Kiwi and the Po Po

Kiwi is doing a wonderful job - as always - at raising chickies, this time 2 polish, who may yet turn out to be polish frizzles :)

Yo Micki

Micki, our lovely little Modern Game Bantam is growing and getting her spangles!!

Sparky - Day 31

Sparky continues to grow, and to feather up and get more and more olive!!!  Have now started to put a few little millet seeds in the mix to help start 'weaning' and thus be prepared for 'fledging'!

In this pic you can see Sparky's one dark tail feather.

Shearing - nap time

Shearing has started at Wedgewood, and its a busy time for dogs.  Charcoal is getting older, and some days has difficulty getting up onto the bike, smaller wonder then that she decided not to get off during the lunch time nap break.  Belle also enjoyed a nap, but is a very light sleeper!!  LOL!!

Marsupial Mouse

Several times recently we have been watched, in the kitchen and outside at the barbeque, by a marsupial mouse.  The other night he zigged when he should have zagged and ended up in Skinny's jaws.  Skinny is a fussy eater and mice are toys, not food.  Pleased with his catch he brought the unfortunate creature into our bedroom, and let it go, so we could watch his prowess no doubt!  Unfortunately it was the middle of the night and his audience was largely unappreciative at best.

He re-caught it, and trotted back to the kitchen, where he must have let it go again.  It scampered up the pillar and onto the exposed beams on the wrong side of the kitchen - no boltholes there!!

Later that morning he was cowering in the albeit cobwebby corner, and still later he used my absence to feed the ducks and the cats fridge top nap time to make good his escape.... probably off to have a nervous breakdown in the peace and quiet of the space between the inner and outer walls!!

Azzura visit - Valentines Day :)

Went to visit Azzura, she has been on my mind, but not visited since before Christmas, luckily she is in good hands!!

She is looking round and fat and well, enjoyed a cuddle and scratch, although at first she did the whole - have we been formally introduced thing!!  LOL!!

This is Sheriff's mum See You Later, she is grandmother (thus) of our next Sweet Pea cria, very nice llama!!

And the young lads were again forward and friendly and very very personable!!

Zambuka's mum, she's lovely and so is Zambuka... Whisper has the looks as does her son Wizard, but some days Whisper is just a witch with a b and YOU need to get over it and move on!!  LOL!!

The dogs are always good value, the llamas dont like them, but the newest red heeler is a gas!  She loves to play fetch and will jump for ANYTHING!

I've always poo poo-ed the alpacas, namby pamby weak kneed lilly livered etc etc, but the colour!!  You cant get that wonderful black and that deep deep red in the llamas.  And then some alpaca girls are just gorgeous, these three having a talk fest, didnt even bother to get up when I walked past!!

And this is little Villia, luckily not for sale or we would have been eating mince and sausages for the next month!!  What a cutie!!

Sparky Day 24

Sparky's mum was a mostly yellow bird, with a few little daubs of olive.... looks like Sparky is going to get olive in spades... rotten luck!  However, nice yellow wings and mostly yellow tail, only one dark feather, and a yellow splot on the back of the head... nice!!  LOL!!