Greetings all! I hope you are enjoying this fine three day weekend and also remembering and thanking those who have served our county. Kevin and the Scouts of Troop 52 will be participating in Memorial Day ceremonies at our local VFW tomorrow and will follow-up by planting a lot of pumpkin plants here at the farm.
In last week's post we had a brief introduction to our seven new feeder pigs. They were pretty leery of us for the first several days, but have now decided that Kevin - the bringer of water, feed, and treats is just a fine fellow after all.
They love the mud hole he makes for them to cool off in.
They race around excitedly when he approaches, then line up by the fence.
Even though there are two feed troughs, they all try to eat out of the same one - silly piggies!
Even more exciting (to me) is the long awaited hatching of Penelope and Peanut's poults. It takes twenty-eight days to incubate turkey eggs - these hens are so patient. Anyway, yesterday I got just a glimpse of one of them nestled in with the moms... see it there?
All day today I periodically checked on them, and finally this evening they were out - there are only three of them. The low number is pretty disappointing - with two hens sitting on the eggs you would think there would be more... on the other hand, hey, we have three baby turkeys!
Not the greatest picture but it was the best we could do before their mama covered them up again. Next week I should have better pictures of these little ones and maybe more bits of fluff as I believe that Mama Hen II's eggs should be hatching anytime now. There may be another hen that wants to set also - we will see how that goes. Until next week, be well friends.
Update - there are 6 turkey poults in total - more on that next post!
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