Last year when we ordered chicks, we ordered some Araucana/Ameraucana chicks. They lay colored eggs, and I wanted some. Well, here it is, a year later, and the only hen that survived is now laying eggs. They’re the prettiest shade of light blue. I tried …
Stephen’s been doing research this morning. We think we figured out the problem with our goats. Moldy hay. We had brought some hay home not long ago. We kept it covered, and did our best to keep it dry. Apparently it had gotten wet before …
Stephen just came back inside. Our other doe has died. I don’t believe this.
I am really disappointed. Our goat Sasha did kid overnight, but her baby was born still. She was a pretty little thing. Then this morning, Sephina kidded too. She had two so far, and we think there’s another one in there too. Unfortunately, she went …
Stephen went outside today to check on our animals, and came inside to tell me that one of our nannies is kidding. We’ve known she was due soon, but she sure did pick an awfully cold day to go into labor! I’m sure they’ll be …
We’ve had quite the fun with the quail around here. We had 11 hatch, and a couple have died. I think we have 8 now. Yesterday, Stephen took a few out of the brood box so that I could take a few macro shots of …
So far, we have seven quail that have hatched. Or maybe this was the eighth one. Now I can’t remember. But they’re hatching pretty quickly. We had five this morning in a couple hours’ time. They’re so tiny! Each quail chick is less than two …
We have 28 quail eggs in the incubator, but so far, no signs of any about to hatch. We’re starting to wonder if we really got 28 dud eggs. I hope not – we were really looking forward to them. Guess we’ll know more in …
There are 28 quail eggs in a regular egg carton A closer look at the eggs The eggs in the incubator. We’d like to eventually get trays specifically for quail eggs, but for now, the chicken egg ones work well enough. The eggs are all …
This brings new meaning to the phrase “bucket of chicken.” We have 14 chicks now from the hatch that I posted about a couple weeks ago. We put them outside about a week ago, but had some pretty cold weather so we brought them back …
