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Email:     john@kiger.com , deb@kiger.com

Phone:  (707) 538-7514

 

Goldy and Steffi turned 8 years old in July. He's a 14+ pound teddy bear, except when he's acting brute towards Steffi. We think he just likes to remind her who's boss from time to time. She's 9 pounds and quite the princess, lounging on pillows, on the DVR, and occasionally even getting more than 10 feet from the yard.

   
photos taken by Grandma Sheila

Since the chickens seem to have made themselves entirely at home, it seems appropriate to add them to the "family" page. Completely free range, even roosting nightly in a tree between the house and the sheep pasture, they often lay their daily egg in the garage. Sometimes it's two feet off the ground atop the wood shavings bag. Othertimes it's on top of a fertilizer bag in the corner. AS often as not, though, they lay the egg in one or another spot unknown to the egg collector! We recently found 9 eggs in a nest beneath the wood pallet where we store the sheep straw and hay.

When they're not hiding eggs, Joe (the rooster) and the hens spend all day walking around the house, the sheep pasture, the garden, the compost pile, or anywhere else they feel like going. They cackle and peck and scratch, and after having been spoiled by handfed treats from Cousin Sam, they now scurry after Deb every time she leaves the house!

photo taken by Jenny Paquette

Joe Cocker (center) with Carmen and Lina, his hens.