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[Nava]

here are the Babies!!!! Just in case you forgot them THEN!!!!!!!!!!!

NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mama time

Dada time

And here are the ones I got from Dave!!!!!

 

[TriciaHowe]

Everything is doing great here! All of the NNs, the blrw babies and my not so little duck from you are all doing wonderful. The duck ( he's a drake ) is getting ready to go out with the big ducks. I would have moved him out sooner but he's friends with some younger ducklings and they aren't ready for a couple of more weeks.

I am hatching out lots of NN eggs from the original NN stock from you (the white rocks). We had them in with a lemon blue crele of mixed origin and then Emily thought it would be cute to mix my SQ cochin roos in with them to see what would hatch (separated them from the crele for 2 weeks before adding cochins). Can you believe they are fertile?? I can't wait to see how they hatch in about a week. They are throwing about 50/50 NN right now so I am not complaining

Hope everything is good there

 

[TriciaHowe]

The sebs are gorgeous!!

 

[Nava]

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Wow Congratulations on the coming Hatch!!!!

I miss my ducks after you got that little one an Owl took my male and so I had to let go of the hens Now I'm in the liddle of building a pond and Hopufully get K campbells Again

 

[thart13]

I posted this in the Raising Baby Chicks section but figured since I live in SW Florida this may be a better spot for the question.

Here is my original post. Thanks!

Getting new chicks this week and live in SW Florida. I have a spot on my covered patio where I want to keep them in a big Rubber maid storage container.

The patio is covered and screened in.

I can keep a lamp on them but the guy at the feed store said they should probably come inside at night.

Bringing them into the garage at night and then back out in the morning will be an ordeal for me due to very long explanation.

If I have a heat lamp on them at night will be they be ok on the patio?

I appreciate any insight.

Thanks!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

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great to have you with us.


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Nava they are just precious! If you might concider selling the hatchling from the grey egg let me know, would love for it to hatch male and be a partner to my coming girl. We could exchange some eggs then!

I would take them in at night only to prevent raccoons from getting onto the porch and getting to them, otherwise our weather is fine, but I would worry over predators.

 

[carolsaucier]

From personal experience (but not baby chicks) I would not leave chicks on screen porch over night. Leaving them on porch would be an open invitation to a "dinner party" for the coons. Coons come in thru the screen leaving big holes and messes, they also leave thru new holes and you may never hear them. What the coons don't get the cats will. I ended up with 1 huge hole, no screen on door and several bullet (pellet and 22) thru my screen porch before stopping the coons from coming thru.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Hey Carol,

How is the egg laying coming along? If you are still looking for new layers there were a couple of local ads on CL over the past week, with some in the TreasureCoast area too.

 

[carolsaucier]

I've had 2 eggs in the last week from your girls. Think they are finally figuring it out again. I saw the ads but as I am now on "standby" to go work the floods I don't want to try to incorporate new girls until I return. If flooding keeps up I should be deployed within the next week to somewhere along the Miss.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Be safe in your travels, seems the floods get bigger and bigger each year.