We had wonderful, rainless weather today and we worked outside almost all of it. But before I when out to work I had to take my batch of 17 Black Copper Marans eggs out of the turner and increase the humidity since they are due to hatch on Tuesday.
Garden #2 is almost completely planted today with the exception of one part which I'm going to plant sunflowers after the danger of frost has passed. What I did plant was carrots, beets, turnips, rutabagas, parsley, dill and several types of lettuce. As you can see, we started lining the walkway surrounding the bed with newspaper and straw but I ran out of straw. I'll get more on Monday.
On my way to the barn, I noticed that some great-horned owls babies in a nest on our neighbors place have finally grown big enough to be seen. They are right about 20 yards from our fence line very close to where my chickens free-range. We have seen the parents hunting rodents out in our cattle pasture and they are yet to snatch one of my birds. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed on that one.
When YOU get brown eggs, I see you get BROWN eggs!
ReplyDeleteYes!!! Black copper marans lay the darkest egg of all the chickens and if you google this breed, you'll see even darker ones. They are pretty amazing :)
DeleteCarolyn
Good luck with your hatch! Love the owl picture. I have seen an owl in a very long time. How nice to see the babies but yeah, not so nice around the chickens.
ReplyDeleteThanks Becky :) I'm hoping they will hatch well, with BCMs you never know.
DeleteThere is a deformity in that tree the owls' nest is and they started using it last year. They didn't take any of my chickens last year. fingers crossed XXX
Carolyn
Carolyn,
ReplyDeleteHope you remember me. I bougth BCM last year. I lived in Kingston. Anyhow, garden looks amazing. We are on 500 acres we have about a 1/3 acre garden. We have tons planted. Cannot wait to see your progress. Glad to see ya'll are doing great!
Jami
Hi Jami!!!
DeleteOf course I remember you :) I hope you are doing great, I bet you got a bit of snow this morning!
It snowed here about an hour this morning but nothing stuck.
Carolyn