You may recall that a while ago I mentioned that one of the hens was sitting on some eggs. Well, she hatched seven out of twelve eggs, so she definitely did better than I did. She did lose one, but she is being a wonderful mamma and taking good care of her babies. What is the most surprising is that she is a "red broiler", not some uber-broody breed one usually thinks of when envisioning a hen and chicks.
The pigs are doing a job on the summer garden to be. We will be butchering two of them on Sunday. They are a goodly size - probably close to 250 pounds for the barrow and not far from that for the gilt. I am sure looking forward to bacon.
I have started to shovel up the compost that was under the bunny porch and put it in the hoop house beds. I also have some good goat compost in the south barn and the small shed in the north field so I will be utilising that, too. I need to get the salad greens in there while we are still having warm days. Hopefully tomorrow will see that bed done. Then there will just be the bed with onions, garlic and shallots to plant. I think I am finally starting to believe that I will have some crops this year.
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