April 23, 2007

he last of our hatch happened last night.  Due to the temperature being too low in the incubator, the egg hatching spanned over 4 days. The last 14 eggs or so, the boys took out to dissect (boys like things like that) and they reported back that 10 had died in the shell and the other 4 died in various stages back. The turkey eggs were completely sterile, which did not surprise me as they were from Broad Breasted Bronzes which cannot mate naturally. All in all, we got about 52 chicks and I am saving eggs for the next batch which I will start on Thursday. We are hoping to set about 150 eggs the next time and make sure the incubator is about 2 degrees warmer.

Well, when I was almost done with laying out all the stone for the walkway for the day, my guy asked if we could have huge mega-stones set into the ground instead. I said.. "Sure.. why did you not tell me this a few hours ago and are you helping me go get the rocks and lift them". I sorta got a vague response (that grunt which can mean yes or no to them and is a mystery to other people) and decided work will halt for a few days. I will be busy anyway, but I wanted to show you the rock we have and are laying down.

The rocks we get from the backside of our mountain have plant fossils in them. So all of our walkways and raised stone beds have these delightful patterns on most of the stones.

This fossil looks like a fern plant, but it is called something with a "D" latin word (I will have to find it out and repost this)  and it was made about 280-260 million years ago.

Although they were only planted 3 days ago, most of all the cabbages, broccoli, cauliflower and brussels sprouts are all up.