Good Morning! <=2017

[Flat Rock Farm]

Three more out since I got home

[Ontario Chick]

Good morning all!
Great to follow everybody's incubator adventures and expectations, so far all I am doing is lowering the temperature and raising the temperature, trying not to cook or freeze the eggs before they had a chance at life.
The house temperature fluctuating between 17C and 23C doesn't make it easy.
Bought some tomato and cucumber plants on Friday, I guess they are going to be living in my basement for couple of weeks, even the Garden shed is way too cold.
All the apple trees are covered in buds, should be a bumper crop this year.
10 Years ago we had a family anniversary celebration in Bloomfield PEC and I picked up some crab apples we admired during past visits.
I planted a bunch of seeds and the resulting tree is going in to bloom for the first time, just in time for another "significant" anniversary.
How cool is that?
Have a safe one!

[Killerbunny]

Great morning! My senior Jennie has 3 fuzzies under her when I went to check on her!

[Home Grown Poultry]

good morning all! So OC... Congrats! that is really cool! Ten years from a seed to first fruit. I hope the clippings I have will work and in ten years the produce lots of fruit! they are all still alive but I may have killed a few with vinagar when all the cups.n dirt went moldy... fingers crossed they are ok...

over the last month I have cleaned up and partially rebuilt my landlords 50 year old tiller. his dad bought it brand new from tsc, its a town n country with a good old trusty briggs on it. it tilled a garden last year and then went up in flames. luckily the tiller was not hurt and no one was injured. the axel seals leaked gear oil like crazy and the hole thing was covered in every drop of oil, grease and gooped up with dirt... i cleaned that all off and oiled er up, its shinney now with a 50 year old patena. tough as a rock! I cleaned and rebuilt the carb/gas tank. I used a whole bunch of felt to seal up the axels, and its working somewhat its not leaking like crazy anyways. I cant find original axel seals or if there ever was any. I went to a bearing shop and they suggested the felt because there almost isnt a spot on the shafts for axel seals... hm....... weird. oh and i put a new belt on it... but anyways the tiller works like a charm! fired up on the 2nd pull I put er in gear and started tilling! its burning some oil so it needs new piston rings but strong as an ox! when i shut er down it didnt leak fuel or go up in flames although i had a fire extinguisher on standby. so today I have to finish tilling the gardens and make a solid attempt at expanding the one garden to double its size... the ground is soooo friken hard it may need to be plowed first...

have a great day all!

[JimW]

Cloudy and cooler today, but no rain at the moment, so hoping to get some work done outside, need to plant some raspberry canes, strawberries, asparagus and choke cherry and shag bark hickory seedlings.

My brooders are full... french guinea fowl, chukar partridge, mottled houdans, exchequer leghorns, and a couple cream legbars and BC marans. Two dozen Bielefelder eggs due to hatch on Wednesday, these were shipped from Nova Scotia, so I will be happy with any hatching what so every, I had a few incubator temperature issues at beginning of incubation. Turkey eggs due to hatch near the end of the month. I need to make some more brooder space asap. I have more Cream Legbar eggs and a few surprize eggs going into the incubator later this week

I stopped collecting turkey eggs, 2 jennies are broody sitting together on a bunch of eggs.

My Blue Scale quail has started laying but so far not fertile. My Coturnix and TAM quail have not laid a single egg. hopefully soon, or they will be dinner.

Well time to head outside.... later

JimW

[Home Grown Poultry]

Congrats Jim on all the success! hold off on eating your cots LOL. They will lay!!! mine started laying last week or so and I now have about 18 saved up... HUGE EGGS!!!

[Killerbunny]

Wow that is some egg!

[Home Grown Poultry]

It sure is Eh KB! That was the first egg i collected. heres another from yesterday. 16.1 grams! I cant wait to get to hatching these birds and expanding my flock! I culled every small one before we moved keeping only 3 hens and 2 cocks. I think that was a VERY smart decision. the sizes of my birds were all over the place, the 5 I kept are ALL over a pound!!!

[ross]

I'll order a couple for the freezer in fall Al :-; lol
Luck Quail that is

[Killerbunny]

Never realised quail could lay big eggs or even got to over a pound weight! Well done.
Update 4 fuzzies!