Bit early full stop Steve. We incubated a few eggs to test fertility of the new cockerel. Great fertility & its a shame to throw viable eggs away so we hatched them. There's a local farmers son - only about 12 - who is very keen on poultry. His Mum is happy for us to give them to him & loan him the equipment to raise them (brooder plate) etc.. So he gets the experience of raising some chicks & a few free chickens at the end. Winner, winner....Bit early for Easter![]()
We've hatched hundreds if not thousands. Still find them adorable!I refuse to saw 'Aww'; damn, I've said it!
You've hooked him for lifeBit early full stop Steve. We incubated a few eggs to test fertility of the new cockerel. Great fertility & its a shame to throw viable eggs away so we hatched them. There's a local farmers son - only about 12 - who is very keen on poultry. His Mum is happy for us to give them to him & loan him the equipment to raise them (brooder plate) etc.. So he gets the experience of raising some chicks & a few free chickens at the end. Winner, winner....![]()
That's the plan. People did these things for us, it's our turn to help the next generation to find their pathYou've hooked him for life![]()
We work very closely with the wonderful people at Brinsea (the finest incubator company in the world). As such they let us offer discounts & extra freebies on a lot of their range so if anyone ever wants an incubator, do DM me & I'll provide some codes!We used to have three large Incubators , huge box like things ( or they seemed so to me at a tender year of single digits.. )
I do think baby chicks are cute.
But baby ducks & goslings ... they are indeed even cuter!!!
Sadly we don't tend to breed ducks - messy creatures! We get given quite a few drakes that we process for the table & we live in the best wildfowling territory there is h we can forage for duck!Yup, and better eggs and meat.
Lets see some ducklings on the go, British Red.
Your very right but the electric fence would be a no for me on the grounds of a pacemaker lol yup had one shock but luckily i was on a ladder with rubber soles and it just threw me off so got lucky , but also my mate had chickens and his dad had what was best called colditz and after a few failed attempts the fox found a way in all chickens died it killed say 8 out of 12 left 4 so injured they had to be put out of pain and the cockrel it left just the head whcih was the funny part , but again with our health issues looking after birds would be a littlep ush to far we have 2 stray cats lol that now own the house and well the foxes come and we have loads of other wild life and what with the garden and veggie growing chickens would be to much , when we were younger we use to keep hundreds of parrots and parrakeet and we would spend each weekend washing and cleanign the flights out food pot scrubbing and so on most days was feed day during breeding season and off season it was every other .Whilst a determined fox can be a problem, we've thus far managed to prevent them getting at the chickens. A strong coop with an automatic door closer attached to a metal pop hole works well for us. Combined with an electric fence carrying 10,000 volts we've kept them out to date. Of course, never say never