Larkwell Valley (2023)

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Exciting!

It really is. I haven't had ducks for almost 10 years. I've missed them

 

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Welp. Out if 5 araucana (including the last cull and Miss 1 leg,) 1 is still holding out on me, 3 lay sage eggs and Bunny is the closest to blue with like literally one shade bluer than the sage eggs.

 

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Fertile eggs going to the ag class today

 

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Working on the duck pens

 

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Rusty!.

 

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Peaches laid her first egg a few days ago. Definable tell a marans chocolate. So while my araucanaa lay more greenish than they should, at least my marans gal is laying a chocolate egg

 

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Welp, Peaches is holding out on me now. Laid that first egg and nothing since then.

 

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Almost done culling the ones with bad feet. 2 left that definitely need to go, 3 others that will if they relapse or start to give up, including my naked neck male I got from the school. He and his siblings lived in a greenhouse when the first colds came, so unfortunately they were not ready for the cold earlier this week brought and he got a limp and blister. Doesn't seem to have progressed, but still watching to make sure. I wanted to keep him as a bachelor, but if he must go, I'm not going to make him stay

 

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The one footed pullet is doing great though. She's learned how to walk and is even jumping up into a tote to lay her eggs. I've got much more hope for her than I did originally