Today’s big project is trying to weed as much of the garden as I can because most of the remaining days until we leave for a week will be rainy. Making good progress.
Peas have pods but won’t be filled in until sometime while we’re gone. No complaints, the friend we hire every year to take care of our animals LOVES snap peas. Ditto the raspberries, looks like they may start ripening while we’re gone.
Everything else is still a bit off. First planting of green beans will likely start flowering soon, second planting is up and growing, just planted third planting. Will do a 4th planting (borderline right against frost for maturity) when I pull the garlic mid/late next month to test a tighter spacing I want to see if it works.
New pullets are almost to point of lay (15.5 weeks today), curious to see when they’ll start since this is the first time I’ve used non-hybrids. I know the Jersey Giants and Easter Eggers will be slower (21-24 weeks) but I know Barred Rocks could start soon.
Rabbits are doing well, zero mortality on the last round of litters. Most of the does either needed and/or got a slight break so that we didn’t have litters while I’m gone. My “farmhand” friend has helped us for several years now, but I didn’t want to walk him through all the steps of weaning and preparing a nestbox. Nothing too complicated, but felt like it was too much to ask.
Finished up a major expansion in my rabbitry, looks really sweet. Takes me from 17 “holes” to 29. I’ve posted pics on my OMD journal and on my Buntastic Gardens FB page. If anyone’s interested I can post the link to a video I took showing it, I just hate resizing images to post here.
Unsure how many breeders I will take it up to. 8, possibly a 9th, is feasible with the cage space I have and my preferred breeding intensity, where you really want 3 cages per doe for the growouts.