Endless Praise Acres

02/28/2025

My little assistant is always happy when he gets to be in charge of the water. 😆

02/27/2025

Looking forward to Spring. It's coming! 😊

02/17/2025

Bring on Spring!

02/13/2025

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This is a love/tolerate relationship. Willow loves the goats. They tolerate her. 😆

02/11/2025

The view from my dining room window currently. ❤️

02/03/2025

I'm so very thankful for these two. They won't let us get close enough to pet them, but we have seen zero rat activity/droppings in our barn in the past several months. This is a huge win!!!

02/01/2025

Gingersnap and Jellybeans are officially 👀 for new 🏡🏚️🛖. They are fully vaccinated, six months old, dehorned, A2/A2 genetics, and not f r e e. I SO wanted to have a family milk cow, but have come to the realization (yes, it takes me "doing it the hard way" sometimes) that they would do better with larger pastures. If you're interested, please message me directly.

Editing to add: if some wealthy benefactor wants to pay for hay and grain, I'd be willing to continue to let them live here. 😆. You could visit anytime, re-name them if you wanted, have as much raw milk, cream, etc once they are producing as you'd like. ❤️. With our smaller pastures, we don't have a large enough area for them to get most of their nutrition from grazing, so the feed bill is high.

01/25/2025

Editing to add: the nachos were good. 😆

Today I feel defeated. We've lost several ducks and chickens to an unknown predator recently and I hate it. In fact, if anyone were to offer me close to a fair price for all of my animals right now, I'd take it. Cows, goats, chickens, ducks, rabbits, honeybees, livestock guardian dog and all.

I'm off to bury my frustrations in a plate of nachos and figure out how to turn my chicken and duck areas into a secured fortress. Tomorrow will be a better day.

01/20/2025

1) Zeus
2) Comet
3) Welsh Harlequin ducks
4) Rocky
5) French Angora baby w/Mom in the background
6) young chickens (@7 weeks)
7) young Cinnamon rabbit (no name yet)
8) Lizzo
9) Inoli
10) me with Gingersnap and Jellybeans
11) Pygora and Arapawa does
12) Gingersnap and Jellybeans
13) Willow
14) Sokka

Just a few of the things I'm thankful for today. ❤️

01/19/2025

I hope that the ridiculous beauty found in ordinary, everyday things captures your heart today.

01/16/2025

Miss Mona and her babies. ❤️

01/07/2025

Looking forward to sunshine and flowers in 2025. While I wait, these little cuties make me smile. ❤️

12/21/2024

12/19/2024

Two things I'm thankful for today:

1) the barn was dry this morning (we've had some drainage issues recently, and with all the rain we had in the past 24 hours, this is a WIN!)
2) today I collected our first duck egg in months. I'm looking forward to longer daylight hours and more fresh eggs. 😊

There were challenges, too, but I'm trying to focus on the good.

12/10/2024

Babies. ❤️

Thanksgiving weekend we had several additions to our small farm. Chloe had her first litter of kits and we had 15 chicks hatch.

Chloe does NOT appreciate people reaching into "her" space, and will let you know she wants you to back off. She loves the fresh blackberry vines I give her each day, though! 😆

The chicks were still in the incubator during our recent power outage. Even though our power was restored much faster than many others in our area, I wasn't sure how it might affect the hatch rates. We ended up at just under 60%. Not a great hatching percentage, but I'm very happy to have these. They are absolutely adorable! 🥰

12/08/2024

In the middle of this busy time of year (as I type that I wonder "is there ever a season that isn't busy?!?") I splurged on some "me time" today. Tom watched Mylen and covered my chores while I attended a class at Woods Bee Co. . Today's class was how to make beeswax cotton wraps (to help minimize our use of plastic wrap). It was SO enjoyable! Now I feel confident in creating a bunch of these for my own friends/family using beeswax from our own hives. ❤️

11/26/2024

I love them. ❤️

11/24/2024

Our does... (I actually managed to get all ten of them in the second picture!). Most of these pictures feature our Arapawas. There's a couple sneak peaks of Willow in there, too. ❤️