Teasing turkeys

We had a fabulous weekend with our friend, Sharon coming down to visit. I have mixed feelings because I know she came down to help us on the farm, but I still feel bad because we're putting her to work. But I suppose my personal gain outweighs my guilt. Yaaay!
Friday night we had an armour workshop so we had people over to work on projects and so we just hung out and ate tacos. Sharon came in from the back yard and said that the turkeys were really tired because they kept laying down and that she was able to pet them. =D That night I asked Sharon if the turkeys laid down when she got close or if they were already laying down. I wanted to warn her that all the turkeys were broody and were hoping that she would mount them.
Saturday we started off by eating quesadillas with scrambled eggs, yogurt, fruit, and snackies and then we went out to trim goat and sheepy hoofies. The goats were fine as they are really easy to walk up to and to hold on to. I believe the only one that gave us trouble was Lucy, which we have been calling Unigoat due to her one horn. After that we tried "wrangling" the sheep but that was just futile. We moved on to other projects which included the dismanteling (aka: demolishing) of the old guinea coop and the old pig pen. While dismanteling the pig pen we found that we had a ton of pumpkin seeds growing. Hopefully they'll be able to grow and provide a nice pumpkin crop this year. The only surprise is that we have absolutely no clue what types of pumpkins or if they are other types of plants that we fed to the piggies.
And as it turns out, Sharon was curious to see if the turkeys actually wanted to mate with her so she began to pet the turkeys and then ask how they were able to mate if their tails stayed down. I told her that the tom usually mounts on top and then and when he penetrates that the tail raises. So she proceeded to try to press on different parts of the turkey's back to get the tail to flip up. Now the turkeys make cooing noises when she's around and automatically drop into position when she's around. =D
After destruction we had food and then took a nap before heading back out to trim one of the sheepies hoofs. We were able to get Sheepie #1 but not #2. Their wools is ready to be sheered as well so we'll see when we can do that. We also worked a little in the front and were able to scythe some of the front parking area so that cars can actually park closer to the gate. Jed took the grass and clippings to the back and threw them on the pigs so that we had green pigs running around.
On Sunday Jed took off to work but Sharon helped me set up the new strawberry bed so she dug and broke up clumps as well as helped place the bricks around the bed. It looks a lot better and I look forward to having my strawberry plants come in so that we can have year round strawberries.
In short it was a fabulous weekend and we really enjoyed having friends over to chat and work on things. We look forward to the slaughter party and hope to have an enjoyable weekend then as well.