It must be nearly spring.

Spring and the time for babies must be just around the corner. The duck give us her first egg of the season yesterday. We have two hens who think they would like to be mothers. It is a lot cheaper and often more successful to have them hatch the eggs than to put the eggs in the incubator, but then the chicks are not as tame as the hand raised ones. Its a quandary. Maybe we'll do some of both.

We had already planned to set some in the incubator so they would be hatching around the time of the kids spring break. The kids are always fascinated by that.

Unfortunately, we may be having some kittens again around April Fool's Day. Chester was after Juliet before we realized she was even coming in to season. If she does have kittens, I sure hope there are some people at the May flea market who will want to take a kitten home for free!

Ginger should have her kids the first weekend in March. Hopefully she will only have TWO this time!