About The Birds

It was an eventful week in the poultry department. 


Penelope and/or Peanut have started setting under the hog hut that is on the north side of the Winter Coop.  There is a platform under there and the turkeys had been laying there on the bare, poo-encrusted wood.  I put a nice layer of old hay there for them and they continued to leave eggs until the time was right.  At first it was just one of them, Penelope I think, and then the other one joined in.  Hopefully they will be cooperative about the poult rearing when they hatch!

In the Summer Coop, the broody hen continues her patient setting too - just a week to go for her.  Indoors, the chicken eggs in the incubator started to hatch on Thursday morning and finished up on Saturday morning.  There is no option to put them in the bathtub anymore with the bathroom remodel so they went out to the chick room of the Winter Coop with both heater and heat lamp.  Seventeen hatched and sixteen survived.  Here is a little dose of cuteness for you!

And speaking of cute, I have to include an updated picture of the kids.

Oh, you gotta love spring!  Nature throws off winter and kicks into high gear at last.  The fields are greening up quickly now and out in the garden the rhubarb is close to big enough to pick and the garlic is up!

Thank you for visiting the Ole Lake Farm Blog - until next week, be well friends.