Learning to Eat

Long Creek Looking west up main street.

The frosty coldness continues for the fourth day here in Long Creek. This morning, I went over to the school shop to paint the sign for the Long Creek Booster Club “Kans for Kids” fund drive. I walked on up Main across 395 to West Main to see if Silver had some  paint and small brushes. Beautiful. Very cold, but beautiful.

Long Creek Park

The kids started trying out real food today. Since the rumen is what keeps them warm, it makes sense that they would start right off. Both seem to be nursing well and as you can see, they are picking up chewing on hay pretty well. Today Gene and I also made an 8 slot nesting box and put up a chicken wire yard for the kids to play in. They also need to play and develop their muscles, so this is pretty important. It won’t be too long before they are integreted into the herd and I can take that yard down. Chicken wire really has no redeaming qualities. But the last people here left it and it was what we had. I am guessing it will hold them for about a week. Gene made a pretty good gate out of crappy scrap wood too. At any rate, they’ll have some room to run and Butter Brickle can get out a bit. In a few days, we’ll start introducing the kids to the “aunties.” That ought to be interesting. The sooner the herd is back together, the better, as far as I am concerned. At any rate, here’s some cuties for today.

It's warm under mamma

Learning to eat.