Spring babies

One of my many favorites of spring is all the baby animals that are born. Two weeks ago the boys got 8 2-week old calves to bottle feed. Last Thursday Matt picked up 6 tureky chicks. Then yesterday when we got home from church we found that Juliet, our pig, had delivered her piglets--all 15 of them. We were not quite prepared for them and Matt wasn't here to help out so the boys ran up to a neighbors house (they use to have more than 500 pigs). It was pretty yucky to watch her at first because she was wound up and was stepping on the babies. She was barking and they were sqealing. She ended up laying on one and killing it. Pretty sad. The Hart's (the neighbors) were so kind and spent almost two hours getting Juliet and her piggies set up in the crate with heat lamps. We couldn't have done it without them.