BeccaOH: Update of just STUFF

[BeccaOH]

Two nice finds last night:
Yet another broody hen. This time it is a BA in her second spring of laying. She didn't brood last year. The other 2 are BOs. I think I'll set this hen on duck eggs. The 2 BOs are currently sharing a nest, but the younger one only has one egg as the older one took the other 3.

My other find was a turkey nest where 4 hens have stockpiled 12 eggs. It is in the straw, on the ground, in the hoop house I was planning to move soon. I'd like them to set the nest, but I really need to move the turkeys out of my garden. :/

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Cool beans, Becca!

Would you mind replying to my email

 

[BeccaOH]

Would you mind replying to my email

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

If you're going to lunch - call me!

 

[keljonma]

Congrats on your blue egg! And it seems that you have a number of layers too...I think that is a wonderful sign of spring.

So glad to hear your mom is doing well after her surgery on Monday. You're both in our prayers.

 

[BeccaOH]

Celebrate with me
I just hatched out my first call duckling. Looks like it is a pure white. It has already decided the spray bottle for misting water that I keep in the incubator is its mother.

And, another celebration
I got my first goose egg! Came from my pair of geese that are almost exactly a year old. Been hard to tell sex on these guys, but at least I now know I have one girl.

And last night I brought home 3 Embden geese from Bourbon Red (2 ganders and a goose). The goose looks almost exactly like my Lucy. I put the geese in a separate pen from my other waterfowl, but so far they have seemed to ignore each other.

Saturday I raided the turkeys' nest. They were collecting eggs for a week, but no setting. So I gathered 26 eggs. I'm going to incubate and see if any are viable. I need to move the turkey house and try to encourage the hens to start another nest and SIT on it.

We had some snow this past week, but I have patches of grass that are already starting to look long. I'll be mowing before long.

This time of year sure makes me wish I had an asparagus patch. Do you realize I bought roots TWICE and never got them trenched in the ground? Couldn't decide where to put them and couldn't find time to trench them.

Last of my baby bunnies go to sale today, and I have a doe building a nest. :bun

My mom had hip replacement and is doing well. She may be home by the end of the week.

Life is crazy busy here and spring has just begun.

 

[lorihadams]

Oooooo baby ducks!!! I have a ton of runner duck eggs....man I need an incubator! Pics of the little bugger please....call duck babies are the cutest little things...they have the sweetest little heads.....you just wanna squeeze 'em till they pop!!!

 

[BeccaOH]

I now have:
5 call ducklings (appear to be all whites)
3 Copper Black Marans
2 Blue Marans
1 Mille Fleur Bearded d'Uccle
and a pipping Sebastopol gosling

More to hatch soon, but I'm struggling with my egg math. I was ready to give up on the Marans when they started to pip. I've got some project eggs ready to hatch (day 21 tomorrow, I think ) but no pips yet.

These ducklings sure are camera hams. I think about getting rid of the call ducks and narrowing my focus. . .then I see these. AHHHHH

Why do babies like the food dish for a bed???

New Wheaten Marans I bought last night.

New Welsummers (plus a Wheaten Maran) I bought last night. Sure isn't helping me narrow my focus.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

awww!!! Becca they're so cute, but those pics are HUGE lolol

Who's narrowing their focus?!

 

[lorihadams]

Okay, that first one is ADORABLE!!!! I just want to squeeze their little heads, they look like little golf balls!