donna1064
07-07-2010, 09:02 PM
Its been a busy year here on the ranch.
Baby and Kiwi welcomed their first clutch of 5 babies in the early spring. Of the 5, 4 are Dutch Blue and one Australian Cinnamon. Then lo, and behold, we barely get the first clutch fledged and they start on another one (that Kiwi is an amorous little booger). The second clutch began hatching out about 7 weeks ago. From this clutch we got 3 normal green, 3 Dutch blues, and another Cinnamon. The last of the second clutch had their flying and eating lessons last week so we were able to safely remove the nestbox. Mama bird is comfortably sequestered in a cage by herself, but right next to the 2 larger cages, where she can still be in the center of things. Everybirdie is doing well. But that's not our whole flock, not by a longshot!
This spring we also acquired ..............
34 silver laced wyandotte chickens
10 guinea fowl
9 pheasants
5 turkeys (3 bronze and 2 white)
6 geese (5 toulouse and 1 chinese white)
6 ducks (4 blue swedish and 2 rouen)
with more 6 more ducks and 3 more chinese white geese arriving tommorrow!
So its been pretty busy here, to say the least. We've been keeping the babies in growing pens as we get the poultry house completed which, has been a major undertaking, but I'm happy to say it looks as though it will be completed this week! Of all the poultry birds my favorites are the geese. They are so adorable and friendly! The turkeys, on the other hand, are the meanest S.O.B.'s......good thing they will be in a pen all to themselves....being that they won't be living past the holiday season....:rofl:
Baby and Kiwi welcomed their first clutch of 5 babies in the early spring. Of the 5, 4 are Dutch Blue and one Australian Cinnamon. Then lo, and behold, we barely get the first clutch fledged and they start on another one (that Kiwi is an amorous little booger). The second clutch began hatching out about 7 weeks ago. From this clutch we got 3 normal green, 3 Dutch blues, and another Cinnamon. The last of the second clutch had their flying and eating lessons last week so we were able to safely remove the nestbox. Mama bird is comfortably sequestered in a cage by herself, but right next to the 2 larger cages, where she can still be in the center of things. Everybirdie is doing well. But that's not our whole flock, not by a longshot!
This spring we also acquired ..............
34 silver laced wyandotte chickens
10 guinea fowl
9 pheasants
5 turkeys (3 bronze and 2 white)
6 geese (5 toulouse and 1 chinese white)
6 ducks (4 blue swedish and 2 rouen)
with more 6 more ducks and 3 more chinese white geese arriving tommorrow!
So its been pretty busy here, to say the least. We've been keeping the babies in growing pens as we get the poultry house completed which, has been a major undertaking, but I'm happy to say it looks as though it will be completed this week! Of all the poultry birds my favorites are the geese. They are so adorable and friendly! The turkeys, on the other hand, are the meanest S.O.B.'s......good thing they will be in a pen all to themselves....being that they won't be living past the holiday season....:rofl: