PinShareShareTweet0 SharesSummers bring heat and humidity to northern Indiana. While I enjoy warm sun on my skin, I do not like the sweat, dripping days of high humidity. I have high expectations for summer 2020 homestead goals I want to complete no matter how I try not to. My biggest health challenge in summer involves drinking… Continue reading Seasons ~ Summer 2020
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10 Reasons to Hatch Baby Chicks
Pin5ShareShareTweet5 SharesIs hatching baby chicks right for you? Do you want to find a project for your kids to do at home during the coronavirus quarantine? Check out these 10 reasons to incubate chicken eggs and hatch your own baby chicks as an indoor activity for kids. 1. Teach Kids Biology or Science The process… Continue reading 10 Reasons to Hatch Baby Chicks
Seasons ~ Winter 2020
PinShareShareTweet0 SharesThe first day of Spring came and went with out a thought in my brain that I should write a post about winter accomplishments and progress and a second post sharing the goals here at CG Heartbeats Farm for spring. I enjoy looing back to find encouragement and I get excited thinking of the… Continue reading Seasons ~ Winter 2020
5 Reasons to NOT Assist a Hatching Chick
PinShareShareTweet0 SharesLast week I shared in a post the 5 Reasons to Help a Chick Hatch (click to read). There are reasons to not give in to that sentimental, nurturing side of us, reasons that make as much sense as do the reasons not to intervene in a chick hatching. The reasons I share… Continue reading 5 Reasons to NOT Assist a Hatching Chick
5 Reasons to Help a Chick Hatch
PinShareShareTweet0 SharesConsider the following scenario, you have researched hatching eggs and incubators, made your purchases, incubated eggs for 21 days. now there is a chick that has pipped the shell, but has made very little progress in the last 24 to 26 hours. Should you help it out? To be clear I am speaking only… Continue reading 5 Reasons to Help a Chick Hatch