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[The BlanchRanch]

All my chicks r gone from my jail cell brooder. Something like a rat or mouse could fit in but thats the biggest. I am sad cuz those were all the ducks from my last hatch.

What a horrible thing to happen. So sorry.

 

[Rhetts]

Holm your pictures are very nice. I tell you, my family has been talking cattle for a year now. Yours (and grandpas) look very nice. You are very lucky to be living on a farm. I am envious! Your turkey strut is too funny too!! LOL!

 

[holm25]

Holm your pictures are very nice.  I tell you, my family has been talking cattle for a year now.  Yours (and grandpas) look very nice.  You are very lucky to be living on a farm.  I am envious!   Your turkey strut is too funny too!!  LOL!

Thanks

. He wants to give me a cow of my own other than the family milk cow and my show cow. He had a calf get her head stuck in a tree and he talked to my aunt about probably letting me have it!! She is a bottle calf and needs lots of care to get her back and bucking again.. That turkey really is goofy!!

 

[Rhetts]

I had a fox attack this morning. It was going after the tom turkey. Many (and I mean many) piles of feathers all over the yard. DH managed to take two shots at it but not successful. Surprisingly, the turkey is still alive. I am not sure if he will make it or not. His back is pretty bad. It has been very warm and humid and I can't seem to get him to drink at all. But, I understand that is the way of things on the farm. The turkeys are completely free ranged so I am surprised it hadn't happened sooner. With Ralphie's help today, I think I can find the right things I need to hopefully keep this fox and others at bay.

 

[Rhetts]

Thanks

. He wants to give me a cow of my own other than the family milk cow and my show cow. He had a calf get her head stuck in a tree and he talked to my aunt about probably letting me have it!! She is a bottle calf and needs lots of care to get her back and bucking again.. That turkey really is goofy!!

Sounds like good, hard but rewarding work! Nothing better! Oh I wanted to tell you my rouen duck went broody. UGH! I have no idea how to deal with this one right now. I have nowhere to put her to keep her safe on a nest. How to break a broody duck? LOL!

 

[holm25]

What a horrible thing to happen. So sorry.

Thanks!!

 

[holm25]

Sounds like good, hard but rewarding work!  Nothing better!   Oh I wanted to tell you my rouen duck went broody.  UGH!  I have no idea how to deal with this one right now.  I have nowhere to put her to keep her safe on a nest.  How to break a broody duck?  LOL!

Do u have lots of predators. My duck is broody out in a pile of hay. Do u have a drake??

 

[holm25]

Do u have lots of predators. My duck is broody out in a pile of hay. Do u have a drake??

I never read the post before this!!

 

[Rhetts]

Ha Ha Holm! Um, yeah we do have a predator here and there. And yes those duck eggs would be fertile. 2 ducks, 2 drakes. No shortage there.

 

[holm25]

I am gonna try one last time and to craigslist they go. Anyone interested in ducklings??