The incubator room is filled with brooder buckets, with 6 different species all yelling for attention. Keets are hatching today... Completed a huge new indoor flight pen as an extension off of the new shed, which is now 1/3 of the way up. The roof is off the original aviary as I slowly peel it apart to rebuild and relocate it. The incubator room is slowly turning into a place that is more human friendly, where we can be within the line of sight of the imprints but not be stuck on the floor. No weasel for over a week, but he's not in the traps either. The resident skunk comes around on occasion to look for hidden nests, but the big birds see him off promptly, usually before I get outside. My last run in with him taught me that skunks can spray while running away. I reeked for a few days after that. He already took a pellet to the backside - rugged little guy! I swapped over to a .22 rifle, but of course he has not been back... The Muscovies hid a HUGE nest, the contents of which are now incubating... Hatching away despite the weasel losses, in smaller quantities, but will have babies hatching weekly for close to a month just on what is in the incubator now...Exhausted, and brewing a little lupus flare... Everything hurts, and when I'm not doing stuff with/for the birds, I'm asleep. The poor house looks like a bomb dropped. Haven't gotten to it in far too long!!
Hoping to drop my hubby at work and head out to chickenstock shortly!
If you are available tomorrow, you should go to Chickenstock, it will be fun - lots of stuff going on.
