More baby chicks

Our baby chicks at about 10 days old - getting much more adventurous, and were often seen climbing onto the back of the mother hen.

A globe artichoke starting to form.

Wildflowers coming up in the orchard - we have not planted any here this year.  Lovely as they were last year, they kind of took over and were much taller than we expected.  We are going to sow the seeds in a different place this year.

The greenhouse, well packed with young plants.

The first tomatoes get planted in the poly-tunnel.  We are again planting marigold with the tomatoes, it seemed to work well last year when we did this.  We are trying to have more of a plan for what to plant where in the poly-tunnel.  Last year the poly-tunnel had just gone up and we were in a rush to get plants in the soil.

Squash plants going into the poly-tunnel.

An arch has been created by the students and our Technology teacher for some climbing roses.  It has been made from some huge pieces of bamboo which were given to our project by the parent of one of our students.

Our bean structure, with some young bean plants just planted.

Here the chicks are a bit bigger still and have started to grow some feathers, so they have some chick fluff and some tufty feathers. The students cannot believe how quickly they have changed.

Things are starting in the incubator - 4.6.15 some cracks appear in a couple of eggs.

5.6.15 a little chick appears.

This on has been named "Lucky" by the students.  It got stuck in its egg and couldn't get out, a heated discussion amongst the staff and students and we decided to help it to hatch.  Some of the staff and students have a stronger stomach than myself as I couldn't watch - but here is Lucky, who is rather tired and sleepy, but he is drying out in the incubator and we will see how he gets along.  We have two other chicks in a broader and three more beginning to hatch......