Happy Earth Day!
We celebrated Earth Day in a grand fashion around here -- firstly, our 2nd batch of chicks started to hatch, 2 days early!! A welcome change from batch #1, let me tell you. So, right now, we have 3 newbies to add to our flock, one of which just hatched about an hour ago.
Here is one of the first ones:
This little cutie looks more like an ameraucana than anything else, but she came from a brown egg! That said, she would be about 1/2 Ameraucana, 1/4 Easter Egger, 1/4 ??. Interesting! And amazing to think that just 3 weeks ago, this could have been breakfast :/
Ok, I did say "firstly" which follows that there would be a "secondly"...
... we started putting in the garden! Whee! This is a major accomplishment as last year, we had to build the garden and fencing (to keep the lambs out) before we could plant and therefore didn't get around to the actual planting bit till the end of May. So this weekend, we put in 4 different types of carrots -- in short rows, with the plan to plant in succession over the next month, spinach, a savory salad mix, and a row of watermelon radishes. My 5 yr old gardener is already drooling over fresh carrots and the seeds haven't even been in the ground long enough to germinate!
How did you spend YOUR Earth Day?
Looks wonderful! Love the baby chicks! Looks like things are busy and bursting with spring around your place. Will be checking back often for updates:-)
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