Don't Blink Or You'll Miss It.

On the way to Tucson, at the base of Picacho Peak, there is a little shack off the side of the road and a couple hundred acres of land.

It's called Rooster Cogburn's Ostrich Ranch .

We stop by about once a year and pay to feed their animals because it is totally worth it.

We start slow and feed the deer. London only liked to feed the deer that looked like "deer mammas". Porter went after the ones with the largest antlers.

Then the ostriches. They are a little intense and London didn't want anything to do with them. Porter would give each dish a little food and watch them go crazy. Olen was daring and fed them with his bare hand. This turned out to be a mistake.
The donkeys are new this year. They were very mellow and a little slimy, but very friendly. We used most of our grain on the ostriches, so we didn't have much to feed the donkeys but they were sweet and let us pet them just the same.
The lorikeets are my favorite. Olen got bit right away from a hungry lorikeet and he was done with birds for the day, so I put him on camera duty while the kids and I fed these greedy birds their nectar. The only thing to remember is that the lorikeets have quick digestive systems and so you want to let them have their snack and then stand back.