It took me awhile, but I finally got my garden planted. It is not big enough, so I will have to till a bit more or do a raised bed for strawberries and herbs. I have some things in pots too. I do have tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, corn, green beans and water melons planted...so if nothing else, at least we will have some stuff. I looked on all my fruit trees and have very little fruit on most of them, that late freeze after they started blooming damaged the fruiting process...except for the older peach trees there are quite a few peaches on the peach bush we have...lol, yes a huge peach bush. I am guessing it died back, was cut down and came back from the stump...lots of trunks and it looks like a huge bush. There is a red bud bush too.
I did get a gate built and chicken wire around the fencing I put up to keep the rabbits out of the garden too. So far, none of the chickens have gotten into the area and the turkeys have gone on the outside perimeter of the fence, but I left a good distance around it so that if they ran the fence, they would not be very close to the street. I am worried about another one of my turkeys getting hurt when they jump the fence. I want to eventually put a fence down the property line to keep the wild dogs and coyotes further away. I saw something pretty big digging around my compost pile the other night, it had a bushy tail and looked like a dog or coyote. I wouldn't have seen it, but my dogs were in the backyard and were barking at it...and I walked out a little way and saw it, it was dark but it was a light color what ever it was. I went and got my husband and he got the pellet gun, but it disappeared before he saw it.
The Dewberries have been ripening and I have picked a couple gallon zip lock bags full, with all the rain we have had, some of them are quite large. I saw that the Chicasaw plums were ripening some too. Not a real good crop this year, but maybe I can make some jelly enough for us for the year. I just have to get out there and pick them soon, before the birds get them all. But, we are suppose to get rain all week long though...so who knows...last year they all exploded and fell off because of so much rain.
I got my first batch of chicks out to the Side Car...grow out pen and moved chicks on the back porch around. I have another brooder to clean out and then I can move some more from inside the house to the back porch. My hurt turkey is now back out in the yard, she just had one tiny scab left and I am gonna cross my fingers and hope she doesn't get injured again...her side has no feathers under her wing. I need to get some roosters off of the porch too, but I had to remove the tarp off of the pens they use to be in...it ripped down the middle and didn't keep rain out any more. I am tired of having 11 roosters on my back porch...they are loud, but pretty good at alerting me to things going on outside. I moved the three baby ducks to the porch too, it was getting rather warm in my he feed shed...so they are in a five foot wide kiddie pool with cage wire wrapped around the sides so they can't get out of it. I would love to get everything off of the porch, but with so much rain and as chilly as today was, it won't happen any time soon. I still have to have heat lamps on the little ones and don't have electricity out in the yard.
I filled my incubators up again with eggs, but this will probably be the last hatch until I get a lot of things done. I have building to do still, my breeding pens are still not made yet and I gotta get them built. I have a house full of chicks to grow up and three weeks until the next batch starts hatching. I hope to sell some of these birds, I have turkeys and geese to sell and some older chicks now...and I still have a bunch of broody poultry, although I am not sure the geese will actually hatch anything, the chickens are eating eggs and my broody duck keeps moving her nest every day. I am guessing I won't get too many babies out of them. But time will tell.
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