January Rabbit Show

With the start of a new year brings the start of Zack and Madison showing again.

                                          Zack getting ready to put up one of his Holland Lops

                                          Kissy on the table waiting for the Judge

                                             The Judge looking Kissy

 

                                          Zack and Erica watching and listening

                                           What Arron does at a show

                                          The girls wanted Zack to look over a rabbit for them

                                          Zack looking over the bunny for the girls

                                          Madison looking the bunny over

                                         Erica holding the girls new bunny

Skiing

 

This year the kids finally got a chance to get back on the mountain and ski.  Zack and Madison loved it but A.J not so much.

 

                                          All three kids

                                           Zack and A.J coming down the bunny slope

                                           Zack

                                            A.J

                                         Zack doing his turn

                                         Madison had a little harder time remembering how to ski.  So she spent a lot of time on the magic carpet. She was to afraid of falling.

                                          Not to mention that she wasn't feeling that well either.

Watch Us Grow!!!!

 

One of Zack's Thrianta litter born

                                          Minutes old

                                          About 10 days old

                                          Fat little bellies

                                         Nice Head on this one

                                          Eyes are all opened. 

                                          play time! Zack brings them inside just about every other night to get some play time and that way he can look them over so watch them.

Thrianta Babies

                                          These guys are only a little over 4 weeks old.  So today Zack brought them in for there first posing lessons and photos.

                                         They were a little to scared to sit still

                                          Finally one that would sit

Top 10 of 2012

                    





                                                        The Little Effing Farm's
                                                          Top 10 of 2012




10.) We added geese and pigs to the farm this year.
 9.)   Madison won 3rd place for her giant sunflower and Zack won 3rd place for his giant pumpkin  in 4-H at the Sandwich Fair.
8.) Zack, A.J and Dorrie all took Hunter's Education and passed.
7.) Arron and the boys learned how to process our own pigs
6.) Madison raised a 43 pound turkey
5.) Zack had a very successful first year with his rabbitry
4.) Arron made a sign for the Little Effing Farm
3.) We made our own Maple Syrup
2.) Adam came into our family at 19 days old
1.) A.J graduated High School and got his driver's license



Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays


   

Pig Day

This was the first time we have ever done anything like this before.  And only ended up taking care of the pigs ourselves because of the price everyone else wanted to charge for doing it. I had to drop the baby off that morning so Megan had my camara while I was gone. And boy did she enjoy this whole process.  I only choose a few of her photos to give you an idea what steps we took.  It was hard to choose from all the ones she took from beginning to end.   

                                          Zack and A.J giving Lunch her last bath

                                               Arron and Dad working on getting the hair off

                                           Madison's turn to help. You can see the smooth white skin is the parts that's been done and the darker spot is left to do.

                                          Last step to do before hanging it up for the night

                                          Team work to get it to the garage to be hung

                                          The kids were all excited to help guide Dinner up for her turn.  Notice all the extra kids.  Some how we ended up sleepovers  while doing this so there was always people coming and going all weekend when this process was going on.

                                          Tyler watching Zack get the gun ready

                                          Megan waiting for her turn to help get the hair off.

Turkey's this year

                                           Madison was in charge of the  Turkey's this year and she did very well.

                                          Like most year's we had mainly Tom's

                                           Even the Hen's are good size. The biggest this year was 43 pounds and the smallest was 22 pounds.