Weaning bunnies

Today we started weaning baby bunnies from momma D1.  Late in the afternoon, I took 2 of the 8 bunnies from momma and put them in their own cage.  I don't think they've been nursing much, although I'm not there at night to see what they're doing.  Momma didn't seem to care that I was taking them out... maybe she's thinking "it's about time!".  The two bunnies were curious about their new home, even though it looks exactly like their old home and is right by momma.  I plan to wean 2 bunnies per day for the next 4 days to help momma's milk dry up gradually.  After this, it will be just a few weeks until time to butcher the bunnies. 

Hornworms, again!

We have blasted horn worms on our tomato plants again this year. They appear magically, damage the plant, eat the tomatoes, then move on. Annoying little buggers! The two little grenades in this pic are horn worm poo. Eww!!! The great news is that the turkeys LOVE to eat hornworms, so we've been tossing every one we find to the turkeys. You just haven't lived until you've seen a turkey with a 4-inch hornworm dangling from it's beak being chased by 8 other turkeys who want a piece of that worm!

Sunday Brunch

Ham from our own pigs smoked on the charcoal grill:

Homemade potato salad:

Corn picked from our garden just a few minutes prior to eating:

Angel food cake and a Thayer original... homemade gingerbread gelato (YUM!):

Stretchhhh.........

There's nothing like a good stretch!!!

A little behind...

Sorry all, I've gotten a little behind in my blogging the past two weeks.  I posted several pics today, backdating them to when I took the pictures, so be sure to look back a week or two to get caught up.  I'll try to do better staying on top of the pics.  :)

Egg count / MTD-YTD egg count

This week: Large 18, small 98 = 116.  Down quite a bit from the past two weeks.  Not sure if some of the ladies have stopped laying or if they're just laying somewhere other than the coop.  We'll have to investigate.

MTD = 538 eggs

YTD = 1430

Front walkway...

It's been so hot lately that Dan has had very little time to work on the front walkway when it's not blazing hot out.  Not to mention he discovered the front yard is nearly all rock - in fact, we're not sure how grass even grows there.  It's been back-breaking work, so today he had the tractor out to assist with the digging...