Day 2

Overnight those little wheat berries sprouted.  They have little white things sticking out of them.  Wa hoo!!

Yesterday it seemed the grains were drying out a bit, so we put covers on them. Today we'll leave the covers on.  We want to keep them moist without letting them get moldy.

It suddenly occured to me that it's March and it's time to get going on our annual batch of chickens.  In the past we've bought day-old chicks.  This year we invested in an incubator so we can hatch eggs ourselves.  These are 40 eggs of Black Astrolorp and 2 Bramhas, just for fun.  They won't start developing until they get warm and they'll hatch 21 days later.  For now we leave them at room temperature.  Next Monday we'll turn it on and look forward to an Easter Monday hatch.

Our cow buying decision remains incomplete.  The older cow we were hoping to get is not pregnant.  Bummer.  Plan B is to buy a heifer who will have her first calf this fall.