Lost Some More

Pumpkin, Grandma Georgia and two teen-aged chicks (the ones we hatched) have disappeared.
Since we could not tell the teen-aged ones  apart we re-assigned names they are: Polly-the-Peanut, Fog, Friction, Puck and Pigeon.

Some new animals!

To keep the duckling (which we name Ito) company we got two other ducklings (even though they're more than a week older and twice as big) named Plim and Muck-Luck.  We also got two Silkies--one white named White Hawk and one brown named Cinnamon. We also half Silkie half something-else-we-can't-remember named Latte.

Just two days after we got the new animals two Muscovy ducks hatched!  They follow their Mama around like she really is their Mama Chicken.

Pictures of Freind's Chicks

Our friends just got some chicks!
She told me ". . . We put them in our old hamster cage while we clean the real one."
Along with that she sent some pictures.

Black Devil Cupcake

Black Devils

 Sent to me by a very special friend.

 

For 15 to 16 cupcakes you will need....

 

1 1/2 cups of flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 cup granulated sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup water

1 tsp vanilla extract

6 Tbsp oil

 

Filling

 

4 oz cream cheese, softened

2 Tbsp beaten egg

6 Tbsp sugar

1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chip

 

1. In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa, sugar and salt.
2. In another bowl, combine water, vanilla and oil.
3. Pour liquid ingredients into dry ingredients, stir well.
4. Line muffin pan with cupcake liners.  Spoon 2 tablespoons batter into each cup.
5. Combine the cream cheese, egg, sugar and chocolate chips. Spoon 1 tablespoon filling in center of each cup.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes until toothpick comes out clean from batter portion of cake. 7.  Remove cupcakes from pan.  Cool on rack immediately.

 

 

 

 

Something we did the first time was to omit filling and instead sprinkled chocolate chips on top.  (we didn't have any cream cheese on hand)

Uptade on the farm

Abu and Mango have disappeared along with one of the ducklings. We moved the other duckling into the house so that he doesn't  become eagle food.

DUCKS--HATCHED!

Two ducks have hatched!  I have some videos of the second one hatching.  The two mamas are fighting over the chicks, I mean duckling (I'm so used to having chickens!). In some of the pictures you will see a chicken pushed against the wall while the dominant mama hen sits on the hatching duckling.

Do you see the chicken and the duckling behind the Mama hen?

Do you see the duckling?

The eggs!

As I have told aboout in a previous post, we have broody hens sitting on some duck eggs.  Just today, we found out that some of the duck eggs had a little crack! We could hear their egg tooth working to crack the egg and we could hear a little, cute, "quack"!

Update on the farm

Fleck, Sticky Rice, and Mango have disappeared along with one of the chicks. They were probably eaten by eagles because we live near a eagle preserve and it is the time when the eagle Mamas have to feed their chicks.