New Boy In Town!

Diva had a bouncing baby boy yesterday, and he's doing great! Bay with lots of white, but since his Dad is grey there is a chance he could turn grey as well.

Months ago my daughter Amy had asked if the foal could be hers, and so this little guy is going to belong to her. She is still working on names, he needs a registered name and a barn name. The pressure is on!

On another note, when I put Ginger (the Jersey cow) outside this morning, I noticed swelling under her tail and her udder seems bigger. So we may be seeing a calf sometime soon. Very exciting!

Got Eggs?

We do! Clearly we need to do something with our excess of eggs, giving them away to family is not working! We have 13 dozen in the house and over a dozen in the barn waiting to be picked out of the hay. I had expected to have fewer eggs over the winter, but my hens didn't let the season get to them and have regularly given us a dozen a day. We have 21 girls (plus one roo!) and one of them is old Midge whom I doubt is laying any. I anticipate more eggs each day, as the days get longer, so we have plenty to go around.
Maybe I should put another batch in the incubator. The first four chicks now have all of their feathers and I just set them loose in the barn today. Maybe I should go check on them to see if they are getting along OK. Plus, the last group of three are starting to get ugly, so they are growing up too!

Is it Spring Yet?

So we tried breeding Fannie, but she was not nice to the boar. "Peter" is a Berkshire Tamworth cross that was offered up for breeding, but so far breeding number 1 did not take, we were too late to catch Fannie's next heat, and we are really hoping the third time will be a charm. Pig romance is not easy!
We had another batch of egg hatch, but only got four chicks again. This time we lost one due to cat or child injury. We aren't sure which. I think we are going to wait for spring now, I am hoping the Delaware hens will do some of the hatching for us.
We are on foal watch now, Diva is ready to foal any day now and that is always exciting. Nothing like fuzzy new babies to brighten up the barnyard!