Can’t believe how many babies I’ve missed
For us we have finally reached
LOCKDOWN
We started with:
12x mixed pekin bantam (cuckoo lemon, gold partridge, lavender, black)
12x light Sussex
12x rare purebred ixworth
12x cherry valley x Aylesbury
The duck eggs turned out to be infertilewhich we discovered around day 6.
I never candelled again until today just before lock down and we are down to 22 eggs, we had a couple of early/late deaths and a few infertile.
Out of the 22 we have 10 bantams left, 2 white eggs and 10 brown (can’t remember which colour was which for the ixworth and light Sussex but I think the 2 white are the ixworth)
As well as a possible 22 hatchlings over the weekend our cat is due to have kittens, no idea of her due date but I don’t think she has longer than 2 weeks left.
I can see it all happening over the weekend and having one big baby boom when I have the guineapig house/run to finish building so I can get started on creating the duck house ready for when our ducklings can go outside.
Did I also mention I’m a single mother of 5 children aged 7 and under.... busy times![]()
Wow! Busy busy! I hope all of your hatches go well! Your cat's "hatch" too! lol!

