WHAT are they wearing?!

Have you ever seen a horse wearing this funny looking thing on their face and wondered, "What is that!"

That is a fly mask! Our horses LOVE them! They work like sunglasses so our horses don't have to squint in the sun, and also keep the flies out of the horses' eyes and faces. When they see me coming with the masks, they all trot up and try to be the first to get their mask on. They can see through the masks just like you can see through sunglasses, and there is a nice, woolly padding where their ears poke through and where it goes around their nose. They are super, super comfortable and light weight. I might want one - my sunglasses squeeze my face sometimes!

Our horses have been silly the last couple of days. With all of the renovations to the arena, they've been moved down to a pen near the cows for a while, and there are trees and all sorts of shrubs nearby. Horses (especially our crazy guys) love shrubs! Big Ben, our retired racehorse, was playing with a branch that someone had knocked down. I went to take it away from him and he pulled back - he didn't want me to take his branch away! I pulled a little harder and that's when he decided to let go, and make me stumble backward. He pulled his lip back and trotted away shaking his head - he thought he was being funny! Crazy horses... :)

Say "hay" to Ben!

Meet our newest addition - Ben! He's a BIG boy, coming in at almost 17 hands high at the shoulders. He is so tall, I need to stand on a bucket to get tall enough so I can put my foot in the stirrup to get on!

He is a thoroughbred, and is "off the track" which means he is a retired racehorse. When working in the roundpen, he only likes to go left - which makes sense, because racehorses run in a circle to the left!

He likes to play tricks on us too. When we are filling up his water bucket, he likes to take the hose out of the bucket and then look innocent as the water is going everywhere! He also tries to get hay on the other side of the fence - check out the picture of him bending down! Most horses don't do silly stuff like that...

He is a sweet, sweet horse and we love him!

Say it ain't so!

Today we had the Christ Lutheran 3rd graders visit us again this year. Being the school that my cousins children attend, I wanted to be out on the Farm to say "hello" to them.

You all know that one of my favorite things to do is to introduce the children to our chickens. Little Ricky, our Mille Fleur D'Uccle rooster is always a huge favorite with everyone. As I hand him to waiting arms of the children..patiently waiting in line, I like to educate them a little about chickens and the parts of their body. Many times I will point to the chicken's comb and ask, "Does anyone one know what this part of it's body is called. I have gotten many responses...His Mohawk! His Crown, His Brush..just to name a few.
Today I was told by a cute young girl, "I don't know what it is called--but it sure looks like my grandpa's skin!"

Well, I'm off to lotion myself...I might remind Hector to do the same.
Glenda

Superstition Farm is having a little get together on Memorial Day; this Monday May 25th.

We're doing ONE tour at 9am and after the tour, there's gonna be a water-gun fight! BYOWG. (That's Bring Your Own Water Gun). Battle the Farmers or your little brother - it's a free-for-all. Let's start out in the hay maze and see what happens?

We're also going to have a little slip-n-slide action
set up using some of our feed tarps and some good ol' fashion aqua!

We'll celebrate Memorial Day and beat the heat all in the same day! Please try to attend. Regular tour admissions apply. Make plans for some of our home-made ice cream too! Oh goodness, we can hardly wait.

Yeah, baby chicks are coming soon!

We have some chickens sitting on eggs, we think now for about 20 days. Well....it takes only 21 days for a egg to hatch, so we should have some new baby chicks around the farm soon. Check back to see what happens!!!!

Our baby ducks are starting to grow up!

Superstition Farm got a video camera recently, and we thought we'd start out by filming our little, "baby" ducks running around, doing their thing. Well, I didn't realize, but these ducks are starting to look like real ducks. They sure grow up fast! They don't have feathers yet, but that's coming soon. We just know it.

Have you herd????

We've been talking about it...

We've been working on it....

Now we're gonna deliver! Superstition Farm in concert with Mooster's Moo-tique and Udder Delights collectively are offering a new dairy food club. Starting May 9th and continuing every other Saturday, we will be putting together pre-ordered packages of:

+Home-made Ice Cream
+Udder creamy Butter
+Farmer's Cheese from our cow's milk
+Free-range eggs from our hens
+and a Farm-fresh gallon of Milk

Together these items cost $26-$28 in our farm store. Pre-order and pre-pay and you'll get a couple advantages:

*You'll get all these items for only $22
*We'll make YOUR food on Friday night, you pick it up on Saturday morning!!! (Try to get that ANYWHERE else!)
*From time-to-time we'll offer ONLY to pre-paid customers a special, limited-edition, low-run product that change from month-to-month. How about a cherry mint ice cream? Mango butter? And there's more. These will only be offered to our loyal, pre-order customers. So be a part of the herd!

Get moo-ving, the hens only make so many eggs each day!

Visit http://www.superstitionfarmtours.com/organic.html to order.