Thank you, I will after tomorrow (can't wait, you are so successful) ...nothing like taking forever to do your own taxes....the long itemized forms. I would be finished today, but I got burnt out and had to stop for the night.....
How do you get all of those duck eggs sold? I have 3 Cayuga hens and get roughly 2 dozen per week. I have one lady who I barter a dozen a week to, other than that....no takers. I usually boil the extras and feed them back to both the ducks and chickens. I love my ducks.....so it doesn't...
Go Peewee!!!!!!!! Is Buttercup an EE from me? None of mine have ever gone broody...just Peewee...the production White Leghorn!
I would love to pick your brain to see what you do differently than me!
I have poor hatch rates compared to a broody....however: I have better hatch rates with the circulating fan. I have a styrofoam Farm innovator with fan and egg turner, and a hovabator 1602n
This spring, I bought 2 more and returned them. Stay away from the Little Giant 9300. Here is where...
I thought so too! And I know she did it to, because I collected eggs, saw her in the nest, came back 5 minutes later and saw the egg on the ledge. Another 5 minutes went by and she came out of the box leaving her egg behind. She is old and crabby, rarely lays an egg. Maybe because it was...
Weird day.........
chicken:
12/17/17
duck- 3/3/3
An old Cream Legbar hen laid an egg today, but first, she threw an Easter egger egg out of the nest box, and landing it on the ledge...broken.
Then, I found a rubber egg OUTSIDE of chicken run..even though no chickens got out today, unless...