New critters and lots of gardening done

It has been quite awhile since I have been on. I just don't have too much time for the computer lately. In fact I only got this time because I was going to weed the strawberries but it started to rain so here I am. My son is loving it because what used to be my computer time is now his.

I have most all my garden all planted but with a new garden spot this year and the old one I still have lots of room so I am going to find some more to put in. I wasn't going to do beets this year but they are going in now. I just can't see letting that space go to waste. I am not sure what I am going to do with the rest quite yet. If all goes well with the weather and we have a much better year this year then last I told my husband I should be able to can and freeze alot and still have a produce stand ( lol). My husband has most all the field corn pllanted and this year he put me in a lot of sweet corn. It will be a busy canning season this year. The DR mini tiller my husband bought me is great and is going to save me huge amounts of time weeding.

We are starting to have some more calves, we have had 4 in the last 6 days and it will only get busier from here. I have some new goats, 2 does and twin nubian kids, and I also have some new chicks. I was going to get an incubater and hatch my own but my neighbor has a huge one and he is doing quail and pheasant eggs and is doing some of my eggs for me. First we sent him a dozen eggs and got 7 chicks and now he is incubating 42 eggs for us. So this year I can save the expense of an incubater. He also brought me two baby guniea hens, he knew I wanted some more ( we have 2 now) and when he saw a sign for them for sale he got me 2. Lots of new crittrers around here. Of course a couple barn cats had some kittens also, we will be looking to get them a home if possible. Anyone need a kitten?( ha ha)

Well like I said it has been awhile being on the computer so I am going to catch up on reading some of my favorite blogs.

Busy, busy but enjoying it

I haven't been on the computer too much lately, there is just so much to do that I had to cut out the computer time. Lately my computer has been giving me fits also. A few days I had a new post ready to go, picture and all( and with dial up that takes awhile) and I got kicked off. I was so frustrated and it was too late to try again. Hopefully I can get some new pictures on soon.

After the cold(and even some snow) days we got about 4 days of rain but I have finally got some plants in my new garden. I put in broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and some more strawberry plants that my neighbor gave too me. My new rhubarb and berry bush are doing well and so are the peas. My husband got me a DR mini tiller so hopefully I will be able to use that between the rows and really cut down my weeding time this year.

Yesterday we had a new calf. It was a holstein heifer calf. It has been quite awhile since I have had to bottle feed a calf, I was enjoying the break but soon there will be a lot more. There are quite a few cows bagging up and our busiest calving time is always around this time into July. I should be able to have lots of new baby pictures soon. Talking about babies, our baby goats are growing like weeds. I picked them up the other day and can't believe how much heavier they are and we have finally agreed on names for them, they are Maverick and Marissa. Their mom is March so we decided to keep the names all starting with an M.

We also sent away some chickens to be butchered and in the freezer. Now we only have 2 roosters crowing around here instead of about 10 of them. It is quite a bit quiter now. We are hoping to incubate some eggs soon instead of ordering new chicks this year.

There is just so much too do lately. I like being busy and love the warmer weather but some times I just need another set of hands or a longer day. Hope all is going well with everyone else. Well off to get the laundry done so I can spend my time tomorrow in between chores weed whacking.

My ducks are missing

Baby goats and their mama

I have been so busy lately it has been awhile since I have been on the blog. I attempted a couple of nights ago but my computer is being a pain. I wanted to add a few pictures from around the farm but I can't seem to get them uploaded so I tried just one and it worked. I figured I would put the baby goat pictures on. The one right up close is the little boy and the black one by mama is a girl. The little boy really liked his picture taken, I was hoping to get them all together better but he just kept wanting to hog the spotlight. We haven't decided on names yet, we all want different ones, but hopefully we will agree soon so it isn't the boy and the girl.

We used to have 9 ducks but that was a little too many for my backyard so we gave 5 of them to a friend and kept the 3 female blue swedish and the male cayuga duck. They did very well with just the 4 of them and I was glad that we kept them. Well a couple of days ago when I went out to feed them there was only one there. I thought maybe her friends might of just wandered over to the neighbors pond and she did not follow along so I would wait and see if they returned. Well the next morning there were no ducks. There were no feathers around or anything that would show a struggle or what you might think would be there if something decided to eat them. I can't believe they would leave we have had them for a year and we checked the neighbors pond and no ducks. I feel bad now that I didn't do something with the last one the morning I saw her. I almost put her in the coop with the chickens. We have roosters that wander around and they are fine. Poor ducks, I just wish I knew what happened.

I have been picking rocks in the new garden and still have a lot to pick. I think when I turn my back a new one grows. My husband ordered me a DR mini tiller so hopefully the weeding will go a lot easier this year cause I will be able to use that between the rows. Good news though the blackberry bush I planted has sprouted some leaves so now my son believes that I didn't plant a stick. I got my strawberries planted but I keep finding a cat that does not belong here sitting in them. So as soon as a get some time a fence will be going around them. Time is in short supply lately. Tomorrow is appointments and Thurs. we are taking some chickens too have butchered and put in the freezer. I just need a few more hours in the day.