Good Morning!

[Happy]

I currently have 5 broodies in the coop
2 of them have never shown any indication of being motherly AT ALL and are 4 and 5 years old. One is pure Cochin and 1 part Cochin so it shouldn't be surprising but it's actually funny seeing them that way.

[Jaye]

I've heard tell that broodiness is contagious. Sounds like there may be some truth to it - at your place anyway.
Are you planning on letting any of them sit on hatchable eggs?

[Kbr42]

Well! I have all my Paints broody in my silkie coop all at once. In the winter and spring it was all my blacks and blues broody. In all my yearsnof breed none of my partridge girls have ever gone broody and only 1 of my buff girls.

I have 2 standards broody as well. That make 7 broodies...lol

[Ontario Chick]

I think that means spring is here???
Garden planted sprinkler set up, afraid to use it in case we run out of water....
So heat wave tomorrow ??

[Epona]

Sounds like we’re at the start of the next heat wave. Fingers crossed it rains tomorrow night and Thursday as noted on Environment Canada. The cistern and rain barrels need refills soon.

[WLLady]

Sprinklers are set....we need rain again.....lol. Corn is up, beans are in....should be up soon. The corn that went in earlier looks really rough around here with the hard frost that we had. we didn't get it bad because the corn was just up an inch or so, but those farms with 3-5 leaf stage are looking really yellow and rough. I think i will need to replant the spaghetti squash and the honeydew and cantaloupe.....the ones in the garden were covered but still looking pretty wilty. we did hit -2....ah well. whatever.

My really old turkey hen is down for the count! LOL. he's been shooting blanks for a year now and she's been infertile since pretty much the day she hatched....only ever had 2 poults that made it and neither were off this male. i might take pity and give her some chicken eggs. she dutifully growls and fluffs when i get anywhere close, but she'll still eat the sunflower seeds out of my hand...

planted up 2 new gardens with day lilies....all split from one little garden. and it doesn't look like i made a dent in the little garden at all! the aim is to put daylilies all along the driveway from the house to the road. To put that in perspective, it's 300 meters from the road to the house. It's 5 hydropoles i think.....and there are now lilies from the propane tank to the first pole, and half way from the second to the third pole. about 100 lilies transplanted. and i didn't make a dent in the lily population around the house. Will move more the next time it rains....eventually we'll get it done. and get the gardens thinned out around the house. they're been taking over for 12 years....

got another 2 chicks hatched by my nieces, they're adjusting to farm life now. i'll send another 2 dozen their way in a couple of weeks and that will be it for hatching this year. The ducklings are growing like weeds now! they're about 1/3 adult sized already. and the 2 moms are still sitting, but must be getting close.....i should candle those and see, there's another 14 eggs out there under warm bodies....

[Killerbunny]

I have 2 turkeys hatching as we speak. One of those is Kathleen who has dom=ne 2 hatches a year i=until last year when she only did one hope she only does one this year, 8 years old now. Another girl quit in the last hot spell, I'm OK with that. put her eggs under the broodies because they were all due together. I may do one more turkey hatch this year to check fertility/viability of the new girls ( 4 new hens from Cirrus Hill laoded to go by different Toms ).

[Happy]

I've heard tell that broodiness is contagious. Sounds like there may be some truth to it - at your place anyway.
Are you planning on letting any of them sit on hatchable eggs?

No way...no hatching this year.
By the time I got done with 5 hens rearing last year I had cured my desire for babies.
My goal is a decrease in overall numbers and letting them hatch defeats that purpose because there's ALWAYS some that I just HAVE to keep.
When my old boy rooster (Sherman) is gone (he's 8) I want to remove the divider wall and have 1 living area instead of the 2 that I have to have now to seperate the boys.

[Blizblaz]

Found my quail had hatched a couple of babies overnight! So far she seems like a good mother, and she’s still sitting on a few eggs while trying to keep the babies under control. I ended up putting up a wall to keep the others out of her nest and food, and to keep the babies close to her and not get lost in the big wide world. No activity in the quail eggs in the incubator, yet...
I’m still waiting on the trees I ordered from Vesey’s. I’m getting a little worried they forgot about me, and that it’s getting a little late in the season for planting them. We’re supposed to be getting over 30 temps next week (without the humidex!) and my ground is like cement already-not easy to dig holes!

[Brebis]

I’m excited this morning, we’re finally getting a good rain! Yeah, I enjoy simple pleasures!