First up in the blog today, please pray for our family in Southern Illinois; their area was hit by a very heavy storm on Friday with lots of wind-related damage.
Okay, now for the garden-related stuff… Sherry and I got the potatoes planted this past week; six 50 foot rows of fingerlings, Yukon gold, and reds. The rain was close behind so we still haven’t gotten the onions planted. My hope is that since the major part of them are cipollini onions and we want them small, they will be all right if we get them in soon. We really do need to catch a break in the weather soon as I would like to get the main season crops in next week….
I have finally received our new incubator this week and it looks much nicer than the one I returned after the first hatchings (that thing wouldn’t hold the temperature steady and was especially loud). So now that I have the new incubator, I will be ordering Cortunix Quail eggs soon and start incubating. I have three of the four new quail cages finished and need to make a rack on which to stack them. We will have Quail babies before you know it; they only take eighteen days to hatch. They mature and start laying eggs at eight weeks of age. How fun is that? You know what this means, don’t you? You’ll have to stop by for a quail egg omelet.
Speaking of chickens, we stopped by Tractor Supply (the store) on Thursday and found pullet chicks on sale for 99 cents, so we bought 8. So now we have a grand total of 26 chicks. The new pullets are golden yellow and look like little puffballs. The older chicks we hatched ourselves are growing really fast now. We had to separate them this week to give them more room in the brooder boxes. They also moved out onto the enclosed porch this past week, which has made Sherry happy because they were stirring up peat moss dust all over the downstairs … plus, they’re really smelly.
As an extra adventure this week, I took Sherry to the Strawtown Auction and we watched people bid on livestock and such. They had everything from horses and cows, to goats and pigs, chickens and ducks, even rabbits and potbellied pig babies. Sherry was more fascinated by the interesting people attending the auction than the auction itself, I think. I must admit, the attendees are quite something to behold. Maybe next time we’ll bid on something ourselves… as long as it fits into the back of a Scion!
So that’s how things went this week on the Gunter farm.
Okay, now for the garden-related stuff… Sherry and I got the potatoes planted this past week; six 50 foot rows of fingerlings, Yukon gold, and reds. The rain was close behind so we still haven’t gotten the onions planted. My hope is that since the major part of them are cipollini onions and we want them small, they will be all right if we get them in soon. We really do need to catch a break in the weather soon as I would like to get the main season crops in next week….
I have finally received our new incubator this week and it looks much nicer than the one I returned after the first hatchings (that thing wouldn’t hold the temperature steady and was especially loud). So now that I have the new incubator, I will be ordering Cortunix Quail eggs soon and start incubating. I have three of the four new quail cages finished and need to make a rack on which to stack them. We will have Quail babies before you know it; they only take eighteen days to hatch. They mature and start laying eggs at eight weeks of age. How fun is that? You know what this means, don’t you? You’ll have to stop by for a quail egg omelet.
Speaking of chickens, we stopped by Tractor Supply (the store) on Thursday and found pullet chicks on sale for 99 cents, so we bought 8. So now we have a grand total of 26 chicks. The new pullets are golden yellow and look like little puffballs. The older chicks we hatched ourselves are growing really fast now. We had to separate them this week to give them more room in the brooder boxes. They also moved out onto the enclosed porch this past week, which has made Sherry happy because they were stirring up peat moss dust all over the downstairs … plus, they’re really smelly.
As an extra adventure this week, I took Sherry to the Strawtown Auction and we watched people bid on livestock and such. They had everything from horses and cows, to goats and pigs, chickens and ducks, even rabbits and potbellied pig babies. Sherry was more fascinated by the interesting people attending the auction than the auction itself, I think. I must admit, the attendees are quite something to behold. Maybe next time we’ll bid on something ourselves… as long as it fits into the back of a Scion!
So that’s how things went this week on the Gunter farm.
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