Well.... Talking about stress (or not) i have a couple happy spots to share:
So.. I had four ducklings hatch sorta Monday through Wednesday (taling of, @BriardChickens was your last set of duck eggs? Did any of the hatch?)
Then I had three little bantam chicks hatch Thursday and Friday.
I looked at the four Muscovy ducks, and the three SUPER tiny bantam chicks (d'anvers) and put them together!
The ducks have been sweet with them, even when the tiny bantams have pecked at their eyes and their beaks asking for food I guess
Still fine, no deaths.... Boggles my mind.... But very nice.
Also, broody number, I dunno, three or four, looks like she is staying broody after I set her up in the white chicken tractor!! If tomorrow is warm and sunny, or at least decent, I will see if she will take the three little chicks. The last few hens that I moved over to the tractor said that being moved was enough to break them.
Random .... With all of these bantam d'anvers growing up... I have posted my Wyandotte quad for sale... Their rate of lay barfs big time... So my interest in them has waned. I posted them with a price a little on the high side... So they might not sell.... Which might be OK too.... I would like to keep the numbers in my bantam coop as low as possible, because I am a bit crazy about good square footage... But there is lots of space in there, especially if you wanna do the 4 square foot or less per bird stuff (I prefer 9 square feet of covered space per bird).
I dont think I've had my puter actually off for so many days for a decade or so lol
