Pictures

I have had a request for more pictures, well as we don't have any babies at the moment and puictures of eggs are well slightly boring I will post lots of pictures of the rest of the gang (poultry, waterfowl and goats) on my other blog.

And of course post our next babies here.

But Babies soon

Pecker has once again gome broody, bless here this time with about 18 eggs she has laid and stolen from the other bantams, none of the eggs are likely to be fertile so I have some other eggs for her, which we will try to slip in later today, when the kids get home.

Bothe incubators are fired up and on the go, one full of quail eggs the other with a mixture of Welsummer, Marens, Cream Legbars and Buff Orpingtons.

They quail are all due to hatch around the 21st, fingers crossed as the last batch were wasted due to a dodgy thermometer (now fixed).

The others all due around 2nd November. So fingers crossed.

No Babies at the moment

Well its seems like ages since we last had no babies, after a very good summer of natural hatchings, though nothing in the incubator.

Katherine and Henry's Babies have all gone off to new homes, as have the 4 Indian Runner ducklings. Peckers Chick Pompom is now turning in to a cracking cockeral, not crowing yet, but when he does he is off.

Selby Auction Mart

Went to Selby Saturday and sold 5 Muscovy babies, 4 Indian Runner babies and 1 Cockeral.

Still have a pair of Muscovy to sell.

New Incubator

Well I tried it with some quail, only to discover at 15 days that a problem with the thermometer, so the eggs have basically been cooked. I have transferred them to the old one, so fingers crossed.

And ordered a new thermometer for the incubator. New eggs due to arrive Thursday, so we will see.