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!

 

Mavis!

As gorgeous as ever, here's some pics to enjoy!

More meerkat mayhem Sept 2010

The meerkats have been causing mischief as always over the last few months! There were some meerkat wars as the Bushman village crew and Frankie, Stein and George came together. Thankfully everyone was ok but now Stein and George have headed off into the sunset, last seen frolicking up near the waterhole.

Kataya gets her feet done!

Tessa - Sept 10

Tessa and Sabu are still best friends and were enjoying their runs early in the mornings with Carol when she went jogging. Although Carol has left we will make sure they get taken out regularly again. 

Sylvie & Lily

Sylvie is causing us some serious headaches; because she comes and goes out of the volunteer camp as she pleases!

We fenced the camp with jackal proof fencing to keep her in, but she is like the phantom Duiker or Houdini and still managesto escape!

Our main worry is that a predator may catch her during these nightly wanders but hopefully she will stay lucky.

When we have sorted out the jackal proof fencing around the whole of the volunteer camp we will let Lily out of her current enclosure to roam freely around the whole camp. At the moment she spends her time in with the many rabbits and is one of our most beautiful animals.

Donkey - Aug 2010

Donkey is now part of the donkey gang and can be found everyday walking the border fence. Well she's not yet big enough to drive the cart but she does like to wander behind the others who are doing it!