Gracie - you still have that incubator? I'll PM you.
Rcajun -
I also want toot my own horn a bit..... I passed my clinical!!
I'm so happy and exhausted. Now to just take my final exam and my HESI.
PLUS -- I put some goose eggs in the incubator this morning!! I can't wait!! They all look like they made the trip good. Only had one "partially" detached air sac. I'm keeping my finger crossed as this is my first attempt with shipped eggs and the first time I've hatched eggs in about 6 years.
Gracie - you still have that incubator? I'll PM you.
Rcajun -
I also want toot my own horn a bit..... I passed my clinical!!
I'm so happy and exhausted. Now to just take my final exam and my HESI.
PLUS -- I put some goose eggs in the incubator this morning!! I can't wait!! They all look like they made the trip good. Only had one "partially" detached air sac. I'm keeping my finger crossed as this is my first attempt with shipped eggs and the first time I've hatched eggs in about 6 years.
mzstre, if you ever have any extra feeding storage cans, I would love to get some. I am usually in Baton Rouge once a month for a class and I could pick some up them. My next class in on the 27th of this month.
I saw something on DYI that I am going to try. It is to cover a wood frame with hardware cloth, then put the frame on the ground and plant grass under it. The chickens and bunnies can eat the tops of the greens, but not destroy the roots so it can continue to grow. I saw fotos and people say it really works. I want a way for my girls to get fresh growing grass. Two of them got into the backyard a couple of weeks ago, left the gate open, and in the time it took to go to church and come back home those two chickens had made a huge mess of every garden and planted pot in my whole back yard! So much destruction done in so little time by two chickens.
So, I am planning to put the frames in the chicken yard to give them live greens. Have any of you heard of this or tried this before?
Julie, I don't have the luxury of your "natural incubators" and therefore have to rely on my mechanical incubator to hatch my goslings.
This past weekend was so gorgeous that my first batch of sebbie goslings got to have their first swim. Boy, did they enjoy that! They looked like a bunch of wet rats!
After their swim, they dried off and had a chance to eat grass for their first time. They sure are cute when they're all dried off and fluffy. My best guess is that two will be white, two possibly splash, one gray saddleback, and one buff saddleback. I also have one Pekin duck in the mix that thinks he's a goose. I can't separate him from the group.
Silly Duck!!
After moving this group outdoors, I hatched a "bumper crop" of sebbie goslings. As best I can tell these will either be white or splash, and possibly one saddleback.
Ashleigh, Pearl's baby is the one in the bottom right corner. That little gosling is very danity and petite -- it really looks female.
And, since 13 is an unlucky number, I was lucky and had four more babies hatch today to bring my total sebbie gosling count thus far to 17.
Julie, I don't have the luxury of your "natural incubators" and therefore have to rely on my mechanical incubator to hatch my goslings.
This past weekend was so gorgeous that my first batch of sebbie goslings got to have their first swim. Boy, did they enjoy that! They looked like a bunch of wet rats!
After their swim, they dried off and had a chance to eat grass for their first time. They sure are cute when they're all dried off and fluffy. My best guess is that two will be white, two possibly splash, one gray saddleback, and one buff saddleback. I also have one Pekin duck in the mix that thinks he's a goose. I can't separate him from the group.
Silly Duck!!
After moving this group outdoors, I hatched a "bumper crop" of sebbie goslings. As best I can tell these will either be white or splash, and possibly one saddleback.
Ashleigh, Pearl's baby is the one in the bottom right corner. That little gosling is very danity and petite -- it really looks female.
And, since 13 is an unlucky number, I was lucky and had four more babies hatch today to bring my total sebbie gosling count thus far to 17.
