I have two mamas with clutches right now. I started keeping both in their own dog kennels inside the big coop to them them on their eggs not switching to others, and have been taking mamas out for a coffee break 2x day.
Because they’ve been mostly isolated they now get picked on some during...
I set eggs under my broody yesterday but today found her on different eggs. I’d set her up in her preferred corner in a small pet carrier (with door removed). End of day today she was in the other nest box on a fresh clutch of today’s eggs and the ones I’d given her had gone cold. I put her...
Due in part to my outdoor growout setup for mine- they’re using the bottom portion of an unused two story coop- and holy cats getting them back out again is terrible. My sweet ducks do not want to come to me to be easily picked up so forcing them out means being scary and awkwardly crawling in...
Trying to decide if I can take them off heat indoors yet. We’re close and the indoor setup I need to upgrade them to for space reasons is much easier without needing a cord.
Typing this- they are 4 weeks old today? So yeah. Doing it.
When I raised several rounds of runners it seemed like three weeks would be early for quacks but I did have it start then occasionally? Maybe more like 5 weeks-ish?
That makes sense, and I’ll only do the jug now that these girls are quite big.
I lost a beautiful bantam last fall to a water bucket 😭 She was full grown but somehow must have decided she couldn’t get out and died of the cold, not drowning because she was right size up 😭😭😭