We went to the Bantam Swap yesterday to find Godot. After losing our beautiful peacock in the winter, the girls were left without a mate. The Bantam Swap is kind of like a flea market for animals. People pay 5 dollars or something for a parking space and they rock up with trailers and trucks, are all set up by 5am and sell sheep and goats and cows and piles of chickens and even fertile eggs, and ducks and dogs and pigs and etc. I even saw a donkey. We walked up and down every row, cold in the late dawn, our arms folded against the chill, inspecting every cage and every trailer and it was not until right at the end of the last row, after I had quite given up on finding Godot who Pania and Tui had been waiting for, when I bent down to look in a big dog crate and said, There, there you are. He looked at me and waited. I will show you Godot in a minute but first I will show you what I did not buy. Or at least have not bought yet.
I wanted this alpaca very badly, but there you are. I can’t have everything.
And here is my surprise. I was surprised too, mind you. Here is Godot. Up in the peacock palace already. Godot is a white peacock. Just imagine how beautiful he will be when he roams free. 
I could not believe my eyes when I saw him. The man who sold him to me was knowledgeable and kind and gave me some good tips. Isn’t he gorgeous.
And here is Carlos Garcia. (Well he was such a nice healthy bird how could I leave him behind.)
What is exciting about these birds is that they are very young, born last June, so we can watch them develop their mature feathers. Carlos Garcia will change dramatically over the summer. They will not be fertile this year though, so no chicks yet. Already Pania and Tui have gone into the Peacock Palace with them, (It runs the whole length of the barn up in the loft.) So it is safe to start planting in the gardens now.
The plonkers came yesterday too. Two to fatten up on milk and eggs and oats.
The corners of the little farm are filling up as we start the race again. The race to get enough food in the larder for the winter.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farm
celi
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95 responses to “Finding Godot”
How exciting!! Your shopping trip was quite successful. Good luck with your new ones.
Wow, white peacocks are stunning, so beautiful. Evie, my 5 year old would like to tell you that her class pet is a hermit crab named peacock, named by her. She took one look at the white peacock and said ” wow, Celi must be rich”! We now have to go look back at boo and the other peacocks before school.
Have a great day,
Lori and Evie
I AM rich! Rich in the head! Tell Evie that Peacock is a perfect name for a crab. Tell her I think she must have a wonderful imagination to come up with such a name. Lovely. I love it when I hear that kids are popping into the farmy too.. c
For a minute I thought you’d bought a turkey! Nice looking peacocks and cute little plonkers 😉
i can’t wait to watch these two grow! that alpaca is so cute. maybe someday?
That last image is priceless.
Is that love at first bite (aka peck).
I had to laugh. Because of your header picture, what showed up on my screen was “Finding God” the ot was on the white feather and you couldn’t see it. LOL.
I had to go back and look. Too funny!
God is on my loft! Score! He does look pretty angelic.. c
When I saw Godot’s feathers in the header I wondered if you had found a white peacock, but wasn’t sure there was such a thing. Both are beautiful birds! Will Godot and Carlos Garcia fight with each other when mature — hopefully not. What breed are the plonkers? Loving all the pictures of all the creatures of the farmy! Have a great day C.
I’m worried about the fighting thing too. Cockerels would but perhaps peacocks are more tolerant?
Christine
No they are not fighting, they are just boys yet. The guy said they are all together at his place. I will keep a close eye. c
Let the games begin … good luck 🙂 Laura
I know nothing about peacocks but the blonkers look my grandfathers pigs. My brother still gets his pig from the neighbor and makes a great salami. I just gave some to the nurses that took care of my 91 year old mom .
Godolt and Carlos Garcia absolutely wonderful , fantastic , humongous, what other words can I find to describe such beauty. Two more plus some plonkers to join the farmy family…. it makes me so happy….and it will keep you busy and out of mischief ( I hear you ‘ the chance would be a fine thing’
have a great day with all those babies lots of love from Bulgaria
I’m thrilled Godot is a snow-prince. Such elegance he’m bring to the Palace!
sorry Godot I spelt your name wrong…put it down to my dotage
So weird. I was thinking about your bird before I opened my email, and, remembering that you liked “Waiting for Godot”, was musing that you should name him Godot when you found him. And you have. And he looks like a bird named God(ot). He’s STUNNING. I’m sure Carlos will be beautiful too. Right now, he looks a bit of a teenager. Something mischievous about that bird. The plonkers already look good enough to eat. Nice haunches. I’m very fond of the turkey too. And the alpaca…would you keep him for the wool?
I would have loved to bring him home, but I did not take the trailer, If I had of taken the trailer I would have brought that donkey home too.. so all I took was one small box.. I wonder if the alpaca wool would blend with the sheeps wool? You could knit something great out of that!.. c
yes, I have a sweater which is a mixture of both. Very old now but un-throw-outable.
You read my mind – I would have bought the donkey as well! I understand they are great protectors and are often found in with sheep, goats and cows. My next door neighbor would have bought the Alpaca she is infatuated with them.
Love Godot, he is so regal, and Carlos will grow into a handsome male too I am sure. Well you certainly have a full house now! not expecting any more are we?
Hugs
Lyn
No more until the chickens and ducks next month.. phew.. c
Oh Celi, I just came in from putting everybody to bed and of course had to spend quite a bit of time loving on Winston (my mini donkey). You would love having one they are so affectionate, he plops his chin on my chest and begs me to scratch his cheeks and chin and ears and loves having his head hugged. If my jacket has a zipper he pulls that up and down. He lives with my two Nigerian dwarf whethers, 4 chicken hens and 2 Rouen duck hens and the kune kune will start out in a smaller pen within that paddock until he’s big enough to join everybody. I’ve only ever lost one chicken to a hawk ( and there are an awful lot of them around here) and never had any problems with other predators though the pesky raccoons mess up the bird feeders in the adjacent back yard. I hope to get a harness and cart for him this year. You’d better take your trailer next time you go to the swap – hahaha.
What a treat to train him to pull a cart! Wonderful. Your wee farm sounds delightful.. c
Alpaca is not really wool. It has not much crimp, and I blend it with wool from sheep. It makes a beautiful yarn. Alpacas are wonderful guards for sheep against predators.
Your new additions are lovely! I do think that alpaca should have come home with you—–maybe later????
What you’re going to need is an extra bit of land. Would your neighbour give you enough for an alpaca and a donkey and a bit of a hayfield?
Will the peahens mate with Godot or Caspar or both?
I have the land across the creek, but am still working on that. My uncle owns this land we are using (the house and 4 acres are ours but surrounded in his fields) we rent the 6 acres off him for 250 an acre, a year.. bit of a shame that our house in not surrounded in our land but there you are.. I will make it work.. c
great. I like to think of the farmy growing!
I am imagining you now on a three-wheeled motorbike, dogs and pigs perhaps riding along in a trailer, on your way to do chores on the outer parcel. It’s a fun image.
OK.. that gave me a laugh! If i can teach Tima to run up and down plank, surely i can teach her to ride on the bike!!
See, there you go, get the donkey and train him to pull a cart and everyone can ride!