I hope everyone got some of the lovely and desperately needed rain that has come through the area in the last 48 hours. We got some - not so much to make a lot of mud in the yard, although the driveway is getting there.
My wry necked Silkie appears to be on the road to recovery. We noticed late last week she seemed to have turned a corner, and now her head is up almost all the time, still tipped to one side but getting better every day. She can drink on her own, which is a HUGE improvement.
Discovered one of my turners quit working, so I've been turning eggs by hand until a replacement arrives, hopefully it didn't wreck my chance of hatching the 17 Cream Legbar and 1 Jubilee Orpington eggs that were in there, along with the eggs my Silkies have laid
I moved the CL and JO eggs into the other incubator and will hope for the best. There are still 18 Silkie eggs in the bad turner, 6 go into the hatcher Friday, and I'll be setting another ~15-18 on Friday evening or Saturday morning. The 4 hens have been laying better this past week, I've gotten 3 eggs 3 times in 5 days.
The two ducklings left for their new home last night, I am very happy about that. They are super cute but as I said earlier, I am not well set up for ducks and have other projects to finish before I think about changing that. Last time I order Hatchery Surprise LOL. All the chicks that were part of that order are coming along very nicely, eating well, minimal pasty butts, really pretty mix. I'm pretty sure the feather footed pale yellow chicks are Light Brahmas, starting to see a couple of black markings on the wings coming through.
