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[chickadoodles]

Kathy your baby ducks are just adorable.

 

[casportpony]

Kathy your baby ducks are just adorable. 

Thanks. That one is very oddly marked, so it will be interesting to see when it feathers out. Over 100 hatched this year, but only one like it.

-Kathy

 

[ronott1]

How many eggs in lockdown? Hope you have a successful hatch!

-Kathy

I have 9 that made it to lockdown. 3 are UofArkansas blue egg layers and the rest are Marans. There was a pip on one of the Marans eggs this morning so I expect to have some chicks hatched when I get home.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: You'll have to post a pic when it is older. They are so cute.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Good luck on your hatch Ron.

 

[1kluckychik]

Klukychick I hope all your babies hatched. 

Ron I hope you have an awesome hatch. 

Diva have you tried Raspberry ice cream with chocolate syrup or topping? I keep seeing that commercial for the chocolate covered raspberry ice cream bars and I wonder if they are any good.  

Thanks. I think 6 are out now

 

[Alaskan]

I feel for you on the birds that eat more than seeds! 
What do you do to protect your plants and things you don't want them in?

This year the kids voted for no veggie garden, only chickens and berry plants

However, in the past I have used that white cloth-like grow cover. Is it Remay? It is supposed to be used for frost protection. The peas need to be totally covered in that stuff, until the rest of the world greens up very nicely. It turns out the birds will eat the pea plants down to the ground. Once the peas start to flower, I can take it off.

The other plants that the birds decimate are poppies. They will eat the flower buds right off!!!!! So, I stopped growing those.

For some crazy reason the birds aren't too bad with the raspberries, gooseberries, and serviceberries. I do have trouble with the strawberries... And I haven't found a good solution there. The rodent horde are also major strawberry eaters.

 

[Alaskan]

Kathy your baby ducks are just adorable. 

Thanks. That one is very oddly marked, so it will be interesting to see when it feathers out. Over 100 hatched this year, but only one like it.

-Kathy

That is an awesome down pattern. The circle on the top of the head is a hoot.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: I have my strawberries in a kiddie pool filled with potting soil and then I put a fake owl next to it and a rubber snake and also covered it with the bird netting. I was some jam and to be able to use the strawberries this year. My plants are huge and they are sending out runners everywhere. I can't hardly keep them all in the bed. lol
I also ordered some of those silver looking pinwheels for the garden and my fruit trees. I am going to try everything I can think of! hahhaha I am even hanging pie tins in my fruit trees now.

 

[chickadoodles]

Ron would you mind looking at this pullet and telling me if you think she is a some kind of laced wynodott? Or what? lol