Hatching???

We've got a duck beak poking out of one of our eggs!

There is peeping!!!

The chicks are coming! The chicks are coming!

Well...hopefully! :)

25 days ago we put 31 eggs into our brand new incubator!

13 Rouen duck eggs and 18 Standard Bronze/Standard Bronze, Royal Palm, Blue Slate crosses.

The last candling, a week ago, looked promising... :)

Yesterday was 3 days from expected hatching, so we have stopped turning the eggs and have increased the humidity.

Will keep you all posted about our new little ones!

Pigs!

Pig pen is ready.
The guys wrapped the tarp down over the straw bales and I forgot to get another picture of it...
They've got quite a view!

Potatoes!

A 14 tire U surrounding a mixture of layered horse manure, wood chips, goat lot cleaning, straw, small branches, pine cones...and the chickens are making their contribution as well...
When the pile is finished, we'll close it with 6 more tires, stacked 2 high...then it will be time to fill the tires with soil! :)
Ordered 12.5 pounds of seed potatoes. When we piece them out we should have 50 2 Oz pieces. We will plant 2-3 per tire stack and go from there! :)

New nest

There are 3 nests in it...
39 1/2" long, 12" deep, 20 1/2" tall in the back, sloping to 18" in the front. Need to redo the top...forgot to go from bottom to top-not that it needs to shed rain inside the chicken coop... :)
Made from saw mill slabs...

Baby Goats!

Emily Elizabeth surprised us with 2 baby goats this evening. One little boy, Pete, and one little girl, Maddie.

Compost is Cooking!

Building compost so that we have enriched soil to grow produce! 

50-ish degrees today and our compost is 162! smile emoticon

Btw-i don't still use this as a cheese thermometer!

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