Horses!

Here's a cute picture I took of Peanut the other day! Me and Abbi have been lunging him just about every day, it's funny to watch his short little legs go as he trots and canters :) We also had some one over to trim his hooves last week- Peanut hated it! The lady picked up his foot and he started dancing around rearing and everything. It was very interesting watching, he certainly picked the wrong person to mess with!

Our new projects

Recently we have been building more (Yes, MORE) animal enclosures, with the latest one to be just about completed, is a new quail and guinea pig run.
It isn't massive, but there's plenty of room for the two quail and four guinea pigs that now live in it.

We are also going to make another run a bit bigger then the quail run, joined onto it for a rabbit to live in. I can't wait to have them finished... and another awesome thing is that we still have plenty of wire left over for making hutchs. I plan on building two more... so then we will be a 7 hole rabbitry!

I will post some pictures once the runs and cages are finished :)

Another litter!

One of our does, Bubblegum Bunnies Willow (A.K.A- Willow) has had her third litter! There are 6 in this litter, and they all look like black otters at the moment.
We are very excited about this litter, as the sire is our little Rosebank Fern- who is also a black otter and has lots of black in his lines, so I'm not to surprised about the colours of this litter.

Willow :) (That orange thing in the photo is a mineral holder thing by the way...)

Stuff and Things

Recently, we got given a horse! His name is Peanut, and he is a Miniature horse who I think is about 8.3 hh? He is so adorable, he has a little mo hawk hair do at the moment, because when the people who gave him to us first got him he was infested with lice. So he had to be clipped all over and have his mane hogged (cut off). I will put up a pic and maybe a video of him later.
It seems to be give-someone-a-horse month, 'cause my friend Hannah has also been given a free horse as well, only this one is 14.2 hh so she can ride him :) She hasn't actually got him yet, but I'm pretty sure she's getting him.

Willow has got 9 days until the nest box goes in for her. She was bred to Fern this time, so very excited :) Her last litter where all on hold by the second week of them being advertised! (All 7 of them!).
I am currently trying to persuade Mum and Dad that it would be a good idea to pick up a rabbit (or two) on the way through Christchurch when we go on holiday this year. We will see if that turns out well or not ):D

At the moment, we are also in the process of building a new 'quail run', for the quail and the guinea pigs to live in. This is what it looks like so far:

....Yea... not much progress. BUT, we have brought all of the stuff we need, and have an AWESOME plan for a two story quail/ guinea pig mansion house for them all to share. I'm afraid you will have to wait until we are finished to see that though :)

Oh, aaand, the other day I was cracking eggs for something... and there was a fertile egg!
I was extremely puzzled- we don't have a rooster! Or so I thought :I
It turns out that one of the two chickens originally to us as 'pullets', is a cockerel. Oh well, it's pretty cool actually. Because now we have a non crowing non attacking rooster, fertile eggs, and a hen that frequently goes broody. We might try put some fertile eggs under neath Gem (the broody one) next time she goes clucky, see if she can hatch some for us :)

That's all for now... feel free to comment! (Hint hint... ):D)

Recent Photos

These are some photos that we took recently! Enjoy :)

Anika and Dad, we where in Queens town yesterday for Anikas 7th birthday :)

A random one of Puffball talking

Noah riding Doc! Doesn't he look tiny?!

Mum took this not too long ago. I don't know if you can see, but there's a rainbow in the background

This was taken a few days ago, Abbi and Mia riding Doc double

Taken out the car window on the way to Queens town!

The stream at Arrow town

Painting of Peanut

Recently at the art class we go to (at our Grandmas house), I started a picture of the neighbors miniature pony, Peanut (see him here: http://docandpeanutblog1.blogspot.co.nz/). It was quite fun, I used water colours instead of just drawing like I usually do. It isn't finished yet, but I will add more pics once I do some more on it :)

Last Weekend's Camp

Last weekend, me, Abbi, Mia, Anika, and Mum all went on a girls camp called 'Know No Limits'. We left on Friday night, and got back on Sunday afternoon.
There where heaps of activities to do all Saturday- and one of them was horse riding!
Part of the horsey thing, was that if you had your own pony/horse, you could take it and go on a big trek on the farm that the camp was on. They where also giving small rides to other people who wanted to have a go, so we all had as many rides as we could. Just before they where about to leave on their trek, one of the people who owned the farm and a few of the ponies there, asked me and Hannah (my friend) if we wanted to go with them on their two spare ponies! So I got to ride a grey 14.2 hh pony called 'Puff', and Hannah got to ride a, maybe 13 hh, black pony, called 'Blackie' (I know, very creative name).
 It was so amazing, we where riding for about 3 hours straight, going up and down really steep hills and everything. Puff was really good, and my favourite pony there- while 'Blackie', was quite a green (young/ inexperienced) horse who shied at heaps of things, but Hannah did really well on her :)

Some of the other activities were: archery, 22 shooting, clay bird shooting, paddock racing, laser tag, dirt bikes, and there was a huge water slide at the end of the day.

It was such a fun weekend, and I definitely want to go on it again next year :)

Here are some photos of the different activities we did:

Me on 'Puff', before the trek

Anika, on our home school friends horse, 'Timmy'

Abbi riding

Mia doing archery

Anika (in pink top) on dirt bike/motor bike