Daisychick's *Journal* New Baby and it Moos!!!!

[fortheloveofgoats]

I have one hen that lays an almost pink egg, now getting purple would be cool!!

Pink, that would be cool. Purple would be beautiful. If you get that, you could make some money.

 

[daisychick]

I was literally outside working on stuff for the entire weekend!!! My house is trashed!!! But got a lot done outside. I had just wire goat pens before and was really sick of the goats rubbing and bending the wire on one side and the horse scratching her butt on the other side and the wire just looked terrible. Sooooo I talked DH into putting up 2X6 boards for me and then I put up new wire. It looks so good, but took a lot of work. We had lots of help from the goats, since the front of their pen had to be taken down to put up the new part, they were free to come and go all day. We had goats pulling on the string line, goats opening the bag of screws, goats chewing on the pencil and losing it while we are trying to get boards leveled. We also had chickens trying to roost on boards that weren't screwed in yet and a horse trying to sneak in the goat pen to pick up hay scraps! It got so frustrating that we just had to give up and laugh and let them have their way with all construction tools.

I have 17 chicks that hatched today, I am giving a few of the eggs a little more time to hatch. Took adorable pictures but for some reason my memory card was not in the camera and I have NOTHING to show you. I will try again tomorrow.

 

[Roll farms]

There's just no help like 'critter' help, is there? Our emu used to steal DH's shiny screws and nails, then go for his earring, lol.

 

[daisychick]

I am behind on keeping this thing updated.

My boys were on Spring break all last week so I was enjoying my week with them and didn't do much online. It was 80 degrees most of last week!!! I was outside as much as I could be. I have my garden spot ready and seeds waiting in a basket on the table. I built a milk stand out of PVC pipe and wood, all by myself. I did some fence fixing and moved chicks from the brooder to their little pen in the coop. I am ready to get them out of here. I love chicks but when they get about 4 weeks old I am done! I am ready to sell them, clean up the chick mess and be back to my original layer flock. I sold all of the ones I hatched yesterday and now I just have to wait on the pullet chicks to reach 6 weeks old and they will be sold as "started pullets".

It is snowing here today!! 80 one day and 32 the next! And ALL of my fruit trees just bloomed last week!! I really really hope it doesn't freeze hard tonight and kill all my hopes of fruit. As soon as the weather gets sunny again I plan on getting my does onto the new milk stand and taking some pictures to share. I am itching to start a kidding thread (my very first ), even though I have about 60 more days to wait for the first one's due date. But I think I will start one as soon as I get pics and then I can compare each week how they are progressing!

 

[77Herford]

I heard about the chance of snow and thought of you. Denver is suppose to get as much as a foot, don't know how close you are to them but I hope you dodge that and your fruit trees make it. You could wrap them in plastic if they are small enough.

 

[daisychick]

Denver is North of us by about 2 hours and they did get some snow but not as much as about an 2 hours South of us. Around Trinidad, Colorado they reportedly got 26 inches of snow last night! We just got a wet slushy dusting so far but more is supposed to fall tonight.

Here are the blooms on my crab apple tree!

 

[daisychick]

Woke up to more snow and ran out to touch the fruit tree blossoms to see if they froze. They all were dripping wet so I hope they will all make it. My plum tree is covered with blooms and I really really want to make more plum jelly, so I hope I get fruit. It is supposed to get up to 60 degrees today. I can't wait for the weekend to get here!!!!! I get to go pick up my black and white nubian girl and my Kinder baby!!!!!!! I am also itching to get my raised beds finished and my mini hoop house made so I can plant some early spring stuff like lettuce and snap peas! I have to wait until Saturday to do all of this because I am stuck in the house watching these darn daycare kids.......unless........someone wants to volunteer to come change diapers and listen to kids bicker over who has what color of shirt on today and then I will sneak outside and play in the dirt.

 

[elevan]

Take the kids out and let them play in the dirt with you

 

[daisychick]

That would be a good idea.......but I have such a mixed age group that it is virtually impossible. Trying to get a 5 month old. a 1yr old, 2 two year olds, a 3yr old, 4yr old, and a 5 yr old to stay in one general area where my garden is and not go totally insane is a really hard task. It would look like this.

This would be me:

This would be them:

edited to add more realistic smileys LOL!

 

[elevan]

Plus the youngest among them would probably be eating dirt for a snack and I'm not sure that their parents would like that

Wishing your day goes quickly so that you can get out in the dirt later