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

[autumnprairie]

 

[Queen Mum]

Banding and disbudding... those are the two things I am positively scared to do. I am not squeemish about anything else. I guess I just don't want to hurt my babies.

 

[redtailgal]

I can band without a problem, disbudding..........nope. Cannot handle it, esp burning. I'm a wuss and PROUD of it.

 

[daisychick]

I think I could disbud but not after watching a few more done by someone else. The banding was easy but I just wasn't sure I was doing it right. I certainly didn't want to do a simple thing and cause a NOT SO simple to fix problem. My friend who owns the little buckling/wether-to-be called and said he is acting fine and everything looks good so I feel better about it now. I will feel even better when the danglies fall off and I can see for myself that there isn't any injury to his belly area. I am a visual person and seeing is believing to me.

 

[daisychick]

I have sprouts!!! This is the first year ever that I have been brave enough to plant 5 weeks before the frost date. I have been reading tons of garden books and they all swear that you can put out your, cabbage, broccoli, snap peas, lettuce, swiss chard and other "cool crops" before frost dates. I did it!! I am the proud momma of baby lettuce, chard, peas and carrots sprouts. Cute tiny little green babies popping through the dirt today!

Tiny baby lettuce sprouts, this is a "spicy salad mix"

Tiny baby Swiss Chard

 

[Roll farms]

Congrats on your sprouts....

 

[RPC]

Congrats on the sprouts but I must say I can not disbud. I will admit I am a wienie, I also hate needles and until Storm got sick I could not give shots either. Luckily the shots i needed to give could wait till I got someone here to do it for me. But Storm needed them right then so I gave myself a pep talk and got them done.

 

[daisychick]

Got another raised bed done this weekend and lots of yard work. Today is my oldest son's b-day and I am taking him to get his driver's permit today! I am not old enough to have a child on the road!!

I also stuck 9 red bourbon turkey eggs into the incubator today. My neighbor's turkey hens just started laying and if I incubate for him I get to keep half the babies!! I hope they hatch.

 

[autumnprairie]

Come help me with my yard work
turkey babies. What is their incubation period?

 

[daisychick]

Turkeys take 28 days so this is going to be a long wait. I will candle them at day 7 and I should at least know if they are developing or not.