Today I saw Gerty go up and start drinking from a vertical nipple bottle I have out hanging on a fence for whatever random chicken. She walked away from it, and one by one the other two walked up and took a drink. I've never heard of ducks drinking from a nipple bottle before, so that's news to me too!
@Jenbirdee, have you heard of ducks using nipples before? I don't have cups, these are nipples for chickens.
Today I saw Gerty go up and start drinking from a vertical nipple bottle I have out hanging on a fence for whatever random chicken. She walked away from it, and one by one the other two walked up and took a drink. I've never heard of ducks drinking from a nipple bottle before, so that's news to me too!
@Jenbirdee, have you heard of ducks using nipples before? I don't have cups, these are nipples for chickens.
Ducks Just absolutely love water any way they can get it ! Splash!
Do you remember that old song :
do your ears hang low? Do they wobble to and fro? Can you tie them in a knot? Can you tie them in a bow? Can you throw them over your shoulder like a continental soldier? do your ears hang low?
Well, I changed the words.
Do your ducks eat slugs? flies and worms and other bugs? Can they turn a drop of water to a puddle full of mud? Do they quack and flap and splash you when you fill their swimming pool? Do your ducks eat slugs?
Today we cleaned two pens and then paired up the two for my mottled line: Melva on the left, and Morris. They each have a mottled gene.
In the other pen we cleaned, three roosters were let out to see how they'd get along. The two came back. Peachy (red pyle) and Wyatt (white).
Pen #3 is getting cleaned tomorrow as well as #1 and the main coop. This is Lester the lemon, Tina the buff, Charlotte the chocolate. Up top is Carol Burnett (was a buff frizzle prior to molting), and in the box, being broody and molting, is Marsha.
Pen #1 is Millie (silver partridge), then MB. In the first nest box is Nosie, the crossbeak. She just got over being broody, but guess she's going to be again.
Main coop: Top four are the pet quality old chickens. The others aren't named but there's a paint rooster, paint hen, mauve hen, partridge hen, white hen, black hen, and way down on the end hiding is Piper, the mauve rooster.
The shed pen, otherwise known as The Maple, has nine around 3 months. Can't see them all, but got a picture anyway. The front one I had sold as a chick, but I took it back as customer Sarah thought it was a rooster, and so did I. I wanted it if a rooster for Millie, and the other partridge hen. I'm not so sure now. Also, there's three buffs, four chocolates, a silver frizzle, and a splash. They still have a night light. These are the most frustrating chickens to date!
Unpictured: The Four Seasons pen has eight about 4 months old, and 17 about 7 weeks old. Pictures tomorrow!
