Sufficient Self members with Poultry!

[CrealCritter]

She's allusive, look for her eye and they you'll see the body, she's a gray dove.

Jesus is Lord and Christ 🙏❤️🇺🇸

 

[MeanCheek]

You'll never guess. I was rafting the river, pulled over, saw a chicken, caught her and brought her home.

This is River Chook

 

[Hinotori]

I have 3 pens with chicks right now. There are 32 chicks total. Molly ended up with the hatching stragglers because she's a very good broody and I can scoop her up and move her without any fuss whatsoever. She also takes in chicks for up to 2 weeks after the first hatches. As in just put them in front of her in the daytime and she'll put them under her.

 

[Hinotori]

Molly is awesome. She's just over a year old. She's been broody a total of 6 times now, which is an annoying amount. Not all times did I let her have chicks. She actually only got chicks the first time because i only had a couple broodies for the ordered eggs and she was the only one who didn't care I moved her into a tub in the house.

She's very attentive to the chicks. Last batch it was eggs from all 5 pens and they were off each other on timing a bit because Id let the hens start them before moving to the incubator. Id have tried another broody with the last ones to hatch, but Molly was in the broody coop so I figured I'd try her first. She happily took them and adjusted her care for younger chicks.

She's very valuable to me just for her mothering.

 

[CrealCritter]

Every morning I look forward to saying "Release the Quacken" they hear me even before I get to the door and start Quacken it up 😂 their routine is the same every day. As soon as I open the door, they make a bee-line to the pond. They swim around some then walk around, seeing how many mud puddles they can make. Today they watched me work on a piece of equipment from outside the barn door. I like having ducks around, they are hilarious and keep enough distance away, to not really get in the way.

Jesus is Lord and Christ 🙏❤️🇺🇸

 

[CrealCritter]

Found another duckling hatched by turkeys.

I held it by the water and it drunk some, then I sat it down and It took to lone duck right away. The chicken chicks ran away from it.

Jesus is Lord and Christ 🙏❤️🇺🇸

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

Peep adventures. Love it. Pix?

Of course!

 

[Hinotori]

Here's a 5 week old silkie cockerel for decoration

 

[MeanCheek]

 

[CrealCritter]

"Egg-speriment" results.

Most definitely like sugar baby watermelon better.

Jesus is Lord and Christ 🙏❤️🇺🇸