SPRING HAS SPRUNG!!!


This is just a brief, Spring has Sprung update on the yard farm.  The incubator has 71 quail eggs in it, due to hatch in 12 days. 

Last week we took 28 chicken chicks out of it that are now keeping Butters company on the porch. 

Sadly TK, Amanda's bunny, died of injuries sustained when he fell off of a table when playing with the cat.  As rabbits hide any weakness (prey animals are like that) we thought he was getting better but sadly, that was not the case.  As the table was only 18 inches high it should not have hurt him any to fall off of it but as they use to rocket round the porch so fast he must have been doing about 80 mph at the time.  Butters kept him company through the 4 days he was poorly and misses him hugely.

The pregnant sow gave us four lovely baby boys.  Mother nature loves to give me boys, I once hatched 7 eggs only to get 7 roosters.  Did I need any roosters?  Did I heck!

Last summers unused swimming pool is now home to 25 Tilapia, small still but growing.

All my lovely winter vegetables are now bolting due to the heat, it's high 80s now and only getting hotter.

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Look what our little sow has done!  All boys, of course.


Two days old and the boys are already fighting.  



New use for an old fridge, the heat is in the freezer and a door is cut into the fridge side.  Deep shavings in both and the food and water is in the fridge side.  It is working really well.  28 chicks hatched in the trial run of the new incubator. 

Another shot of the fridge brooder.  The chicks are soooooo cute!



I KNOW it looks like a small kids pool but it is now home to 25 fingerling Tilapia.  The kids gave up on it last summer, said it was no fun being eaten by the bugs while sitting in 24 inches of water.  Fish seem to like it though.




Can you see the fish?  Nope, neither can I!  

This is Ugly rabbit (Amanda insists he is pretty but she loves anything with long ears) and behind him is the new rooster and some of the hens.  Some of the dancing in the last chance saloon, non-laying hens, they are.


All my poor veg, so hot now that winter is gone.  We so enjoyed the paltry 6 weeks of cold we got and miss it SOOOOOO MUCH!!!  It's high 80s now and only getting hotter!



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  1. A Merchant MarinerMarch 9, 2018 at 2:33 PM

    I love the refrigerator-incubator! That's pretty damned clever 😀

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