➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

I came home to see a gigantic red-tail hawk sitting by the grow-out coop. Found who killed Ditzy. Luckily we have them all locked up so it couldn’t get another free meal, but they’ll have to suffer locked up for at least a couple weeks until it moves on.

 

[biophiliac]

They are the crossbred ones, so this one received only one barring gene. For true barred breeds you are right that they are more white but that’s because they get two barring genes, while females only get one like this little one did which is why it’s darker like a female but I would still have to say boy.

Does that make sense?

Good explanation! I could always tell with barred rocks but the crosses confused me.

 

[biophiliac]

I came home to see a gigantic red-tail hawk sitting by the grow-out coop. Found who killed Ditzy. Luckily we have them all locked up so it couldn’t get another free meal, but they’ll have to suffer locked up for at least a couple weeks until it moves on.

Lockdown on the agenda over here too as I lost my first bird to a predator this morning, hawk I guess. Its going to happen when you fly birds but still sad. Rest in peace Snowy Night.

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[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Lockdown on the agenda over here too as I lost my first bird to a predator this morning, hawk I guess. Its going to happen when you fly birds but still sad. Rest in peace Snowy Night.

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I’m so sorry! She was a beauty!

 

[Kiki]

Lockdown on the agenda over here too as I lost my first bird to a predator this morning, hawk I guess. Its going to happen when you fly birds but still sad. Rest in peace Snowy Night.

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Oh no...not her!

Did she not come home ?

 

[biophiliac]

Oh no...not her!

Did she not come home ?

Fresh Blood and feathers in the road...one other bird missing as I just did night check... a feral has joined the flock though. His name is Interloper and he found himself a perch in the loft tonite.

 

[Kiki]

Fresh Blood and feathers in the road...one other bird missing as I just did night check... a feral has joined the flock though. His name is Interloper and he found himself a perch in the loft tonite.

Shoot. I'm sorry.


Is that normal? To lose one and get one in the same day?

 

[CSAchook]

Lockdown on the agenda over here too as I lost my first bird to a predator this morning, hawk I guess. Its going to happen when you fly birds but still sad. Rest in peace Snowy Night.

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Oh no! So sorry you lost her.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

what's up with predators this year? everybody seems to be having them come in closer and closer.

 

[biophiliac]

Shoot. I'm sorry.


Is that normal? To lose one and get one in the same day?[/QUOTE
Not really except maybe in the universal sense of yin and yang, accumulation and depletion...sorry, waxing philosophical...