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Big news on the homestead, this little cutie was born!
Her name is Dolly, and she was born on Monday, the 21st, around 7 pm. Both mom(Lizzie) and baby did super well and are doing great. She is the cutest and sassiest little donkey and already thinks she owns the place.
The new chicks will be 4 weeks old on Monday! This isn't the best picture, but I like that you can see the different colors in her wing here. I'm so excited to see how they look once they mature!
I may or may not have bought a new incubator and put 22 eggs in it yesterday. I already have a styrofoam incubator that works well, but is a huge pain to clean. I plan to use this Nurture Right 360 mostly for lockdown, and my old incubator for the first 18 days. That way, I can do staggered hatches as well! But I wanted to do a full test run before I put any expensive eggs into it, so these are just mixed breeds from my egg-laying flock.
I moved the quail outside into their quail tractor! They seem to be happy so far. I still need to put a proper roof on it, but I needed to get them out so that I could move the chicks into their old pen. I need to build two more quail tractors as I plan to spiral breed, so I will do that and move my current quail into those while I finish the first tractor.
The ladies in the main flock did a great job today, 39 in total, but 3 were cracked, so we got an even 3 dozen!
Today I ordered another 26 RIR pullet chicks that will be coming in June. They are a production strain, so they won't be used in my breeding program but will go into the laying flock! I'm also tempted to get some more Easter Eggers as we don't have very many blue egg layers currently, but I haven't made the plunge yet. So we'll see.
I might have a chicken problem...
Her name is Dolly, and she was born on Monday, the 21st, around 7 pm. Both mom(Lizzie) and baby did super well and are doing great. She is the cutest and sassiest little donkey and already thinks she owns the place.
The new chicks will be 4 weeks old on Monday! This isn't the best picture, but I like that you can see the different colors in her wing here. I'm so excited to see how they look once they mature!
I may or may not have bought a new incubator and put 22 eggs in it yesterday. I already have a styrofoam incubator that works well, but is a huge pain to clean. I plan to use this Nurture Right 360 mostly for lockdown, and my old incubator for the first 18 days. That way, I can do staggered hatches as well! But I wanted to do a full test run before I put any expensive eggs into it, so these are just mixed breeds from my egg-laying flock.
I moved the quail outside into their quail tractor! They seem to be happy so far. I still need to put a proper roof on it, but I needed to get them out so that I could move the chicks into their old pen. I need to build two more quail tractors as I plan to spiral breed, so I will do that and move my current quail into those while I finish the first tractor.
The ladies in the main flock did a great job today, 39 in total, but 3 were cracked, so we got an even 3 dozen!
Today I ordered another 26 RIR pullet chicks that will be coming in June. They are a production strain, so they won't be used in my breeding program but will go into the laying flock! I'm also tempted to get some more Easter Eggers as we don't have very many blue egg layers currently, but I haven't made the plunge yet. So we'll see.
I might have a chicken problem...
