Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today - Page 3001

They don't have much of a yard.  It is a run along outside of two sides of coop, which measures 7.5' x 11.5' inside.   Short side of run is about 5 ft wide and long side is about 4 feet.  There is a kiddy pool now where white bucket is in pic.  Should I do all the rotations in the morning then?

All right.  Here is the plan.  I will first move 2 young girls into small pen in garage and put young drakes in gosling pen (temporary), then move my 4 keepers from coop to large garage pen.  Then, I will move young drakes into coop.  I will chop up some greens and add to their feed and scatter all over when adding youngsters.  That is going to be a work-out. lol

Celtic, I have not integrated Erin Toulouse (3 weeks old) with my other toulouse goslings (5 weeks old) yet.  I worry he is not big enough.  I will have to do something soon as I will need the space inside in another week, since my grey dewlaps will hopefully hatch out ok this Thursday. 

My africans are always close by the common feeding area.  I am lucky if they go off even a little ways into the pasture toward the ponds.  My toulouse know their routine well and troop without need for herding back/forth from fenced side yard in the day to their pen in garage at night. 

She hasn't given me one today yet.  But that's not suprising since she's had a change of scenery, lol. 

Yep, very depressed about the Call eggs.  I have 8 due on the 14th, but at this point I feel like I'm just killing babies, and that breaks my heart. 

Bakin....what are the dimensions on your greenhouse?  I'm trying to figure out how wide to go with the open ends....I think 2 panels side by side are 8'6".

This is the little duckling who I thought was blue magpie when it hatched, but was told it looked pastel. It does look similar to the pastel, but the more I look at it the more I think it's silver magpied. Anyone else think so? If he is, I need to decide if I want to keep him and get blue/black.silver magpie babies, or the black magpie drake I have who has much nicer markings. 

Behind the blue magpie here.                                                                 In front of the pastel.                                                                           

 Pastel duckling

My drake on the right.

well we just got back from swap in Marshall MO did get Paulla Golden Sebright one roo 3 hens so not a bad morning more eggs next year

Simon was swimming circles around Marcel.....yes, name change.  Simon's new mate will be Simone, and Marcel and her new mate will be Marceau.  All french names, lol.  I kept trying to call Marcel, Simone...but it just didn't fit her.  She kept telling me Marcel, LOL.  Now that I'm getting 2 more goslings, I needed 2 more names, so it worked out.

This is the youngest white Call duckling...quite the little spit-fire!

And here are the 3 white Calls all together with the choc/white scovie duckling.  The littlest little Call baby was scooting around like a speed demon while the others watched...too cute.

My babies today. They've changed a lot in the past few weeks. 

That's no fun!  I guarantee you that the geese free-ranging with livestock is not an issue.  My horse hates cats, and will try to get them.  But he'll let a goose share his grain.  When the cattle are up around the house, the geese act like they are nothing and will even graze around the cows if they are lying down.  The geese are very intelligent...they know where they go at night, they don't go far from the house and I'm on the corner of 65 acres with a house next door to me, and a creek on the other side.  They don't go anywhere near the road.  When I'm outside working on something, they hang close and watch what I'm doing.  They have raised goslings without a loss, free-ranging even.

Geese rock!!!

ETA:  I free-range without fencing.

Lol. It looked a lot like my lilac pied ducklings (psue's blue girls), so I'm thinking silver pied. 

Like this, which would be really pretty. 

Dutch, I cut long pieces of medium thick glossed cardboard 6" tall to fit along edge of bottom half where lid slips on.  Then I mask taped pieces to bottom, creating a good seal.  I then cut v corners about 2" deep on top of cardboard pieces and connected with tape, making a dome, so lid slides down and secures.  Overall, it makes the inside 4" taller and should hold humidity a lot better.

another wad of quail hatching right now

the older babies went outside ALL day today .

the 2 week olds and silkies also spent all day out.

and the silkies are sleeping in the shed tonight. they needed a bigger area

pool got cleaned today .

the girls were happy to get a long bath.

they quickly kicked the ducks out