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

[Redhead Rae]

Holy early guinea hatch, Batman!

Last year, all my guineas hatched on day 26. So far this year, my keets have been arriving on day 28-29. Well, I thought my first 5 guinea eggs incubated in ONLY the Brinsea where “due” Thursday with my chicken eggs. Nope. Day 28 for these eggs is Wednesday, so today is day 26. I went to look at the eggs before I moved them to lockdown and I see one keet half out of its egg and one egg mostly zipped. I quickly pull my empty turning trays in my other Brinsea and move the keets and eggs in there while I warmed up my usual lock down incubator. In the next half hour, 3 of the keets hatched. They look perfect. They needed no help to hatch and there isn’t one jot of excess egg fluid. One more egg is externally pipped. The 5th egg looks iffy
(No visible veins or internal/external pips) but I’m giving it a chance. I’ve got 9 Cornish eggs ready to hatch Thursday and I expect 7-8 of them to have a fighting chance. 4 of them are from HAL.

Thus concludes another exciting adventure of the Crazy Cornish Lady.

 

[CSAchook]

We let ours free range under bird net i put up 6ft polls and put bird net up yes across most of my yard hawks couldn't get to them

They have a big predator proof run. I will just keep them confined to the coop and run for a week until the hawkie birds move on.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Good morning!

Just waiting on them to get their feet before moving them to the brooder.

 

[R2elk]

Blue Jay babies

Daddy was not happy

I learned today that Blue Jays can do an excellent mimic of a crow/raven caw.

 

[R2elk]

@RUNuts
First one of the season.

Rudbeckia aka Black-eyed Susan

 

[R2elk]

Salsify

Salsify is an edible (root). The blooms open in the morning, close by midday and are done to be replaced by new blooms the next morning.

 

[R2elk]

Columbine

Yellow Columbine

Clammyweed

 

[Molpet]

I learned today that Blue Jays can do an excellent mimic of a crow/raven caw.

Also a red tail.... I freaked when I heard a red tail in the poultry yard, and here it was a blue jay


Great pictures, keep them coming

 

[R2elk]

Also a red tail.... I freaked when I heard a red tail in the poultry yard, and here it was a blue jay


Great pictures, keep them coming

I learned a couple of years ago that they do an excellent mimic of the Guinea hen's "buckwheat" call.

 

[R2elk]

Hawthorn blossoms