SA Farm's journal

[Baymule]

Awww..... she is beautiful. Congrats!

 

[SA Farm]

Thanks! I think so too
Yes, DH is determined that she’s a keeper and must be named Kit lol
I’m curious to see if she turns silver from the Romanov side or stays black from the Jacob side She has a white poll and white tip of her tail I don’t think I managed to capture it on camera yet. Besides that, she’s still a little gooey lol Foxy’s working on it!

 

[CntryBoy777]

Awww!!!!.....they are all very precious and the feeling is so Great when things go so Well....what a Doll!!!....

 

[SA Farm]

Princess has joined Consort in brooding. I’ll be interested to see if the broody bug continues to spread . It was a beautiful warm sunny day, so I wasn’t wearing enough layers to take any extra eggs from the nest box. Consort grabs as big a beak full as she can get and shakes her head like a dog! Not going under her without serious protection lol
Hopefully no other hen decides to join them or, if she does, I hope she’s smart enough to start sitting in her own box as the one the broody duo is in is at maximum capacity!
I should’ve taken a pic of them, but I was too distracted by Kit! Found out she’s got a little white spot on one of her inner ankles too. No pic of it yet. She’s always In the wrong position . But I got the little white tip of her tail in this one

They have practically identical polls.

Alright, that’s enough pics of her for now lol. I’m just waiting impatiently for her to start leaping and bounding the way her mama did as a baby!
Recap pic of baby Foxy at about 5 weeks old:

 

[SA Farm]

I’m thinking about Monday being my last set of eggs this year...I’m starting to feel heavy now that I’m going into my third trimester lol and don’t want to overwork myself as the heat of summer approaches.
DH is supposed to pick up some soil for me so I can get some plants in. My started plants can go out during the day now to get “weathered” so I can plant them out in the garden once there’s no more threat of frost. My oldest chicks are going to start going out in the tractor during the day as well. At 5-6 weeks, they’ll still be brought in at night, but, like my plants, they need to be weaned off a climate controlled environment.
Lockdown for my first batch of turkeys is tomorrow and I should find out in the next few days if my broody geese were successful. I’m not sure what to expect, but I’m hopeful
Kit is starting to realize I’m not a threat. It helps that her mama is obviously comfortable with me lol. Kit is getting adorably addicted to getting her neck scratched and once I have her in a happy stupor I handle her all over
I got the pic of Princess and Consort co-nesting since I didn’t take pics of Kit today lol. A little dark (it’s a gloomy, rainy day today), but Princess is definitely back there.

 

[SA Farm]

Now Queen is broody! Of course she’s trying to brood on the top of the nest boxes which happens to be flat and part of the roost I’m debating building something around her and giving her eggs or trying to move her to the bottom box. Probably best to do the latter if she’ll cooperate.
My only remaining non-broody turkeys having a snack.

King looking so handsome I just love the Sweetgrass colouring!

His first baby of the year hatched today! Little Sweetgrass poult

Goose eggs are still just eggs. I need to candle them and see if they all ended up being quitters. I know they were all developing at one point, so I’ll have to wrangle my broodies and see what they’ve got. Probably tomorrow or the next night... just in case.
Tomorrow I set my last batch of turkeys for the year. Might do one more batch of chicken to hatch with them, but that’ll be it. Either that or I give my collected turkey eggs to Queen and just set a last batch of chicken...decisions decisions
Some of the chickens out enjoying all the fresh grass after all the rain we got last week.

And where we had swallows nesting last year we now have robins. I’d prefer the swallows for bug control, but at least we’ve heard some bats around to help with that.

And a pic of Kit just because

 

[thistlebloom]

That's a handsome Tom you have there.
And Kit is adorable!

 

[Baymule]

Tons of babies! Don’t you love it? You are going to have to get one of those wrap around sling things for carrying your baby is so you can be hands free to do farm chores. Women have used them for eons, modern women have adopted it and think they are doing something special, but they have no idea..... LOL

 

[Bruce]

And where we had swallows nesting last year we now have robins. I’d prefer the swallows for bug control, but at least we’ve heard some bats around to help with that.

What kind of swallow? Not a barn swallow since they build mud nests. Looks like it is on the ground, not a normal place for swallows (or robins either).

 

[SA Farm]

Tons of babies! Don’t you love it? You are going to have to get one of those wrap around sling things for carrying your baby is so you can be hands free to do farm chores. Women have used them for eons, modern women have adopted it and think they are doing something special, but they have no idea..... LOL

I absolutely love it and totally plan to carry baby around while I do chores...until he gets too heavy! Then I’m thinking of carrying him around in a laundry basket so I can safely set him down while I work

What kind of swallow? Not a barn swallow since they build mud nests. Looks like it is on the ground, not a normal place for swallows (or robins either).

The nest is on an outdoor light, so it’s under the eaves on the porch. About 6 feet above the porch floor. I think it was a barn swallow, actually. They’ve nested by my sheep shack in the past as well.

I set Queen up on the top box. Hopefully she’ll decide it’ll do and jump on. I gave her the 10 eggs I’d saved up.
My geese have 4 eggs left, all quitters, sadly. Not sure how to get them to stop brooding as I’ve never had a broody goose before. Pulling the eggs and nest are the first steps, obviously. It’s either that or pulling their pool out of the run and giving them something else to sit on. Chicken eggs that are due next week, perhaps?
My hatch is going well so far. Got 4 turkeys hatched, 2 zipped, and 3 or 4 pipped out of 11. Also 4 chicks hatched, 1 zipped, and 2 pips out of 9. They are due today, so they’re doing well so far. I usually set in the afternoon or evening, so if they’re a bit late it’s fine/normal. I’ll probably pull a few fluffed ones early morning and help any that may have gotten stuck or whatnot. I find turkeys are the worst for getting shrink wrapped compared to any other poultry I’ve hatched.
I had the sheep and chickens out and I’m not sure if this pic shows how beautifully big Spice is or how adorably little Kit is