Introducing Strike and Spare, Indian Runner Ducks at Gillis Hill Farm!

Listening in on a duck conversation...
What are they calling us?  I think she just called me "Strike" and I think she called you "Spare."  Thanks to James and Caroline Gillis for coming up with our new names!   Now we are Strike and Spare...They think we are bowling pins with legs!  Who would have guessed? 

Happy Birthday America!

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.                                                                                                                   The Preamble to the United States Constitution

Fresh Goats Milk

Karen Stanger from End-O-Way Farm  gave Katerina, Mylena, and I  hand milking lessons and then we were on our own...This is the result!  Not bad for first time hand milking maidens Katerina and Mylena!    Poor Ellie, she did not eat on the stand, she kept bleating, and looking back at us.  On Karen's farm, all her goats stood on the stand and ate, no bleating!   I know we were not doing everything right on our own, but we did have fun doing it!  Poor Ellie will have to endure until the girls get the hang of hand milking a goat.   

Lucy Lockett, a Miniature Fainting Goat that Thinks She is a Cowgirl!

Lucy Locket, the Cowgoat! 

Have  you   ever  heard  of a goat  that  likes to ride  horses? 

Meet  Lucy Locket,  a  geninue  cowgirl,  the  only  problem,

she  is a goat, but is that really  a problem  for  Lucy Locket?  

No, here she is with Katerina riding on a horse and loving it!

 It seems she has to whisper 

in Katerina's ear  

where she wants to go, and then, 

she can't wait to get  there.  

 "Giddy-up Go" as she eagerly looks

 out from between the horses ears at the

 countryside that beakons her.  

 Lucy Locket is always up to something

here on Gillis Hill Farm and we can 

always count on her  for a fun,

 adventurous kinda day.

Let's Giddy-Up Go Miss Kitty!  

Sugar, an American Cheviot Miniature Sheep

Meet Sugar, an American Cheviot miniature sheep owned by Mr. & Mrs. Furney Register that own REGISTER'S SHEEP & GOAT SUPPLIES in Wade, North Carolina. It was a pleasure doing business with he and his wife and I enjoyed the tour of his property, all while meeting cute little sheep, goats, dogs, and donkeys along the way.

Interesting Facts about Sheep

                                              

A one-year old sheep is called a hogget

A two-year old sheep is called a two-tooth.

Sheep grow two teeth a year until they have eight.

If you see a sheep on its back, lend it a hand because a sheep can't get up from that position. If left on its back too long, it will eventually die.

President James Madison wore an inaugural jacket made from the wool of sheep raised on his Virginia farm.

There are About 900 different breeds of sheep

One pound of wool can make ten miles of yarn.

The small intestines from 11 sheep are needed to make 1 tennis racket.

Sheep have poor eyesight but an excellent sense of hearing.

Sheep only have lower teeth that press against an upper palette

Sheep make a bleating sound. A baby lamb can identify its mother by her bleat.

There are 150 yards (450 feet) of wool yarn in a baseball.

When Woodrow Wilson was President, the First Lady had sheep graze on the White House lawn to keep it neat and well trimmed.

Lamb is the lowest in cholesterol of all red meats.

Spinning wool into thread began about 5,000 years ago.

Ewes typically give birth to twins.

There are About 1 billion sheep on the planet

Sheep prefer running water when they drink

People started raising sheep over ten thousand years ago.


And that my friends is sheep facts finale.

Here's a Little Buck-a-Tude from Beethoven!