incubation!!!

My children are just tickled pink with the eggs in the incubator.  We candled them yesterday and could see 16 little red dots swimming around in the shells.  Found this amazing chart to show the kids too, so we are truly making this a learning experience.  Love that we can teach them how precious life can be through watching a peep develop.  Yes sometimes the little things can be amazing!!!

/http://www.poultryhub.org/physiology/incubation/

NO change on the outside but amazing things happening on the inside!!! :)

more snow and wow is it cold outside~~

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More snow outside today... roads were a hazard coming home....but everyone is safe and sound.  It looks as though someone threw crystals all over a white blanket...just beautiful!!!!  Chickens refused to come out of the coop, and the ones that did stayed in the covered area....smart chicks, the ducks however didn't seem to really care much about the snow.

Dreaming of spring and the hope of some new animals coming to the homestead....thoughts on miniature sheep and cattle, pigs and meat rabbits are filling my thoughts lately.  Oh and a greenhouse since grocery prices continue to rise... so much to dream of, so little time... soon my friends...soon I am determined to get things rolling, baby steps at a time maybe, but steps forward they will be!!

Baby it's cold outside....

so what do we do but start some eggs to try to hatch!!! And dream of playing in the dirt in the warm sunshine...and daydream of the animals and gardens for the year...

January birthday gifts.... so nice and spring like!!!