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What did you do today?

Exciting day. Got our first Naturally incubated hatchling. Had a Brahma get broody a month back. Give her 4 eggs and I think there were 7 under her. lol Sneaky girl. But 2 hatched sometime this morning though I didn't know until about 10:30. One was gone the other was a pretty fresh hatch. Neither were under the broody hen. So I think the one just got too cold. This was was fully out of the egg, and chilling down so I thought about putting it under the hen, but figured I better bring it in and get it under the heat lamp as it was still farily damp, and I can't be sure one of the other hens wasn't causing an issue.

Also swapped out some fencing. Had some snow fence cut 2 ft high and across the front of the yard on this short side, so the ducks would stay out of the road, but he lil bastages were jumping over the fence lately, so out with the old and in wth the new 4ft chicken wire. lol That'll fix there lil asses... well has so far. they can still jump over the other fencing in the drive but have yet to really do it unless I'm chasing them back across the road from the ditch.
Lost 4 ducks already this year to the road. smdh. Hoping this helps cut that back to zero.
But I'll end up having to put up some 4ft fence down the sides of the yard sooner or later to keep the lil bastages in the yard and out of the road. They are trying to get to the ditch that has water in it, even though we have an entire swamp in the back yard. lol SMDH.

Also put up a temp pen inside the pen out back and the 5 Buff Opingtons got their first day outside and on the ground eating real bugs... Fun fun. They were jumping all over the place.






 
@Timmahh

When I was a kid we had some Rhode Island Red layers and a couple cocks... maybe a Bantam in there iirc. And then we got a bunch of Polish boys and girls. They were the most fun and a great deal of responsibility for sis and I. Don't think we ever went without eggs at breakfast and we'd find those things all over the place in the main barn... inside hay balers, horse stalls, lofts, etc lmao. Had some ducks for a couple minutes too but I don't remember them as fondly. This was back in the 70s in rural Ohio fwiw and the neighbors thought those Polish chickens were weird af lol.

Seeing them birds brings back good memories... Cheers!
 
The Polish are pretty weird looking like a Rastafarian Chicken. lol

They're great fun. The ducks have HUGE personalities and are quite characters.
Was well past time to get their pool cleaned and start filling it. Hopfully this will be the final key to keep the ducks from trying to get to the ditch across the road. will take a few days to get full.





May try to do a vid on the Slash Ultimate. Picked up a set of new diffs for it.
Need to get the vid/audio setup for starting the Origin build.
 
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