Lots of Work , Makes it Look Pretty!

    
     
     Well, we have finally been able to get out and get the fences cleaned off  from all the tumble weeds that that had blown up against them. It is so nice to be able to see them again. We also have two of the corrals cleaned. We ended up burning them on a few nice mornings when there was no wind blowing.  It is just so nice looking out the window and not seeing them all. 

AFTER!!!

 

BEFORE!

 

     The ducks have sure been enjoying the unusual warm weather we have been having, which means they have been getting their pool filled up when the hoses are not frozen. Cant you just see the look on some of their faces?  Pool Party!!!!!!

     Once we got the tumble weeds cleaned out of one of the runs. We divided the flock.  We had a Rhode Island Red Roaster and hens and we also a Golden Laced Wyandotte Rooster and 2 hens. We took him and the 2 hens plus a few Easter eggers and some other ones and put in this run and a part of the chicken house.  He has a Harem of 13. Nine full grown ones and 2 younger ones.  What we we will be working on is collecting eggs from this group and growing our flock of  Wyandotte.
      The RIR are in another run and another part of the chicken house.  This will be the main flock. Hopefully we will have a good hatching of them this year..  
       We have had to keep the female turkey locked up as she keeps wanting to run off and look for a place to nest.  Cant have that . She has had her wing clipped , but still keeps getting out. So she is on lock down for right now.

     We have our first litter of babies in the rabbit barn. Maxine and Pablo are the Proud parents. She was one of the outside rabbits and had them in a box again during a snow snow storm. So we had to bring her and the babies in.  Everyone is doing well and they are growing fast.

     Egg production has picked back up and we are very happy. No more having to buy eggs.  We are up to about 5 chicken eggs a day and usually 1 duck egg.  Still a ways to go I know.  But that's better than nothing.

Until next Week,
2 Moore's Ranch

This Weeks Sunrises and sunsets.

 

2 Moore's Ranch ****** A Week in Pictures.

The line starts here for food.

They all eat together.

Our great rat killer.

Please! Can we come in.

Firewood from my parents house.

What a difference a few hours make.

Same feeder as above. This was just earlier in the day.

Freezing fog.

Freezing fog.

Freezing fog.

Freezing fog.

Freezing fog.

Freezing fog.

Freezing fog.

Maxine one of the outside rabbits.

Maxine and Midnight

On the way to my parents house.

Until next week,
The 2 Moore's Ranch

A Week on the Ranch ! ;)

     This top pic was taken about 4 days ago, but this was snow from from the storm on the 27th of Dec.  I drove by yesterday and there is still a pile there. This is right down the road from us.
      Now as you can see we had about an inch of snow Thursday night. Fred really likes it.  He races around the house in a circle. He also loves putting his nose down into it and rutting like a hog.  They just came back from their trip to the mail box and looking for critters.

     Well, I love the fireplace so much. That I used all the trees that Brent and Heath cut down this year.  We had to buy some yesterday.  Having to get use to this. The other wood was so old that it wood start so fast.  Grant it, I had a lot of kindling also. (ran out)  So when the snow is gone I will be back out looking for more twigs and such to use for kindling.  The new wood we bought is Oak
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     The ducks enjoying some warm weather with no snow or ice.   They even had a pool party in the smaller pools in the back yard.  We have changed every ones feeds to 22 % and the chickens and the ducks are both starting to lay eggs.  :)

     I have been in training out in the Bam Bam Holsters Shop.  He has started going to go Gun Shows and the other day he cut out about 15 holsters and I sanded the edges down.  Then he did some work to them .  Then I wet the edges down so that he could bevel the edges.  After that the tops were wet so they could be stamped
                                                   

      This is just a very pretty holster setup he made for a very pretty gun.  (yes the gun was blue also)

Until next week,
The 2 Moore's Ranch

Beautiful Sunset.

Modeling on the ranch runway.

Up high looking for rats.