The Quack Shack

[Miss Lydia]

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Oh my gosh just hatched?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Good Morning/Evening

 

[rjohns39]

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Good morning Nchis, have a great day

Good Morning/Evening

Good morning Patti, have a great day

 

[nchls school]

Oh my gosh just hatched?

No. 12 hatched in the incubator the day before we had bad storms and tornados a couple weeks ago. Our substation was hit and the electricity for most of the county went off for 6 days. It was a rough week with no heat (all electric home) and hard to keep new babies warm. 9 survived the week and are doing well. Thankfully, we don't live further north.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Bless their hearts, I hope you have a generator. We lost by power for 6 days once and that was the first thing we did once we cut our way out of here. This was an ice/snow storm that brought down trees and power lines. At least we have a wood stove that would come in handy if brooding. I remember people telling me years ago when they would get chicks they placed them behind the wood cook stove to keep them warm.

 

[nchls school]

Bless their hearts, I hope you have a generator. We lost by power for 6 days once and that was the first thing we did once we cut our way out of here. This was an ice/snow storm that brought down trees and power lines. At least we have a wood stove that would come in handy if brooding. I remember people telling me years ago when they would get chicks they placed them behind the wood cook stove to keep them warm.

Not yet, but it is something we have to get soon. Most of our neighbors have generators.

My grandmother used her woodstove to keep the chicks/ducklings/goslings warm when needed in the same fashion.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Hope everyone had a good Christmas! We are currently in that blissful week between Christmas and newyears where no one knows what day it is. Plenty of swimming happening here. Going to attempt to count my chickens today and do my first round of "culling" the babies. That is, tagging legs with coloured bands and marking which ones I won't keep for my breeding program based off mis colours etc

 

[nchls school]

Hope everyone had a good Christmas! We are currently in that blissful week between Christmas and newyears where no one knows what day it is. Plenty of swimming happening here. Going to attempt to count my chickens today and do my first round of "culling" the babies. That is, tagging legs with coloured bands and marking which ones I won't keep for my breeding program based off mis colours etc

I always find that taking a head count is easier after dark. It's the only time there isn't constant motion.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That's when I do headcount too when everyone goes in to roost.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

My babies don't sleep I swear. Even when the bigs are fast asleep roosting, the chicks come running when they hear me. 24 babies, only 5 pullet wyandottes and 15 cockerals, The 4 orpintons I can't tell yet. Only my daughter could breed a chicken with heart markings.