Lots happening here this week ~ the chicks were shipped today which means they will arrive either tomorrow or Friday. I've set up an area in the kennel building with a heat light and a kiddie pool for their first couple of weeks. The kennel is heated to around 55F right now so it will be a great place for the chicks. I also put 3 dozen eggs in the incubator which sits on a low bookcase in the family room - I need to monitor the temperature pretty closely and also turn them a couple times a day. They will be fine for the next 21 days! I only put brown and blue/green eggs in - our rooster is an Americana so I'm hoping for mostly pullets to hatch! The tomato seeds went into a flat over the weekend; we're checking them daily for those first signs of green now.

I think we are done lambing now - there is one ewe that either is going to lamb later or isn't at all - the lambs are extremely variable this year, lots of color and size differences which is to be expected with this cross of wool and hair sheep although I don't think I'm going to continue to breed into the hair sheep breeds. They haven't really done well under our management program and I like to see more consistency in our flock...so we'll be searching for a replacement ram; either a Dorset (good mothering) or a Texel (great wide lambs but issues with copper toxicity)...so probably a Dorset.

It's in the 40F range today and we're getting some melting out in the pastures; they are predicting snow for tomorrow but not much.

Solo went to a fun match over the weekend and then to a huge obedience class of about 30 dogs on Tuesday morning. His eyes were spinning out of his head trying to look at everything! It's good he went since I"ve entered him in obedience trials in April! We go to work French Ring tomorrow - this will be our first session since returning ~ and then on Saturday we will go to another training place for more obedience. We may as well do this as long as it is almost impossible to do much outdoors what with the ice and snow!