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Our tenth farm newsletter (July 2022)
Our ninth farm newsletter (July 2021)
Our eighth farm newsletter (July 2020)
Our seventh farm newsletter (January 2020)
Our sixth farm newsletter (August 2019)
Our fifth farm newsletter (April 2019)
Our fourth farm newsletter (May 2018)
Our third farm newsletter (January 2018)
Our second farm newsletter (September 2017)
Our first farm newsletter (February 2017)

Tiny Tune’s first egg

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“Tiny Tune” hatched from a blue egg laid by a Cream Legbar hen mother via a Wyandotte rooster. Tune, a bantam hen, raised her, and the name “Tiny Tune” just stuck, even though she’s now three times the size of her hatching mama.

Cream Legbars lay light blue eggs and our Wyandottes lay light-medium brown eggs…voilà! Tune lays a light olive green/sage green egg! She’s the grey-ish hen in the center of the photo below.
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9/29/2018 1 Comment

A full barn

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Bling wants a closeup of his fancy halter and the sunscreen on his nose.
The barn is full! We picked up four rescue alpacas last week: Bling, an adult male with a dark rose grey fleece; Mirthful (aka Bella), a rose grey female; Cinderella, a white/beige female; and Prince, a four-month-old male cria, the son of Cinderella and Bling. They are enjoying the spacious barn and the paddock for now while we pull a few poisonous plants out of the pasture and put up some more fencing. 

When they were originally rescued, they were quite malnourished. Their rescuer helped them put on weight and address a few health concerns, but they still need some extra attention. Each morning and evening April walks up to the barn and feeds them their supplemental snacks, and spends an hour hanging out with them--reading up on alpaca care, scooping up their valuable fertilizer, checking on their body condition, and watching some barn birds--so that they get used to people. (They'll approach you eat food out of your hand, but they don't enjoy being petted or approached by us quite yet.)

We look forward to helping them become healthy, happy alpacas. They're going to make great therapy animals! 

Click here to watch a short video of them on YouTube. 
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Prince (a beige cria) and his auntie Mirthful investigate the barn.
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9/11/2022 06:55:22 am

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    Billy & April Vaughan are the founders and directors of The Sanctuary Farm & Rest House. 

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