The other day I took the door from between Sheila and Poppy’s areas. Leaving only a piece of hog fence between them. They had touched noses a few times between the bars, and it all looked promising so today I opened the hatch in the fence and let Poppy in with Sheila. 
Poppy leapt forth and practically turned somersaults around Sheila. Cartwheels. Jumping Jills! She squealed and ran to and fro.She got a few wacks for biting at Sheilas ears and a growling for touching the hooves. 
But all in all I was thrilled with the result. I left feed in Poppy’s smaller pen and her light on in case she wanted to return but when I slid about the barn in the dead of night to check on everyone she and Sheila were sleeping together.
Isn’t that just lovely.Sheila finally has a baby. Well everyone else seems to have one. Speaking of sleeping pigs I saw Tima asleep on Boo’s foot twice today. Boo stays very still and wide awake as the little kunekune sleeps with his round head resting softly on Boos foot. No photos yet of that one I will get it. 
I am also trying to get a shot of Marcel sleeping with Daisy’s Bobby. They are a very contented pair and O have quite given up trying to get Marcel to settle with the other sheep. He wants to be with his Bobby.
So when the sheep go into the rat house paddock I am going to put Marcel AND the Bobby in with them. Mama likes calves too.
As I write, Tima is resting on my clown pants right at my feet. She is a very pig headed piggie and squeals when I try to take them back so I can dress to go out to work. This animal is nothing like what I expected. Nothing at all. She has the mind of a dog.
I hope you all have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farmy
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
61 responses to “Sheila and Poppy”
Thank you for showing Marcel. I have missed him.
He is growing like a weed! Do you see how his fleece is growing.. lovely fat wee sheepie.. c
It’s such a joy to watch all them grow and thrive. It’s quite a menagerie you have there and I can’t wait to see them all out enjoying the spring sunshine (if and when it arrives). Hasn’t Marcel grown? He’s quite the young ram now. 🙂
He is a wether now, his, um.. ramness is gone. But he is still a good big lamb. I am trying not to wish away my life but I am longing for a day in the warm sunshine now. Though overcast at least today is still and not too cold, so we are slowly getting there.. c
What a delightful update, Celi. I’m in love with all of your critters… life is wonderful.
I love the hen shot! You always have the greatest photos!
What is so special about your blog is how surprising each of the animal’s personality is so very different from what you expected. Here’s the little lamb preferring the Bobby and TIma a total surprise, and well Boo !! And Poppy doing handsprings over being with Sheila when she could have been terrified.
Tell us more about TIma–how she is so different from what you thought. I know you said she is like a dog…
She is quiet, and plods about the house with gentle feet, she is a bit fussy with her food but has no fear, not of the dog or strangers, last night she came up to me and screeched and whined, it was so unusual that i led her back to her room and put her to bed, closing her dog gate, she immediately crawled into her hay and went to sleep. She was just crying tired. She needs to get outside though, finding a pig trying to crawl into the dishwasher is a bit of a surprise!.. c
they all look so happy and content. 🙂
So much companionship. Don’t know why, but it makes me want to cry. In that good way.
Darling girl.. c
And I agree…the chicken picture is great.
So much fun on the farmy right now! At least that’s how you make it sound, with this menagerie of funny youngsters. Do you still have homeschooled kids coming to visit?
Those photos make your job look easy, but we know the long hours of hard work you put into the farmy. May you never be short of energy.
I love the idea that Shelia now has her own baby. And, of course, the baby has a real pig Mamma.
❤⊱彡 Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
With your permission, may I borrow the photo of the hen, please?
Good morning, C! Happy wishes to all the farmy. xx
Oh course Misky.. it is a rooster though, looking fat and hen like.. c
It’s a hen now. Named Ben. 😉
I adore the header photo. And all your babies. And waking to your posts every day.
We call it howdy contact at the zoo – when the animals can see each other, smell each other, touch through a fence, but don’t quite know each other yet. I’m so glad Sheila has a friend!
I knew people whose kine kine Was their dog – lived inside, as she got bigger had her own sofa, and was much better mannered than her dogs, and more intelligent she reckoned….
they are a very interesting pig, very different from my other pigs. I could see this one wanting her own couch.. c