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

[RosieR]

Oh wait I think we talked about this before lol sorry! Never saw the pic though, that's a cool pic

Thanks! That was from a few years back, he’s much more grey now lol

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Before- (I didn’t get it all out, but it was getting dark and we hadn’t eaten dinner yet)

After trial 1-

 

[Kiki]

The white bib is cute!

I didn't know that was called a bib! Thx.

 

[RosieR]

I didn't know that was called a bib! Thx.

Lol idk if that’s a technical word, just seemed like it made sense to call it that

 

[Kiki]

Lol idk if that’s a technical word, just seemed like it made sense to call it that

Good enough for me!

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Sigh, I’m really disappointed in myself, and not being able to get it out. I was trying to do it without having to use my scalpel since I forgot the antiseptic but obviously I need to work on that.

The good thing is, the part that I could remove, she had fully healed underneath so her body is doing what it needs, and I was able to expose the infection some so I could get the bacitracin inside to start working on that. I’ll see what I can do tomorrow, and hopefully get the other foot done too.

 

[Kiki]

Usually we can resist the TSC bin but they had Cream Legbars for $3.00 each with a supposedly STRICT minimum of four and...yup we ended up with two because it never hurts to ask.

Did I miss the cream legbar pics?

 

[R2elk]

Last night I was missing one of the young hens when I shut them all in. I looked all over for her but never saw her anywhere but did find where something had gotten one of my fake guinea eggs. Around 3 AM I heard an owl hooting and actually thought about going out to encourage it to move on but I was too tired.

This morning I spotted the missing hen just outside of the coop so I knew she made it through the night. Tonight she was missing again. This time I spotted a couple of blue eggs under a juniper tree. I used my stick to move them to where I could reach them without getting scratched up too badly. I thought I had seen another egg on the other side of the tree but couldn't find anything when I got over there. I got down on the ground to move grass and branches around for a better look and that is when I spotted something red.

I had to get my hand within inches of her before she took off from her nest which held an additional 26 eggs besides the two I had already found.

She hollered the whole way back to the coop and still took another 10 minutes to get her to go in. She is a Rose Comb Legbar and this is the first Legbar that I have ever had go broody. At least she is safe in the coop tonight.

The first night I looked for her, I did come within 3' of her nest without spotting her.

 

[RosieR]

 

[The Beeps Mama]

Coop progress