FINALLY – BACK AT HOME!!! – Part 2
It sure was a long 13 days!
Yes, the recent Wisconsin trip took almost two weeks and that can seem like forever when there are new animals at home, work to be done, and a house to be building.
Thankfully, after a drive that takes almost 12 hours just in drive time, we made it home late Tuesday night, but while it was still light out. After checking on our hogs and a few of the buck rabbits, we made it up to the rest. Here's the video.
HOME AT LAST – HOW IS EVERYBODY?
PHOTO RECAP
After the unfortunate death of the first chick that hatched (named Steemy) we were happy to see two others hatch out as well. However, soon after they hatched, we had to leave to Wisconsin. We named these two Steemy (Jr) and Steemie and left. Thankfully, they were both alive and well when we returned!
Our two oldest Muscovy ducklings are still doing great too. We will see what colors they eventually turn, but their beaks are already beginning to change. They now have a bit of a red border on their bill and soon it will probably also develop around their eyes.
Our rabbit Polkadot looks like she is almost ready to give birth. She pulled out a lot of hair to line the nest, and hopefully we will have some new cute baby bunnies from her very soon. We will definitely let you know when they arrive.
The Guinea Fowl that @matthewtiii and @vcelier helped us purchase are doing great too. You can see one of our hens in the top of this photo and our male Muscovy duck too. The duckling in the middle was "adopted" by the Guinea Fowl, because his mom became aggressive towards him. Eventually, we will have to let him know he is a duck, but he's just glad to have friends for now. Also, the Guinea Fowl are starting to change head color and shape too. It is an interesting process to be sure.
Our remaining adult Muscovy Duck female is still sitting on her next batch of eggs. She began sitting on them just prior to us leaving, so she has over two weeks in on the incubation so far. Muscovy eggs take 35 days to incubate, and she has 13 or 14 under her this time, if I remember correctly.
Somehow the last litter that Brownie has consisted of three bunnies. They are all still alive and well, and vary in color in a marvelous way. They seem to have shorter ears than some of our other rabbits.
These are our 3rd generation STEEM-powered rabbits. Originally, @smailer bought us the grandmother of these little bunnies. Though she unfortunately died, she produced a daughter who looked a lot like her. Now, her daughter has given birth to these five wonderful, furry little bunnies. These have got to be some of the cutest bunnies that we have had yet.
It sure was an amazing trip and we had a great time up in Wisconsin, but it is also so good to be home again. It's time to get back to work building our future!
Stay tuned for Part 3 when I check the mailbox after being gone for so long!
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
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Until next time…
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Wow what an amazing amount of beautiful animals. I grew up around farms as a kid in Cuba, and my grandfather always would have huge amounts of guinea fowls that would come and feed with the chickens. They would fly and where pretty much wild until it was feeding time they would all flock in. My uncles used to shoot a few once in a while for a family dinner when we had company over. I remember them being very lean and flavorful. You have done an amazing job growing some beautiful animals there.
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Thank you!
Welcome Home @papa-pepper 🙌
Thanks @crypto-expo!
Happy to have you back
It is good to be home.
Glad to see everyone's doing great! Especially those two little chicks that hatched!
We were so happy that those little chicks were still alive and well! Thank you!
Nice post. I love rural living, hope to be back in the country within 5 years. Thanks for sharing again.
I am glad that you can at least enjoy photos and stories of rural living while you await your return!
Welcome back
Home is sweet
Sure you enjoyed your trip
Thanks for sharing this sweet pics and video
Thank you @lordoftruth!
Glad to see you are back home. Building a house is stressful though specially when you are on a tight deadline like we are. I am about to go drop off the application for our tax abatement ( if you haven't started pulling permits yet check with your county a tax abatement might be available for your house build but you have to apply before you pull permits) Then I am headed off to the health department to apply for our septic system design (suppose to take two weeks to come back) We will be pulling permits in that two weeks so we can break ground as soon as we get the design back. We got to have everything done in 8 weeks, though we might be able to stay here another month we are not 100% sure how long we have left here.
Oh wow! I hope that everything falls into place for you and that it works out well. Best wishes!
So far so good, the local government don't get many new residential builds so they are being very helpful so far and moving fairly quickly to get things done I am kind of surprised at the speed they are working
Welcome home