Made it thru the heat! Stuff sure does take a long time when you have to keep stopping to rest! I only lost one newborn bun today, I was sure it was alive when I checked them earlier in the day. Probably got too hot in all that fur the does pull. One other one went MIA, I kept putting it back in the box, I had rescued it outside the cage yesterday and today it was just gone gone. Guess it had a death wish?
Everyone else looked fine, I opened the Ameraucana pen so they could get out of the hot coop and into the shade, yes, the same chickens that delight in escaping from said pen. Would they get OUT of the pen? Noooooo, of course not. One of the kinda runty looking hens does look rough though, seems awfully affected by the heat, its either standing outside trying to give itself heat stroke or maybe its got mites, I guess tomorrows fun project is to chase it down and check.
The mink decided that since it could not get at the ducks, it would kill one of the silkie hens instead.
I guess I can add fix coop *again* to my list of stuff to do? I can't seem to catch the dang thing, going to have to go PU a new trap and decide who wants to be bait.... Unless of course its the rat I also cannot catch, anyone thing that rats would attack and kill half grown ducklings and a silkie? The bite radius on the two ducks that got attacked was about two inches tho, whatever it was it got the whole ducks head in its mouth and left a fairly large wound on a leg of another.
Looks like the Runner drake still has one eye, pretty sure the other one is gone.
Jury is still out on the leg wound on the Khaki hen though, she is standing sometimes, so I've decided to give her another week to see if she continues to improve.

Everyone else looked fine, I opened the Ameraucana pen so they could get out of the hot coop and into the shade, yes, the same chickens that delight in escaping from said pen. Would they get OUT of the pen? Noooooo, of course not. One of the kinda runty looking hens does look rough though, seems awfully affected by the heat, its either standing outside trying to give itself heat stroke or maybe its got mites, I guess tomorrows fun project is to chase it down and check.
The mink decided that since it could not get at the ducks, it would kill one of the silkie hens instead.

Looks like the Runner drake still has one eye, pretty sure the other one is gone.
