Spring Has Sprung

After a long, miserable winter spring seems like it has finally arrived. Most of the snow has melted, except where there were huge drifts. The grass has started to turn green...the days are longer...rhubarb is poking its way through the soil. Stragely enough the strawberries and thyme looks like it never even died back over the winter. The strawberry leaves are huge and the thyme is probably at least 5" high...strange & I will try and get some pictures posted. Maybe the thick snow insulation that it had protected it from our bitterly cold.
We have a new baby goat, a buck, that was born on February 18th. It was an awfully cold morning and Im afraid that his poor little ears got some frost bite, so he may lose the bottom half of them, but he is spunky none the less. The other doe that we had bred miscarried her babies over the winter, which was sad. So this year we only have one baby. :(
The rabbitry has grown by leaps and bounds. We are up to 54 rabbits, including babies that will be weaned this week. Starting March 23rd we have 18 does due over the next 2 weeks. With an average litter size of 4-6 kits that could give us 72-108 new babies....that is if everyone ends up bred. In the past we havent ended up with everyone bred so even if we say that half of the does are bred that could give us 36-54 new babies. On March 6th we went to a 4H rabbit workshop for some hands-on learning for Carter. He did some learning while dad & I did some rabbit selling. It was amazing how fast the babies went. We had weaned them the previous week so they were over 7 weeks old and we wished that we had more to bring. We kept one for ourselves as he is a really nice black otter! Our first show was March 7th...Carter did really well getting BOV with Kellys Candy Cane and BOSV with Chases 8Ball in the first show and BOSV with Chases 8 Ball & BOSV with Chases Remington in the 2nd show. We have another show this weekend...will try and get some pics added!!!