You Know Summer is over when...

[steff bugielski]

All my animals come home from camp.
They delivered all of the critters this weekend plus a few extras.
female donkey
3 mini sheep
2 llamas
2 alpacas
6 geese
15 ducks
31 meat ducklings(yum)
2 rabbits
2 chickens with newly hatched young
25 young chickens
10 layers
5 peacocks
6 Chinese pheasants
1 pair Malay chickens whos young will be available if interested.
20 almost hatched eggs going under my silkies who have been sitting on fakes
and my beef steer.

Sure is good to have everyone home again.

[Minelson]

I bet they are glad to be home too...nothing better than sleeping in your own bed

[Backfourty,MI.]

Wow Steff, that's alot of critters. Sure wish I lived closer so I could come see them all.

[myhorsejack]

what do you mean home from camp?

[DQ]

when I first read that I thought it said "chinese peasants"

[steff bugielski]

We have hundreds of summer camps here in Sullivan county NY. The kids come from NYC to spend summer in the country. This one happens to be a Hasidim boys camp.
Many of the animals belong to the camp but spend 10 months here with us so i consider them mine.
They have a petting zoo although I do not think much petting is going on.
Works out quite well, I get paid $100 for each pair of animals, I get all those meat ducks and chicks for free and this year the young steer has been paid for and I get to butcher and keep the meat for myself. Best part next year they want another calf.