Larkwell Valley (2023)

[JacinLarkwell]

Aren't silkies really small?

Yeah, these are probably 2, 2.5 lbs at their biggest live.

 

[NagemTX]

Watching! How have I not been watching! Nice birds.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Watching! How have I not been watching! Nice birds.

Thank you!

Things have been crazy and emotional this last year, so unfortunately I'm not nearly as organized as I had hoped to be.

The next batch of eggs coming (hopefully tomorrow?) are leghorn, unless they were awesome enough to happen to have muscovy they could add (probably not, and I didn't think to ask either ).

I'll be posting eggtopies in a few days once I'm certain the araucana and Cornish are done hatching (so likely Friday or Monday due to schuledule and how many hatch since once I have 11 babies, I know for a fact I'm all done) and then loading up the incubator again

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I should probably go check on my barred cochin. She took over a nest (this is the 3rd time now, apparently she's just too good to bother starting a clutch) and I think there was an egg shadowing a day or two ago

 

[NagemTX]

Thank you!

Things have been crazy and emotional this last year, so unfortunately I'm not nearly as organized as I had hoped to be.

The next batch of eggs coming (hopefully tomorrow?) are leghorn, unless they were awesome enough to happen to have muscovy they could add (probably not, and I didn't think to ask either ).

I'll be posting eggtopies in a few days once I'm certain the araucana and Cornish are done hatching (so likely Friday or Monday due to schuledule and how many hatch since once I have 11 babies, I know for a fact I'm all done) and then loading up the incubator again

Good luck! I was hoping to get some as well but untill we get pens done again and I'm done raising the new order that's coming in I don't have the room. Unless I can teach them to snorkel that is.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Good luck! I was hoping to get some as well but untill we get pens done again and I'm done raising the new order that's coming in I don't have the room. Unless I can teach them to snorkel that is.

Some muscovy or leghorn? Or both?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Welp. Barred cochin hit strike 3. Took the surving chicks from her and moved the other eggs under a different hen. Don't think I remembered to put the cochin back in her pen. Survivors got tossed in the incubator just to try and get them warm enough since I wasn't expecting to have to take them away.

 

[NagemTX]

Some muscovy or leghorn? Or both?

I like both but ducks are more mess than I want to mess with!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I like both but ducks are more mess than I want to mess with!

Yeah, they are pretty messy, and mine are only 6 weeks