We live in central Iowa. Yesterday between 8am and 1pm - daytime - something killed 6 young chickens, an adult hen and a duckling. They were all loose in the yard which we do when someone is home during the day. The adult hen was plucked - a big pile of feathers laying in a pile, but the body...
Well our first experiment hatching duck eggs appears to be working
But I realized I wasn't quite ready for them!
I put some finely chopped spinach and some chick starter crumbles with them. They didn't seem to like the spinach and the crumbles seem big and too hard for them.
Any suggestions...
My toulouse goose's eggs are hatching. She's been faithfully sitting on them for so long I had begun to think they were lost. She's keeping them under her wings waiting for the rest to hatch. But my pair of roman geese are very interested and seem to be threatening the babies. I put a make-shift...