Spring Update with chickens?

We had some babies this week and it wasn’t the waterfowl.  Idunn has some Silkie and bantam Wyandotte chickens and they usually get short changed on the blog.  Several weeks ago some of the hens started to sit on a clutch and today they hatched!  Idunn is excited as the babies are the first hatch from chickens on the farm.  The two Silkie mothers shared one nest and maintained an “alternative lifestyle” not often seen in southern Seneca county.

Jack the rooster has always asked for a shout out, so here goes……..

Yes, we still love ducks.  Shannon and Idunn helped the local students set up an incubator in their classroom with our duck eggs.  They took a few newly hatched ducks to visit the class that day, so the kids could see some cuties to quote Idunn.  If the eggs hatch in 28 days the kids will raise them for a couple weeks and than they will move to our orchard.

Oh, and the crew planted trees, hardy kiwi, raspberries and assorted seeds during the dry window, we had the first week of April.  The orchard is the main focus on the farm and this year looks good so far.  The pears are in swollen bud, apples in silver tip and the black currants will soon flower.  After 2012’s spring we feel cautiously optimistic for fruit farmers!