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

[NanaKat]

The littles have been curious and checking out the big chicks coop. They like perching on the nest box bars lol. They have been checking out the nest boxes as well. At least a few of them. Which is better than what they do in their own coop. They’ve been sleeping in one of the nest boxes instead of roosting on the bars. Ugh!
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Love the crest!

I tried putting a soccer ball in the favorite group sleeping nest box once....found four juveniles snuggled under it.

They eventually outgrew the group cuddle sleeping and graduated to the roost bar.

 

[ShrekDawg]

No pictures cause it’s nothing special but bison burgers and a sweet potato for lunch. Did still use ketchup and mayonnaise with the burger and some ghee on the sweet potato, still haven’t quite cut out condiments or dairy, but I didn’t use a bun or cheese or anything. And I’ve way reduced the dairy. Though now the pollen/allergies are my main congestant anyway haha is congestant even a word? But yeah. Was pretty good. Wasn’t sure how it would be. And I will admit I did also get myself a sweet tea today but that was only cause my mom wanted tea or a Coke and was also hungry so I just went down the street to McDonald’s and got her one of the Buttermilk Chicken meals with the fries and the Coke and also got her an unsweetened iced tea since they’re only $1 any size (I got the large) and I figured while I was there, I would also get myself a sweet tea to wake myself up. Not my best decision but I did. Got the large which the sweet tea is a little more, like $1.50 or something, I think a penny or two under (why do places always do uneven prices? So annoying lol) but yeah. The $1 thing though is any soft drink or tea any size. And all he time, not like a special sale or anything. And of course Cumbies always having the huge huge sodas and slushees for super cheap. It’s no wonder people are fat. but of course I fell for it too. Ha but anyway, I know this might possibly receive some backlash or something but I really have been trying believe it or not. Even on the trip I tried to eat pretty healthy. Ate bad a couple meals but mostly tried to get like chicken, salads, etc., or even if I got burgers, didn’t get any cheese, etc. and I did get like a couple desserts but not much considering how much good food is in that city haha and now that I’m back I’m back to trying to eat healthier. Hence cooking my own food when I got back instead of just getting something from McDonald’s while I was there and hence no buns. Besides the fact that we also don’t have any but even if we did I wouldn’t have used them. I almost used an English muffin but decided against it. And I would have had lettuce or something either in addition to or instead of the sweet potato but most of the lettuce either got eaten or went bad while we were gone and I am about to give the chickens some huge bags of kale and the leftover berries before it all goes completely bad. It’s not really bad now but right on the verge, a few bad pieces, to where I don’t trust it. My dad apparently didn’t eat any of the two massive bags of kale we have and ate the other lettuce instead. He hates kale. Anyway, sorry, that’s irrelevant lol, point being... I need to buy some vegetables. But figured sweet potato would be okay. It wasn’t a big one. And we don’t have many left. So wanted to try to eat them up. The squash has gone bad. Going to give that to the girls too or maybe just put it in the compost pile. I don’t really know if I trust it to give to them, looks pretty bad/moldy/shrunken and they hate squash anyway. Maybe if I bury it it will grow. anyway, still eating/drinking some bad stuff but not really, except on the trip, but even then not much, and at home I’m basically not eating anything. Anything bad I mean. Of course I’m eating. Don’t wanna starve. Ha cut out like all processed foods kind of a while ago anyway. Just don’t really like them anymore and feel like crap after eating them haha so I cut them out. I guess desserts could technically still be “processed” but the ones I ate were made fresh. And I guess the condiments like ketchup and mayo count but those are really the only ones. I’m trying anyways. Went on a walk even though I didn’t have to and might go on another one later. Or maybe work on the garden. Still have not planted that. I am so behind this year. At this rate I’m not even gonna have a garden or any vegetables.

 

[ShrekDawg]

And sorry for the huge novel. I know it’s probably hard to read and I should divide it but I’m kind of tired and didn’t feel like going back and editing after I typed all that.

 

[Kiki]

Today, I chose to take it easy...no work in the garden until 8:30pm when I took the girls out to potty. I pulled grass from the asparagus bed.
Instead, I cleaned the brooders, fed the pens of breeders and cleaned all the water containers.
Then lunch and decided to take a nap!

Then....
Found two hatched babies in a broody nest! So I pulled all the eggs from under the 8 broody hens...two hens had 15 and 18 eggs. The others had from 6 to 12 each. All eggs were in different stages of development because the other hens were laying in their nests too.
So I candled and divided them by days of development...5, 10, 15, 18 and due. Clear eggs went to the kitchen. Anything else under 5 days will be scrambled for the flock.
After marking and dating the incubating eggs, I gave the 5 due eggs to the hen with the two chicks. And gave sets of eggs to each of the hens sitting in a nest box. The banty hens each got 6 eggs and the large fowl girls got 10.
One broody hen was deciding on a nest...wanting to settle with a hen already on eggs.
I took 10 chicks that hatched yesterday and gave 6 to the hen with the two hatched babies. She will end up with 13 when her 5 eggs hatch tonight or in the morning. She was so tickled to take her babies...nearly ate my hand.
The other 4 chicks I gave to one of the banty hens with 6 eggs because she had been sharing the nest with the hen with the two chicks earlier in the day. She was really sweet cluck talking to her babies and eggs. This way, when she takes her babies to the floor in the morning, the extra broody hen will adopt the 6 eggs and have a nest all her own.
I've learned to think like a chicken.

Then I rounded up the ducks to go to coop. Locked up the chickens, checked on all the babies, cleaned the hatching tray.
Had a sandwich hubby made me for a late dinner. Took the dogs out and pulled that grass.
I'm all showered and ready for bed!

Here are the 7 Delaware bantam chicks...I promised a picture... Just for @Texas Kiki I put in fresh paper towels for the second photo.
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They are all boys!

 

[ShrekDawg]

They are all boys!

Don’t jinx it!!

 

[007Sean]

They always make their prices a penny or two short of a whole number, it's called marketing, you would rather pay $1.99 for and item, than pay $2.00, it's silly but effective advertising...makes people think their getting a bargain!

 

[Kiki]

Don’t jinx it!!

They are yellow.

 

[ShrekDawg]

They are yellow.

Lots of chicks are yellow. Male and female.

 

[ShrekDawg]

They always make their prices a penny or two short of a whole number, it's called marketing, you would rather pay $1.99 for and item, than pay $2.00, it's silly but effective advertising...makes people think their getting a bargain!

Never thought of it like that before but that’s true!! Lol makes sense. Sort of. You would think people would know it’s only a penny

 

[Kiki]

That's a myth.