5 weeks old and everyone makes their pick

Congrats Kirk to you and your family.  This black roan female is going to grow to be beautiful!

Saturday was the 5 weeks old and time for our new puppy owners to make their picks.  Saturday was a very wet rainy day so we had to keep everyone in the garage but it still worked our great. Our new families where so happy to come and see how much their puppies have grown and to start to see some of their personality.  We appreciate everyone driving and coming to see these pups, some had to drive several hours to make the trip. Amy and I did our best to keep the puppies awake and lively but its not always easy to do that.  Our biggest fear was that we would have our new puppy owners come and have 6 tired rag doll puppies here to greet them.  The pups did get tired but for the most part they where ready for the challenge.  It was a very great and fun day!!

Craig was so excited to get this black and roan female
This is one lucky puppy 

Clayton and his 3 boys where so happy that they got the only male.
When he showed up he said all he wanted was the black male and guess what they got

Josh and his family are so happy to be taking home this solid black female.
We can't wait to see what she grows to look like in the next year

This is the only  male look at the little bit of white
left on his chin.  I hope it stays

Paul had the last pick but was excited to see that there was still a solid liver female
left for him when he got here to see what he got.

We forgot to get a picture of Chad and Erin with their beautiful solid liver female.  Erin was so excited to get her.  The hardest part of her day was trying to decide what puppy she wanted.  

Next week the puppies will go and get their shots and get a physical from our local veterinarian.  Before you know it all these families will be adding a new member to their family and our lives will be a little easier and quieter but a bit more lonely.  Its fun having puppies.

Thanks for looking

What a difference 4 weeks makes!

I can't believe it has been 4 weeks. You can almost see the growth of the puppies daily.  I will give you one example.  Yesterday was the first day we introduced the pups to the outside world.  They didn't like it much and before long they were crying and making lots of noise about not liking it.  We took them inside and instantly they settled down.  Early today before church we took them out and the results were a little better but they still did not like it much.  After church we came home again brought them outside and this time it was a totally different story they played for a couple of hours and entertained us and the grand kids an nephews and nieces.  We all had a great time playing and loving on the pups and they in turn loved on us.

tired pup after playing

already searching in the grass with her nose.

We've begun feeding the puppies food this week.  They have done very well.  We grind up the puppy food and then add hot water and after a few minutes we let them have at it.  They really like it and I'm sure its good to begin taking some of the pressure off of Mom.  We are feeding them 3 meals a day and they are doing very well with it.

Big sister playing with little sister.  Two years separates these two  

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Mom is part cow these days

Guess who has the most popular house on the  block?