We are having a lovely spring full of toads! Toads are neat creatures! The toad that lives on our farm with us is the Great Basin Spadefoot.
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Lovely May Hay
The hay is getting close to being ready for cutting. It is beautiful!
Home at Last!
Aren’t they CUTE!!!!?
Baby Chick Car Seat
The Baby Chicken Hospital Nursery
Twenty of the red chicks are going home with me.
Baby Chicken Hospital
Western Slope Ag Center, Olathe, Colorado
The Nursery is Ready and Waiting
I am very excited! The new baby chicks come today! I have their nursery ready and waiting. Nurseries for baby birds are called ‘brooders’.
Brooders need to be sanitary, water-proof and draft proof and easy to clean. The heat lamp needs to be red, to cut down on the chicks from pecking on each other.
A thermometer is placed in the brooder, under the lamp, to check for heat-95degrees the first week, and then reduced by 5 degrees per week after that.
New Corn
The corn is growing! A corn plant will fully expand about every three days during early stages of growth. As the days get warmer then growth accelerates to two days. Two leaves appear about the same time, creating a collar effect.
We now have acres of corn, rowing out!
Pheasant Damage
The pheasants LOVE to eat corn seed. They scratch up the growing seed and have a feast.
Something must have frightened the pheasant off, for it forgot to eat this seed.
Baby Alfalfa
The tiny little seeds are growing and doing well! By this time next year the plants will look like they have been growing there forever.
