Pepaw, as the kids call him, has a farm full of animals. He's getting on in years (78 this year!) so he's slowed down but can still put most 78 year olds to shame. He has a little coop with some chickens. He's building a larger outdoor part for them. He has two horses, a jackass (so many jokes there), two baby mules (the product of a horse/jackass mix in case you didn't know), a wild hog he caught and is raising and some more horses in a back pasture I haven't seen. He runs a trot line so he took the kids out to bait the hooks last night and went to pick them up this morning with the kids. They are having a blast. Also the family up the road is raisin' a baby deer they found.
We are just surrounded by wildlife. There are unpleasant parts as well. Red ants, scorpions, snakes, grasshoppers, yellow jackets, bumblebees...
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| This is the outside of the coop he has started for his birds. |
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Ezra and I at the chicken coop. I had to keep him pinned in because that boy would have had them chickens running.
Pepaw has a rooster too and boy that thing has some sharp looking claws. |
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| There are the biddies. I didn't count them but he's got at least 8 and a head rooster. |
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| Isn't this a neat idea? My FIL has some fantastic ideas. |
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| Their water bowl. |
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| They finally got a little closer. He said I made them nervous so they might not lay. Funny how chickens do that. |
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| They ran away pretty quick. |
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| The two babies wouldn't let me get close. |
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| Their Mamas are the white horses. I haven't got a pic of their Dad yet. Come to think of it he has two jackasses so I'm not sure who the Daddy is.... :o |
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