Many, Many Updates

Where to begin...we have been so incredibly busy around here lately!

Last Saturday, April 21st, we had 6 new baby chicks hatch...

As I was searching for pics of the new chicks I realized I only had the ones of them hatching...not the ones of the cute little fluff balls they are now. I'll get those up soon...but don't hold your breath 'til I do because "soon" in my world could be next week.

Yesterday we noticed we have another hen that is showing signs of being broody. We put 9 eggs under her & we're keeping a watchful eye one her. Hopefully our observations are correct and we'll have more new chicks in 3 weeks.

By the way...did you know that it takes 21 days to incubate eggs in an incubator but it takes 20-21 days when a mama hen is laying on her eggs? I don't remember where I read that but I'm sure glad I did because we started checking at day 19 & on day 20 we had chicks.

Last Saturday we also finally added our goat to our farm! As soon as we saw her we agreed she did not look like a GG. That was the name we already had picked out for her. Instead, we decided on Anabelle. She is a 2 year old African Pygmy goat that is about 3 months pregnant...most likely with twins! If they're girls, their names will be GG and Delilah...not sure about boy names yet. There's also a possibility that we may get the male from the family she came from. They are moving and if they cannot find anyone to take him by July they will be contacting us to see if we would like him as well.

Anabelle

We are currently looking for ducks. We have their house ready and are looking for either a Mallard or Muscovy. We are looking for these breeds because they prefer to forage for their food rather than be fed duck feed. Bonus is that we prefer the look of the Mallard. We found someone locally selling Mallards but they were not willing to sell us just 2 or 3. They wanted us to take half the flock. No, thank you. So we're still on the hunt.

Last farm animal after that will be our pigs, but that'll be a while for multiple reasons. Unfortunately sometime next year or so.

I've already been enjoying the sungold cherry tomatoes. Sure glad I attended the AG class on growing tomatoes. I really do like this variety of tomatoes.Very flavorful! I'll be adding these to our garden every year.

Sungold Cherry Tomatoes

These are the first radishes and serrano peppers that we've harvested from our garden this year. The garden has been a bit neglected and is looking quite poor as a result. However, the green beans, purple hull peas, collard greends, radishes, and corn are looking great out there.

Serrano peppers and mixed radishes

When my dad was here back in February he taught Linds how to use power tools, measure lumber, & build small projects. All that teaching paid off because she and I built the goat pen, built the gate, & hung the gate all by ourselves last week. Since then we have built the goat's feed trough, hay manger, & house...and all out of recycled material we had laying around the farm. We didn't go out and buy a thing! That's how we've spent the last two weekends...building. But we have enjoyed all the work we've done outside and Brian is quite proud of all the progress we've made while he's had to work.