was WILD! After adding just a few more baby chicks (Thanks, Duane! [hic]), and triplet baby pygmy goats at the cattle sale, we left for South Carolina on Saturday and picked up a male standard chocolate poodle in Gadsden and a female just across the SC state line on I-85.
These two puppies have been much more work than the 200 other critters on the property so far! Our boy, Prince Eduard du Chocolat (Eddy), is twice as big as the girl and he's like an awkward giant! He looks so much older and it seems ridiculous that he knows so little. He is beautiful with a milk-chocolate color and greenish eyes. Eddy is our big, goofy, handsome baby boy.
The little girl, Princess Vianne de Coco (Vianne), is a dainty little (standard) poodle with a penchant for pooping on my carpet. Blech. She is a deeper, dark chocolate color with thinner, daintier features. They seem to get along well together with the typical sparky moments sharing a food bowl and certain toys.
Tuesday, I remembered reading about a possible business venture for the children in the Mule Trader (www.themuletrader.com) and checked out the ad online. It was a set of 7 Chinese dwarf hamsters with all cages and acutrements for $35. I called the lady and asked her why whe was selling. She said her kids didn't play with them anymore. We discussed it as a family and Noah and the 2 littles decided they wanted to start their hamster business. They pooled their leftover report card money and we headed out the door.
We bought 7 tiny hamsters, a 10-gallon aquarium with a wire-mesh retro-fit lid, a Hartz hamster playyard, a 3-story gleaming, translucent habitrail kind of thing, a roll-around-the-house-encased-in-a-plastic-ball thing, a bag of hamster food, and a partial bag of pine shavings for that price. Noah paid the lady, and we took home our new enterprise. We combined them all in the aquarium and gave the plastic cages a good washing (she was a smoker). We will combine all seven hamsters into the 3-story unit, use the Hartz cage for quail, and use the aquarium as a quail-baby-brooder box.
We put 18 quail eggs into the incubator last night. In 17 to 18 days, we should have quail babies that are the size of "popcorn with legs"!! We are very excited about this, and the kids can't wait.
So, the menagerie continues to grow in scope and quantity. I've sold 17 of the 104 chicks I ordered from the hatchery. I've run the ad again in the Mule Trader, and also in the Bulletin Board (www.bulletinboard.com) out of Montgomery. We'll see how they do.
We are having fun and learning SO much about creatures and ourselves!
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I keep reading about all the chickens and wonder what you are going to do with them all? will you be eating them eventually? and have you or Monty ever killed one? I have a friend from Kenya who can show you how... eeeek!
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