INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[LocalYokel]

that's right- butterfingers in ice cream is AMAZING

Trufax

 

[prizepete]

Broody hen has 2 chicks now, plus one pip and one internal pip

 

[casportpony]

Broody hen has 2 chicks now, plus one pip and one internal pip

Congrats!

-Kathy

 

[prizepete]

Congrats!

-Kathy

thanks! Broody chicks are so much more active then incubator chicks. They are walking around pretty well already!

 

[h2oratt]

Broody hen has 2 chicks now, plus one pip and one internal pip

Did you candle them? I couldn't touch my broody.

 

[daxigait]

Broody hen has 2 chicks now, plus one pip and one internal pip

go chicks!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Another duck:


-Kathy

you are so fortunate to be able to have them scattered around and not succumb to predators.

They wouldn't survive a night or two here - and I'm in the burbs of a large metropolitan area.

Am I wrong, or is an ox not a distinct breed, but merely a steer of a large breed, trained to the yoke to do farm work or pull a cart / wagon? I saw that on TV a while back.

You are right but oxtail is a culinary name given to any degloved bovine tail.

 

[casportpony]

Quote:
I have lost a few, but I had more of a problem when I live in in the "burbs", but not sure why... Just went outside and checked on them and it looks like I have 4 or 5 with ducklings, another 4 or 5 with chicks, and lord only knows how many are still sitting on nests.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I agree, chicks under broodies do seem to do much better.

-Kathy

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I have lost a few, but I had more of a problem when I live in in the "burbs", but not sure why... Just went outside and checked on them and it looks like I have 4 or 5 with ducklings, another 4 or 5 with chicks, and lord only knows how many are still sitting on nests.

-Kathy

It is because urban and suburban environs have exponentially more predators than rural areas per square mile.
That's what drives me nuts when people say they don't have predators because they don't live in the country.