.

 Helen is a little dick.

 Turkey profile.

 Leo foraging for food.

 He's such a gorgeous red rooster.

 Guess what? Chicken butt!

 I love how fat our hens are.

 Heads down!

 I love this picture! I love how you can see the water behind all the hens.

 Leo is all fluffed up in the background.

 The lone hen.

A close up on our bantam rooster, Helen.

 The profile of Kind Leonidas.

 Back to the beautiful, Gandalf!

I seriously love this little guy. <3

Bonus Gallery!

Early this morning before I went to bed, I was letting Milla out so that she could go to the bathroom. Well, as I was shutting the screen door - it hangs really bad - I slammed my finger in it. It was numb for a few minutes, then I thought it was broke. After that it just burned. I had a nice hunk of flesh hanging off of it for a while and, of course, I couldn't find ANY nail clippers, so I had to yank the skin off... fun! 

Here's what it looked like:

 Bloody finger.

 It doesn't look bad, but take my word, it's sore!

 Then when I get up today to take the band-aid off, I couldn't. It was stuck to my open, bleeding flesh.

 See, no joke. I finally had to run warm water over it to get it to come off.

And this is how hideous my finger looked out in natural light today. Sickness!

Guess what we did today?

If you guessed sewed, then you're right and you get a gold star! We had to finish up a pretty big custom order today and I think they turned out pretty nice. I must warn you, I didn't get the best pictures ever, just one of everything together. I know that's not normally my style, but at least I got one, hehe. I'll try to take individual  photos tomorrow before they're shipped.

Aside from that, I believe we may have a sick duck on our hands. Our new Magpie boy - who is yet to be named - has been making a sound similar to the sound a cat makes when they hock up a hairball. No clue why he's doing this, but I hope it's nothing serious. And while we're on the subject of our new ducky, I'll go ahead and tell you his new name... Phillippe. Not too bad, eh?

Well, I suppose that's all for now. Until next time, you know where to find me...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day: Roadrunner by The Who

Here are the pics:

Phillippe, Serafina & Leo

The flock, lol.

Milla looking a tad frightened...  :O)

Here are the 3 awesome cage sets we made today. <3

Fun visit with the Residents of District 9... (59+ Pictures Included!)

The evenings have been nice enough to allow us to comfortably spend time with the chickens, ducks and turkeys of District 9. I'm sure you all know by now that if we spend a lot of time with anything, there's are sever pictures to follow, lol. When the days are so beautiful and the subjects are so cute, how can we not?

I also managed to get a couple videos, so be sure to check those out after the photos. Well, I guess that's all for now. I mainly just wanted to share all the pics and videos. Until next time, you know where to find me...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day: All The Young Dudes by Mott The Hoople

Here are the pics:

Werewolf dog!

Milla's head looks so small compared to her giant body in these pics.

Duck head!

Here's our gorgeous Magpie drake duck!

And Miss Serafina, our Mallard hen.

A close up on Serafina.

Awwk duck love. <3

One of our brown and white speckled hens.

Okay, I have no idea why this picture looks stretched?

Our white Silkie Bantam, Gandalf.

Our white Silkie Bantam again.

Gandalf has crazy eyes!

Aww, our poor duck is still trying to settle in.

There's Helen! Remember the little cream and black hen that was BFFs with Leo? Well she is a he, lol. 

Another creepy stretched picture.

Okay, what's up with these stretched photos?

Everyone into the pool!

One of our buttercup hens eyeballing a cupcake, lol.

A close-up on Leo. He's huge now!

Helen's crazy eyes!

Gandalf giving me the stank eye, lol.

He's seriously adorable, though. :)

Aww, look at the duck love by the water. <3

Time for a drink!

"Yup, I'm going in."

Our Magpie duck enjoying some time on the water.

Duck butt!

It's adorable how much he love the water.

Duck dive!

Such a pretty duck pair. <3

"Hey, what's down here?"

"Time to go inside!"

"I'm with you!"

My absolute favorite picture of our white Silkie Bantam, Gandalf.

Nope, more water time.

The turkeys!

Here's our 3 turkeys. I believe they're Blue Slate turkeys.

Gandalf in front of them... screaming. *eye roll*

The beautiful feathered clouds.

Can't think of a better way to end the day!

Here are the videos: