S**W!

The slushy snow only lasted a day but mother nature is making a fool of us all for thinking it was spring!

Little duck prints in the snow are even cuter then big duck prints in the snow!

 

Ducks taking refuge out of the wet stuff on the goat's see-saw. 

Everyone is hungry and excited to see the hay wagon.
We've run out of bales so we've got more coming today, will have to order jut a few more for next year.

This is all hay that got stuck under the pallets from the goats jumping in the hay,
there is lots more left in there but it's really time-consuming to get out to the animals.  

Thor & Megs have a really acrimonious relationship these days.
Meg has always been very dominant and will push any of the other animals off "her" food, Thor has taken exception to this. So any time she puts her ears back at one of the other critters he puts the run to her. 

She's not trying to kick him, actually she's quite intentionally aiming high over Thor's head, she's far more scared of him then she's letting on.

There they go again!
I'm just standing around laughing my butt of at Meg finally getting pushed around by someone!! 

Now Thor is happy!
Everyone has their own pile, Meg's been told to behave 

I'm sure he'll have her joined-up in no time...
(lol)

THOR

As mentioned we're having a bit of a predator problem, so I put the feelers out to find us a guardian who needed to be re-homed. Thor's former owners loved him so much they gave him up because they didn't have big enough fences and lived on a busy road.

Thor, that ice is thin...

We're really happy to have him.

Hopefully he's going to bond well with the animals and take them all in as his herd. So far he's a little unsure of what's going on, but really loving his new friends.


Thor is not quite 2 years old yet, so he's just maturing into the guardian years, so the bonding should be pretty easy.

Told you! 

First he met the kids at his former home, so a space he was comfortable, he's a giant cuddle bug so that went well.

Then we stopped by hub's jobsite so he could meet Thor too, and Thor got to stretch his legs and meet a bunch of people. Also went really well, he's very friendly.

He even got a timbit from the lady at Tim Hortons for being so adorable.

Once I got him home I introduced him (one at a time) to the dogs here, again, went great they're already all friends.  

One wet puppy!

 Then we went for a walk around the property, starting with the pond which none of the dogs listened to me that the ice was thin & they all ended up in there!


 Thor is a pyr mix or possibly a Karakachan which is a bulgarian livestock dog, based on his colouring I'd agree!

His new territory

Very gentle and sweet, and just big enough to be pretty scary if you were on the wrong end of him.

Hopefully just his bark will be enough to keep the predators away, then we don't have to do anything about removing them from the environment.

Win-win!

Ducks were not so impressed
(you can see the number Steak has done on
that fence,  needs to be redone asap!)

He got right to work as soon as he saw the ducks! He was guarding meat birds last year, it was really important to us we find a dog that was good with poultry. Definitely don't want to bring one in that kills our birds, but I'm not worried about that with Thor at all!

Can't wait to fix that tiny section of roof,
looks so bad!

The animals are not so convinced Thor isn't going to go after them. Cowards!

They'll all get used to him over the next few weeks, and he has to get use to them too. This first sight of Billy and Thor was heading for the hills!

Then again Billy is pretty odd looking, just took a few encouraging words for Thor to realize Billy wasn't going to try and hurt him (Billy has NO fear and apparently still thinks he's a dog).

Play time for the BIG puppy!

 One of my big concerns was that the new guard dog get along with our dogs, he's got to take his job seriously, but not so seriously he hurts one of the family pets.

Not a problem.

In fact they played for a few hours yesterday getting used to one another. Thomas LOVE Thor, and they had a great time together.

The Goat Committee,
Still not convinced.