04.22.09
Posted in Farm updates at 1:40 pm by Administrator
Our vegetable plants are coming along great and we have moved some of our tomato plants out into the greenhouse.
Lettuce plants getting bigger
Our layer chickens are enjoying the emerging pasture and the return of the summer bugs. They are following us around as we tend to the fields hoping we stir up something delicious for them.
Layer Chickens watching Sheree
Some of our meat birds arrived today and are now under heat lamps for the next couple of weeks. After they gain some weight and fill out their feathers we will start ranging them outside. They are very frail at a couple of days old and the temperature must be maintained at 90 – 92 degrees.
Meat birds under the heat lamps
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04.07.09
Posted in Farm updates at 10:06 am by Administrator
The pigs are starting to get a good base tan and can now stay outside all day. Their skin is like a humans and they will get a nasty sunburn so you have to let them out for limited exposure until they get a good base tan.
Our bee hives are humming with activity which is a good thing. It has been a long hard winter for them and fortunately I saved some frames of honey from last year to supply the hives that are low on food. This should tie them over for the next couple of weeks and than they can go foraging for themselves.
We have started potting up our tomato plants to 3 1/2″ pots and will start putting them outside during the day in our greenhouses. We have also sown some basil, parsley, savoury and tarragon. Space under the grow lights is at a premium now but with the warmer weather and the opening up of the greenhouses, we are in great shape for the season.
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