I weeded 15 beds today and Zina set out cleaning pens and coops and feeding. We found a farm sitter we can use when we are in a pinch and she is coming out on Sunday to see things. She is studying to be a Vet Tech which is a bonus feature for us.
This year’s growing season couldn’t be doing much better.
Our little girl, Ginger, appears to be with child. Kidding can happen anytime on or after August 23. Zina is going to need a sedative.
Piggies
These little guys are growing really fast!
The Jersey Giants Chicks
All the brooders are empty. But we are expecting a turkey hatch to begin tomorrow!
Tank and Dozer
The bucks are rutting. They are stinky and fighting. Tank, the black one, got his bell rung pretty good yesterday. Almost took him to the vet but he seems to have come back as a contender.
Donavan and Julio
The Stoic Farm gurus. You will never meet a calmer gentler soul than an old donkey.
The turkeys
The turkeys are totally worth the effort but whodoggies iz they dumb!
The layers and his highness
We have toooo many layers. We’ve been getting 2 dozen eggs a day and have been giving loads of them to the food bank.
The Greenhouse
Some of the beds. All freshly weeded out.
Feeling vindicated after the collapse from last year’s drought. We appear to have this wired. We put the green in Greenhouse.
JAZ Farm Blog 
Do you suppose that it is true that the only reason a turkey is alive is to keep the meat fresh? The feral turkeys (formerly domestic turkeys that naturalized) in the neighborhood are so stupid that they did not even leave when one got shot. They would flinch at the ‘bang!”, and then see that one of their own had fallen dead, and then continue on as if nothing had happened. In the few seconds it took for someone got over to retrieve the fallen one, the others were already pecking at it. I still don’t know why the neighbor shot them. It would have been less wasteful and just as easy to walk over and clobber the selected turkey with a stick.
A well deserved blessing!!!!
I’ve found that those “blessings” come from buttloads of hard work.