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On Mother's Day we hatched our first ducklings! A most exciting and awe inspiring event at our house. Here they are at 7 days old in their first swim. And the waterer I made for them - well, I guess I should have made a smaller hole. They are so darned cute!

Our newest chickens are these two Buff Orpington/Plymouth Barred Rock mixes - Miri and Giilfy. Hatched in an incubator, they're new to the flock. I love this next picture - one moment they're enjoying leftover jack-o-lantern, then Miri is being goosed by one of the hens higher up in the...

I'm a chicky mama! My second attempt at incubating eggs resulted in two sweet baby chicks. Chickens make incubating eggs look so easy! My daughter has named them Gilfy and Miri (for little miracle). They are Buff Orpington/Barred Rock mix. I hatched them in a still air foam incubator...

Puddles and Gabby have joined the farm. We got them with the hopes of slipping them under our duck who had been broody for THREE months. A few days before we picked up the ducklings she gave up sitting on eggs. So we're raising them in the brooder for now. Before long they'll be swimming with...

UPDATE Dilly finally started sitting on her eggs full-time. I guess the part-time business was her gearing up phase. Of course, the eggs weren't fertile. We managed to get a couple of Mallard duck eggs from a friend and we put those under her. We also put eight chicken eggs under her. 21 days...

We have our first broody girls on the farm. A duck and one of our banty hens. When checked on Shadow tonight, here's what I found! I'm so excited you'd think I hatched them myself.

Dilly, one of our Pekin ducks is broody. We don't have a drake, so no fertile eggs. She becomes extremely upset with us when we take the eggs away from her and seems so sad. Rather than hanging with the other ducks, she'll sit off in the corner by herself. So we decided to let her keep two...

You're right! We're out of luck for babies until we add a drake to the flock.

Our first duck egg arrived today from one of our Pekin ducks. Turns out that Oscar is a girl!

Look what we found when we checked the banty coop this morning! Our first banty eggs. Aren't they cute!

We have two coops with chickens - a banty coop and a big girl coop. Both coops have runs totally enclosed in chicken wire and we close the chickens in the coops at night. The ducks have a house and small fully enclosed pen. During the day we let them out into a fenced in area attached to their...

Well, the coop got some attention today. A couple of new vents on the south side, a partial clean out, a good airing out and some fresh new bedding. Thinks were not as bad as I thought - the top of the litter was crusty frozen, but where it hadn't been turned up yet was not frozen. I'm hopeful...