The Frugal Farm Living life deliberately

Look how big these goslings are getting! They came to live here three weeks ago today. Here is a picture that might help you get some perspective. Look how small they were! But they were three times the size of a baby chick!

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We got some fluffy mail today! Eleven baby goslings will be taking up residence here at The Frugal Farm. I might be a little crazy for taking this on, but it ought to be fun.

Click on the picture to go to flickr and see the rest of the photos.

Not too long after I posted these fox photos, the chicken coop door was accidentally left open (ok, it was my fault!) and at 4:30 one morning I was awakened by chickens screaming and all three of the birds I had left were killed. A couple weeks after that, we discovered that there were three kits with their mama on the adjoining property to ours, so we felt a little less bad that we had fed the hungry foxes some chicken dinner.

I had already planned to buy new chicks this spring and having no older chickens to integrate chicks with actually made the job easier.  read more »

The fox was around a lot over the weekend.

but it didn't stick around very long once it noticed us watching.

This morning I was on the couch with the baby while everyone else was still sleeping and I heard the chickens go ballistic. I looked out the window and there was a FOX pacing back and forth in front of the coop. I amazingly thought to run and grab the camera. The first few shots are washed out because I was taking flash photos through a window and the next few are blurry because I am not that great at taking photos in dim light, plus I was trying to not scare the fox away, I wasn't wearing my glasses, and the battery in the camera was about dead so the recovery time between shots was really long. I put them up at flickr but here's the best one.  read more »