Falling Down Heights, my daily life

[Jenbirdee]

do rabbits get along with ducks?

 

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do rabbits get along with ducks?

They probably do? I had a chicken that would go into the bunny cages and steal their food, and the rabbit completely ignored her!

The rabbitery section is far from the coops though.

 

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We have our first pip!

 

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And our second! No chicks yet though.

Foxy is currently in the cage/pen I was going to use as the brooder so I need to figure something out. It's too cold right now to put the young bunny outside but will be trying it once temps go up in a couple of days to get him used to it.

 

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First chick has hatched! Can't tell yet if it's a black or a blue. Little bugger needs to dry first.

 

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Two chicks hatched, last three pipped!

Got a black and a blue so far! Hoping for a black male, and/or a splash male.

Foxy is doing well!

 

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All five eggs have now hatched! I think I confused the silvery chick for blues, and they are in fact splash. And one of the ones I thought was black is blue instead. lol

So, final count appears to be two blues, two splash, and one black!

The humidity had gotten very low overnight and one of the chicks was having a hard time of it. It was halfway zipped but couldn't seem to get any further, and I've hatched enough by now to know that once they are at that point it usually goes fast. In fact, after I bumped the humidity back up, the final egg which only had a bit of pipping instantly started to zip.

I helped out the stuck chick by cracking the shell along the same line as the zip and once that was done it popped out on it's own within moments, followed seconds later by the last chick.

OEGB babies are so tiny!!!

 

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Adorable!!!

 

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So, to recap, this bunch is from my Lemon Blue cockerel and out of a 'sport' Splash pullet and a Lemon Blue pullet.

There were two different colours of eggs: four were creamy off white and one was a light brown. The light brown one hatched out the second blue chick, and the others produced the splashes, black, and the first blue.

Conclusion: The Lemon Blue lays the off-whites, and the Splash lays the light brown.