ok guys! finally caught up........... going on 3 hours of reading later
! good thing the kiddos went to bed early tonight
hope the poor baby heals soon!
hubby reminds me of poop math all the time! he will not be getting this bit of info!
love the blues!
i saw emu eggs on craigslist the other day and thought of you
can't wait to see pics!
good luck with the rest!
i am loving the scovies more every time i see them!
and feisty!
he is kinda scary!
love it!
you sure have a whole lot of cute going on tonight!
so pretty!
so neat and orderly! my hatcher looked like a crime scene!!!
she is 2 and always tries to hug them
thanks!here Bakin...
ok thanks! i have never seen any of mine do that most of them run away from the boysSquatting is what female birds do so the male can get on, lol. They put their head down, lift wings and tail, and squat down. I've never had anything besides a chicken do it to me, and even my chickens don't until they are within a month of laying. Still pretty shocked my 3 month old goose did it. She's growing up too fast, lol.
Nice pen! Beautiful birds too! I didn't see the pictures last night for some reason on here, but see them in everyone else's quotes.
cute! i almost forgot how small call ducklings areHere is a cell phone pic I took yesterday of Uno and his 2 wk old silkie buddy. Not the best pic, but look at the size difference!
YEAH !!!
My Sussex are laying !GOT MY 1st EGG TODAY ! No more freeloading
very cute!Hello everyone! I have been off the forum for a couple of weeks. I recently purchased some Polish, bantam chicks. They are straight run. They are about three and half weeks old. Can anyone tell, by this picture, if they are male and female? The one on the left, Beldar, has a slightly, slanted crest. Primat, on the right, has a rounder crest. I was wondering if this could be indicating a male and female? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated
good luck
Hi all, here are some gosling pics a took today when I had the babies out eating grass and grit
7 babies bear their basket
7 gosling snacking
Here is one of the buff dewlaps with the lone gray dewlap
OK, anyone with experience here? This one buff has issues with an eye. It has a bit of clear liquid, and is a bit swollen. I rinsed it with mild salt water today, and it opened for a little while, but im not sure whats going on here. Any thoughts?
Found a buyer for demon guinea
. Sadly I bet people in Waco would probably stay on the line
I need to get photos of the whole crazy flock tomorrow. My pekin "babies" have finally gotten over the "wait for mama at the door so she'll pick you up and put you to bed" phase and have graduated into the "Get away! Monster!" phase.
The goslings are still sweet and tame enough to be petted and picked up. They wait outside until everyone else goes to bed and then go into the duck house. They're going to need their own place eventually. Bully gosling is now the friendliest of the two.
Someone wants to make a nest back behind the duck house. Not sure who it is, but we've been fishing eggs out of there for the past two days. Maybe I should drag the "broody box" out of the bushes and see what happens. One of the previous owners kept chickens and we finally figured out what that odd house-like thing was. Not a doghouse, a broody box.
My son must have fallen asleep on the couch, I see green jammie legs and blue socks sticking out from under that blanket.
Heard a rumor that hubby bought me some white runner eggs. White runners can throw any color, right? I thought there were recessive genes at play there, but I'm not really good with color genetics.
Now we have one runner mama with 13 ducklings and one muscovy mama with 13 ducklings at the farm. Everywhere you look, there's ducklings. Muscovies are going to a new home eventually, but I think we're going to keep the runner fluffballs... they free range, so I doubt we'll have 13 a few weeks from now...
Now I read somewhere (probably here) that ducks poop about every six minutes. That's 10 times an hour, which is 240 times a day. Multiply by how many ducklings in brooder...
Duck math cannot save you from duck poop math!
so cute!!!!!
Marcel is a ham....always posing! She is queen of the babies...well, she thinks she is!
Simon could care less about anything...easy going as they come.
Marceau and Simone are tiny compared to the other two.
Marcel is making sure everyone is in their respective corners.
Son's blue Runner babies. They are getting lots of feathers now. His drake, Indy, loves to get into our laps for luvins.
I just love blue ducks!
Took off the brace today. He's walking normal!!. And is now chest bumping the other poult
wont need a wheel chair now its a miricale
genetics can see Julie down in her lab working on this egg strapped to tables and lightning flashes outside mmm hahaha
Hello!!
My Buff American goslings will be hatching at Celtics house next week probably. Then she will ship them to me, and I will have 4 adorable baby geese.......... Uploading some pics of duckies BTW!!!
First hatched duckling ever. I found this little guy this morning, and by the end of the day I expect another to be hatched as well. The third will probably be later tomorrow.
In between chasing my geese around with a tape measure.
love the progress! she is so cute and talkative!Hey guys, for those of you who do not follow the goose thread, I wanted to share a short video of Spirit, my gimpy goose, doing her thing.
hi everyone! caught back up again.
One of the turkeys just strutted. Most adorable thing ever
so cute! i will have to upload a pick of my lone one so you can tell me what you think, not even sure on color but it sure is cute
I'm up to 10 of these babies now. 6 more in the incubator, 5 more just put under a broody yesterday. I'm keeping most of them to grow out and keep my favorites. I want a smooth feathered one or 2, a few more silkies, and if my roo doesn't change his attitude I'll be finding him a new home this fall and keeping a replacement fizzle out of the batch. I love the black frizzle silkie in the back, but can't keep any frizzles for breeding since my roo is frizzled.
I've got the feather kids all outside playing right now. Pictures to come.
Looks like our warm spell is winding down some. Guess it would be a good day to go toss that clover seed and get a few things transplanted. Hubby's supposed to be repairing out riding mowers. One somehow got dirt in the gas lines last year when we were redoing our front yard. He thinks our son did it. The other one has a faulty battery. At least the hauler mower is an easy fix, the mower mower might take a little more time.
Got 11 pips out of 16 eggs.
group picturee with the 3 mystery ducklings blue fawn white snowy and blue magpiee
another group shot.
blue bibbed and mystery baby
'blue magpie lookin for treats
very cool! i love blogs!yes... Of course I'm paying for them though
HEY!! Who wants to check out my moms blog?!
Heres our new one http://honeycreekhollow.blogspot.com/......... And the old one.... BTW, I am very short in this one lol http://beforehoneycreekhollow.blogspot.com/
Can it do this too?
We have to get it a friend though:
How I feel in half the other sections:
I am back and speaking of Anconas....
I took a couple quick shots today and played around with them. They aren't uber good pics but figured I would share.
My two black meat birds are growing up. My hatchery Swedish and Cayuga. They are both starting to feather in and I see LOTS of green!
I didn't get any of the tricolor babies today but plan on getting some new pics of them soon.
you don't even want to know how long it has taken me to get to this point and by the time i am done commenting i will be behind atleast a few pages
So I have 12 of 16 pipped. Threw one out, dead, fluid in air cell. One really active one that hasn't pipped yet. Two more that I'm not seeing anything in, but will keep them in for now.
Aiming for 13 of 16 total. Nice. That will be a new record. Got one wrong way but really active. No SW yet.
Hubby and I were having a duck vs. goose battle on Facebook. All because I pointed out that the picture with the ducky caption was really a goose. So...
Duck...
Duck...
Goose...
first ever Quail hatched while I was out doing chores !!!
so pretty!My girls. The little black one is my family's favorite chicken. She finally started laying again after raising the EE babies and I have 5 of her eggs under a silkie. Can't wait to have some of her babies.
Geese checking out the babies. They like to talk to them, but try to bite the gosling so it'll be awhile before they are allowed to meet again without the wire. My little snowy guy loves me, is always underfeet and next to me. The magpies are sort of in the middle personality wise, the snowy girl is the most timid.
Babies. They all play together and get along great.
So excited!!!! Went to check on Call eggs under broody...should be hatching today. One egg was externally pipped, but all should have been because they were all internally pipped yesterday morning. I grabbed the eggs and brought them in, candled and sure enough all were internally pipped and wanting out. I opened them one at a time and made sure nares were clear. They were all very vocal as I opened them up. SW was starting so I"m glad I grabbed them. Of the 6, 5 are alive and well so far. 3 of them are butterscotch!!!!!I've wanted butter babies sooooo bad!!! I have one butter egg in the bator trying to internally pip and on day 24.
3 of 7 silkie eggs in hatcher are externally pipped...woohoo!
I"M SO FREAKING EXCITED!!!!!!
Ok...heads free on 4 of the 5...gonna let them do the rest. #5 is a bit behind in the process, so covered with wet paper towel to wait till later on it. This freakin ROCKS!!!
love it!!!!!! i sooooooooo need turkeys
Finally caught him on camera strutting! He really gets into it now, turns his neck bright red and everything. No strutting from the other 2 whatsoever, so I'm really hoping I have a trio.
And my geese glow!
blue mixes. The closest looking variety I can find is Lilac turkeys, which I'm really hoping mine grow up to look like. They looked identical to lilac poults when they hatched, and seem to be feathering in pretty similar.
so cool! my guys show off all the time and the only attention they get is from my daughter
i do too!That really sucks....hope they get to you alright.
See...guineas attack like roosters do when they are broody. I don't know about a big ole turkey attacking me, lol. Maybe midgets?I have pens, then the rest is all open so if they won't stay in pens, I'll probably lose them. It's so open that the cattle and my horse can rub on the pens, lol. I have moving lawn ornaments, both feathered and hairy
That sounds like lots of fun!
I can't stay for long because I have a Banquet to go to. But Demon guinea is gone. Only took about 2 minutes to catch him.
Do you candle them? I know that a lot of people have issues candling but I can always see into mine to some extent by day 6. Do they have wonky aircells? I honestly don't know what I would be doing differently. I only candle twice. Day 6 or 7 and lock down. 99.5 degrees throughout and humidity from 40 to 60. Do you have a good fertility rate? I had 1 roo to 6 hens before and was had a 85-90% fertility rate and near 100% hatch rate. Of course i have lost a couple but they have been italians. I have to take the lethal gene in to consideration with them. I have NEVER had to pip for them either. Have you?
Just sold 2 Ancona ducklings for $25 bucks today. Woot Woot!
forgot what i was gonna say, butIt would help if I actually listed any of my extra drakes on the local online site.
Not sure either, because they get along just fence sharing a fence in their garage pens. Ah well. As soon as my other dewlaps get old enough, I will be putting Barley with them and not the other geese anyway, so I will just fence off a 2nd turnout area and give up trying to use the one yard for both sets.
