I ought to be doing stuff - lots of stuff - but I'm just sitting here
been cruising Youtube, watched some Tim Hawkins vids (he is funny
) and thinking about all the stuff I ought to be doing....
I meant to pick up another bin yesterday when Shelley and I went to
Walmart, but I forgot. My barred rock chickies are a bit crowded. The reds are ok for space, but I have all the rest (br) in two bins - big bins (45 gallon) but still, that's a lot of babies in there.
I am using the playpen as a hospital coop - still have a couple of heat issue birds in the garage where it is more open and cooler. They're doing pretty well, but that coop gets so stuffy and hot (and it is dusty and needs cleaning) poor babies.
I'm thinking of clearing it out today and taking all the ones in there to Sano, gutting the coop and putting in fresh straw and then I can move the babies out there sooner. It is certainly warm enough for chicks during the day - and at night I could close the pop door and hold in the heat (I have a heat lamp if I absolutely had to run it.) I am thinking by two weeks they ought to be able to go out to that coop.
Hmmm, I do have the 4 ducklings in that coop too
I'll have to get them moved to the duck pen before I put little chicks in there.
Speaking of duckies,
I have to tell ya, the mallards are the smartest bunch of the ducks that I have, I think. I put Kronk and his girls back into the pen this morning, after they came out to have a dip in the pool, and when I had them in, the mallards came out (from hiding) and gathered around my feet looking at me with that sideways head look and it almost seemed like they were saying "Thanks"
The poor babies have been bothered by Kronk lately, too. The male mallard is moulting, so he is gonna have his Big Boy look soon. I can't wait
They were sold to me as gray calls, but I think they are more mallard than call ducks - a little bigger than Joe, even, and he is sort of on the big side for a call duck.
I don't care, though, because I wouldn't have bought Mallards if I had known that was what they were, and it turns out that I adore those funny little ducks.
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