French frogs

[WVduckchick]

what a crappy joke!

that kind of came from the behind.

next time just take the back way

You almost got a

but now I have to

you instead...

 

[Tumbling K]

You almost got a

but now I have to

you instead...

hey, you can give me both at the same time.........

lol

 

[scflock]

You almost got a  but now I have to you instead... 

hey, you can give me both at the same time.........

That's my MO

 

[RubyNala97]

I'm so gonna be late for work...gotta run...

Hey Rav....think you might get a kick out of this...I picked my hen Khaki up today....she layed her head on my shoulder....so I carried here around for a minute or so....I set here back down she followed me around...so I picked her back up and carried her a little more....

That's so awesome! Honestly, I should have started with ducks. They seem so much more "interactive" with their owners. They are in my future, just not sure when.

Sweet!! Sounds like you did a good job imprinting... that's harder with the bigger ducks than with Calls... I am curious, though... yours are khakis right? Do you have any pics when you first got them as 'lings? If not, did their color look similar to this one?

Far right in last pic...

No fair! You get to sit around snuggling baby ducks, whenever you want!!

So I have come to the tough decision to cull several of my flock.  Some of you know that I came home from Florida and found my best Ameraucana pullet with her eye swollen shut and matted with goop and feathers.  She has had 5 days of Tylan IM and 6 days of oral Oxytetracycline.  She is much better, but still has a slightly runny eye.  I think my Ameraucana boy may have it too, but I can't catch him.  His beard looks ratty and I think I saw bubbles in the corner of 1 eye.

It's getting closer to the time I'm leaving again, and cannot separate them out while I am gone, (1 run, 1 coop, chickens are on their own for 4 days.) 

Thinking rationally, I should cull the Wheatens that show symptoms, cull the other Wheaten pullet with wry tail that I won't breed, and cull the random EE cockerel that was supposed to be an 'Americana pullet".  If I cull now, then I can observe for symptoms in the other 8 for the next few months until I set eggs for incubation in the spring. Come to think of it, I'll also probably need to cull my back-up Orloff cockerel if he starts breeding, since the ratio will end up 2 boys to 6 girls.

Sounds like a plan, but I am such a wimp (as BYC knows) and I start crying when I think about it.  Won't stop me from going through with it though.  ​Feeling bummed.

Tough but rational. hard decision but the right one. Since the weather is like spring here, took a walk to my neighbors yesterday. He has a little hen that it's foot has turned totally black and died. The thing is limping around a little cage. The foot is totally dead, no way to fix that. I told him he has to cull. He looks at me like I'm speaking a foreign language. Hello...it's hard to do the right thing but you have to when you own animals.

I know its too early for @RavynFallen
  but I'm wondering if that pip made any progress! 

X2

 

[Tumbling K]

That's my MO

hey, I'm just following the example......

 

[WVduckchick]

hey, you can give me both at the same time.........

lol

That's my MO

Can I

you both at the same time?

 

[RubyNala97]

Oh yeah, I set 13 eggs in the incubator last night!!
that they are fertile!!

 

[WVduckchick]

Oh yeah, I set 13 eggs in the incubator last night!!

that they are fertile!!

And Ruby, ducks aren't always more interactive. They take work to be that way. Mine hate me....

Not really, but they aren't friendly like my chicks.

 

[RubyNala97]

 

And Ruby, ducks aren't always more interactive.  They take work to be that way.  Mine hate me....    Not really, but they aren't friendly like my chicks. 

That's a good point! And even more reason I should wait till the baby is a bit older and I can devote the time to them. Those peacocks were an imprinting nightmare...if I was alone I would have enjoyed it but not with 3 kids already hanging on me! (And then 3 peachicks trying to sit on my head!)

 

[scflock]

 


Can I  you both at the same time?  

Better watch that window..