Spring!!

Now that Spring is really here, the birds are singing , the geese are back and the days are longer, our happy little family of birds are enjoying the sunshine and fresh air.

The big guy is being nosey and checking in on the babies and their Mama.

We finally came up with a name for our newest addition to our flock, she is a barred rock x polish mix and as sweet as pie. We named her Lucy!!!... And Lucy as sweet and cute as she is, is a leader! A leader who leads the flock to places the flock should not be!

Yesterday, while I was at work my Hubby had to chase the flock back into our coop and out of the farmers barn. Lucy was sitting on the seat of the tractor, while the rest of the flock

clucked and peck on the ground below her.

Like I said, she is a handful but I think she just might be my favourite.

After playing in the coop, I decided maybe today would be a good day to bake the things that I enjoy the most. So, traditional Scottish shortbread cookies,

 Braided egg bread,

oatmeal cookies

and traditional Scots buttermilk bread, which happens to be my Hubby's favourite of the many kinds of bread I make.

Last but not least, I though some homemade raspberry jam would go great with

all this yummy bread.

So after all the baking was done, supper was made and everyone was full and content, I thought I would take the babies we have inside and introduce them to Mama and her babies.

Mama was not sure what to do with all the extra babies in her coop,

now she has 28 babies to deal with. Ha! busy Mama. She kinda looks a little overwhelmed

and confused.

Since we got rid of the big bad bully of the coop, we moved the older babies

to his pen. There's lot of room to play in the big old pen.

 And that's all that's up here on the farm!

 Happy Homesteading!