Personalilties

I remembered this morning that many people assume that animals have no personalities; that they simply sit around until they are ready to go into their plastic wrapped containers.... so I'll gladly refudiate that. =)

Our older chickens wander around and follow us. They like walking behind us or if they think we have something tasty they run (waddle?) like mad until they get to us. Then they simply just lounge around waiting for us to do something fabulous with grains or worms or something they have never met but that will make them drool.

The ducks chill in the shade and swim in little circles in the pond. They also run around in a little raft (group of ducks... if they are in flight they are a "team" if they are in water they are a "paddling") of ducks as they find new patches of grains to nom on. They are runner ducks so it's funny as hell to watch them run around with their little high kick waddles.

Our turkeys are our puppies. They follow us around where ever we go and they make sure that we know they are there. They're extremely intelligent (as with pretty much all the animals) and like to hang out with us. We once sat out back having a picnic and had turkeys come over and sit on the blanket to have lunch with us.

And then we have the identity crisis poultry. The geese think that the baby chicks are theirs and the two baby pekins think they are baby chickens who think they are geese... I mean honestly.. how can you not love them?

Goats.... what can I say? They do 360's off the base of the bread oven, follow us around, demand petting, and they give a little bleat of joy when they see me with the green wheel barrow because they think it has pulled weeds for them. =)

We keep learning the personality types of the pigs and the sheep. The sheep are allowing us to get closer to them and they have come to associate us with food and that is a good thing. The pigs are hilarious as Oreo loves baths and back rubs; he also likes smearing food all over his face. Macaroon on the other hand likes sleeping, holds back when it comes to food, and likes eating her watermelon in bites of a wedge that I'm holding in my hand. She's my dainty little girl.

The bees are happy bees that are awesome and have their little quarky side. Some will just dance around and land on me while others will be pissed off and follow me all the way to the van bouncing off my head letting me know that they did not appreciate getting dolled up with a teal burka and then taken for a wheel barrow ride....

I think just like cats and other animals they all have their personalities and add to the enjoyment of life at the farm.