ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[RPC]

Well it sounds like you have a lot of pens to build. Congrats on your large tip for turkey's and that is a great idea to pay it forward.

 

[redtailgal]

We're doing Boingo's curve today.

8am reading...

Blood glucose: 261
Urine glucose: 1%

So he'll be getting an extra unit of insulin when he eats in about 10 minutes, putting him at 13 units right now.


I feel really bad cause I had to poke him twice to get the blood reading. But I listened to DH and that's the reason that I had to poke him twice.

After this weekend, I may NEVER listen to hubby again, so I understand. Completely.

 

[elevan]

We're doing Boingo's curve today.

8am reading...

Blood glucose: 261
Urine glucose: 1%

12pm reading...

Blood glucose 273

4pm reading...

Blood glucose 244

 

[elevan]

I just realized that we are T - 4 days until Cinni's hatch!

 

[redtailgal]

I just realized that we are T - 4 days until Cinni's hatch!

I'm excited too! and they arent even my eggs, lol.

 

[autumnprairie]

Here's the plan for the next few months:

Turkeys arrive in mid April and will be brooded in the coop that will eventually be for geese.

While turkeys are brooding we will build a hoop coop to house the turkeys.

Once turkeys are moved to hoop coop we will get geese (mid to late May).

Geese will brood and permanently house in our old chicken coop.

We will be building new quail cages (a design that hit me earlier today and I'll try to remember to make a page for) and getting quail again in June.

Meanwhile I had a brilliant idea for a duck coop...we'll see if it works in reality as well as it does in my head...I'll share pics if it does.

I am waiting on pics and new animals

 

[elevan]

Here's the plan for the next few months:

Turkeys arrive in mid April and will be brooded in the coop that will eventually be for geese.

While turkeys are brooding we will build a hoop coop to house the turkeys.

Once turkeys are moved to hoop coop we will get geese (mid to late May).

Geese will brood and permanently house in our old chicken coop.

We will be building new quail cages (a design that hit me earlier today and I'll try to remember to make a page for) and getting quail again in June.

Meanwhile I had a brilliant idea for a duck coop...we'll see if it works in reality as well as it does in my head...I'll share pics if it does.

I am waiting on pics and new animals

Well...we should have new ducklings, chicks and guinea keets on March 28th...I definitely get pics of those.

Then the following week the eggs in my bator should hatch.

I plan to add chicken eggs in there next. I'm gonna put Cruella's eggs in there. Cruella is a German Spitzhauben (Appenzeller) and she was covered by a Buff Brahma rooster. So it should be pretty interesting looking chicks. I want my first few hatches to be as exciting as possible.

 

[elevan]

DH and I did some rearranging this evening and now 9 of our goats are in the big field. The bucks are in our little field. We let the girls out of the maternity pen so that they can go browse. I'm going to keep a very close watch on them and the minute I see an udder bloom then they go back in. We've just had to beautiful of weather to keep them locked up.

Daisy and the kids were moved to the big field as well. So they got to meet some "new" goats in person. It was so much fun to watch. All the goats partied until a little after dark in the field before heading to the barn to go to bed.

 

[elevan]

I've felt miserable most of today and slept most of the day away. Got up long enough to let the chickens out this morning...to eat...and to assist B with his pic assignment for RTG (though my assistance is only allowing him to use my camera and uploading his pics / typing his responses). My head feels foggy (probably allergies), my stomach / side hurts (on going problems from last year) and I'm just exhausted (CFS). So I think I'll do the POW and some light reading on here then crashing again.

 

[Lute]

Hmmm, my roommate felt the same way yesterday. He spent the day sleeping. Good thing it was Sunday, otherwise he would have missed classes!

I'm thinking it's the weather. We're over 2000 miles away, it has to be the weather. Or... something in the aether is trying to tell you something?