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We have no ducks. Instead we have a mama hen with seven chicks and a mama hen with three chicks.  They are Bantams, a small breed of chickens.  One of the mamas (the one with seven chicks) has a beard, almost.  She also is vicious!  The only reasonable name for her was Gold Beard and her pirates.

Gold Beard's pictures are numbers 1, 2, 3 and 6. 

"Hello?"

The Hen with three chicks are pictures number 4, 5, and 7.

"I am the ruler!"

"Run away! Run Away! Save yourselves!"

"Quit bothering' me."

I couldn't get any good pictures because Gold Beard (Pictures # 1, 2, 3 and 6) ) is very, VERY scared of anybody who comes close to her which is why she's vicious.

Buttermilk Cupcakes

Ingredients
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup buttermilk
Preparation
1. In a bowl, with a mixer on medium speed, beat butter and all the sugar until well blended. Add eggs and vanilla and beat on high speed until well blended.
2. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into another bowl.
3. With mixer on low speed, beat about a third of the flour mixture into butter mixture, then about a third of the buttermilk. Repeat to beat in remaining flour mixture and buttermilk, alternating in thirds. When all the flour is incorporated, beat mixture on medium speed just until well blended.
4. Fill paper-lined or buttered muffin cups (1/3-cup capacity) about three-fourths full with batter (about 1/4 cup in each).
5. Bake in a 350° oven until tops spring back when lightly touched in the center, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool on racks 5 minutes; remove from pans. Cool completely.

Updating . . . Please Wait.

We have lost Latte, one of the chicks, and Friction, one of the adolescent chickens.

But . . .     We got a goat!
Her name's Willow and she's a Toggenburg Angora mix.  Along with Willow we also got some quails! We have a female quail and a male quail.

I don't have any pictures of the quails yet and we don't have names for them.  I'll get some pictures of the quails soon though!


We still haven't thought of the name for the two ducklings.