Updates on our doings here......
the baby goats are doing great! At two weeks and one day old, Brownie and Chookie are taking their bottles like champs, enough so that we are sending our 8 yr old daughter out to feed them! That sure does take a load off of me :)
That's Brownie taking care of an itch :)
The three baby chicks we sent out into the coop with the flock are thriving, if a bit ugly right now! But the best news......we have a broody hen!!!!!
She is one of our Black Jersey Giant hens, and she sure does get mad when someone opens up the coop door! I originally placed 14 eggs in a nest hoping to entice one of the girls to be a mom, and it finally worked. Although the original eggs are no good since they sat out there for a month, ewwww. I started pulling a couple of the older eggs that i had marked with red, and replaced them with new eggs marked in black once i noticed this girl sitting on the nest longer. There are about 20 eggs in there, but half will be duds. Can't wait to see how many hatch!
The gardening is getting ready to go full swing. Look at the squash and cucumber plants!! i will start hardening them off next week so they can go out in the garden! Then herbs..... ooh la la
The onion sets we put out are growing great! i will have to thin some out to get nice big onions this summer. I am so excited since this is the first year i have planted them by sets. The garlic i put out last fall is doing so so.....the long cold winter was hard on them, but i haven't given up hope. Most of the cloves look like they will produce.
One last thing.....we paid off the land. that's right folks, Nyn Acres is ours free and clear! We sat on that news for a month without telling anyone, and that was hard! But we wanted the deed in our hands before we spread the news to the family. With all this good news, comes hard work....so i better be off!!!
cheers,
Nyn
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