We Thought It Was A COYOTE... Then We Got Closer! 😳

Mark and Tara here and welcome to the 10-acre woods on this beautiful sunny day. So we're heading out to feed the animals and you can probably hear them in the background. They see us, we've been spotted. The ponies are waiting over there patiently. So something that happened this past week. Tara got up and what did you, you just, you were outside and you saw something. Yeah, I was having my morning coffee on the deck and I saw a coyote in the back. Yeah, so she saw a coyote. Spent the next hour and a half trying to get it out of the pen yelling at it from a distance. Yeah. You don't want to get too close. So I got a stick in one hand yelling at this thing. And then you went and got Tiana. I went and got Tiana because I said treat and all of a sudden turn ears went up. I'm like, Oh, maybe this isn't a coyote. Maybe this is somebody's dog. And, uh, turned out it was a husky up from the beautiful husky. And well, but it was so scared of me now. So I had to get Tiana and Tiana went out there, got down on the ground, started talking to it. It came right over to her. Right. Turned out to be a, just a sweetheart. Because you can see everything. Come on. Come on. One blue eye, one brown eye. Mia, Mia, sit. Mia come sit. Yeah. Yeah. Good girl. Yeah. Yeah. Your name's Mia. Good girl. So Tara found out who the owner of the dog was by checking social media. She went on to, I believe it was a Facebook local group page and she posted the picture and there was some responses saying, Oh, we think it's this person about a quarter mile west of us. There's a house there. And that's where they thought that the dog came from. Tara went on to their Facebook page. They have a Facebook page and saw what looked like the dog that we had. And the name was Mia. So Tara immediately went out and started using the name Mia and the ears went up. And of course, when she said sit, she didn't really sit right away, but when she said Mia sit, then she sat and it just looked like, yep, we're pretty sure this is Mia. So what happened is she drove down to the house and nobody was home. So she left a note saying that we think we have Mia, please contact us as this number. And later on that day, a friend of theirs, I believe it was came by and picked her up. So all good. Reunited back at home. No. Why do you come in? Come on. Good morning, JD. Okay. Fed. Good to go. All right. The grocery store. Right. Lots of you got that set up nicely. Cause there's no mice in here now. I haven't been catching any mice. Yeah. So that's good. They're all outside. Who do we guess that is? Those that you think it's Tinker? No Tinker. I see further. Yeah, there's Tinker. Yeah. Turbo. Yes. The little trouble, the other little troublemaker. Uh, I was actually. Okay. So we've got Tinker's food down. So she's going to come in and then Tara's already processed the food, cut up the food. Yeah. Get rid of all the rest. All right, here we go. Amazing how they get quiet when they're eating. Yeah. So here's Petunia here. She is kind of a little scrawny. Yeah. Does mama have something for you? I want the hay. She's getting older. Her and Coco, I believe are the same age. Coco's not bad. She's a little, she's a little more thin than, than her younger offspring and others. Right. Morning boys. Where are the little ones? We've seen, we've got a couple of call ducks that are around. Yeah. She's right here. Got a couple of little we've got a couple of call ducks that seem to wander out and hang out by the driveway. And, um, they, yeah, they don't make it for breakfast. I guess they do their own thing. Go eat. There you go. He's jumpy in her old age. No, no, no. You're out. Yeah, I know. Come on. All right. She is a little more jumpy. Yeah. Yeah. She's no longer at the top of the alpha line. Some of the younger, the younger kids have moved into that position. Now they said you forgot something. It looks like Tara threw some grains out here. Actually, she might even thrown some while I was trying to feed Petunia. She might've even thrown, I see a cucumber there. So Ollie here. So some of you have put down in the comments about ear infection. Uh, yeah, that can cause something very similar, but the difference here is Ollie has a solid mass on the one side of his neck. So it's not an ear infection, but he seems, he seems pretty happy. Like his head is actually straight, but his ears are just floppy. So, and he's, he's happy. He seems happy. Nothing seems to bother him. He's always hanging around out here in the, uh, but in this pen and then next in the dog pen. Yeah. So Ollie, yeah. And you're friendly. You're not a biter. Are you? You're just special. Yeah. That's my Ollie. Yeah. You already gave, um, the vegetables. Yeah. Like to these guys? Yeah. Yeah. Cause I see one cucumber. So for those asking about ear infection, you see in there? Yeah. I kind of went over everything. It's clean. And you've got a mass, uh, he's got a mass on the one side. Yeah. Yeah. So he's, he's calcifying in here, which tells me that he had some sort of neck injury, which is, that's why I believe he is doing his calcifying and it's Charlie. What? I don't give you bananas. That's the honest thing. Um, he says, what do you got there? You're feeding something to Ollie. Like normally when a rabbit does do this, you guys are very correct. This is the sign of an ear infection. Then you can treat, you can spray canola oil in there and get it in. It'll kill any mice or, and, and, and then you can, you can drip, uh, polysporin. Yes. That was a very good, like it is typical what it looks like, but when you actually feel his neck and how stiff it is, it's when, you know, when you break a bone or whatnot, it calcifies to heal and to compensate for the break. Rabbits don't do surgeries. Rabbits don't do that. 50% chance they pass out on pass on the table. So he's doing fine. He's interactive. He's, he loves this yard. Yeah. He loves the dog. Um, but there's this calcifying of the neck going on, which is why I believe the tilt, but he, well, and it's only his ears that are tilting. It's not his head. It's like his ears were put on sideways when it calcifies. Right. You can pinch a muscle or pinch a nerve. Right. So it's a, but if you actually can feel his neck, his neck is like totally hard, which is not normal. So, yeah, but he's living the dream out here. So, and he's loving it and now he's enjoying more and more hands-on as long as we warn people not to be, uh, rough with, you know, like it's gentle. Yeah. Yeah. But he does enjoy it out here. Hey Ollie. Oh, you found that cucumber. I, we don't want to put them in with these bigger rabbits in here because he's not as, uh, let's say active and we don't want him to injure it more. Right. So when he's, when he's done, he goes and he lies in Toby's pen. Yeah. Hangs out in there. Yeah. Eats the grass, enjoys life. Right. Ollie. Yeah. Life's good. So this morning, Saturday morning, uh, Tara and Tiana are heading out to a petting farm up 20 minutes North of us. So sometimes we go off yard. Uh, there's, uh, country fairs and things of that nature, uh, that people request us to go up and they want to have a little petting farm for their fair. So, uh, Tara is just going to start getting things ready for that. We're going to load up the animals and we're going to ship them out. Uh, I've got things to do here on the farm, so I'm going to be here holding down the fort. Uh, one thing I wanted to bring up is if you guys had seen, I did a short on the Muscovy duck that was in sitting on eggs in the building there. And they came out, there was 18 of them and they went out on the pond and I thought I'd film a little short on that. Um, what had happened was not a coyote, but a fox came through, went into the building and cleared them out. So, um, yeah, we have to rethink how that's happening. We figured that that building over there would be fine, but you know, hindsight, we should have closed the gate on it, locked them in, make sure they're in and out. And unfortunately, yeah, we lost all 18 of them. So Tiana came out the next day and she was like, where are they? There's the mom. Yeah. So we do have another one that's sitting and it's sitting. We showed you that a couple of weeks ago in the lighthouse there. So we're going to check in on her. And what we're going to do is once they hatch out, we're going to put them over here in the nursery, which is a central completely fenced in area. And they are safe in there from any kind of predator. The electric fencing that we have does go around the property with a five wire predatory fence with the exception of this corner right over here. So we left that because we were going to build a bird enclosure. We haven't gotten around to that, but we're going to have to rethink that because I think that's where the fox is coming in. So it's unfortunate. You live and you learn. We should have, should have locked them up, but we didn't. And yeah, it hasn't happened in a number of years and we figured it would be fine. Mama would take them out around the pond and things would be fine. The ducks and the geese here, they actually, when there's a predator and they get a sense of something, they hear something, they see something, they all line up on the edge of the pond right here and keep an eye out. And if something does come out of the bush, they immediately go into the water. Of course the mama and the young, it's a little more difficult there. She gets them into a sheltered area. Ducklings can't be wet for too long, so they can't just hang out on the pond all night. So that is the story with them. It's unfortunate, but things happen. Nature must go on, I suppose. It's the circle of life, but we've got to do what we can to protect them and make sure that they're Speaking of the lighthouse, I just wanted to check in here to find out, is she actually sitting yet? No. I don't know if you can see that in there, but there's the eggs right down in there. So she's actually not sitting. Not sure why, but well, I guess we'll wait. So it's going to be at least another month. If she sits today, tomorrow, then it's going to be another month before we see anything in there. So we'll have to keep an eye on that. Okay, we're all ready to load up the little ones. It's a couple hours since we came out and fed. So this is kind of how we do it. We've got this. We had a truck at one point, but trucks are too high. So the minivan works great. Tara built this little platform bridge here that works well, and they just walk right in. So they're getting used to it. Some of the newbies maybe have a little bit of an issue learning it. So what we're going to do is we're going to load up my Nana's three kids. So they're going to go out for the day. I better close the door behind me. Good morning. Who are we missing? We're missing Penguin. Just got the boys, do we? Yeah. And then we're going to take, oh, is she going to, I guess she's taking Charlie as well. Okay. So we've got Nestor, Onyx, and Tucker. And then we've got Charlie the pig. And then I believe Berry the rabbit is also going. Oh, what did you guys find? Goldmine. Oh, a bunch of hay there. Yes, Moo. Are you going to the fair? Yeah. Just fetching Berry. Yes. Oh, that's Panda. So that is, I thought the two boys were in there. Always getting them mixed up. Penguin's in there. Penguin's the girl. We got Berry. And is that it? So Charlie is going with you then? Oh, no. He does not do good with fences anymore. Oh, so he snuck in. Is that the case? Walks off the food area. Well, Charlie's probably just busy. He'll probably just stay eating. Um, excuse me, Tucker. Okay. No, no, no, no, no. Tucker. Come here. No. Gosh. Back up. Back up. Back up. Oh man. Well, that didn't work. We need reinforcing this. We need some hooks or something there. It's only a visual deterrent apparently. Charlie, Charlie. Charles. Here, you want help? Okay. Oh, Sriracha's going. There you go. Go on out. Get your bum. All right. Okay. The kids are happy in here. Give him a kennel. You don't trip over the children, Onyx. Oh my god, Berry. What? Oh, he's shifting? So much going on. Oh boy. Okay. Good. All right. So now this gate actually goes right across here. I'll let Tiana out so that we can cordon them off. We've got sections. We couldn't use it earlier because there's a bowl of food in there with the chicken. Yeah. So it was like, oh. Okay, boys, kids. Nestor thinks Tucker is mom. Oh, there we go. Because Tucker looks like Nestor's mom. Yes, exactly. And then Onyx was like, wait a minute. What's going on? Follow children. Onyx is always a problem child with stairs. Let me snoop by here. Okay. Go on. Get your bum. There we go. Onyx is up. Okay. So then we have another door. We do this in stages. Okay. All right. So now I have to get out here because we have to do a little bit of a block. You've just got to get by the sheep. All right. All right. There's there. I'll get down here on the side. Oh, we'll wait for Tiana to get that. Everybody's pooping now. Yeah. All the nuggets. Well, better there than in the car. Um, no, no, not the Ivy. Come on. Nope. Nope. Nope. You're staying in the two boys. They're like, where are we going? No, no, no. You're staying. Okay. All right. Up. Tuck that in. Dual purpose. There they are. Hey kids. You going to the, you going to the fair? No, you're not driving Tucker. I don't know what's in the bag. Okay. See ya. Bye. Have fun at the fair. So I was, uh, I found the boys here. There's one. This is the ones I was looking for earlier. And apparently there's another one in the bush. Oh, where is he? Are you stuck in there? Little buddy. Where are you? I hear him. What are you doing? Where are you? Are you, are you in that? What are you doing? Is that, is there is a, what is this? There's a pan. Is that his house? Believe it there. Thought maybe he was stuck in there. Uh, it is a boy because of the sound. Now, if you remember previously, we had three of them. Now one of them disappeared. So we were starting to question a couple of things. So did the fox get one of the trio? Because they always hang out. They always go outside the area, which may be a good thing because the fox is hanging out inside because that's where the animals are. So, Hey, you wouldn't expect them to be outside. But also we thought, was one of them a female? Because one of them was acting strange hanging out at the back behind the house. And so we're just going to have to wait because the other one disappeared about two, three weeks ago. And you know, a month is when they would hatch out. So we'll find out in the couple of weeks, possibly the third one would come out with a bunch of little ones. So we're unsure back from the fair. So how'd it go? It was slow. It was slow. Not a lot of, no, just Tucker is a problem child. Oh, is he? He almost escaped three times. Oh no. He is a little pushy. Come on, come see your mom. Mom. Oh yes. Must have a drink. Well, yeah, I see that. He was trying to join us up. Back up. Oh, wait, he's trying to go the other way. There we go. Come on buddy. He was trying to join us up front and then Tucker was trying to join us up front. Moo didn't get a drink. He was too late. Oh, another round. Yeah. Mom's done. This is okay kids. Oh yes. The blanket's poopy. Look what you guys did. Oh no. This is the first layer. So the second layer is clean. So my car's clean. Yeah. So I'll have to wash that out. Hose it down. Okay. Did you take some footage? Wonderful. Well, let's have a look at the footage. So here we are. We are at location. We've been here for a little while. It kind of got a little bit chaotic. So here's the track and then we're, we're set up all over here. So everybody's hanging out. We've had a couple issues with Tucker trying to escape. He has been trying to push his way out and then Barry just started to try and push his way out and he's been giving too much affection to Sriracha. So Sriracha is hanging out with me while everybody's hanging out in here. There's the problem child. Hi Tucker. And then we've got, so here's the whole function out here and they've actually got some vendors set up inside, but it's a, it's a pretty nice day for this. It's not too hot, not too cold. It is kind of a little overcast, but at least you're not getting the beating sun coming down. Hi kids. There, all the kids are in the back and then there's these two boys trying to find something to snack on. Hi Tucker. Yeah. Oh Kate, Tucker, you don't fit, no, you don't fit up here. Don't squish the kids. You're squishing the children. Back up. Okay. I'll just keep my arm here then. You guys are still going, still bugging mom. Aren't you? They're licking their lips. Okay. So we'll let Barry back in. Did Barry get lots of pets? Okay. All right. Come on out Barry. No more kids. Did you get mauled? Look at Shimmer. Shimmer just always tries to reach up. You found the trees, right? Yes. This is why our trees are trimmed perfectly. It's not, it's not because of Tara. It's because of these guys. All right. So that is another video, another day, another week here at the 10 Acre Woods and Sriracha wants to say, say goodbye to everybody. We, we hope you enjoyed this video and so does Sriracha and we hope to see you next time here at the 10 Acre Woods. Have a wonderful week and we'll see you next time. Bye.