Good Morning

[KimChick]

I have always been intrigued with blue heelers ever since I met one years ago. It had nice colouring, too.
We're going to start our seeds in the greenhouse in a couple of weeks.
All our birds were let out yesterday; it was such a nice day. The guineas were not at all interested in going in until close to 7pm. Then, like turdeys, I had to remind them how to get back in through the door.
We have place our bird order for this year - meat chickens, turkeys, and Rhode Island Red day olds, males and females.

[Ontario Chick]

Good morning,
Snow disappearing very fast, wake up every morning to loud wild turkey gobbling near the house , couldn't figure out where it's coming from, don't see any foot prints around the house, so today I finally put my glasses on at 6:50 am !!!! and found out they are roosting in one of the large pines and the loud gobbling ensues when they take flight out of the pines.
That would explain the dogs enthusiastic search under the pines every day.....
On another note, waiting on shoes I have ordered and it has been somewhat of an eye opener, the shoes started out of in Oven Sound, then traveled to Concord ON, and are spending a weekend in Belleville, at least my shoes get to go places

[Farrier1987]

Eventful last few days. Planted 12 hills potatoes before the rain on Thursday. Target, Fathers day.

Have three broody hens set right now. First one should hatch a week today. Second on the wed after, and just set the third one yesterday. I dont like having them hatch at the same time, never goes well with mixing up mothers and chicks.

Gilley (hardG) kept teasing me. Every day I had thought it was the day for the last two weeks. I was suspecting maybe false pregnancy. Then yesterday she had CRIPLETS! In ten years we have had lots of twins and a few singles, but never criplets.

She had showed some signs yesterday morning, and I was checking her every two hours or so. Not doing anything. Went out at 2 in the aft and three live on the ground. Two bucklings and a doeling. Bucks are the fawn shoulders, doeling is black. I am well pleased. Already have them on kijiji so that when they are weaned they will have a place to go.

It never gets old with the babies searching for the boob the first time.

All signs of real spring. I am sort of smiling some now.

[Brebis]

It never gets old, I miss seeing the lambs being born and finding that first meal. Good Gilley, she deserves extra for that!

[Farrier1987]

The Criplets.

[Killerbunny]

Happy babies and spring!

[Killerbunny]

Odd question. Apparently when you get twin calves of different sexes the female is a freemartin. I guess the same doesn't happen in sheep and goats?

[lolotsung]

@WLLady I have limited knowledge of horses but have only met 1 angry horse and I think that if he could talk he would have said "Let me out of this stall!!!" Our old neighbours had Clydesdales and they were calm, gentle, and liked apples. Any animal can be dangerous. Seems as logical as my doctor saying she will only see little men because big men are too dangerous.

Beautiful!! Congrats!! @Farrier1987

[lolotsung]

@Killerbunny "In sheep and goats, although twins are frequent (but also triplets or quadruplets in some breeds), XX/XY mosaicism correlated to free-martinism occurs at very low frequencies (5−6%) in twins of different sexes, probably because sex differentiation occurs much earlier in sheep (20–25 days after fertilization) than in cattle [125]."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8001068/

[Brebis]

Yes it’s common in cattle, my first 4h heifer calf was a twin of a bull calf and a freemartin. In the 10 years and over 1000 lambs we had, most twins, triplets or quads we never had a freemartin ewe lamb but we did have one lamb with a mix of male and female genitalia.