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[spunkychickenmomma]

Have a duck question...at what age do ducks usually start to lay?

 

[mjgigax]

Been working on my crocheted quilt here it is all laid out and each block is quilted to a back, but they aren't joined together yet.



The blocks are so scrappy b/c it was from a block swap, my first one ever and it was a blast, so much fun I started another swap that is almost done (the swap not the blanket)

 

[mjgigax]

I have 6 week old chicks, 6 month old POL pullers and a cockerel, the bantams, and Delilah with her 3 week old chicks in the brooder room at night and during the day everybody except the rooster pen go outside to free range. The breeding roosters (the CW and the Cochins) keep their girls away from the other roosters and the different groups seem to cluster to free range together. So far everyone is happy. I simply throw open the gates and everyone rushes outside...one group goes this way, one goes that way another group heads to the garden and another group to the front lot. Pairs choose to go where they please. There are plenty of nest boxes inside and the Roos take their girls into someone else's pen to check out the feeder and the accommodations,but every flock returns to their own roosts in the evening.

Chickens sure have interesting habits. I love watching them.

 

[erinszoo]

Guess what just happened? I was on my way to bed and decided last minute to write down menus for tomorrow since I work early in the morning. I get the living room where my husband is watching tv and a commercial pops up that I've never seen before that has a scene in the woods. Well I hear something chirping, like a bird and thought it was on the commercial but realized my husband had the tv muted. So I go to the incubator and the peeping gets louder. I open the door to the bator and out pops this little one!!

We've had so many problems with hatching lately that I hadn't even checked the eggs today other than to shift the trays to rotate the eggs. This one was late to be hatching but he still was moving the last time I candled on Sunday so I left it in the bator and haven't touched it since. So much for lockdown!!

Now what shall we name it?

 

[erinszoo]

Have a duck question...at what age do ducks usually start to lay?

Ours were about four months old. We had a khaki campbell and still have a swedish blue. The khaki gave us an egg every day. (she was killed by a predator a couple of weeks ago ...)

 

[miohippus]

Been working on my crocheted quilt here it is all laid out and each block is quilted to a back, but they aren't joined together yet.



The blocks are so scrappy b/c it was from a block swap, my first one ever and it was a blast, so much fun I started another swap that is almost done (the swap not the blanket)

nice work

 

[miohippus]

Guess what just happened? I was on my way to bed and decided last minute to write down menus for tomorrow since I work early in the morning. I get the living room where my husband is watching tv and a commercial pops up that I've never seen before that has a scene in the woods. Well I hear something chirping, like a bird and thought it was on the commercial but realized my husband had the tv muted. So I go to the incubator and the peeping gets louder. I open the door to the bator and out pops this little one!!

We've had so many problems with hatching lately that I hadn't even checked the eggs today other than to shift the trays to rotate the eggs. This one was late to be hatching but he still was moving the last time I candled on Sunday so I left it in the bator and haven't touched it since. So much for lockdown!!

Now what shall we name it?

Lucky might be a good name

 

[jcatblum]

Erin congrats on the late hatch. Hopefully you have some friends waiting for him some where. I was just telling kids we need to start keeping an eye out for eggs from our 4 ducks.

We are going to try our best to take advantage of the warm weather & clean a few pens hopefully.

 

[Kassaundra]

Guess what just happened? I was on my way to bed and decided last minute to write down menus for tomorrow since I work early in the morning. I get the living room where my husband is watching tv and a commercial pops up that I've never seen before that has a scene in the woods. Well I hear something chirping, like a bird and thought it was on the commercial but realized my husband had the tv muted. So I go to the incubator and the peeping gets louder. I open the door to the bator and out pops this little one!!

We've had so many problems with hatching lately that I hadn't even checked the eggs today other than to shift the trays to rotate the eggs. This one was late to be hatching but he still was moving the last time I candled on Sunday so I left it in the bator and haven't touched it since. So much for lockdown!!

Now what shall we name it?

Congrats. I would name her Laputy short for "late to the party".

 

[NanaKat]

Quote: Wow, editing out the background really made those blocks pop!
Kass are you going to leave the arrangement the way it is (graduating from green to blue) or will you mingle the blues and greens. It's a great example of the variety you can get from a friendly swap. Nice job.