Mirabelle's Bunch

After Rosie's success with Daisy, it was Mirabelle's turn.

She built a tremendous nest with straw and fur.

Here's what we found under all that fur! 6 beautiful kits.

We love the variety of colors! I believe the happy family includes one gray, one brown, one dark gray, and three black (although their fur color continues to change as they grow).

The crazy lady with the camera was a little scary! so they all piled up in the back to get away.

One was a little braver and started exploring the world outside of the nest box.

The explorers especially like to hide behind the nest box.

 Baby bunnies are ridiculously cute!

Three Little Pigs

We are now proud owners of three little pigs!

We bought three weaners (all gilts) from a farm on the next hill from ours.

They are very curious, and very fun.

They were scared of us at first, but soon came to associate us with food, and...voila! They make quite an astonishing racket when we get up in the morning, or home from work in the afternoon.

They are also tremendous rooters!

You can see where they've been...

The soil where they've been feels like rototilled garden soil!

We feed them food scraps, they will provide us with delicious, nutritious meat -- not a bad deal for a rototiller!

They take their rooting very seriously.

Gretta so far is the only one we have named -- in honor of a blond Homer Junior High Life Science student who loves pigs and made her request!

Did I mention they are curious? We are loving our newest additions to the family!

Sheep

 The sheep have settled into their winter lodging, complete with a manger that Mickey built for them. (They spill a lot less hay this way!)

Lublin is still our friendliest and most curious sheep.

They certainly seem to enjoy the hay we bought for them, from the next hill over.

 Lovely ladies!