Bonnie’s eggs are pipping and so far 6 of the 7 eggs are pipping and the little chicks sound strong as they cheep away inside the eggs.
http://luckysduckfarm.blogspot.com/
Bimbo got to hear and hold an egg for the first time. If it was tomorrow, she would have missed out.
geez you’ve got enough animals – they all look terrific though and you are very thorough with your tagging etc. …. and the extra compost will be great.
Very inspirational lucky.
pepper said:
geez you’ve got enough animals – they all look terrific though and you are very thorough with your tagging etc. …. and the extra compost will be great.
Very inspirational lucky.
I have 9 ducks that need to go out your way to the markets next month.
I have 9 ducks that need to go out your way to the markets next month.
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how old will they be then?
pepper said:
I have 9 ducks that need to go out your way to the markets next month.
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how old will they be then?
Almost 2 months….. want a couple of ducks for free????
Almost 2 months….. want a couple of ducks for free????
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i can just see them – healthy friendly little quackers
i don’t have the set up – maybe when my swale is full of water i could free range them and bring them in at night with the lure of food.
i will ask around to see if anyone can do them justice.
thanks for the offer.
Cool Lucky :)
Reading you’re blog about how to tell the isa browns from the light sussexs’ , it jogged my memory of my grand dad putting a drop of food colouring in a open bit of the pipping eggs. I remember blue , pink and purple chicks and they were so cute !
..they lost the colour added with the first set of feather’s.
Happy Potter said:
Cool Lucky :)
Reading you’re blog about how to tell the isa browns from the light sussexs’ , it jogged my memory of my grand dad putting a drop of food colouring in a open bit of the pipping eggs. I remember blue , pink and purple chicks and they were so cute !
..they lost the colour added with the first set of feather’s.
Is that how it was done…. I often wondered as the local Whyalla show used to sell coloured chicks.
I didn’t approve of the practice myself as 1 chick on its own is in my books cruel.
I have just checked and Bonnie is the proud mum of 1 little Isa Brown Sussex cross:D The other cross will be out of it’s egg before the pure Sussex will be. So I’ll pop a black texta mark on that ones head too.
Took a couple of baby snaps for my blog:)
I am am just so thrilled to be having baby chickens.
Last time was late 2006 when Bluegreen gave me that 1 dozen sussex eggs:)
Lucky1 said:
I have just checked and Bonnie is the proud mum of 1 little Isa Brown Sussex cross:D The other cross will be out of it’s egg before the pure Sussex will be. So I’ll pop a black texta mark on that ones head too.Took a couple of baby snaps for my blog:)
I am am just so thrilled to be having baby chickens.
Last time was late 2006 when Bluegreen gave me that 1 dozen sussex eggs:)
Baby count is as follows
2 Isa Brown X Light Sussex bantams
2 Light Sussex Bantams
2 Light Sussex Bantams almost hatched
1 egg no sign of pipping yet.
http://luckysduckfarm.blogspot.com/
Photo of Radar’s first born:D
awwwwwwwwwww!
is so cute :)
I hope that last one hatches !
Awwwwwww – congratulations Lucky!! he’s so cute :)-
Okay I have (well Bonnie really) has 6 baby chicks…. 7th egg is a dud.
Best we have ever done in a hatching rate:) Leaving them until tomorrow for a family snap shot.
good news Lucky. Soon you will be over run with chooks :)
drylander1 said:
good news Lucky. Soon you will be over run with chooks :)
Yeah….. backyard is looking awfully over run at the moment. Be a bit better once the 9 ducklings have gone.
The 4 little fluff bums are just zooming round their little area and are so strong and just too cute for their boots:D
it never ceases to amaze me how fast they can move. Mine have their first lot of real feathers and when they run they use their wings as boosters and boy can they move!
I now have two pekin chickens sitting on the two duck eggs!
bluegreen said:
it never ceases to amaze me how fast they can move. Mine have their first lot of real feathers and when they run they use their wings as boosters and boy can they move!I now have two pekin chickens sitting on the two duck eggs!
Oh I do hope the ducks eggs do hatch, you’ll enjoy the ducklings and their antics.
I think the Sussex chicks zoom quicker than normal chicks…… well they seem to here anyway….lol
Lucky I’m so glad your little fluffybums are doing well. Sad that you lost 2 though. I guess it’s nature’s “survival of the fittest” in action.
BG, good luck with your duck eggs. :)
Thanks o40:D
They are a joy to have and watch.