Posts by pete55

Hahha - thank you but its taken some time to arrive at this point.  Babies from this weekend are now dried out and much more alert.  here's some pictures of the Buff Dewlaps babies from today.   My daughter was also...

Good luck over the weekend everybody with hatching and babies        Just completing a very good hatch and have hatched another Buff from our Split/Buff pair and 2 Buff females from our Split/Grey pair. That's...

Thanks Friends    The last one has just popped the cap of the egg and now needs to rest and push off the bottom section.   Very pleased all round as our results have improved considerably.  Since adapting...

Congratulations and very nice group of goslings

Hmmm.....   Yes I think it was probably both of us that we're feeling broody over them.   Having a good hatch this weekend with the Dewlaps and so far hatched another 2 Buff females from another pair.  First...

I'm sure you could sneak in some Dewlap goslings and just tell a gullible husband that they're regular Toulouse.  When they mature then blame their increased size on being greedy birds

She's certainly laid a huge clutch for you.  Maybe break up the nest to discourage breeding behaviour.  To be honest I've got pairs here that are mating again but usually a second clutch is much smaller.   Pete

Here in the UK our young Buffs are doing well.  We had them out today in the Spring sunshine in a baby pen on the grass.  Still a little cool so my partner Rob insisted they came back indoors - clucking over them worse than...

I'll go and check them out thanks

Well I think accurate record keeping will prove to be the key and with a proactive approach to management of incubating eggs.   As I said our next batch should test our new management techniques and refine our incubation...