We moved to a new home 18 months ago...shortly after moving our last 8 hens and roo were taken.......my husband has been working on a new and improved coop....our old design was a wood base with cattle panels bent and tarps pulled over , with plywood ends...it worked well for us for 6 years but...
I have a broody hen and have been booting her daily from the coop, today I found a hidden duck nest, I have 10 welsh harlequin eggs in various states of development and 14 chicken eggs.....seems they were sharing nests, I put them in my incubator tonight but can not keep, need to find a new home...
I grew up in the city, big city Seattle and always thought that I was a city girl and would live in an apartment with lots of dead bolts.....life happens and I married a wonderful man who had a much more grounded upbringing. Fast forward to me living in a fairly rural community. I started...