I was going to pretty it up by adding straw but they remove all straw in a couple days. These are screwed to the barn wall. While they do use it they also use the ground behind the board to the left in picture and the crack in the granite rock. There's another area on the same rock they like as well.
Bucket on the ground with holes drilled is oyster shell
Morning Whites or is it afternoon there. Broody has now moved her eggs deeper into granite but, she forgot 6 of them. I gave them back.
I think you are a week ahead of me
So I did an experiment... Last weekend I found a broody on 8 eggs that were about 7 days developed and I removed the eggs so I could put pea eggs under her. Then just for grins I put these 8 eggs in the incubator yesterday and they all seem to be alive. Kind of strange that, right?
Well I went to the poultry swap meet this morning and my ducklings were gone in a minute flat.....I made many contacts....people have me their numbers and ask to call them if I hatch more....so it all went Better than expected....no one brought any exotics today for hatching but I got some free quail eggs coming soon and I found a local source for icelandics.....yay....even sold my KC eggs for hatching.......
Well I went to the poultry swap meet this morning and my ducklings were gone in a minute flat.....I made many contacts....people have me their numbers and ask to call them if I hatch more....so it all went Better than expected....no one brought any exotics today for hatching but I got some free quail eggs coming soon and I found a local source for icelandics.....yay....even sold my KC eggs for hatching.......
Well I went to the poultry swap meet this morning and my ducklings were gone in a minute flat.....I made many contacts....people have me their numbers and ask to call them if I hatch more....so it all went Better than expected....no one brought any exotics today for hatching but I got some free quail eggs coming soon and I found a local source for icelandics.....yay....even sold my KC eggs for hatching.......
You should but avoid the touristy areas. I've been there more times than I can count. Aside from that one day foray into Tijuana, My first real visit was on my honeymoon. We spent half of it in Cancun and half on Isla Mujeres. It was a long time ago before Cancun was built up. There were only about 6 hotels there. Now there are hundreds on both the ocean side and the lagoon side. On our honeymoon, the only thing on the lagoon side was a restaurant out over the water called Lorenzillos. It may still be there. The wait staff fed crocodiles off the side of the deck. Isla Mujeres is really built up now. There were only 2 real lodging options then.
There used to be a charter airline (MLT vacations) that would sell cheap last minute tickets from here to Cancun, Cozumel, Puerto Vallarta and Cabo. That's how we were able to go so often. We would fly to those tourist destinations and then either get on a bus or rent a car and get out of town into the countryside or to a remote beach destination. There are places with beautiful white sand beaches and crystal clear water that go on for 40 miles with not a person in sight.
Air fare was usually between $120 and $250 pp. Once, after Y2K, I took my whole family for $25 a person. We rented a Mayan hut on the beach for $50. No electricity or running water. You had to get water out of the well out back to flush the toilet.
We've been to many of the Mayan archeological sites, some multiple times. Tulum,Tikal, Coba, Chichen Itza and the minor ones on Isla and Cozumel. I want to go to Palenque.
We discovered some of the most amazing places by accident just getting out into the countryside.
We went horseback riding in the mountains north of Puerto Vallarta (where I discovered Herradura tequila) and went to an incredible 80 meter waterfall. that we swam in. We had to tie the horses off in the river and climb another mile but it was worth it.
We stumbled onto this place when trying to drive to the southern end of the Yucatan peninsula.
Ok so I love a good mystery but also they annoy me... I've got this little chick I just found in the hatcher that is brown and has a rose comb I think... The options for parents being silver penciled rock dad and Sussex, rock, orp or dom,,, I am having a hard time figuring how a dom has a brown chick! I'll have to find it later and grab a picture of it but what on earth lol.
I never claimed to be a genetics expert. But I think all bets are off once you start crossing.
I crossed a penedesenca and a welsummer. Both from lines of extremely dark eggs. I was excited to see the egg color of the offspring. It was just a normal brown egg. I guess the genes that made up the dark pigment cancelled each other out.
I just butchered a cockerel from a penedesenca rooster (erect carnation comb) and a EE (pea comb) He had a flopped over carnation comb like a Mediterranean hen.
I thought he was a pullet for a long time because of the flopped over comb.
Some of the EEs offspring are all black and some are brown. I've gotten some amazing colored cockerels from a black Pene rooster and a light Jaerhon hen. But there are never 2 the same.
