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

[R2elk]

I did not know that. I heard they taste better than whitetail.

Boy was someone pulling your leg. They taste just like their diet (sagebrush). They do make excellent chili or sausage just be sure to not add any sage to the sausage.

 

[R2elk]

Talk to Santa. Lots of TALL fences to keep them in. Or just get a prairie. They are awfully skittish. Worse than Leghorns, I've heard. Downright wild.

Unlike deer, Pronghorns do not tend to jump fences. They can go under a barbed wire fence at a dead run. Pronghorns learned to jump short fences once the ranchers started using sheep tight fence to keep the "prairie maggots" in. They also don't "boing". Around here it is the mule deer that "boing" and would need tall fences to keep them in. A mature mule deer buck can "boing" right over a 6' fence without touching it.

 

[Missyblue]

I am going to be a grandma!!!! Well actually a grandma, great grandma and great great grandma all in one! My original roo (my avatar) died suddenly and I frantically collected eggs, and hatched 11 including 7 roos, we freezer camped 6 and kept the most excellent boy...well then last year I let a girl sit and she went manic and was killing babies as they hatched, I popped all eggies in the bator. Ended up with 1 roo, he was majestic, a very beautiful boy and calm as can be like his dad and grand dad. I struggled with the thought of roasting him. I have an employee who lost her rooster trying to protect his ladies from a coyote, his babies are now in lock down!!! I can not wait to see pictures of my grandbabies

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

I am going to be a grandma!!!! Well actually a grandma, great grandma and great great grandma all in one! My original roo (my avatar) died suddenly and I frantically collected eggs, and hatched 11 including 7 roos, we freezer camped 6 and kept the most excellent boy...well then last year I let a girl sit and she went manic and was killing babies as they hatched, I popped all eggies in the bator. Ended up with 1 roo, he was majestic, a very beautiful boy and calm as can be like his dad and grand dad. I struggled with the thought of roasting him. I have an employee who lost her rooster trying to protect his ladies from a coyote, his babies are now in lock down!!! I can not wait to see pictures of my grandbabies

It’s always an amazing feeling seeing your babies hatch outside of your own flock.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Good news for the flock!

Blue boy leaves on Sunday, he’s going to a family who is going to use him for breeding. They’re super excited.

This is good news because then we’ll be back to one rooster, and we can move the almost 13 week olds(maybe older idk) into the sectioned big coop where he has been staying and hopefully get them integrated sooner rather than later. After they are in then we can move the ducklings out and finally not have a brooder ( ) for the first time in...oh my almost a year.

Then after a month and a half we are popping Australorp eggs in because our last two pullets have finally started laying. That’ll be four hens to get our program off the ground. We’ll be keeping whatever hens we hatch and probably the best behaved son because Negan will be coming up on 2 years old this year and we still don’t have his replacement.

 

[NanaKat]

Finally decorating for Christmas...no tree, but stockings are hung, angels on the mantel, Christmas pillows and throws, table and centerpiece. Girls decided we would host Our get-together here at the farm on Christmas Eve.

Good thing my house is clean and my shopping was done.

 

[Kiki]

Last month's visitor.

Today's visitor.

What are they?

 

[biophiliac]

What are they?

Could it be a Pronghorn antelope?
edit~Pronghorn, not a real antelope... antilocapridae


Happy Solstice everyone!

 

[Kiki]

I am going to be a grandma!!!! Well actually a grandma, great grandma and great great grandma all in one! My original roo (my avatar) died suddenly and I frantically collected eggs, and hatched 11 including 7 roos, we freezer camped 6 and kept the most excellent boy...well then last year I let a girl sit and she went manic and was killing babies as they hatched, I popped all eggies in the bator. Ended up with 1 roo, he was majestic, a very beautiful boy and calm as can be like his dad and grand dad. I struggled with the thought of roasting him. I have an employee who lost her rooster trying to protect his ladies from a coyote, his babies are now in lock down!!! I can not wait to see pictures of my grandbabies

Woot!!! We wanna see too!

 

[R2elk]

What are they?

See post 33135

The bird is a Great Horned Owl.