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We have quite a menagerie here on Creeksong Farm. The Black Angus Cattle roam on both sides of the farm, munching on the green grass that our frequent rains ensure. The cows calve in the spring, giving birth to tiny but surprisingly strong calves. They are up walking within minutes, and after a few days are frolicking and running circles around the cows.
Jewelia Moo, our fawn colored Jersey milk cow, recently passed away. She was a sweet, tame, and generous cow. We will miss her good nature and her sweet, creamy milk. She left behind a beautiful calf who we are bottle feeding with milk from our neighbor’s Holstein dairy farm.
We have about 40 chickens that live in our chicken coop at night and roam around the barnyard (and sometimes venture across the road!) during the day. Will and Anna raised most of these chickens from 2-day old chicks that came in the mail(!) last August. They are now generous layers and we enjoy eating the eggs with their intense sunny yolks for breakfast every day. About a month ago, we noticed a hen who liked to sit on eggs all day. Will made a brood box for her with a nice nest of straw and some eggs, and now we have 6 new chicks!
One of the newest additions to our menagerie is Nellie, our Nubian goat. She was a gift from a neighbor and we hope that she will help in our eternal offensive against briars on the farm. She is becoming more friendly every day, and enjoys sitting in the yard, where she can take shelter from the rain in the doghouse that the dogs have abandoned.
Our farm animals also include 4 cats — 2 barn cats, who both have month-old litters of kittens, and 2 house cats, who take regular agri-tourism vacations to the barn to visit their friends. We also have 2 dogs, Jake, the farm dog, who spends his days alternately chasing groundhogs and rabbits and sleeping in the sun, and Duncan, the cairn terrier, who is a fervent chicken chaser and vocal defender of the farmhouse. |
