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Wehner Homestead said:

Following along! You mentioned school. What are you studying?

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I did? My DH is planning to start school again at some point for law, but it’s been quite a few years since I’ve been or planned to be... I mostly just read and research on my own now.

Lol! I bet it was an autocorrect issue!

I’m about ready to call it a night. Had a funeral to go to a few hours away and I’m socialed out. Add that to the cold that kicked in last night and I’m beat.
I am pretty happy despite all that because I candled the goose eggs I bought and 8 of the 12 are definitely developing I also just put a deposit down on a Jacob ram lamb and have plans to pick up a sweetgrass turkey hen next weekend along with the ram!
My hatch is going well as far as I can tell. I’ll count the little fluffles when I pull them out tomorrow, but it’s looking good

Happy Easter!

Oh wow! A Jacob ram! Can’t wait for pictures!!! And a turkey too! Congratulations on the hatch, chicks are so cute.

Ended up with 30 hatching. One faded away and another one has a limp, but all the rest are doing great.
Yesterday was such a nice day that I spent most of it outside and let the chickens out to free range while the girls grazed. I can’t believe how much they’ve grown!

Despite being the more skittish by nature, Foxy’s actually the more affectionate of the two, coming over and begging for attention. Look at that happy face

I candled the goose eggs again and the ones that looked questionable were just a little behind. Looks like 11/12 are actually fertile! I still won’t pull that one until next week, just to be on the safe side. 4 turkey and 5 chicken eggs in lockdown today with another 4 turkey eggs I’m pretty sure stopped developing around the time we lost power I locked them down anyway.
And now the waiting begins once again

Your lambs are so cute,

I love that face! She looks so happy to have attention from her Momma!

My first turkeys are hatching

If Porter’s calculator is right, the little one above is a red bronze boy as his mom is a bourbon red and his dad is a royal palm. Any girls from that cross should be golden narragansett. The other one is a pure palm, so no telling the gender for about 4 months.
Depending on how many I have hatch, I’m probably going to raise all my poults this year. Sell some off in the fall, keep a few, send the rest to freezer camp.

freezer camp is awesome !

Right? Last fall we had an extra jake and we sent him off with some ducks to get butchered for us (earlier than should’ve been for a heritage breed) and he was fantastic
Only about six pounds, but still enough to feed 5 people with some to spare.