Chicks, Hogs, Grass and More

John and Noah are now the proud owners of some baby chicks. Grandma came back from Tractor Supply with a box of chicks for the boys. Now I have more animals in the house than people. We will be mail ordering chicks sometime soon, but the boys need to have some that are "just theirs". You never know how many dad and I will order. Sometimes 50 and sometimes 950. Depends how adventurous we will that day! Speaking of chickens, Chad told me that Mr. Kimball knows a thing or two about Chicken Pluckers. If your in the market for one you may want to check out his book. We also got strawberry plants in the mail today. Now I've got to get busy getting ready to plant them. We need 30 hour days, that way I might get every thing done! I have decided to raise pastured pigs this year. Hope to get the fence up in the next couple of weeks. This will be a trial run this year. We'll see how well they sell and how much we make on them. If it works out the potential is almost unlimited. We have lots of marginal land around that would be great for hogs. The dairy herd went out to grass to day! The first day of grazing is always fun. Watching the girls eat all that new grass and seeing them spread their own manure. A lot less trips on the tractor with the spreader now. Spring turkey hunting is coming up soon. Little John has it in his head that we're going. I'm sure calling in turkeys with a 2.5 year old will be fun. He wants to take his toy shotgun with him. Well, I'm gonna head up the hill. They still haven't put the phone line in yet so I'm "remote blogging".