Spring is here and everything here on our farm in Texas is in bloom. The colors are amazing and the greens of the land are food for my soul. I really find it uplifting to look out onto the acres we have on our little hobby farm and see such lush shades of green all around. The rains these past few months have brought our local lake levels back up to normal and our tanks are full.
Our animals are enjoying an abundance of fresh greens and lots of bugs. This year we hope to keep ahead of the grasshopper population that destoyed our gardens and fruit trees by midseason last year. We now realize that if we set our guineas, turkeys, hens and rooster loose to free range during the day they will keep the bug population in check and our plants will have a better chance to make it through.
We now have three steer and one baby bull, two nanny goats, thirteen turkeys (seven Toms and six hens), two female and one male in our rabbit hutches, nine laying hens, one rooster, two baby chicks who are rapidly approaching sex identification time, three female guineas who are laying eggs so we have added three males, two female dogs and one male dog, and two female cats. With the males to females around here we are expecting babies to start adding to the population. It is a lot of work but my husband continues to enjoy his days making this all work.