Busy girl

You have it. We have been very busy.
This year I have grown many more critters than usual due to a persistent client who knows what he likes.
More work for me and everyone else.
I have come to realize there are too many.
I will finish this year and reduce numbers next year and people will have to be happy with what I have to offer.

Our Linear Appraisal went well with our girls just the other side of comic relief.
We will do less fairs since it is my belief that the virus we caught at one of last years fairs has been the culprit to most of our troubles this year.
Jeopardizing the whole herd to prove you have nice animals is not in the realm of my consciousness.
We will continue with the fairs we did last year (OK, maybe not all of them) and be happy to know we have nice animals but keep them to ourselves.

The stinking bees swarmed already but gave us 25 lbs of honey which someone bought the whole kit and caboodle. Some people are not sharing well.
That's OK, their bill is paid and so are mine.

I am now getting concerned with my hay supply. The weather has been less than good for making the stuff and I am wondering what I am going to be feeding everyone.
Matter of fact I just got up and called and left a message to the person whom I get my hay from. Better start looking now.

I am still looking for a bull for the cows. I did find a Short Horn (yes it is a breed type not a fashion statement) and hopefully he will be here soon as the girls are nine months into their lactation and this may leave me milkless over the dead of winter. What will I do with myself without teats to pull?

Our ducks have been hatching and we have had three sets of fourteen. We also learned that that is too many and we have to take many away for safty reasons. They actually drown. The duck are not too carefull where they lead the little ones and sometimes they get caught in deep buckets and when just hatched they don't float very well if at all.

My hatchery has once again threw a wrench into my well laid calander of events and if not the wrong bird the wrong time. I bought an incubator last year and will hatch our my own ducks and geese and depending on the turkeys maybe them also. I will set it up this weekend and set some chicken eggs to see how well it works.
The incubator is a larger cabinet type which hatches hundreds of eggs at a time. I only need a few dozen at a time. Might as well work out the kinks now, as the way things go for me it will be better to make the thousands of mistakes and get them over with.

The Garden looks fabulous (if a little muddy) and almost everything is growing well.
My herbs didn't come up so I will have to purchase plants and I have been comparing prices and it is going to be expensive.

Now to look foward to the Pignic. Make the pinata and get the menu planned. Must send out the flyers. I guess I will do that now.
See ya.