Lucky Dog Goat

   We've been thinking about slaughtering the goat since some weeks. First it was just a joke, but then my dad was looking at some slaughter company's website. Finally, my dad said we were going to get the goat, tie it up, and bring it to the slaughterhouse. Catching the goat was no problem, as you may have guessed. It was alot less nervous about us since we got it. The real problem was tying it up. It struggled and kicked. Then it turned out that the complicated leash thingy we were trying to put him in was to small for him. I had to go fetch a regular rope. Then we couldn't make it get on the truck. I had to go for the goat food. Finally we tied it by the horns, put it in the back of the pickup truck, and called the slaughterhouse. My dad learned that they couldn't kill anything right now. We had to wait until later. Like, days later. Anywho, we had to let the goat go. For now.

Green Eggs (and ham?)

   Remember the keets? Well, they've also layed eggs! We found two of them in their house. The eggs look greenish and are really small. Unfortunately, these birds are not good mothers for some reason and neither were the other layers. Or so we thought.

   One day we went to get eggs and there several hens laying. These hens usually lay were other hens have already layed, so we always check under the hens that are in the process of laying. Anyway, one of the hens, when we reached under her, went crazy and almost bit our fingers off. This was weird, because these birds aren't usually protective of their eggs. Turns out that this hen still had the instinct of guarding their eggs. Even so, that hen couldn't sit on the eggs and make them hatch, because the eggs are unfertilized, since we don't have any roosters of their species.

   But the keet's eggs are fertilized! There are some keet roosters, so the eggs could hatch. So we put the eggs with the hen that still had the guarding instinct. Now we just have to hope the hen dosen't notice her chicks look nothing like her.