Thursday, September 25, 2008

Building our chicken coop




Building our chicken coop this summer (2008). I think those hens have a pretty good looking place to hang out. What do you think? We now have about 30 chickens that we are waiting for them to grow up to give us some eggs. We have New Hampshires and brown leg horns.


Puppy meet Cujo!


One of Daisy's puppies meeting our Golden Retriever nose to nose. Cujo is a very gentle giant and has been very patient with waiting to meet Daisy's puppies.

Now you see them! Now you don't!

Now you see them! Now you don't!






Charity with her braces!



Charity without braces!


Look at those straight pearly whites. She had her braces removed the end of August and she is very happy with the results.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

August 23, 2008 Daisy has her puppies

Daisy gives birth August 23,2008




Daisy gave birth to 4 health puppies on August 23, 2008. She did well and is a very good Mommy. She had 2 girls and 2 boys. Things were going well until the puppies were 10 days old and out of no where we lost the smallest little boy. He was fine one minute and then gone the next with no explanation as to why. Then again four days later sorrow hit our family again and we noticed that one of the little girl puppies had lost a little bit of weight and would occasionally make a strange noise. We took her to the vet right away and the vet couldn't find anything wrong with her. We took her home and when I went to take her out of the basket and she wasn't breathing and was limp. I aroused her and could tell immediately that the outcome wasn't going to be good. She passed away the next day in my hands.




After more conversations with the vet it sounds like they may have had what they call "Canine Herpes". It is something they can get from the mom and when they are so young they are unable to fight the virus. We are taking every measure possibe to protect the other two puppies and are hoping and praying that they will make it. About the only way to kill the virus is to raise the body temperature to over 100 degrees. We trying our best to keep them as warm as possible. So far, so good.




September 21, 2008 Sweet little puppies

Aren't They Cute!

Here are our sweet little puppies, Maggie and Dunken. They are now 4 weeks old and so very cute. They are starting to play and wrestle with each other. They have brought a lot of joy into our home