Golden Creek

Tiny miniature pet lamb Pixie shows how to empty a bottle with gusto!

I believe that most mothers would relate to this naughty child misbehaving, and not listening to Mamma! This ewe is a first time mother and finds her new lamb hard to keep up with.

Miniature Lambs of 2023 running up

Some of the little miniature lambs having fun playing in the yard

Driveway walk with some of my 2023 miniature lambs

Hilarious! This the first time tiny Teisha has seen snow. She is a black Toy Poodle, and only four months old in this video. She goes crazy and barrels around and around in excitement. You can see right near the end - when she starts to realise it is cold!!

So, I had these lovely Arapawa sheep (the dark cooured ones) for a week, at this stage. They had been in there and going backwards and forwards thru that gate a number of times each day, .... but still ... here they are jumping the fence ..... 🤣 Then, it gets worse - the next day there are TWO of them jumping the fence!! If I'd know this earlier, I could have saved a lot of money with the fencing by not installing new gates ... just don't need 'em! The little chubby sheep is a 3/4 BabyDoll ewe who is heavily pregnant - but still manages to sprint when sheep pellets are on offer. The other little sheep is Baaaarry, one of my BabyDoll rams.

Teisha, the tiny Toy Poodle dog tears madly after her ball, while the Sebastopol Geese watch on. Chasing a ball is ALMOST as much fun as chasing rabbits - but at least she gets to catch the ball!

Great excitement for this terrible twosome, a Teacup Maltese dog and a Toy Poodle. They find a rabbit hole and are determined to excavate it. However, their digging is hampered by the stand-over tactics of a friendly Wiltshire sheep.

This is RiverDance Mahaka, a Pinto Sporthorse Stallion, strutting his stuff! He is by a Clydie X Thoroughbred sire, and out of a Stationbred mare. He has produced many, lovely performance horses.

RiverDance Mahaka getting chased by Luka who was heavily in-season. When you're a pretty boy, all the ladies want you! River is a nicely marked Pinto Sporthorse stallion. He is by a Clydie X Thoroughbred sire, and out of a Stationbred mare. He has produced many, lovely performance horses. Luka is a pretty palomino Gisborne-bred Ngati horse, from the Lighthouse herd at the East Cape, New Zealand.

These young ducklings seem to have a serious love of Comfrey. I have it growing as a "chop & drop" fertiliser for my berry plants. But the naughty baby ducklings have demolished all the plants. Stripped the stalks bare! They are just lucky they are so cute :-) These Indian Runners were bought as eggs and hatched under one of my Muscovy ducks.

A quick visit to the new IBC pig house, to see if the KuneKune pig girls approve. They approve so much they don't move a muscle. Buried in straw and deep in dreamland - even on a hot day, they love to be in there. IBC totes can be used for all sorts of things. This neat piggy house took only half and hour to make. It is easily moved around the place, and has a vent at the top (I unscrew the lid). The only thing is that I had to find a concrete block for a step, as these Kune Kunes pigs are too short-legged and far too fat to get over the edge otherwise.

A quick video showing how easy these lovely, well behaved Wiltshire Ewes are to manage. They come when called, and will do almost anything for sheep nuts. Also in this mob are my young Black Wiltshire ram, some Damara ewes and Damara crosses.

While mowing my orchard, I came across this huge swarm of honey bees. They are hanging off a baby Olive Tree. I am hoping they find a nice place to live here on my property, and pollinate my plants for me :-)

Funny pigs, they always make me laugh. The girls come running for a VERY RARE treat of junk food at Christmas time! However, Star is a bit too pushy and her piece ends up sitting on top of her forehead. She could smell it but didn't know where it was. Too funny!! I have only had these little piggies a couple of weeks and this is the first time it occurred to me that KuneKune Ginger (on the left) was not able to see very well. And on closer inspection, yes her left eye had been engulfed by fat and was not usable. Apparently, this sadly is quite common when Kune Kune pigs get too fat. These ladies were extremely fat when they arrived here, and have lost a little weight since being at my place - as they are only eating grass. Hopefully she will manage to lose a little more weight and the eye might re-appear.

Brand spanking new Wiltshire Twin Lambs, just hit the ground. A black boy and a white girl for this favorite ewe of mine. The first lambs for the year. The mother is a white Wiltshire, and the father is Cassidy, a Black Wiltshire ram. Wiltshires are a shedding breed so there is no need to shear them. They are low maintenance and very easy to have around.