Turkey Vs Goat ... Dog wins!

We are gearing up for fall and winter, which means that we're well under way breeding the goats, culling chickens, hatching eggs to raise as replacement layers & meat birds, and getting ready to butcher the hogs.  Once we get everything done for fall we'll have a bit of a rest.  I guess that's what winter is for.  I spent the day yesterday trimming hooves, and once I had Pete's done I took the opportunity to get a few pictures of him.  He was not very patient since he is in full rut and we've been breeding him this week...but you get an idea of the size of this boy, his head comes up to my shoulder.  He is just gorgeous and we love him alot!

I spent a good bit of the day Saturday weeding the 2 herb beds.  Oh my were they overgrown!  Our beautiful cucumber wall is now done...but we do still have a nice watermelon vine growing.  The eggplant has 1 tiny fruit on it, and we're letting the Basil go to seed to save for next year. 

That's what it looked like after I pulled all of this out!

Considering the amount of work we get done each day, we still have plenty of leisure time to sit and watch the antics of these animals.  After weeding, I dumped the carts of weeds into the goat yard for them to snack on.  This attracted the attention of the goats, chickens, and our juvenile delinqent tom turkey.  The turkey insisted on taking the weeds away from the goats and successfully chased most of them away.  His tactics didn't work on Happy.  She's old enough (she'll be 10 in Jan) to take him in stride, as you will see from this video.  Aegis the World's Greatest Livestock Guardian Dog, however, had enough...and put him in his place.