The first goose egg of the year appeared! Babette had been hanging out in a likely spot, and sure enough, she has started laying. I need to mark the egg with indelible marker and leave it in the nest, but I will take out the next 6 or 7 eggs, probably. Some geese, some years, will lay 30 or 40 eggs. Other years it's 15 or 20. Fifteen eggs is generally a good number for any bird to incubate. The trick is to put eggs in the incubator the same day the goose starts setting so that they all hatch at the same time.
A nice lady in Maryland sent me an email offering to ship 12 bantam White Crested Black Polish hatching eggs for $35, shipping included. She has a nice, clean web site, Brook Valley Farm. The eggs should ship March 23.
It's time to till the garden, in fact it is past time to till the garden. Spring tilling is something you do when the soil is ready for tilling: not too wet, not too dry, and not frozen. If everything is just right on a Wednesday, then do it on Wednesday, because it might rain on Thursday.
Sally had baby bunnies today!
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