This month has been full of new life.
The eggs in our incubator hatched! Well, nine of them did. 
We realized a week before the eggs were due to hatch that the thermometer that had come with the incubator was not correct. We hadn’t kept it warm enough. When none of the eggs hatched on time we thought that we wouldn’t get chicks. The next evening Mom and Dad heard cheeping coming from a couple of the eggs in the incubator before they had hatched! We all got to watch the chicks hatch through the plexiglass on the incubator. It was amazing to watch the chicks push out of the shell.
(Please ignore the red and silver splotches in the pictures, it is all a part of the heating element in the incubator.)
The chicks would sleep wherever they ran out of energy!
The chicks really liked the thermometer!
The chicks were so cute to watch. They had really short bursts of energy. They would all cheep and walk around for about two minutes. Then they would all stop and flop down and sleep for about two minutes. When they were awake it was great fun to watch them try to walk over the other eggs in the incubator.
We had several different breeds of chicks incubating but we aren’t quite sure what breeds hatched. We have one all black chick which we know is Barred Rock. We think that the rest are Delaware and Delaware/ Chanteclair cross.
The chicks at a couple days old.
The chicks at two weeks old.
We started all of our turkeys as day olds, which is new for us. We have always bought them when they are three weeks old.They came a couple days after our chicks hatched. Because they were day olds we kept them in the house, in our wood room, just off the kitchen. Our house became a temporary brooder house the nine chicks and 80 turkeys.
We have had cows calf in the last two weeks. I don’t think any of us get used to the cuteness of newborn calves.
Our dairy cow, Gina, calved today!! And she had twins!! 
We did a lot of planting about a week and half ago. 
We have potatoes, peas, spinach, lettuce, swiss chard, beets, radishes and carrots outside in the gardens now. The tomatoes, peppers, and onions are still in the greenhouse waiting for a little bit warmer weather to be transplanted out. Mom and I planted squash, pumpkins, fennel and more lettuce for transplanting a couple of days ago.
A few more photos from the farm.
Cattle enjoying the sun in the barn a little longer before they go out to pasture.
The barn through the pear tree.
As plants flower and blossom and new life hatches and is born, we thank you for your support in our farm.
