Well, this might be a big mistake. Drinking Coffee Liqueur at night !!!! lol
Anyway big week end coming up. I need to order chicken food, duck food, chick starter and see if Magee's can get the stuff ordered and in by Friday. Otherwise i will have to order the duck food from a different place but that is closer anyway but will still go to Magee's. It's worth the drive. My eggs shells are very nice on it.
Plus I will see if I can find my pony harness to have looked at at the Amish Bigzio's friend uses.
Anyway also today a man stopped while I was tending to my ducks and geese and he wanted to buy RIR hatching eggs. Well my RIR Roo passed over the rainbow bridge so I didn't have any to offer him.
SO..... does anyone have RIR hatching eggs or chicks or maybe laying hens for sale ???? Told him I would ask. Jim or Dan do you know of anyone since you are Up Nort ????
Here are some pictures of my 4 mallard, 3 runner and 2 goslings out in their new digs today. The Black and white ones are the Runners.
The gray Gosling is a cross of my two that I don't know what they are so this is my first gosling to hatch from them and my first. The white one is from an egg I got from the guy I got 3 sebs from. It is I think a cross between a brown and white Chinese.
And the white geese are a pair of white Chinese. I just tossed about 14 of their eggs. The Goose would sleep on them at night and not during the day. I had thought she was going broody but I guess not. When the pigs got in the pen and started eating rotten eggs I knew they weren't any good. She started to lay again today so we will start over I guess.
Btw, because we didn't collect Runner duck eggs since last weekend I now have about 4 ducks that have gone broody so looks like I will have a bunch of Runner ducklings. Could have a few that could have rouen or mallard crossed in since I have 18 runners housed with a pair of rouen's and one mallard drake. I will keep you all posted........ Don't know how many I will keep. Dang dh, I told him to start collecting again ........ Guess if you want the job done you gotta do it urself !!! LOL I had no idea that Runners went Broody !!!! News to me !!!! Oh and I have my mix breed goose laying on eggs. Have no idea who's eggs they are. That gray pair is in with my 5 sebs so ??????? I don't think the seb gander is dominant so ????? I need to get them separated.
Hopefully my Muscovy's and calls follow suit. I'm tired of incubating in the house.
I just put in about 4 dozen mix breed chicken eggs in lock down. Most are for my farrier who is coming this weekend to trim. Gotta stay on his good side. He only charges $25 for a trim and I have draft horses and donkeys. A lot of farriers won't even do them or one farrier wanted $50 for drafts and didn't do donkeys !!!! Geez bunch of Sissy's !!! lol
Hopefully the teacher at school who's class hatched out the 13 chicks will take some of the chicks. She said a lot of people wanted to take them home, some for 4H. I didn't think 4H used mix breed chicks??????
Some of the chicks might be pure Aussie's since I put in some of the neighbors eggs. He has two Aussie Roo's (see Heather) over Aussie hens, BR and BO hens. Ought to be cute chicks. I might keep the pure Aussies if I can tell them apart at one day old.
I got 3 dozen eggs from the neighbor and I just threw out another Stinky one tonight. I think I put only 30 of his in lock down. His eggs were filthy !!! I washed them. There was no way I was going to put them in the bator dirty. I wouldn't have even put them in the bator but at the time I wanted to fill the bator for the farrier and I wanted some pure Aussies. By the time I changed my mind they brought them over and so I paid for them and thought since I paid I may as well use them.
So they are due Friday and we need to get hay on Thursday. Geez I had better get to sleep. And I keep nipping at this bottle. I had better make a list of the phone numbers I need to call in the morning because I have a feeling I won't want to do it when I wake up !!!! I sure wish I wasn't such a night owl at times !!!!
Anyway big week end coming up. I need to order chicken food, duck food, chick starter and see if Magee's can get the stuff ordered and in by Friday. Otherwise i will have to order the duck food from a different place but that is closer anyway but will still go to Magee's. It's worth the drive. My eggs shells are very nice on it.
Plus I will see if I can find my pony harness to have looked at at the Amish Bigzio's friend uses.
Anyway also today a man stopped while I was tending to my ducks and geese and he wanted to buy RIR hatching eggs. Well my RIR Roo passed over the rainbow bridge so I didn't have any to offer him.
SO..... does anyone have RIR hatching eggs or chicks or maybe laying hens for sale ???? Told him I would ask. Jim or Dan do you know of anyone since you are Up Nort ????
Here are some pictures of my 4 mallard, 3 runner and 2 goslings out in their new digs today. The Black and white ones are the Runners.
The gray Gosling is a cross of my two that I don't know what they are so this is my first gosling to hatch from them and my first. The white one is from an egg I got from the guy I got 3 sebs from. It is I think a cross between a brown and white Chinese.
And the white geese are a pair of white Chinese. I just tossed about 14 of their eggs. The Goose would sleep on them at night and not during the day. I had thought she was going broody but I guess not. When the pigs got in the pen and started eating rotten eggs I knew they weren't any good. She started to lay again today so we will start over I guess.
Btw, because we didn't collect Runner duck eggs since last weekend I now have about 4 ducks that have gone broody so looks like I will have a bunch of Runner ducklings. Could have a few that could have rouen or mallard crossed in since I have 18 runners housed with a pair of rouen's and one mallard drake. I will keep you all posted........ Don't know how many I will keep. Dang dh, I told him to start collecting again ........ Guess if you want the job done you gotta do it urself !!! LOL I had no idea that Runners went Broody !!!! News to me !!!! Oh and I have my mix breed goose laying on eggs. Have no idea who's eggs they are. That gray pair is in with my 5 sebs so ??????? I don't think the seb gander is dominant so ????? I need to get them separated.
Hopefully my Muscovy's and calls follow suit. I'm tired of incubating in the house.
I just put in about 4 dozen mix breed chicken eggs in lock down. Most are for my farrier who is coming this weekend to trim. Gotta stay on his good side. He only charges $25 for a trim and I have draft horses and donkeys. A lot of farriers won't even do them or one farrier wanted $50 for drafts and didn't do donkeys !!!! Geez bunch of Sissy's !!! lol
Hopefully the teacher at school who's class hatched out the 13 chicks will take some of the chicks. She said a lot of people wanted to take them home, some for 4H. I didn't think 4H used mix breed chicks??????
Some of the chicks might be pure Aussie's since I put in some of the neighbors eggs. He has two Aussie Roo's (see Heather) over Aussie hens, BR and BO hens. Ought to be cute chicks. I might keep the pure Aussies if I can tell them apart at one day old.
I got 3 dozen eggs from the neighbor and I just threw out another Stinky one tonight. I think I put only 30 of his in lock down. His eggs were filthy !!! I washed them. There was no way I was going to put them in the bator dirty. I wouldn't have even put them in the bator but at the time I wanted to fill the bator for the farrier and I wanted some pure Aussies. By the time I changed my mind they brought them over and so I paid for them and thought since I paid I may as well use them.
So they are due Friday and we need to get hay on Thursday. Geez I had better get to sleep. And I keep nipping at this bottle. I had better make a list of the phone numbers I need to call in the morning because I have a feeling I won't want to do it when I wake up !!!! I sure wish I wasn't such a night owl at times !!!!
