Memorial Day Weekend

We had a very nice visit with Marcie from Tennessee on Saturday. I hope our KuneKune/AGH sows hurry up and have their piglets so you can pick your 2 guilts up when you are in the area again.

We had more company Sunday when Kat brought her son Kiellean and her mother out to the farm to see the animals. It is always nice to see children interacting with farm animals.

In between the company I got the rest of the garden planted and started a shower renovation that will continue into this week. Hope to have it complete before this next weekend. Then I can start a new project.

1-Shower before Originally we just had sheets of shower board over sheetrock and a concrete floor. It was never intended to last this long but just to get us past the inspection so we could close on the house. I took Friday off and gutted the shower down to the studs.

2-shower gutted with new drainI didn’t do the old pan and drain correctly so I had to install a new drain. Fortunately there was no damage to the sub-floor.

3-preslope4-darn catOn Saturday I was able to get the pre-slope in. And smooth out the cat tracks before it set up. Those darn curious cats.

6-floorAfter curing over night I was able to install the pan, put up the vapor barrier and pour the floor.

7-hard board installedMonday, the day I originally hoped I would be laying tile, I was finally able to get the hard board up. I guess I’ll be tiling a little after work every night. Maybe by this weekend we will have the use of our shower again. Until then it’s upstairs to the guest bathroom for a shower.

Update – Lola must have heard me say she was going to be sausage if she didn’t straighten up and take care of her piglets this time. She has been the perfect mama. She brought them out of the woods for a visit Sunday. All are doing well. I guess she thought the horses hay looked like the perfect place to feed the her bunch.

pigs in the hay six piglets

AGH Piglets 5-20-15

We have six new American Guinea Hog piglets this morning out of Lola #43. She has a questionable track record so if she doesn’t do well with this litter she is probably bound for the freezer. I’ll be watching her closely.

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These piglets will be ready to sell in 6 to 8 weeks.
We still have 2 registered guilts left from the Thanksgiving litters and a black guilt and cinnamon barrow AGH x KuneKune cross.

New Babies on the farm

Walking around the farm today I found the three turkey hens had finally gotten off the nest they were sharing. They have three little chicks. Not a lot for three hens but maybe with three moms the chicks will make it.

Three turkey mamas

Here are some more pictures of hens with chicks and one on the nest.

Bany hen with guinea chicks Black hen with six Hen on nest

Yes those are guinea chicks with the banny hen.

Our pet turkey hen Rose is sitting on a nest and we have a banny hen with eight chicks that I didn’t get pictures of. This doesn’t show the additional chicks we hae that were hatched in the incubator. Five are chicken and ten are turkey and Georgia the goose. Can’t for get her.

Baby Goose

We have a new baby goose.
Right before our last freeze I gathered up all the eggs that were not being sat on. Duck, goose and chicken and placed them in the incubator. I knew they wouldn’t be any good if they froze. While we haven’t had much luck with goose or duck eggs in the incubator before at least there the eggs had a chance.
We ended up with 3 baby chicks and one baby goose. Lisa named her Georgia and is hoping the name doesn’t end up George. The other eggs didn’t do anything.

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Lisa met Mother and Father Goose at the Georgia Renaissance Fair several years ago and makes it a point to stop by to visit with them every time she is there. She decided to buy some of their duck/goose diapers.

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Looks like Georgia isn’t impressed. And would prefer to go naked.

I am glad that I was able to save the few eggs that were good. Last night I went out to check on the goose who had been sitting on 4 eggs. I found one gosling had hatched out but was dead and ants got to the other three eggs as they started to hatch. Such a shame. It would have been the first goslings raised by our remaining pair of geese. I doubt that she will start over so we’ll have to wait until next year.