A couple moves from the big city to the countryside and starts a small farm...wait, you've heard this premise before? What? Trite? Hackneyed? But, I have goats. Really cute pictures of tiny baby goats. And cheesemaking recipes. We slaughter our own pigs and cure our own bacon! Well, that's in the master plan, anyway. Just read it, you'll see.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Speak of the Devil....
No sooner do I post that nothing is going on than I discover that the black hen has hatched out two chicks. Being up in the hayloft, they would fall down and die if I didn't remove the whole nest, so I cleaned out the rabbit hutch and gave her a nice cozy nest to hatch out the others in - if there are any others. She has six more eggs. I'll keep y'all updated - I know you're on pins and needles!
You should *never* let pins and needles around a baby chicken!
ReplyDeletethose two chicks were the only ones that made it. It was kind of gross: thee were three eggs that had fully developed, dead chicks in them. She must have let the eggs get cold quite recently.
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