5 April 2010
Still trying to figure out how to do all this by myself. Just completed my last assignment for college and tomorrow I take my last college exam. Then the end of April I take my Praxis II exam. That will complete my degree requirements. Scheduled to do my student teaching this fall at the local middle school. Finally made it, can’t believe it sometimes.
And with the warm weather I have been dying to get out in the yard and the garden and get things going. Took all the plants from the living room out on the deck, except the banana plant. Have to figure out how to protect them from the birds. Maybe take them out to the garden area.
I started some tomato seeds and some cabbage and broccoli seeds, and a few herbs. Cabbage and tomatoes are growing. Ordered some seeds and a peach tree from Gurneys, and bought an Apple tree at Walmart. Got some apple starts from Angela in Utah, and wanted to try to grow them. Guess the cutting won’t root and not sure I can graft them now that everything has started to grow. May still try one any way. IF not, I will spend the summer getting some crab apple rooting stock from around here and try to get new pieces this fall and graft them next spring. Grafting fruit trees is new to me, understand it, but have never actually done it. So there is a new learning experience for me.
Clay
Monday, April 5, 2010
5 April 2010
Put 12 Goose eggs in an incubator on March 28. Candled them today and it appears 10 of them are developing. There had been some concerns about the parents being too young or not mating in the water. I have seen them mate on dry land, and he’s gotten good enough to not fall off. And maybe that is good enough to the job done.
Also started getting turkey eggs the other day, I now have 4 of them. They are different than the ones I got back in December, so I am thinking the other type of hen laid these. And more and more I am thinking these are the slate and the those in December were actually Reds. Recently sold one of the Red hens, and I had gotten an egg or two before she left. The lady I sold her to said she has gotten an egg every day since. So I obviously sold the wrong hen, lol! Those eggs looked like the ones I got in December. But the ones I have now are paler, and with less spots. Tomorrow I plan to put them, and hopefully one more, in the incubator. I just ordered my own incubator and will start collecting turkey eggs for when it gets here and I will incubate them. Plan to hatch just about every turkey egg I get, or get the hens to set on some. Might sell some goose eggs or turkey eggs. Will try to sell some of the turkey poults.
Clay
Put 12 Goose eggs in an incubator on March 28. Candled them today and it appears 10 of them are developing. There had been some concerns about the parents being too young or not mating in the water. I have seen them mate on dry land, and he’s gotten good enough to not fall off. And maybe that is good enough to the job done.
Also started getting turkey eggs the other day, I now have 4 of them. They are different than the ones I got back in December, so I am thinking the other type of hen laid these. And more and more I am thinking these are the slate and the those in December were actually Reds. Recently sold one of the Red hens, and I had gotten an egg or two before she left. The lady I sold her to said she has gotten an egg every day since. So I obviously sold the wrong hen, lol! Those eggs looked like the ones I got in December. But the ones I have now are paler, and with less spots. Tomorrow I plan to put them, and hopefully one more, in the incubator. I just ordered my own incubator and will start collecting turkey eggs for when it gets here and I will incubate them. Plan to hatch just about every turkey egg I get, or get the hens to set on some. Might sell some goose eggs or turkey eggs. Will try to sell some of the turkey poults.
Clay
Thursday, March 18, 2010
New Era
OK, so every one is going to have to bear with me. I don’t usually keep up the blog. I give her pictures and once in a while I write some thing to go with them, but I’ve never actually done the posting. Well, all that is going to change.
Connie left the middle of February and went to Utah to be with our youngest daughter who was expecting the middle of March. She has a habit of popping them early. Make a long story short, about a week after our 5th grandchild was born, she got sick and passed away. They found her in the morning and she was already gone.
So that leaves the farm and the maintaining of the blog up to me. For those of you that look regularly, I’ll try to post things here. Partially a matter of finding time and getting in the habit of doing it.
Connie left the middle of February and went to Utah to be with our youngest daughter who was expecting the middle of March. She has a habit of popping them early. Make a long story short, about a week after our 5th grandchild was born, she got sick and passed away. They found her in the morning and she was already gone.
So that leaves the farm and the maintaining of the blog up to me. For those of you that look regularly, I’ll try to post things here. Partially a matter of finding time and getting in the habit of doing it.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
NEW LAYERS
Our baby chicks from last summer has decided to start laying at the coldest and snowiest time of this winter here.
When all of them start laying we are going to have to start giving them away :)
When all of them start laying we are going to have to start giving them away :)
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
CHRISTMAS TIME 2009
Our babies with Santa and Frances and Alex made their first Gingerbread House. Thought they did a great job.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
TRADITIONS
most traditions weren't followed this year but tonight i made my hot cranberry punch and we watched national lampoons christmas vacation. always enjoy the movie and the punch was really good.
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