Farmer Life 168

I think you all know about the stray cat who had kittens in my horse hay.  I'm down to mamma cat and two kittens that I think I'm going to keep.  I've mentioned before that I named the mom Emerald (Emi for short) because of her gorgeous green eyes.  Now I think I have names for the two kittens I'm keeping (like I need five cats ugh!). Emi stretching.  She's so small for a full grown cat. So introducing.... Smokey, the female that looks like Gray Kitty. Smokey is named after my mom's first cat. and... Pharaoh, the only male kitten in the litter. This is my new favorite photo!!!! I LOVE it! I chose his name because I wanted something Eqyptian, he has huge ears like a Pharaoh hound and also because I love American Pharoah, the racehorse who won the Triple Crown.  :D I was so sick of not having good pictures of the kittens (and goats) because I can't get close enough with my cell phone without disturbing their play (or scaring them off in the case of the goats),...

We set up a catch pen inside the girls' lot.  They are not happy about it lol!!  It's the only way we are going to be able to tame them though.  We set up an automatic waterer, their sulfur block, a feeder for their pellets and a feeder for their minerals.  There is also a chute for cornering and catching them.  We will be building a temporary shelter for them too, but there is no more rain in the forecast at the moment so we have time.  Eventually the pen will get taken back down. The plan is to get them eating the pellets really well and then we will turn Coral loose.  At three or four years old I don't see her taming down and she just keeps the kids wound up.  Separating her will let her dry up and gain weight too.  Pearl needs to stop nursing.  We will keep the kids locked up until they are tame (or until we know which ones won't let us tame them... their babies will have to be bottle fed ugh).  Coral eating pellets out of the f...