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Chicks arrive on Wednesday! I think we are picking ours up on Friday.
Just doesn't seem like spring without chicks in the hobby room peeping and stinking. Usually more of the latter than the previous.
I have six bantam eggs that I have been keeping on hand for TRex. She will only get three if she decides to stick with this wild hair notion that she has that she HAS to have chicks.
Weatherwise, it was raining when I woke up but the sun is out now. No really cold weather in sight for here in the near future. Lows in the 40s and highs in the 60s. We are supposed to have our first 70 degree day later this week. I'm fine with that. We have had enough of winter here. The grass is greening up and the trees are starting to form buds. The early blooming wild bushes have little leaves on them. But in reality, we are still a month or more away from last frost date. But at least I can look forward to getting onions and potatoes planted.
What we are going to miss is our homemade Amish bread that I've been making over the winter months. DH told me this morning that he can hardly stand to eat the store bought bread any more. It all tastes like cardboard to him and I have to agree. Maybe I need to get a bread machine to use over the summer months.
Just doesn't seem like spring without chicks in the hobby room peeping and stinking. Usually more of the latter than the previous.
I have six bantam eggs that I have been keeping on hand for TRex. She will only get three if she decides to stick with this wild hair notion that she has that she HAS to have chicks.
Weatherwise, it was raining when I woke up but the sun is out now. No really cold weather in sight for here in the near future. Lows in the 40s and highs in the 60s. We are supposed to have our first 70 degree day later this week. I'm fine with that. We have had enough of winter here. The grass is greening up and the trees are starting to form buds. The early blooming wild bushes have little leaves on them. But in reality, we are still a month or more away from last frost date. But at least I can look forward to getting onions and potatoes planted.
What we are going to miss is our homemade Amish bread that I've been making over the winter months. DH told me this morning that he can hardly stand to eat the store bought bread any more. It all tastes like cardboard to him and I have to agree. Maybe I need to get a bread machine to use over the summer months.
Loving that you have chicks on the way!Oh peep, that is too funny! What a great memory for you.
Ron, I'm not holding out much hope that she will break herself. She is a pretty determined little girl. Sure enough, she had 5 eggs under her tonight. I've gotten good at moving fast and snatching the eggs out in two grabs. Tonight I swapped her 5 eggs for 2 ceramic ones. Gotta see how serious she really is about this.
Just got word. Chicks are in the mailETA either tomorrow or Wednesday. I'll probably pick them up on Friday. Our friend wants to keep them for a couple of days to give them electrolytes and chow. In all honesty I can hardly wait to get them!
I decided not to tell hubby that i ordered chicks. Better to ask forgiveness than be denied permission. And i have 106 eggs in the home made bator...15 turkey eggs due to hatch for Easter and another batch collected. Plan to hatch more quail eggs as well. Yep, certifiable crazy animal person!
With all of the chicks hatching, how would he even know you ordered more?!
Goat kids born last night and the night before
should be some goat hoof trimming later today.
should be some goat hoof trimming later today.
Congratulations Bruce. They are adorable. I would just love to get goats for the farm, if for nothing else other than to keep the weeds down for us so we don't have to mow so much. I'm leary though, given the strain of Marek's I've been dealing with for 4+ years now. The previous owner had goats but I truly doubt if he did any testing for any diseases so the soil is probably full of something that would either a)make a goat sick or b) just outright kill it. I don't have too much desire to go through that with goats the way we have had to deal with the Marek's.
The friend who ordered chicks for us has a Doe that kidded two doelings last spring and a friend of his brought his buck over for a visit last fall so all three of the does are due to kid at some point. I would buy goats from him without hesitation but I don't want to bring them here just to have the land kill them.
So we keep on Mowing.
Chicks arrive on Wednesday so we are picking up either Friday or Saturday.
I also ordered a bread machine. It should be here on Thursday. I gritted my teeth and just did it. I have to admit I'm going to miss pounding bread dough. Great stress reliever it is but my Amish bread rises the best when I set it near the fireplace to rise and keep a low fire burning. It feels like about 120 degrees in the house right now. I'm always cold and even I am sweating right now.
Good news is that I have found a modification for the Amish white sweet bread I make so I can make it in a bread machine.
TRex is happily sitting on her two ceramic eggs and trying to chew on anything or anybody who comes near her. Guess I have to run up the white flag and declare defeat. Planning on getting the broody pen ready this afternoon for her.
@CapricornFarm, I don't know how I'd be able to break that kind of news to DH. I think I'd just grab a sleeping bag and move out to the hay loft.
I read your post to him and then said See! I'm not so bad, I just have one broody hen and only 6 chicks coming!
I think it worked!
The friend who ordered chicks for us has a Doe that kidded two doelings last spring and a friend of his brought his buck over for a visit last fall so all three of the does are due to kid at some point. I would buy goats from him without hesitation but I don't want to bring them here just to have the land kill them.
So we keep on Mowing.
Chicks arrive on Wednesday so we are picking up either Friday or Saturday.
I also ordered a bread machine. It should be here on Thursday. I gritted my teeth and just did it. I have to admit I'm going to miss pounding bread dough. Great stress reliever it is but my Amish bread rises the best when I set it near the fireplace to rise and keep a low fire burning. It feels like about 120 degrees in the house right now. I'm always cold and even I am sweating right now.
Good news is that I have found a modification for the Amish white sweet bread I make so I can make it in a bread machine.
TRex is happily sitting on her two ceramic eggs and trying to chew on anything or anybody who comes near her. Guess I have to run up the white flag and declare defeat. Planning on getting the broody pen ready this afternoon for her.
@CapricornFarm, I don't know how I'd be able to break that kind of news to DH. I think I'd just grab a sleeping bag and move out to the hay loft.
I read your post to him and then said See! I'm not so bad, I just have one broody hen and only 6 chicks coming! I think it worked!
Have you thought of giving her the shipped chicks?
I have done that in the past and it worked well. However, your broody of course has to be willing.
I bought eggs or made a trade of bread for them as soon as one of Silky went broody again shut down the little bator and gave them to my living breathing alien incubators
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