The Snow Is GONE! Spring Farm Life Begins at The 10 Acre Woods 🌱🐑

Mark here and my wife Tara and welcome to the 10-acre woods. As you can see the snow has now left us and I think that's the end of old man winter. So Tara's going down to the barn, she's going to load up some hay and bring that back and we'll start feeding the animals. Okay, so as you can see all the animals or most of the animals are outside. Beautiful weather, no snow and the pond is in fact open. And there it is. So the last of the ice melted away I think yesterday or even the day before. 27 degrees here on Wednesday. So Tara during the day got the actual pump in and now the water's circulating. So we have a couple new ducks. I did mention it last weekend. This is Squirt and Huey. Don't ask me which one is which. They are both male and they look to be a cross. So a Rowan and Kona possibly. So they've settled in now but when we first put them in here, when everybody was out, they tended to wander and they went back and hung out and slept in the garage port at the back of the house. So they would go in there every night and just hang out and sleep in there. But now it looks like they have moved on to the pond and they've made some friends here. So the animals are all outside. The next thing up is Shearing. They look a little raggedy. So Tinker, she's getting older. She's got lots of debris in her wall. So Willow and JJ and then George and Turbo. So there's quite a bit of wool in there. So we hold off until early June, end of May, right around there because it can still get cold at night. So we don't want to shock the system if for some reason they get sheared and then it drops down a couple days later. Usually a week is good but if it's within a barn, we can keep them warm. So that is those guys. We do have a couple others. So last weekend I did mention that we were getting some rabbits in and of course Barry the rabbit. He is out here. There he is over there. And then in there, I can't really see very well, but we have, let me think of the name, we have Poppy, a brown kind of tan and then the other one is another Moo. So we have a Moo inside with the kid goats and this one is Moo as well. They are or appear to be standard Rex. I couldn't see them very well so I figured I'd come in and show them to you. There they are. Hi kids. They are both fixed I believe. One is a male and one is a female. I'm gonna guess Poppy is the female and Moo is the male but I'll have to confirm that. And of course here is little Barry. Good morning Barry. So it's my understanding that Moo and Poppy, their people had to move and the new place they were going couldn't take pets which is a common occurrence that happens. We do get quite a few smaller animals like rabbits because they just can't move with their people. So they are, I believe they're about five or six years old from what I know and what we know. So they're going to hang out here in what we like to call the nursery which is this area. We have a small cage here as well for the smaller birds and chicks. So kind of a nursery in a nursery which is in or off the special pen. So why do we call it the special pen? Well all of our specials are in here including Sheldon. So Sheldon was born here on Farm High. Yeah you know I just get a couple seconds of your time that's it. And basically he's autistic or from what we understand autism could be in a goat. He has the shortest attention span. He couldn't walk when he first was born and we had to spend a couple weeks anyway before he could stand on his own without falling over. And he he squirrels a lot. So he's now focused on his grains. But once we get the hay or the grains out or vegetables his excitement goes up to a point where he just can't stand still. He needs to move. He needs to move. He needs to move. And he then settles and once he settles he can actually eat. Now then we have Charlie here. So Charlie's actually over here because we've got Petey and Piper on the other side in the larger area. And well Petey's a little grumpy and we don't want them to to get to get together and to do any fighting. You can tell that Charlie and Petey have tusks right there on the side. A lot of you haven't seen that in the past. We were giving him a belly rub which you can't do now because he is eating. He's focused and when they when he rolls over on his side you can see that tusk there. And then of course we have the mama and kids. So these are last year's kids and mama. Now they will be moving over to the other side to the big the big boy yard. I guess you could call it the main yard. And the three kids and mama that are inside the barn will be coming out here. So we do a little bit of shuffling around. And then we've got of course a mama and her two kids as well from last year. These ones are a little bigger but they're they're the same age. So they will also be moving over as well. Tucker and we have Shimmer there. Nestor and Onyx. So it's not necessarily that they have any issues although Onyx tends to go into the corner and she gets caught in the corner. She's got she's got her issues. I guess we've all got issues right. Oh the sun's coming out look at that. And then Nestor and Tucker we keep them in here just because they were young when they came in here. And we don't want to incorporate small animals in with the larger ones. They can get bullied and pushed around. Plus they've developed their friendships. So it's not that all of them necessarily have issues. We use the special pen for incorporating the animals into the area. I can hear behind me these three boys. So these are call ducks. And I just recorded not more than 15 minutes ago this rooster was picking on these little guys. And what happens is oh we're gonna see it now. What happens is they're feisty. And they're small but they're feisty. So that little one started chasing the rooster. And then of course his two little buddies come over and help him out. Hi. What are you guys doing? Is that how ducks and roosters play? Probably not. But roosters can be a pain can't they? Yeah. Morning Levi. Good morning. So you will also notice if you've watched our video regularly that these two kids here are outside. So Shorty and JD. We waited until the ice was gone because JD has well he's got some stiffness in his leg. We didn't want him to kind of fall. Hi. Or slip. Get injured. And then JD is back there. So in the little montage I recorded you'll see that Tara did bring the dishes out and put the food out here for these two. The other three that were fed down the driveway are little piggies aren't you? Yes. And this is the first time I'd seen this because of course I work during the and when Tara comes out to do the feeding I don't see that. But I was wondering why is she running over to that gate? And of course then there it was in the video the other three just ran up to the gate because it's only been a couple days but they know the routine. It's like oh the other two are out and she's going to put down some food for them and we're going to steal it. But the plan was foiled right Levi? So after they finished eating the grains Tara came back she picked up the containers and then she went and then these guys came in. So it's all about routine and just having a certain routine that everybody can are forced to get along and a lot of it is food aggression. So Tara's got that figured out for sure. So with the warmer weather we now open our farm to the public on weekends Saturday Sunday just for a few hours four hours eleven to three and this is going to be the first weekend where we're actually open. People have been calling and saying oh are you guys open yet we'd like to come out it's like uh it's snow it's ice no we're not going to open although we did have a couple weeks ago we had there was two families that came and one of them was I guess they were grandparents to grandchildren that live out of the area so during March break they always come out and visit grandma and grandpa and they called us and they said oh the kids are here and they've been such looking forward to coming out and seeing the animals and of course well we can't say no it's like okay yes come on out but understand you know they're not outside they're inside but we'll give you a tour so you know we try to accommodate for situations like the weather and we make changes accordingly all right I'm here with two of our nine cats give them here Zoria Zoria up here yeah there you go these are just they're not really treats they're a different type of cat food we just buy a small little bag of it and it works well because it's something different Coda seems to go through it pretty quickly here take little fishes and little triangles catnip's not ready yet so you'll have to wait um with the footage that I got with the two new ducks that came in they spent a couple nights in our carport and I was going back to get that footage to put in the video but as I was doing that I found the day after so they spent two nights in the carport and then the third night I guess they decided let's hang out with the other ones and we'll stay on the pond that was actually a very good idea because what had happened was when I was looking through the mama fox came around with two pups so going through the clips they came back over and over and over for the for about an hour they were in and out and I'm like did they know the ducks were there what is what's going on so then I looked that was at about three in the morning at about six in the morning pulled up some footage another animal was detected on the camera and sure enough it was the rabbit so we've got this ongoing you know battle between the fox and the rabbit but the rabbit came out of the other side of the carport not the carport side that they were going into so that was kind of cute did I lose I didn't lose uh is anybody else coming up Rhea you're over there come on up here come on up here Coda just continues here's Rhea here you can have some whoops and of course Coda wants so that was um so that was really interesting it's always interesting to see what wildlife is doing late at night or early in the and that fox and the rabbit seem to have this roadrunner coyote kind of thing going on where the fox just just can't can't get can't get to the rabbit anyway that is it for this video I hope you enjoyed it and we hope to see you again next time take care and have a wonderful day week