A Hard Day
Today started out on a bad note, and it didn’t get much better as the day went on. When I was taking some minerals over to the buckling pen, I slipped on the ice and fell pretty hard and fast. I banged up my arm and cut my thumb, and almost hit my head on the pile of rocks I landed by. Luckily I didn’t hit my head. The arm sure hurts. I saved the jar of minerals though! Only a little fell out. ☺
Then I came in and fixed breakfast, afterwards we went out and butchered a tom turkey. He was a Bourbon Bronze,(BB) one of the crosses we got last year. He was starting to get in trouble with the two main toms, so we decided to do him in before they did. He was very hard to catch! Now he’s cooling in the fridge for 12 hours before I either cook him or freeze him. Now we have 11 turkeys. The two toms, and 6 bourbon red hens, plus 3 bourbon bronze hens. The BB’s are too small yet to butcher, so they get to live for a while yet. They have pretty feathers. Unique coloring on most of them.
The hens have started laying eggs, so one of these days, one of them should start to sit on a nest. I’ve been finding the eggs all over the place. One likes to lay them on top of the roof of the turkey house! I’ve found others just laying on the ground wherever they happen to lay them. Only one has actually been in the nest box. Obviously they aren’t serious yet.
Yesterday I spent the afternoon doing some spring clean-up outside. I raked the inner yard and made that all look much better. I noticed some of the tulips are starting to poke through, and some crocuses are starting to come up. The turkeys are getting into the flower beds, so I trimmed a wing on each one to inhibit their flying ability. I have two left to catch and trim. They are very hard to catch. They are like wild turkeys. Now maybe they will stay inside their nice giant pen we made them last fall. It’s plenty big enough for them to run around in, and get bugs, etc. It’s even on a hillside, so they get plenty of exercise. They like the yard and gardens better, of course.
Since we are getting such an early spring, we might just start planting some of the garden. That might be a good thing to do. John planted some lettuce and spinach in the greenhouse, so hopefully we will get an early crop of those. We haven’t had very many salads this winter. We like to buy most of our food locally, so lettuce and spinach aren’t in season now. A fresh salad will taste mighty good!
Well, that’s all for now….
