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Quick update.
Been a few days, been pretty busy.
Alot going on with the birds, Mix of good and bad.
Updated and old open faced brooder with new wiring, still need to add a rim to the front t to keep bedding in but it's being finished just in time.
I shut the fibro hatch out of the small pen they've been in in the run.
Time to find their place amongst the flock. Unfortunately the scissor beaked chick got pinned behind another broody pen and was scalped to death by the mother hen.
With the new space available and the unforeseen circumstances of the one cages location I rotated the two newest hatches into bigger spaces and removed the small cage I was using for the broody.
On the subject of death, I also buried an old hen the other night. Came home from work and she was slumped up on the ground cold and stiff in a corner of the run. I've been learning alot in the last few years of owning birds and I definitely feel sorry for factory stock production birds. Essentially working themselves to an early demise.
On the opposite of death and upon arriving home from work I and doing my daily rounds I was surprised to see a second hatch of ducklings with a momma. And as it turns out it was one of the ones I thought I'd lost to the woods.
The other broody duck I know of is still sitting on its nest, I did have an opportunity to candle a few of these eggs and am uncertain of her success rate. They looked pretty bad to be Frank. So not counting my ducks before the hatch
I'm at roughly 30.
Speaking of candling eggs, tomorrow is lockdown and which is just fine with me now that I have the tubes running out for my water wells I don't need to open the lid at all
. We'll see if this hatch is improved from the last one.
Getting alot of plants in the ground finally. Squash and melons, some peppers and a few tomatoes and alot of herbs.
Doing some great chefs choices at work, keeping up on my projects around here. Just keep moving and staying busy, not to long before the new baby, two months goes by fast.
Onwards and upwards
Attimus
Been a few days, been pretty busy.
Alot going on with the birds, Mix of good and bad.
Updated and old open faced brooder with new wiring, still need to add a rim to the front t to keep bedding in but it's being finished just in time.
I shut the fibro hatch out of the small pen they've been in in the run.
Time to find their place amongst the flock. Unfortunately the scissor beaked chick got pinned behind another broody pen and was scalped to death by the mother hen.
With the new space available and the unforeseen circumstances of the one cages location I rotated the two newest hatches into bigger spaces and removed the small cage I was using for the broody.
On the subject of death, I also buried an old hen the other night. Came home from work and she was slumped up on the ground cold and stiff in a corner of the run. I've been learning alot in the last few years of owning birds and I definitely feel sorry for factory stock production birds. Essentially working themselves to an early demise.
On the opposite of death and upon arriving home from work I and doing my daily rounds I was surprised to see a second hatch of ducklings with a momma. And as it turns out it was one of the ones I thought I'd lost to the woods.
The other broody duck I know of is still sitting on its nest, I did have an opportunity to candle a few of these eggs and am uncertain of her success rate. They looked pretty bad to be Frank. So not counting my ducks before the hatch
I'm at roughly 30.Speaking of candling eggs, tomorrow is lockdown and which is just fine with me now that I have the tubes running out for my water wells I don't need to open the lid at all
Getting alot of plants in the ground finally. Squash and melons, some peppers and a few tomatoes and alot of herbs.
Doing some great chefs choices at work, keeping up on my projects around here. Just keep moving and staying busy, not to long before the new baby, two months goes by fast.
Onwards and upwards
Attimus
Called the guy I got them from and had him come back and get them. Cleaned the pen and everything we had them in really good, disinfecting with bleach, and moved it to a different spot. Went to a feed store about an hour away and got five 4 wk old pullets, all different kinds. Have had them since Wed, and they are all doing great ... so cute racing around everywhere. 
e So now we have 9, but not gonna change my name. lol
