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Might have to trade you some quail eggs for geese eggs if you up for it I hear they are great for eating weeds ?

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When she starts laying I'll let ya know. I did see Benny trying to get his groove on the other day, but he wasn't having much luck
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They graze all day on the lawn, and don't mess it up like the ducks do (the ducks dig in the dirt with their bills) or the chickens (they've been de-thatching for me for two months, now
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they've about de-thatched me out of any grass) . Not much lawn out there to graze yet, but I have a whole hayfield they can wander too - although they usually stay reasonably close to the yard - they do explore the pasture (looking for corn the donkey's missed
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My chicken run is a mess (where they sleep) cause the chickens have dug around in there and messed up the sand (time for a new layer of sand) so I threw some hay in there tonight for them to sleep on to stay dry a little.

Tomorrow when I let the geese out, I'm putting the duckies (the ones for sale) in the chicken run, so the chickens will have to be stuck inside for a bit. It's easier to see the ducks in the run, so ChknLvnFam can pick which ones he wants. In the coop they are in, there are a lot more places to hide, so it's hard to get a good look at them.

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Mine will eat just about anything - and if the others are shy about it, Miss Celie jumps in and they all start after her. Miss Celie is a piglet, so she'll eat anything that doesn't outrun her - she even tries to take food out of the dog's mouth
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. (she's a barred rock, I think all barred rocks are piglets).

Mine love warm oatmeal for a winter treat. Never tried oranges, those don't last long around here, but they like apple slices (when the apples get too many spots, or off the tree I cut up the extras for them).

Oddly enough, mine don't care for millet seed - and it seems they put that into "scratch" all the time. Usually for scratch I just toss out some cracked corn from the donkey feed bin - is cheap and easy to get.

Their fave summer treat is tomatoes that went bad in the garden - they destroy tomatoes when I just tear them open and drop em on the ground.

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Hey Dave Cash
I saw those polish they were good looking. Did you catch what those silver penciled brahams brought. I left before they sold. I got a belgian quai roo and a hen that is solid black,rumples,with a black thick comb! I also got a pair of ducks!
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:DThey were the really dirty looking black and white pair. I believe they are magpies. I knew they would clean up with water and a molt. I really like them. We need to be raiseing peafowl! boy they were top sellers.I wanted the pair of black mottled japs but they were very high, there was a beautiful mottlet cochin hen with a larger (proably mixed roo) but I didn't want to pay $14 for thr roo!
 
I don't buy at the auctions anymore, just selling is what I do there.
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But make darn sure that you keep any new birds from auctions quarantined for at least a month, I know a lot of people in my area like to use the auction to unload sick birds. There have been many times that I've seen birds there that I was shocked were still alive!
 
Well I'm not sure whose broody, I have seen both one of the Mille's and one of the OEGB in the nest box at the same time several times now and there are 7 eggs in there. But in anycase, I'm leaving the eggs in there for the time being.

I'm on day 18 now with the eggs in the brooders so hopefully I'll have some luck this time. Although a couple of times when I checked the temps it had shot up over 100 degrees and I managed to catch it. I have added sponges/wet paper towels and filled the water sections to increase the humidity and stopped the turning.

Question will it hurt the duck eggs to stop turning them now until Tuesday or should I keep on manually turning them by hand while waiting for the chicken eggs to hatch?
 
I'm up to 8 pips right now - I really hope all these hatch ok. If my humidity dumps overnight, they'll get stuck and I'll be asleep and can't help
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I only have 19 eggs in there, so if I get more pips/hatches tomorrow, it'll be a good hatch.

I hear peeping, so I know at least one of them wants out
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I have one egg from my OEG hen that is in the hatcher. These are eggs that were laid with a broody hen, so they are all due at different times. I have 2 of her chicks in the brooder, one is a week old and the other is a day old. They are the prettiest little babies!! I am pretty sure by the looks of them that Charlie the red jungle roo is their daddy. They are gorgeous chicks!! Hopefully they aren't both roos, that's all I have hatched from her so far.
I won't have anything else hatch for another week at least, other than these stragglers. Then I'll have 3 hens due to hatch, plus a whole bunch of quail and chickens in the bators!! Should be interesting, to say the least!

I right now have 12 chicks in the inside brooder, my last hatch did pretty well. I had 10 EE eggs from the monkey mama and 6 of them hatched. Pretty good, considering my track record with shipped eggs this winter. Then there are 2 silkie chicks, 1 golen lakenvelder, a bantam ee mutt, and the 2 OEG babies. I'll have to take pics of them, they are the prettiest chicks I have ever seen! Oh, and I forgot about the little black and white bantam chick that Cris conned me into buying at Sano yesterday. It is so tiny, it's hard to remember that one!
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Yeah, I'm thinking I may have to get another brooder bin from wally world
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the 12 chicks I hatched out the other day are in one bin, and if I have too many hatch out of this batch, I only have a small brooder bin (I use it for smaller or weaker chicks, before they go into the big bin).

Then... I am getting about 30 chicks from Day & Day monday, and 110 chicks on order from that hatchery that will be here wednesday or thursday
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It would be easier if they were all the same age, and not a few days apart - the ones I hatch tomorrow will go with the ones I hatched the other day in a couple of days, but by then I'm gonna be losing my mind swapping chicks around.

It'll help that my two big girls are going to the coop early this next week (probably monday afternoon).

I cannot imagine what my house is gonna be like with over 150 chicks in my sewing room.

Oh, did I mention that the ducks eggs go into the hatcher sometime next wednesday or thursday ? (would have to check the calendar
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You should be able to put the new ones in with the ones that are a bit older. Mine in the brooder range in age from 2 weeks to 1 day, and I haven't had any problems. It actually helps, the older ones kind of show the new ones what's what. If it were only 1 or 2 new ones going into a big group, I wouldn't do it, but if there are even numbers or more little ones than big ones, the big ones are usually to scared to start anything. I put my mille fleur chicks I hatched in with my GL and ameraucana chicks when the millies were just a day old. The GL and ameraucana were both about 3 or 4 weeks.
 

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