LuLu Gone Broody...

Cant wait to watch & play with with ducklings on the farm again...

She started sitting on her eggs this mornin, shes been sitting on them at night for alittle while now but today is the 1st mornin she didnt give off them... so we'll have cute lil ducklings around March 13 :) Last May LuLu & Scarlett hatched out 16 ducklings.

If you like visit my album on fb... Duck Adventures 2012

Fall Ducklings...

I know I said I was done for the year...
But the farm animals though differently...

This is Scarlett, shes 1 of my duck hens. I bought her summer 2010, she hatch me out ducklings in May, I still have 3 of em 1 boy & 2 girls. She went broody back in Sept. & was sittin on 10 eggs that I figured to be due today, Oct. 19. When I candled the eggs only 3 were developing. Well I wanted to move her to the barnyard, so I did & I messed her broodies up, thank goodness I had a broody BO hen to take over the job of hatchin out Scarletts eggs....

Heres the BO broody hen that adopted the muscovy eggs

They hatched right on time

Arent they cute!

Ooo yeah, now this BO hen is broody! No eggs are under her, I'm gonna break her... I've had to break alot of broodies this year.

* I've got one of my Silkie hens sittin on 1 Silkie egg due around Oct. 25. Then I seen one more of my Silkie hens sitting in the nest box, guess what... shes broody too!

A Very Sad Update:
I hate to have to come here & type this. I'm so mad at myself, I feel like a horrible person right now... I went out about an hour ago to check on the ducklings & found all 3 dead. I had moved the BO hen & ducklings to a bottom nestbox (they where at the top & I was scared they would fall out)... well the hen must have left em & went back to the top nest. I should have just taken them from her this morning... I really just feel like cryin right now, its my own fault, I should have knew better! I hate this part of farm live.

Update on broody duck hens

Remember Scarletts Hidden Duck Nest
Well acouple days after we found her nest I noticed Lu Lu was broody in her nest box in the chicken coop. So this mornin I took 7 eggs out of Scarletts nest & put them under Lu Lu... everyones happy now & we should see ducklings around May 11.

Update on my other hatches: I've got 10 eggs from Oklahoma due to hatch around April 18. Then 4 silkie eggs from Texas due to hatch around April 26 (these are under my broody bantam, the duck egg I had under her wasn't fertile). Then I've got a Kentucky friend puttin some of her silkie eggs in her bator for me and one of my cousins this Sunday, they will be due to hatch around May 8. Gonna have ducklings & chickies everywhere!!! I sold 7 hens & 10 of my 3 week old chicks from my March hatch over the weekend.

Scarlett off her nest this mornin

Goin back to her hidden nest :)

Nutmeg...

Is In Broody Jail And She Is Not Happy. She went broody earlier this week, shes only 6 months old, shes a mixed BO/RIR I hatched out in March. I have had almost every one of my hens go broody this year! I've decided to NOT give her any eggs and try to break her out of her broodiness. I've read to keep her in a cage for a couple of days so the air can cool her down?

* I went and checked on her already this morning... shes doing fine in jail, lol

2nd BO Broody...

I know, I know... I said I wasnt going to hatch anymore chickies til Spring, but I just cant help myself!!! I ♥ Chickens and their eggs! Whats a couple more chickies when you already have 40...... I put 5 eggs under her. (3 EE, 1 BO or RIR, cant tell and 1 bantam)

If I get another bantam egg today I'm going to put it under her too :)

Start look for chickies around Thanksgiving... they are my b-day present to me