Wednesday 13 October 2010

The Juniper Tree Goes Country

If some of you remember to way back more than a year ago, there was a blog post about a team at our Pachacamac site that had befriended a sheep living on the property. Well we never could have imagined that one lonely sheep could have led to the group of animals we are amassing now at the Juniper Tree. We have started to raise rabbits. These are New Zealand rabbits which grow to be very big and will soon need to be moved to individual cages to continue to grow bigger.

We also have a pig. He is a young male and he recently had this nice new pen built for him. Now that he has such a beautiful house to live in, we are thinking it is time to start looking for a wife that he can share it with.

Our ducks continue to multiply with this bunch just being born last week. Their mother is keeping them close by up until now, but it won't be long until she starts taking them to the ducks new swimming pond that we made a few weeks ago. We also have two goats roaming the property at the Juniper Tree, helping us keep the grass cut. We are thankful that all these animals have been provided for our home and we are excited about what the children can learn from looking after them and also for the potential food source that they all provide for us.