2 New Sheep Join the Rescue Farm… But We Also Said Goodbye To Tinkerbell

Mark and Tara here and welcome to the 10-acre woods on this chilly morning. September is upon us. There are leaves changing on the tree. Here it is. It's 10 degrees right now with a... next week it's going to be lows of six degrees. Apparently calling for frost. Yeah, I got the message. You put in your plants, Tara? Yeah, but of course all of Tara's plants in the garden, a lot of them are perennials. So she hasn't done much work in the garden this year, which you would have noticed. Yeah, noticed from not filming in the garden this year. So she's been focusing on a lot of other projects like our son that has moved in just down the street from us. We've been focusing a lot there this past... what has it been? Two months, I guess? He's been bugging me. The remainder of a tree? Yeah, but it seems to be more spiky. Yeah. Getting it caught in her hair and moving it around. So I'll throw it out there. Keep it up. Oh, there's something. Mine's coming. Yeah, shorty. He says give me my breakfast. Can you hear that on the camera? Yeah, you can pick it up. They do that the whole time. Yeah, just talking. So this past week we have some newbies that have come in. So we have two sheep that came in and we have a couple birds that came in. A couple birds we... we haven't had them before, have we? I think we may have had some small ones, but we'll get into that in the barn with the next round of feeding. Oh, it smells like veggies. Fruits and veggies. We've got apples, kiwi, bananas. Catch a mouse. Oh, the mouse. Our spoiled little chicken. Well, she's been doing much better though. She's laying eggs and everything. Yeah. But you're concerned about putting her in with the general... She can't help get a chicken. Yeah, well, poor girl. Not poor girl. She's absolutely loving her spoiled morning. She can't walk far, but if she gets a mouse, like... Give her a mouse. Some protein. Right? Right? Right? That's an inside joke. Between... A few people will get that. Yeah, right? I don't know. They say Canadians say A a lot. No, we say right. Yeah, now it's changed to right. Right? Okay, so you will notice at this point that I'm only getting one bowl, not two, for those that come in the house for Petunia and Tinkerbell. This past week, Tinkerbell passed in her sleep. She was old. We were expecting it, but she kept going right till the end. So it's only Petunia that's coming in for special feed now in here. So Tinkerbell, blue number, came in as a baby and lasted 10 years. Yeah, I think 10 or 11. 10 or 11 years and passed this week. So it was a hard week there, but as Mark says, they come, they go. We've got new ones coming. We had new ones come in the day before. Holly and Noel. So we'll meet them when we go outside. And yeah, rest in peace Tinkerbell. Yeah, so she came in with Turbo. Turbo's the same age. Turbo's health is doing really well. Because he's fixed. Well, yeah. And hormones are going in. I'm just going to put the bowl down. So he's still doing well, but Tink struggled this past year with her weight and just looking old and frail. Yeah. All right, there she goes. Petunia. And there's Turbo there. So still active, running around. All right, so the newbies are over here. They're a little confused. Holly and Noel. So they are, they will be three this December. Yeah, and they came in just because the people who had them are getting older. Yeah, they want to downsize. And they were born on their property from a sheep that they took in. So they look similar, but like Turbo, for example, is what's called the Canadian Arcot sheep. And okay, okay, you'll get your other, your grains. Oh my goodness. They are a slightly different breed. We're not entirely sure. You can see they still have their tails. Their tails normally get cropped off right after birth because the wool gets, it basically clogs up their back end, especially the girls. With peeing, it can make a mess. Theirs are pretty good, or hers especially. So I think that's part of the breed that they are. We'll have to do, maybe ask the question and find out what breed. It's a mixture breed that they are. So that's them. So Holly is here in the front. She's the smaller one. And Noel is in the back. And I believe he is a fixed male. Noel's fixed, right? Yeah. Woo, grains. Oh girls. I spoiled the geese the other day with a bunch of lettuce that we got in. Lettuce is number one, and then grains after that. I threw some strawberries in too. They did enjoy the strawberries. The sheep. We found the sheep and the goats don't care too much for strawberries. The pigs. The pigs are a pedi-piper. They have no problem cleaning up after what the others don't want. Marlene's arrived. Yeah, it's starting to mist a little bit. It was raining on the way in and then it stopped. I'm closing this this week. Are you? Yeah. So no visitors this weekend? No, no. No, yeah I'll close it today because I'm not standing out in this. I'll end up with a chill. Yeah. And I won't be able to do any work. No, I'll poly this next week. Next week. Get it all polyed up. Leave the doors open just so that they can come in and get cozy because this is not nice. Yeah, so what we do if you haven't seen in previous videos or previous years, we put six mil poly across here and then we put a post in here so that there's a door and then poly the rest off. Basically just getting ready for winter and keeping the wind and the snow out so it does get it gets down to minus 40 here in Manitoba and it'll get to minus 40 in this shelter but they have you know the sheep have their wool and the goats have their coat and they cuddle up and the pigs they just burrow into a nest essentially hibernate for the winter but they don't need to be heated so you know if we could if we you know could it could afford to to do it and and all that we would build a big shelter and have it heated and it'd be wonderful but you have to look at reality and what you can afford they are comfortable in that temperature of course it's definitely much better to be out in the sunshine during the summer months and unfortunately here in Manitoba it's not like that year round so some of the challenges we have moving into the winter months okay the duckling update so they seem to be spread out all over and they are bigger than than last time we looked at there they are all three moms too looking after the kids we had some that went off to some other families that people wanted ducklings of course we we don't want to keep there were 37 total we don't want to keep all of the oh one's coming over i think just looking for a bug we don't want 37 ducks especially moving into winter share the wealth they have a structure over on the far side where they go into it's not heated either muscovy ducks which are these ones are more concerning than other domestic ducks because they can freeze so domestic like pecan ducks and rowan ducks and and other common domestic breeds they're fine out in the winter but what happens with muscovy ducks is they their legs can freeze because their muscles are exposed hi berry did you get your did you get your treats yeah where are they well they're over there there's some apples and a banana hi so these guys will stay out the three three rabbits out here will stay out here they will actually go into the barn and we'll get them all nestled in there so everybody's kind of got their place to be during the winter and um and yeah everybody is well as happy as they can be in a cold climate during the winter months well there they are by the pool what are we doing our we there were a couple roosters we had that gave us some problems and they went off to another farm the guy's loving their he's got two roosters that are just hanging out in his yard sometimes they get attitudes you have an attitude he's doing that cock-eyed look where they kind of walk sideways like that give you the eye okay just go about your business go eat some grains or something as soon as i turn my back on them all right well that's good and the other two are over there so he's obviously alpha so he's like protecting his flock i don't know he's just yeah so he'll grow it was funny hi it was last week i think it was we have roosters that go they they're in different areas that was you can see here right there's a rooster there and there's one rooster in each section that was crowing so if the rooster this rooster is crowing in here he's generally the alpha and the other ones are quiet they've done their thing they've fought it out they've decided who is going to be the leader and you'll get one crow per pen which is very interesting so it's i don't know they're not crowing now but maybe maybe he jumped over the fence and told them what's what i don't know oh there he is okay maybe not hi sheldon eating your apples yeah silly boy um okay so the um nana lisa and penguin penguin pink penguin panda and moo too many peas i guess uh they were to head out this weekend but the people that are getting them uh don't have apparently a door on their shelter is one of the things so they're not quite ready right they're not quite ready for you so they will likely be leaving i guess next weekend it could be during the week so not sure exactly so you may or may not see these kids they have been a joy uh kid goats are always fun when you have them baby baby animals in general right and so they've been great we've we've loved having them people that have come and visited spent time with them they're very petable and that's another good reason having goats come from here that we rehome because they are very friendly so because we have visitors that come out they're always getting hands on so when they leave here to go to another farm these kids especially will be extremely friendly they walk right up to you nana lisa she you know she grew up in in a different environment so she's not as friendly so if we were to walk over to her to give her a pet hi so you know she is uh she backs off but moo moo no he's just gonna walk away uh panda he's the other boy what you're gonna make liars out of me it's because you're eating right uh and then we have penguin over there penguin has the little white foot piper getting an apple turbo wants in on it no all right she doesn't want it no she got it but oh well gerbil doesn't actually want it he's like oh bronwyn no no what's wrong with the apple you guys oh okay well oh it had big slobbery so the two newbies came in here and get a little bit better look at them there they are there's they're a little shy so uh they're just getting used to things you'll come around right we'll give you treats yeah they're fitting into the herd very well so initially they were kind of being loners and then when the the herd went to the back they jumped on the bandwagon and headed out with them and came in so they're they're merging into the herd really well it's just you know the human contact portion of it hi hi willow is that willow yeah and bronwyn bronwyn's always unless you have food she's like oh what do you have she's like you have you have no food i'm out of here so bronwyn's bronwyn and yeah if you don't get them from young then they're you know there's some trust issues especially when they're moved around right this is a new place isn't it holly yeah this is our second holly of course we've got a goat holly right although we've never had a noel so all right we'll let you guys settle okay newbies tell us about the newbies tara tiana was very excited so there was a young guy young teenager who raised birds and he was getting out of the quail and getting into a lot of parrots i think it was so he hatched these so we tiana thinks tiana quails are tiana's favorite she loves quails um because they're they're a small cage bird right um we had quails like 15 years yeah a number of years ago and then discovered that they can get out of all the cages and run away yeah they're like peacocks they just run away they need a little care or guinea fowl so they are three months old and we the next day so they're young the next day we had two eggs yeah and they've been laying more oh geez that's uh that's more than two eggs yeah oh is that your name two a day yeah so they are a pair it's a male and female well we think so they're both laying eggs and they're both females there's two different colored eggs so tiana's been doing some research because you know when with new animals you always do research right some are speckled some are green so i'm like two females it just means they want to be fertile but yeah if they're fertile then they'll be baby quail yeah and babies are fun right we just have to make sure that we have the right cage for them because in the past yeah as tara was saying we didn't have they are small yeah like they can get out of this yeah yeah well we didn't we have a quail was that a quail the one year that the male muscovy saw no okay because we had a little bird that we put down and the muscovy came and ate it and we were like oh boy yeah yeah so well the males the females aren't aren't as much of meat eaters as females but it was a shock to the system it's a cute little baby bird we put it down and it gets eaten by one of our other birds okay so that is it for this video so we're gonna go in we're gonna make breakfast we have braxton and brayden coming over for breakfast actually they should have been here 10 minutes ago but i'm sure they live so far yeah it's because it's the travel right so we're gonna have breakfast and then i'm gonna go down there and braxton and i are gonna work on the attic and get that all sorted fixed up before winter sets in so i hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give it a thumbs up and you can always share it with your friends and family much appreciated and we hope to see you next time here at the 10 acre woods take care and have a wonderful week bye