So far 4 of our 27 eggs have hatched today. More are pecking their way out and we hope for whole mess of them by morning time. Lots of interest from folks in our area in buying them, we could sell 80 of them right now if we had that many.
For their size I’m always amazed at how quickly they are able to move once dried off and recovered from the energy they’ve expended while hatching.
It’s time to transplant our tomatoes! We are planting hybrid and heirloom varieties this year. The heirlooms were grown in our little grow box and the hybrids were bought at a local greenhouse near Hamilton, MO. We have a few more heirloom varieties we are trying to grow from seed, but so far there are 14 plants out in the garden. We’ve transplanted Super sweet 100, Cherokee Purple, Carolina Gold, Amy Sugar Gem, Suddath Brandywine, and a roma.
My brother came over with his deer meat from last fall and we finally got around to grinding up the portions we had set aside for burger. With the price of hamburger these days this meat will help to offset our grocery bill.
Our grinder is one of the Cabela’s models and is rated at 1 HP. It does a great job and is much quieter than the old bet driven setup we used for years.
We were finally able to pick our first piece of asparagus that we’ve grown here at home. We bought year old roots three years ago and have left them be up until now. While its not enough for a meal, it was exciting to harvest our own asparagus for the first time. Yes, we are simple folks.
They’ve begun hatching in our incubator today. This is the first one after it has dried off. Adorable little things. We will try and sell these ducklings locally here in NW Missouri.
The doe gave birth last night. Considering this was her first kindling I’m pretty tickled with this wriggling pink bundle of babies. I’ve not counted how many she had, I’ll give them a day or two before I handle them enough to get a final count.
UPDATE: We took a count this evening and have a total of 27 in all. They were 11, 9 and 7.
Today I went looking for a missing hen. After hearing her I narrowed my search and found her under the back porch steps. After she finished I went to look and found this in the picture. No idea how any times I’ve walked right over this nest!
It was pretty cold last night, so I fear many of these eggs are no longer good. Notice the chicken egg?
With the rain this evening we found ourselves inside and decided to try our hand at baking our own hamburger buns. They turned out well, next time I’d like to try making them a little smaller. Considering this was our first attempt at this I’m very happy with our results.
These two young’uns really enjoyed getting into the tractor and having room to stretch their legs.
