Sat morning

The phone is great, although not using it to its full potential it is easy to take relatively good shots with. Lady must have thought it was a big block of cheese, that's why she's coming so close. Kitcsi seems to be enjoying his new bed, it will be much more comfortable for him as soon as I get some fresh hay.

Lady must know that Jolan is coming to visit next week as she's been laying eggs. There will be no more babies for a while as I'm going to make some pasta with the eggs.

House guest

I'm lucky that Papa doesn't read this blog as I would be busted. Also, I've gotten a new phone - check out the quality of these photographs. Well not the blurry one, but I was in a hurry to get Lady out as I didn't want to clean up the crap in the house.

Kitcsi is spending his first night penned in the old duck pen. He's alone in there but happy. I'll give him some food in there tomorrow morning and he'll be pleased he has his own place. I think he's happy anywhere anyway from Tommy.

Locked out

I'm such a bad mum.. I was letting them hang out in the mud while the sun went down and I went inside to catch up on work. Bad for them as I totally they were outside and quickly ran out to put them to bed. I did the same the other day but just with Kitsci and Albie.
Everyone is tucked up in bed, so its all good now.
The rain eased off this afternoon so everything is now covered in mud. The ducks as per usual are loving it, and for the time being the fighting has stopped amongst them. I've been patting Tommy more than usual and I'm pretty sure hes getting used to it. Not loving it, but not running away as quickly as he used to. Karli brought over some corn on the cobs for the animals today, so I'll try and find a camera to take some photos when I feed them tomorrow.

Them are fighting words

Its all out war at the moment at Hydrorancho. Yesterday the two girls were fighting each other with Lady egging them on. Here I was yelling out "Izzy stop it" while they didn't listen. Pulling them apart while they were fighting was certainly the closest I've gotten to patting them. Kitcsi has stayed cleared of Tommy and everyone really as he recovers from his fight on Friday.
Its back to raining here and the ducks are loving it (when they are not fighting). I had to do an early morning shovel to clear the drainage area and everything is running smoothly.
Lady has starting laying again, but I'm not going to let her have any more babies for a while. Its great timing as I was wondering if I was going to be coming home from my holiday to ducklings.

Honeymoon

Well folks the honeymoon is over at Hydroancho. Tommy beat up Kitsci today, while I didn't witness it, I can tell Kitsci is injured. He's been walking really slowly and he appears to have lost some feathers on his left wing. I can't tell the severity of it at the moment. I'm not sure about the sleeping arrangements for tonight as I don't want Kitsci to get into another fight. Perhaps I will put Tommy in the old duck pen. At the moment Kitsci is in the big pen by himself penned with some food. Hopefully everything will work out and there wont be too much fighting.

Merlin

I've been patting Tony the Pony these past couple of days. His owners put him in a bright purple coat and I think he looks like a wizard. I guess it's better than the hot pink riding gear he wears when it comes time for one of the children's birthday party.
The camera arrives home today so hopefully I'll spend the weekend getting to know the cannon.

When good shots turn bad

This photo would have been great if I managed to get Speedy in focus. She's such a princess and part-time chicken model. That is Golden Child in the background, or should I say in focus.

I'm off to Brisbane soon and mistakenly let the chickens out of the pen today. Hopefully I'll be able to entice them to bed at 3pm.

Welcome Kitsci

I left Tommy in the pen this morning and let Lady and Kitcsi out. I think Kitcsi is really starting to feel the brunt of Tommy's dislike, as I've seen a few clumps of feathers flying around. His voice is starting to break and while not quite as deep as Tommy's he is very chatty. As you can see his mask is really starting to develop and I think it will be fully red in about a month. I think it will take a while to be like Tommy's though.

Slack arse

You know there must be something wrong when my mother-in-law phones me to check on the animals, because I haven't been blogging. I've been thinking about writing a blog for ages but like Tommy I just felt like sitting around. Nothing much has been happening here. The babies are growing up so fast and their masks are really starting to develop. At night they no longer sleep together like a happy family. Kitcsi is cast outside under Speedy's nest, Lady and Tommy are on the ground in the pen and Albie and Izzy are up the top with the chickens.

Speedy is still a princess and unfortunately is very used to getting her own food inside the shed. I've been attempting to get the chickens to go to bed every night as I'm going on holiday and would like them going to bed so that it makes it easier for the neighbour.
I'm really going to miss my animals when I go away. I wish someone could update the blog or at least chat with them while I'm away. Papa and I are going to cement the edge of the pen and really get it snake proofed before we go as we'll be arriving home in early September (snake season).

Someone asked me the other day how Old Boy was, I told him to read my blog and that Old Boy is dead. Talk about memories.

I'm going to try and get back into my routine of blogging everyday. So come back tomorrow when its daylight and there will be a photo here. It will probably be Lady (I nearly called her Miss Muffet) as she follows me to the house every morning. But damn it if she'll let you touch her.