Meet the new ones... I am going to have to baby sit while they are in the run with the big girls. The big girls were TOTALLY freaked out by them... Poor little things were chasing the big girls around trying to get some loving... LOL. Laia is totally not broody now. She was the least freaked, the most curious. Nina, the biggest of them all, was not happy. I have never seen a duck bristly... She was. Mori tried to run them over several times. Mori is also the one who acts like a boy and lays an egg. Like I said... Lesbian ducks... Well and Leah was the only one who was just freaked, but not mad. HAHA So anyway, they are now in a 2x4 brooder in the garage with a heat lamp, grass as you can see, and straw in the little tote that is on its side so they have a hidey nest area. SO, needless to say, I now have 2 more ducks, and thank goodness I got them for a buck a piece.... I'd be willing to part with them since my girls are totally not having it. Worth a try. I figure I will babysit them in their run a few times a day, so they big girls will get used to them, and they will get used to the big girls, but not leave them with the big girls at night for a few weeks... Juise, would you like some PEKINS? If one turns out to be a drake, I will take it back... LOL
Got my meaties installed in the old brooder. Oh, if only they weren't meaties... They are the most adorable little things. So docile. Can pick them up and they don't even freak out and try and get away. Well anyway, got 10 of them, and have two 75watt bulbs in there with them. I was going to pt the 250, but the space is very small, and just one 75 wt bulb over the chick water-er in the winter and the big water-er in the other side was enough to keep the water from freezing, so I think it'll be warm enough in the space they are in for now. Its only a 2x4 dog house, 2 feet high. I will build them a run in a few weeks.
My tomatoes are already starting to show fruit! Both the Roma and the German Johnson. SWEET! The strawberries are re-blooming and also showing new fruit. Double SWEET! I need to put chicken wire over them because them chickens like them. Naughty birds. The zucs, cukes, long and crooked necks are coming in good too. Also the pepper plants seem to be well also. The beans have finally sprouted good.
On a whim today, I bought some purple tomatoes. Going to start them tomorrow. AND Also on a whim I bought something called Lemon Cucumbers. I have never seen them before, didn't know there was such a thing. Of course I have never seen such a thing as purple tomatoes either...
My green onions are already doing great. I was picking and eating them straight out of the pot. I love that they come back every year if you don't pull them out at the root, even though that part is the strongest flavored. I just cut them off like grass, and let them regrow. YUM. The kids thought they were yuck. They did however like the sweet clover. Go figure.
Cute story... Jace was out side with me last night, and he comes running over and tells me he thought he saw something naked running through the back yard. I went back there to look with him, and we saw a young buck. He wants to catch it and keep it for a pet. LOL. I just think it was funny that he thought it was a naked person in the back. First deer he has ever seen in person.
Well anyway... RaZ good luck on your meeting next month. Hope all goes well. Maybe start getting receipts for those eggs you sell... Just in the case that you can use them to be considered FARM then. Just do as Olive said, and check those new amendments to be sure that the law works for you.
Nothing like a cool-aide to help protect a chicken. The other birds are probably thinking twice now about him...
And I have the smartest chicks. After 2 days, they have all figured out how to go up and down the ramp on their own. Neighbor has 8 week old chicks that have only just figured it out... And not all of them have it down yet. AND my 4 weeks olds are SILKIES! HAAHAHA.
