Tuesday 28 March 2017

I'll take her for walks and everything...

Fortunately she just wouldn't fit in the ute, or the calf for that matter.  A trip to the Small Farms Expo on Sunday gave us a chance to see what else we could add to our little farm.  While the tractors were smaller than Agfest some of the livestock exhibitors weren't.  The chicken pavillion showed brothers and sisters to our own little collection of weirdos and the sheep yard had a few black faced Suffolk like our very own but not quite as...ahem, round. I was successful in convincing the head farmer and husband we shouldn't come home with a donkey, or two turkeys or any more goats (we've just adopted out the last lot). As our own little patch of demanding domestics is enough to handle and every time a new set of hoofs or beaks arrive, I see another holiday in the distance, sail away.  Animals are a tie, but very rewarding as I'm constantly reminded.  However the, let's not get any more goats argument was easily won with the nearby goat fence display a timely reminder that if you want goats, you'll need Guantanamo style electric perimeters between your cute little Billy goat and your prized rose bushes.  Chooks free ranging all over your garden is a picture of cottage heaven but the bigger the chicken, the longer the legs, and the longer the legs, the further they can send your stone and bark screenings in every direction.  What was once a cottage garden in my backyard is a pile of mulch as our mother hen shows her eight fluffy children how to dig for grubs by removing annoying daisies and violets. But the opportunity to meet the breeders of all these amazing animals gave us a great day with the warm sunshine on the Huon oval at its best.   I do really like those highland cattle though.  Lucky we didn't bring the trailer.

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  1. Very lucky! Those two, as cute as they are, could dig up a lot of daisies!

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    1. Yes they could, and they could also knock down a lot of fences to get them!!

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  2. We have breeders of highland cattle just around the corner from our place. They are lovely animals. I hear you about the chooks. Ours have gone completely feral and our elderly neighbour made a comment about how she had 5 of them over in her yard! We told her we would come and get them but she told us not to worry as she loved having them come and visit her and they didn't stay long...sigh...

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  3. We have the reverse problem. One of our roosters has a girlfriend next door and brings her over to eat at our place. He doesn't seem to understand, we don't need any more beaks to feed.

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