So some friends of ours here in Alabama gave us the opportunity to take care of their farm while they went away for Christmas. My kids love it. They have so much fun. Each day we go the kids get excited to look for eggs in the many spots the chicken lay them. Some days there are a lot but others there is only 3 or so. It's because their dog Sheba loves to eat them so if she finds them she gently cracks them open and licks out the yolk. It's funny how gently she holds them and then barley cracks them. It's funny to watch.
Abby and Luke feeding Clyde the horse. You put the food in the blue bucket and he will eat out of it. If the chickens get done with their food they will all head over and sit in the bucket and eat his food. Quite funny to watch a bunch of chickens fighting over the food and the horse sitting back scared to eat it.
Levi throwing feed to the chickens. He loves it and would keep feeding him if I didn't lock the tack room.
Abby throwing hay to the goats. They are funny. Sometimes they get so excited to eat that they will choke an you have to rub their necks and smack their stomachs to get it to go down.
The kids making sure the chickens have food. They had just thrown it. The chickens will follow you until you feed them so they are usually the first to get fed. Then the kids go look for eggs in the barn. The first day they got 11 eggs.
Kids chasing the chickens to try to hold them. Tayci was successful.
They have really enjoyed it. It has also kept them busy since they have such a lengthy Christmas vacation. I think we will keep our day jobs though. This is a little too much for Mom to handle on a full time basis.
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