I've had such bad luck hatching this year but finally - my patience has been rewarded! They all look like call ducks, but I put several mandarin eggs in that nest.
I haven't been on in a while but I was out in the aviary the other day snapping pics and thought I'd share. I am so excited about this year's upcoming ducklings as well. Enjoy!
This just makes me sad...
MILLIKEN When the first trucks rolled onto the Bernhardt farm in June, none of the Bernhardt boys wanted to be around.
Tim, 53, made sure he was in Seattle with friends. Brother Dave, at 60 the oldest, took to the basement.
But before Dave retreated for the day...
I just got 3 new woodies to replace the one male I lost this spring (to the dogs) and thought I'd grab some pictures. They are much less tame than my mandarins so the pics aren't that great, plus they are not fully feathered yet.
But the mandies are and they look fabulous! Not only that, they...
Wow - it seems that they have terms for just about everything now and prepper is one that I just heard for the first time on Wednesday. Apparently a prepper is someone who prepares for TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) by hording guns, ammo, food, patassium iodine, water...
Everytime I make a change to the aviary (i.e. sell ducks!) they look at me like I am about to cook them for dinner. They stop eating for days and they avoid me like the plague all the while looking at each other like "What happened to those other guys?"
Interestingly enough, they LOVE to have...
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Yes, call me pathetic but this has been in the works for 2 years and finally the dang thing opens tomorrow morning. And I am happy. And we are getting a strip mall to boot. I know there are a bazillion people groaning over the opening of another Wal-Mart and strip mall , but when...
Ok, I know I was joking and making fun of the situation a few weeks ago when I said that it was illegal in Colorado to have rain barrels and that no one owns their water rights - but seriously - they are about to do a major power grab for the water you guys.
Whatever your opinion on this -...
After trying out all kinds of duck and goose breeds I have decided to downsize and only concentrate on my favorites - dewlaps, mandrins/woodies, and saxonies.
I am selling off everything else - inlcuding my white calls. This is for pick up only - see my Craig'sList post for pics and info .
I...
It has been a sloooooow year for the call hatching - only one form the first hatch - zero second hatch - and two this last hatch. But mama did her job and hatched out 5!
Of course those 5 are mixed - I don't even know where the black ones came from! I have all white and one snowy drake that...
I was sure those eggs she was sitting on were a lost cause because she never developed ANY mating behavior at all, but guess what! 6 out of 9 eggs hatched.
One died while hatching, two never hatched, though they feel light so they must have been fertile, and 6 healthy goslings are...
Suicide rates show more Colorado farmers losing hope
Suicide hotlines field calls as prices fall and money woes mount
By Miles Moffeit
The Denver Post
Posted: 06/03/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT
Updated: 06/03/2009 01:43:45 PM MDT
The phone calls usually come in the evening after the machinery goes...
These girls thought sharing the same nest for laying meant sharing the same nest for sitting. You should have seen how confused they looked once the urge to go broody came! They are not mean geese - so the half hearted attempts to chase the other away just wasn't good enough!
Poor things...
Somehow - someway - these little trouble makers found a way to swim in the chick waterer...and this is what happens after gooses and duckies play themselves silly!
I have a homeschool curriculum business that is online only and my mother has just started to work on a virtual assistant business...I feel that this is the trend of the century.
Anyone else see things this way? Let us know what your virtual business is and what kind of ride you've been on...
My first egg and my first home hatched gosling! I have 4 new Holderread's gosling that arrived tuesday and I have a broody sitting on 8 eggs - I gotta get rid of soem of these guys!
$10 for this cutie born yesterday!
P.S. if you want the runner ducks too they are $10 for the pair - one...
Hi all,
I have more runner eggs than I can use and my bators are full. These guys are in separate pens and have AWESOME fertility. I haven't actually calculated it but almsot every single egg from day one has been fertile. I just hatched out a mixed white/black duckling yesterday and the day...