We like to think that Piscataway Acres animals lead a lifestyle of privilege. Due to their small numbers, each of our animals is given substantial individual attention and concern. Although ours is a small operation, we have learned a lot about each of our animals through research and our experiences with them. Read here about our alpacas, pigs, sheep, goats, rheas, rabbits, chickens, ducks, turkeys, and local wildlife. These pages will develop naturally as time permits and according to what’s going on here. We hope this can be a place where you can learn from us and we can learn from you. If you feel you have something to add, please write us!
Cono and Pehwen are two gelded male suri alpacas that came to us last summer. One had an overbite and the other, a crooked ear, which meant that they were undesirable for breeding purposes. Luckily for us, that meant we got to bring them home. Read more about Cono, Pehwen, alpacas, and their fiber here.
Finnemore (aka Finn) and Chesapeake, two Vietnamese potbellied pigs, hail from a farm in northern Virginia. Since coming to live here when they were babies, they've become quite the cultured cosmopolitans, living in a regular human house and traveling to states as diverse as Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Delaware. Read more about them and their kin here.
There's nothing like the cacophonous bleating of two innocent lambs in the morning. Kit and Kaboodle are two female Icelandic sheep who revel in green grasses and will potentially provide their human caregivers with wool (to be turned into lopi yarn) and milk. Read more about them here.
Light-footed and fearless, Eliza springs to heights twice her size while Brie, the more mellow of the two, watches on. Brie prefers snuggling in people's laps as opposed to Eliza who prefers jumping on their backs. In several months, these young Nigerian dwarf dairy does will make it so we never have to buy a gallon of milk again. Read more here.
Mama Rhea and Papa Rhea's stay with us was short-lived, but was well worth it. Although Papa Rhea and Mama Rhea are at their new home, they both have taught us an awful lot about these big, beautiful, ostrich-like birds. Read more here.
Sadly, Watson, our pet rabbit, has passed on. We have debated getting another rabbit, but have decided to give it some time. Watson was a tiny, floppy-eared rabbit more commonly known as "Bunny." He enjoyed long hops in his pen, a few raisins to munch on now and again, and the occasional company of the rowdier elements of the wild rabbit community. Mostly, he just kept to himself. Read more about him (and rabbits) here.
Outside our inner circle of animals lies a much larger one. Here lies information on the various local creatures we run into regularly, whether it is the villainous beaver who claimed my peach and plum tree for his dam or the venerable peahen that strutted around the yard making it more aesthetically pleasing.
