New Year update from the N/a’an ku sê Farmyard

The Meerkats continue to cause mayhem around the farmyard, particularly now that their numbers have swelled to 15 with the arrival of two new baby meerkats 3 weeks ago.
 
The new meerkat babies and their mother Jessica are currently living in the chicken coop and it seems that the other meerkats are desperate to join them in there as they spend all day digging holes and boroughs all along the chicken coop fence.



It looks like they are trying to stage their own meerkat version of the great escape!



The newly rechristened 'Little Buddha'!

Sylvie is extremely well and is spending more and more time in the garden by the volunteer camp as she has realised that not only can she find some nice shade under the tables

  

She also gets far more attention, and the occasional treat from the volunteers during lunch or dinner - watermelon is her current favourite....but she also seems to have developed a taste for bicycles and so far this week she has munched her way through most of one handle bar and a large chunk of the seat of one of the bicycles on the farm!

Donkey is now living on the other side of the farm, near Hardus' house, with the other Donkeys so she has some company. Day to day life as a Donkey is good and she seems very happy in her new home.

Lily is growing in confidence day by day, and she can currently be found most of the time lying in the shade by the Bushman school. We are convinced that she is in fact keen for some education for herself and so is just waiting for term to start next week when she can then join the children in the classroom for lessons!

Kataya has recently joined on to a group of wild horses who are currently in the area. We are sure that as soon as the wild horse group moves on Kataya will be back and in the meantime she is having a great time roaming around with the wild horses!

Spock is still living at Hardus' house but continually escapes to come back to the farm, much to the fear of our new resident cat here who is terribly frightened of our African cat Spock! Spock chases her all around the lapa and our small cat jumps up onto the roof to hide!