Archive for February 14, 2020

PUPS AND KEETS

5 years

by Amy in My thoughts, events and happenings!

Our animals are all growing up!

The puppies are really little dogs now, I have started teaching Jess to sit, mum’s pups, Red and Blue are learning also but Red is a bit silly and has painted-on ears. All the other pups have gone to their new homes now, I hope they have happy lives, they had very happy puppy-hoods

Blue.

Me with Jess.

We have new additions to the baby-bunch though. Meet the Keets!

Keets with their hen.

Keets are baby Guinea fowl, they are super tiny and cute! These ones are regular grey and there are two lavender keets too, I put the eggs under this hen about a month ago and she hatched them out the other day.

I did this because Guinea fowls are really terrible mums and dads, they drag their keets through the long wet grass and they die, or they leave them behind and they die, or they just die.

SO! Because we want to take Guinea fowl with us when we move I have bred some…Yay! Now I will just look after the hen and she will do the rest!

Guinea fowl are good at controlling tics and beetles, we have plenty of them at the new place so I hope they will grow up to do a good job!

FIRE!!

5 years

by Amy in My thoughts, events and happenings!

Mum got a call the other day while we were doing dishes at home, the man on the other end was quite upset, he needed a key to get on to our farm where we are building our house because there was a FIRE!

My heart nearly stopped! Was our new house on fire?

No, he said it was the grass in the paddock, mum got the farm worker to bring him a key and we waited for news!

It’s really dry in the Far North, here are some links which might be interesting…

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=12298580

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=12303200

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=12302978

There is a drought where we live, it hasn’t rained since November 2019 and everything is very dry, the grass is dead, even the trees are dying, our orchard trees are dying, even though we water them as much as possible, it’s horrible. I put some of our trees out in the lake to keep them alive (they are still in their pots) but the lake is almost dry now too.

All that is left of our lake…

We waited to hear how the firefighters were getting on, finally mum had a call from her friend who flies a he told us that the fire was nearly out and it was not too close to our house….WHEW!