One of our little banty hens has made herself a nest and has been sitting on a clutch of eggs for close to 3 weeks now. If you remember it only takes 21 days for chicks to hatch out of their shells. So, since we didnt write down on the calendar when she started sitting on them I grabbed up a couple today and held them to my ear. Much to my surprise I could her little peeps coming from the egg....that means soon she will be hatching out some babies. I did sneak a couple of duck eggs under her, those take 28 days so hopefully she will continue to sit on the eggs and hatch those out as well!
Our big brown female duck, who has the very original name of "Ducky" couldnt be found on Monday. She is usually the first one out of the barn in the morning when I go out to milk. I thought that something had happened to her, but also found her sitting on her own clutch of 8 eggs and one chicken egg. Maybe she got inspired by the little banty and decided she wanted her own babies? Ducky becomes quite angry if you come close to her nest! I tried to get under her to inspect and see how many eggs she had, she flug her long neck around and gave me a quick tap with her beak. Oh no you dont lady, she was probably thinking. I did manage to see that she did have the 8 white duck eggs and her brown chicken egg. Where that came from I'm not sure as the chickens have been in the coop for a while. I may have to see if I can get that one out from under her and candle the egg and see if its even viable. We certainly dont want a rotten egg explosion, especially since we are supposed to be in the 90's for a few days this week. Ick! I butchered 8 chickens today too so its off to clean up for me. Stay cool!!! Summer is here.
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