Hello, it’s been a while! This is Chicken Paradise Hawaii — and yet the first video after our break was a goat birth, and today it’s goats again.
Goat hoof trimming
Special shears for trimming goat hooves arrived, so today we tried them out. The baby goat doesn’t need trimming until he’s a month old, so he’s off the hook. The mother goat is super tame, but the two young goats are not tame at all.
Catching one was the first challenge. They’re strong — about as heavy as a feed bag, and this feed bag kicks! The mother is used to it, so she was easier, and her hooves really were overgrown. Treats help keep them from wandering off. The back legs were the hardest. In the end we managed the front feet of the white one and the mother — and the white one screamed the whole time. Goats are so hard!
A tortoise on the road
At a Thanksgiving party at an acquaintance’s house, while everyone was out walking the dog, they found a tortoise walking along the road! I wasn’t there at that moment, so when I heard, my reaction was: a what? It’s a tortoise of about 7 kilograms, with yellow and red spots on its face and legs — a red-footed tortoise. That night, since everyone was home for the holiday, they went door to door, but no owner turned up, so for now the tortoise came home to our farm.
It’s staying in the former rabbit house, which was once the quail house too. It’s probably 20 or 30 years old and eats fruit, so I brought a banana. I’d heard it was timid, but not at all — it came at me surprisingly fast, snorting. Then I offered papaya. Ignored completely!
Around the farm
Shimako, one of our outdoor cats, caught a claw in a net and hurt her paw. She doesn’t want to go to the vet, so she’s treating it herself. Our own little tortoises got papaya too. Tortoises are cold-blooded, so on cold, cloudy days they barely move. Ours were weak ones to begin with and grow very slowly: they should be about 500 grams, but are still under 200, and the smallest is the same size as when it came. I asked anyone who keeps tortoises for advice.
A duck feather came loose — pretty, with a very distinctive oily smell. It belongs to Julietta, who fell out of the sky. In the chick pen, Karaage’s chicks have grown big, and today the first of another mother hen’s chicks graduated to the outside with its siblings. Good luck out there!
Thanks for watching, and see you in the next episode!