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

A and P shows for 2014

This year me and Abbi have been going to some more A and P shows with Poppy and Danny, our two goats.
 The first one we went to was the Winton A and P show. I was really cool and Danny and Poppy both got 'highly commended', while our friend Hannah got champion for the pet goats section. There was a fancy dress competition as well, so Poppy was dressed up as 'Goat Kid' and got first, Hannahs goat, Bb, was dressed up completely in pink with a little hat on and got second, and Danny was dressed up as 'Bat Goat' and came third.

The second one we went to was the Gore A and P show. It took around an hour to get there, but it was worth it. This one was much bigger then the Winton one, so there where two different age groups for the pet section. Abbi was in the 11 and unders, and me and Hannah where in the 12 and over. Danny came first for our age group pet competition, Hannah third, and Abbi got second for the younger group (which I thought was pretty good as there where way more entries in her age group then mine).
There was a fancy dress at the Gore one to, and the goats where all dressed up the same as the last A and P show. I think there where about 12 people with their pets in this one though, which is why I was really surprised when Danny got second!

On Saturday, we all went to the Southland A and P show at Donovan park. It was heaps of fun and at the end we got to go in the grand parade with the goats wearing their ribbons.
For the pet competition, their was just me, Abbi, and Hannah in the goat section. So Abbi got first, Hannah got second, and me and Danny got third. For the fancy dress Hannah took one of her other goats, Jubilee, and dressed her up as a horse. Abbi dressed Poppy up as Goat Kid (again), only this time she dressed up with her and whore a cap and a back pac, and I dressed Danny up as Bat Goat, this time with some little booties (or leg bands), and I dressed up with him too- wearing black and grey and a cape. Hannah came second, Abbi came third, and me and Danny didn't get placed at all :( There where about 12 people there though, and they only had up to sixth place- but they DID give everyone a $10 voucher for East Road Pets, so it's ok :)
Abbi also got 'Reserve Champion', as all the people who won a first place in their class (minus the lambs) when in another round to see who got champion. Abbi came second :)
So in the end we came home with: a third ribbon, a first ribbon, a reserve champion ribbon, and $60 worth of East Road Pets vouchers!
It was a good day out :)

These photos are of the Winton A and P show- I will try and get photos of the Southland and Gore A and P shows tonight. (They are on Dads phone)

Bunnies (again)

I thought I'd just share some photo's that I took of some off the kits last week. They are so big now, you wouldn't believe it if you just saw a few of them that there are 7 in the litter!
There are only two left to sell now, so if you want one you'll have to get in fast :) http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=695308408 Copy and paste to see their listing on Trade Me
Here they are:

From left to right: Sable buck (not sold), Siamese sable buck (sold), and Sable doe (not sold).

The siamese sable buck, nick named 'Marmite'.

Smoke pearl marten buck- one of the runts but catching up to the others fast :)

Bunnies

Willow has had her second litter! She had *7* popples and they are all still doing well :)
There are lots of my favourite colours in this litter, and I would be a bit tempted to keep a certain siamese sable buckling if the sire was Fern. They are two weeks old at the moment so they will be listed on Trade Me in about a week and a half.

Updated with a photo :)

Fun free online games to play

Here are some free online games that you can play on your computer, laptop, ipad (with the also free app 'puffin'), ipod and possibly iphone (both also with puffin).

The first one is an awesome game called 'Animal Jam' (search animaljam.com). You make a free acount, pick an animal to be, dress it up, and as the Animal Jam team always say, 'Play safe and have fun!'. At the moment there are around 2 billion people that play it!

Another cool game I play is called 'howrse' (search howrse.com). You make a free acount, choose a horse breed and choose a horse, then you can breed your horse, compete in competitions, and buy horses off other people until you have your own equestrian center!

Got a question about any of these games? Just ask through the comments tab below.
                                                           






Note: Sadly, because of all of the people on Animal Jam who would just love to hack into my acount and take all of my things, I can not publish my user name on any public blog, website or anything for you to find me and buddy me :(

The New Chickie run

Last week, Mum decided to make a new bigger run for the chickens down behind our car port. We didn't want to have to spend heaps of money on posts and wire 'n everything, so we just took down their old run (setting up a temporary one for them to stay in while their new home was being built) and reused all of the fencing and houses from that! When we moved in to our house last year, we also found that the people who used to live here had left a whole lot of corrugated iron behind one our many sheds (some of those sheets have been used to make a goat hut and rabbit houses too, so they have been well used!), so we used those for fencing down the bottom and put some left over chicken wire on top of that! We also reused the gate from the old run they had.
In total, we only spent $24 which was used to buy some nails!

And now enough talking- photo's!

Strawberry the red shaver (Noahs chicken)  and our new bantam hen 'Hazel' with her four sussex/bantam chicks

Popples!

Willow has had her first litter of PoPpLeS! She had 4 beautiful babies early in the morning on the 30/9/13. Three out of the four are still alive as unfortunately the little runt passed away :(

They are exactly two weeks old today and man their growing fast! They all opened their eyes about three days ago and they are also starting to hop around instead of just kinda wriggling everywhere like they did when they where tiny.

I think that there is one Chinchilla (like Peter their sire), one Smoke pearl (like willow, obviously their dam), and another Smoke pearl or a blue otter?