We're ready... Chilly temperatures will give way to the eighties over the weekend and we're all for that. We have six new duckies in the brooding house and the four little chicks we previously had. There will be s bunch of Pekin ducks hatching around the 9th of May, then more on the 19th of May too! They are so cute! After we empty the one incubator, we will load it with guinea fowl and Bantam chicken eggs. We love to have them running around. I think we will probably have a guinea fowl hen or two that will end up disappearing one day to return with their own hatched brood of little ones. That will please me immensely because they will all become free ranging hearty birds capable of surviving in the wild, making them much more difficult for hawks or foxes to grab. That will also help protect the chickens better. In any event, we will share an incubator load with the Bantams later. Bantams are so finicky and delicate to brood, so we will wait until the warmer part of summer to incubate them.
Maybe today, we will start the floor assembly for the turkey house. Once completed, we can then buy enough 2x4's to frame the walls, doorway and window.
We want to get it fabricated soon, so we have a place for the turkeys to be kept to eliminate the possibility of lung worm and also to be ready for the poults once ready to leave the brooding house. We will actually order the turkeys soon. The Cornish Cross meat birds are already ordered.
Wow, Saturday is going to be a dying day here on the rear deck. Isabelle, Donna and Joan will come if they can and all will dye fibers with Vick, out there on the rear deck. How neat that will be, getting all the wools and fibers from Luke dyed.
Soon we will need to travel to Pittsfield Mass. to pick Herbie up. He is our newest addition to the farm....a Merino sheep. He was to come two weekends ago, but ended up being infested by lice accidentally, when a little girl boarded a goat for a week where Herbie lives. The goat was infested with lice which the lady didn't know until it was too late, so she cancelled our pickup until Herbie underwent two treatments to rid him and all her other stock of the lice infestation.
Anyway, the new pickup date is coming soon, so Vick will call to find out how the delousing went. Shearing time is fast approaching for the alpacas again too. The date is set in May, but I forget at the present when it is, but as usual, Vick has it under control. I would parish if it wasn't for my Angel Girl, which God sent me to love me and take care of me. I know it and am not ashamed to admit it! She is awesome!!!!! Well, gotta go collect eggs, kick birds off the roost and check the new duckies... Here are a couple of the pictures of them from yesterday...
Maybe today, we will start the floor assembly for the turkey house. Once completed, we can then buy enough 2x4's to frame the walls, doorway and window.
We want to get it fabricated soon, so we have a place for the turkeys to be kept to eliminate the possibility of lung worm and also to be ready for the poults once ready to leave the brooding house. We will actually order the turkeys soon. The Cornish Cross meat birds are already ordered.
Wow, Saturday is going to be a dying day here on the rear deck. Isabelle, Donna and Joan will come if they can and all will dye fibers with Vick, out there on the rear deck. How neat that will be, getting all the wools and fibers from Luke dyed.
Soon we will need to travel to Pittsfield Mass. to pick Herbie up. He is our newest addition to the farm....a Merino sheep. He was to come two weekends ago, but ended up being infested by lice accidentally, when a little girl boarded a goat for a week where Herbie lives. The goat was infested with lice which the lady didn't know until it was too late, so she cancelled our pickup until Herbie underwent two treatments to rid him and all her other stock of the lice infestation.
Anyway, the new pickup date is coming soon, so Vick will call to find out how the delousing went. Shearing time is fast approaching for the alpacas again too. The date is set in May, but I forget at the present when it is, but as usual, Vick has it under control. I would parish if it wasn't for my Angel Girl, which God sent me to love me and take care of me. I know it and am not ashamed to admit it! She is awesome!!!!! Well, gotta go collect eggs, kick birds off the roost and check the new duckies... Here are a couple of the pictures of them from yesterday...
Ol' Vick Donald had a farm......
Our duckies are a hatchin'....
Quack, Quack, Quack.......
The whole durned group of six.....
I wonder what they are thinking?
The four chicks.....
Checking out the world around them.....
Ahhhh, What's this??????
Such a sneaky little bird. I'll snatch these to the incubator later.....
The Hospice gift shop with the new shrubbery.....
A Snow Fountain, Weeping cherry on left side.....
Another Snow Fountain on the right side.....
A prickly red berry bush out front.....
One on the other side too.....
Our new chicken nightmare since fixing the front flower beds.....
One already in the pond area...see her brown body behind the brown, tall, Pompous Grass?
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