Wildlife and other livestock:

Some of the neighbors.

The trouble maker, it looks sickly, I was told it's likely because of the drought.  We think this is the one that has taken out many of the chickens.

A wabbit litter, they are cute (and delicious... I know, sounds terrible but that's just the way it is). They will graze in the spring (we still have to build their grazing cages) and actually live a better life compare to large gubmit approved animal confinement operations. In VA I saw one for chickens, it contained 80,000 of them.  They had barely any room to move, they were in-doors and never grazed. Imagine living in a room packed with others every moment of your life while eating horrible food and living in an environment coated with fecal dust (a topic for a different post).

New addition (on the right), it's called a Guinea, they are like roving alarm systems for chickens, they make a lot of noise if they see a predator (too bad they don't also carry little Gl ocks).  This guy just showed up one day out of nowhere, it must have come from a surrounding farm.  Haven't lost any more chickens since he's been around but I'm not yet convinced the chicken snatching is over.

And ducks.  We're experimenting with these, their eggs command more in the market.  I've been amazed at how fast they grow, after 2 1/2 months they're as big as chickens so I don't understand why duck meat isn't more popular. They make me think of crispy orange duck (I've got to ask Calvin to find a recipe for that).