I realized I haven't posted about our turkey's since bringing them home last month. Well that's because there really is nothing to report. They haven't changed a whole lot. Maybe a little bit bigger and with feathers. The most interesting update about them is this.
One of them has started puffing itself out, strutting around and fanning it's tails. We're hoping that means we have a tom turkey. But not to be outdone, the other surprised me today when he too puffed out and fanned his feathers.
So we may have two tom tom's which I think is fantastic but farm girl wanted to breed so wasn't so thrilled at the idea. But it is still early and I've heard young pullets may strut and fan their feathers like their male counterparts, so only time will tell.
We worked more on the henhouse today. The floor got painted.
He did a fantastic job...with a little bit of help from his sister.
Then we lined chicken wire along the top of the coop, just in case someone tried to make a break for it out that way.
The only left now is the chicken door and some roosts and finally they can move in!
The weather was wonky today, one minute it would downpour and the next the sun would try to come out. The poor chickens were free ranging and tried to take cover wherever possible.
Excuse the fogginess of the photo, I took it from the safety of the barn. However, not everyone was offended by the rain.
The ducks were basking in it. Particularly the downspout which was emptying water from the eavestrough like it was the Niagara Falls.
Last week farm girl stepped off our backporch into a patch of this plant that was growing wild there.
She immediately started complaining about how painful the plant had left her leg, then shortly after her knee began to swell from where it made contact with it. Looking at the plant at closer inspection and with my very little knowledge about plants, I determined that the plant was poison ivy. It fell into the "3 leaf" description and from images over the internet, I figured that was what it was. Not to be correct. While visiting over father's day, my mother-in-law informed me that they were raspberry plants. Which she pointed out a huge batch growing wild in the front flowerbed (I have yet to even touch that flowerbed so have no idea what is in there. My MIL, however, likes to browse my property to see all the different plants.)
Sure enough, there were dozens of young raspberries growing.
We love raspberries so were thrilled at this discovery. Not only had my MIL discovered raspberries for us, she also uncovered strawberries...but sadly I had mowed over the majority of them not knowing they were there. So with this loss and the loss of my own strawberries that I had bought, I took a day off and pulled all the weeds/grass that had grown so tall they nearly camouflaged our blueberry bushes....okay, it didn't take all day but we also began weeding out the flowerbed next to it and behind the pond, which hid a beautiful rose garden. When I'm done, I'll post photos.
The berries are growing nice and big and hopefully we'll get a nice load off them.
Lastly, I wanted to share how we entertain ourselves here on the farm when we have a few minutes to spare.
Those little turkey-lings are adorable! Congrats on all the nice plant discoveries on your property. What lovely surprises!
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I live a very simple life on a small hobby farm along with my husband, three kids, and an assortment of animals. Life may be simple but I love every minute of it.