Mrs Flowers brought her peachicks out for a walk today and there are four wee chicks. FOUR! Good girl Mrs Flowers.
Working fast all I got was this blurry image but they are all walking and talking and looking lovely. All multi coloured. 
Pania decided to stay on her nest the whole day yesterday, but still I think it would be wise to take at least three of her eggs and raise them myself. These cats are a swarm. I must gird my loins and steal the eggs today.
Poppy has calmed down and so has Sheila and they spent most of yesterday laying in an enormous mud puddle together (we had some more rain) and chatting about stuff.
The piglets have shown no signs of missing their mother at all. They swarm about my feet when I am in there,squealing and grunting loudly, eat EVERYTHING and beg to be let out into the garden. So (being a softy) I opened their gate and they had a lovely day out there and came in when asked for night-time.
The calves are coming along beautifully now. Still scrawny but drinking and eating like crazy.
Life is toddling along.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farm,
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
32 responses to “Four Peachicks!”
Four peachicks – she has been busy!
I bet Sheila has been telling Poppy the story of how she bit the boar and avoided the all the hard work of pregnancy and babies… and how she adopted a Poppy instead 😉
Yes!
Great news on the calves and the peachicks! Enjoy your day!
It’s so lovely having happy and hopeful news. I’m thinking Little may need renaming to Lanky, he’s like a tall, skinny teenager who hasn’t filled out to fit his bones yet. I do admire Poppy’s attitude. She buckled down and did an excellent mothering job, mourned briefly when her babies left home, and now she’s reconnecting with her friend and getting back to being her own pig! I wonder what Cougar Poppy will make of her eventual date with handsome Manu, the Piggy Toyboy. I hope it’s lots of fun, she deserves it.
Phewww, so glad Sheila and Poppy are still friends 🙂 Please all going well with Little, Bobbi and the peachicks. Laura
. . . . and all’s well with the world for now . . . methinks Kate has put it all in a far better way than I could . . . . and the farmy does seem ready to welcome visitors . . .
So nice to hear all the lovely, happy, toddling news.
Toddle is an excellent verb.
Wonderful news all around!! I believe I may have missed the final vote as to whether Tima is expecting? I know Tane has injured his hips badly in his attempt to make piglets, but I cannot remember if Tima has come into heat or not?
Wow, piggy weaning seems to be a relative breeze – how nice!
For what it’s worth, I think you should trust your instincts – and your experience – re Pania. One bird is no match for two barn cats, let along five. I know how stubborn hens are about choosing a nest site, and now I’m thinking peahens must be even worse or one night you would pick up a sleepy Pania and spirit her and her eggs away to a safe enclosure. Sometimes it’s awfully difficult to help them, isn’t it? Good luck!
The only thing missing apparently from the gab session of Sheila and Poppy seems to be a nice glass of merlot…and maybe someone giving a superb mani/pedi while they chat.
It’s all wonderful news. Did I miss something though ? Where did you find camera house? Did you find your earring?
camera house was on the mower and I never found my earring.. sad..
I’m delighted about camera house and afraid an animal may have ingested and earring. 😦 It is sad when you lose something that brings you a bit of omph. You never know though.
Maybe Poppy is telling Sheila “Act sad and Miss C. Will give a beer. You’d love it!”
I’m so happy everything is on the upswing with 4 new chicks and coming-along-beautifully calves. How is Boo? Any sign of improvement. I know you said you caught this infection quicker but is he better every day?
what lovely news- so fun to visualize the little piggies having a grand time in the garden! and oh my such good news about the calves. Have a wonderful day.
4 Peachicks? Wow! That is exciting! Would it be possible to actually move Pania and her eggs somewhere safer or just easier to swap out the eggs? I have no idea if Pea hens can be picked up or not without a struggle…also I’m wondering if the chicks as they get older would be in any kind of danger around Mr. Flowers, especially if any of them are males? The calves look beautiful! 🙂
The chicks are for sale – in fact I have a man waiting for them – so they will not be here long anyway.
Four?! How wonderful 🙂 Toddling is a good pace to at methinks!