WHEEler Farm!

This has got to be one of my all time favorite activities we have done with the Young Women.

Faith has been going to wheeler farm this past year to help take care of the animals and take some classes with the FFA. She wants to go into farm animal veterinary school when she graduates.

She wanted us to see what she does there so we planned this trip to Wheeler farm for our activity. We had a great turn out and I think everyone had a good time.

It was neat to watch Faith shine as she told us about all the animals. She really knows a lot about them and had some good stories about where they came from (most are rescue animals...ok no comments about dropping off kitties..that is a story for another day ).

We even got to milk the cow!Billy Goats GruffSweet little lamb Faith said to stay away from the geese...they are mean!

This poor mama cow had given birth about 3 weeks ago and was totally engorged. We didn't even have to squeeze to get the milk to come out!
They weren't having her feed her calf though so she was grateful for the milking.

Faith said she was able to help deliver this cows calf and had a lot of pictures on her phone of the birthing. What a cool experience! I can see why she loves doing this.

Turkeys were funny. When we would make a gobble noise, they all immediately made it back at us, like a little turkey chorus.

Pigs were interesting and smelly. Faith said she had shaved them a few days ago to get them ready to go to market.

To market to market to buy a fat pig...home again home again jiggity jig!

Faith said they don't want the pigs to get too big cause then they are worth less at the market. They want nice lean piggies.

Faith told me a while ago that they have an excess of chickens right now so if we wanted to have some we could get them for free! I have always wanted to have some chickens, so Kelley is going to build a pen for them and we are going to get a few!

Faith wants Kelley to have the rooster...I think she wants revenge for him terrorizing Tiny.

I mostly want to rescue this one that was getting pecked to death by the other chickens. She didn't have hardly any feathers around her head and was a pretty sad sight. It had never occurred to me before, but Faith told me that is where the phrase "pecking order" comes from. There are always ones that will pick on the weaker chicken. ( or whatever) Sad, but true.

Emily and Jenny brought their kids and they loved it. We will have to take Olivia when she comes to visit. I was talking to her on the phone and was telling her I was going to a farm to see some animals. She said "Oh Grandma I want to go with you!" Next week!!!!

Faith bought one of the little goats and named her Molly. She had it here at her house in the back yard for a few days... it ate everything in sight and ran away several times. So she brought it up here. Much happier at the farm!