Alaskan's Journal

[Alaskan]

As to chick hatching... the Ameraucana bantam... she hatched 3 chicks, I put her younger eggs in the incubator... we ended up giving her 4 more over the next week.. and she was fine with them.

We also found some partly incubated eggs in the main coop... stuck those in the incubator too.

1 hatched, a dark brown leghorn, only a few days behind the leghorn hen... and she already had 1 dark brown leghorn chick in her set of 12... so we gave her that one.

Now... what has it been, a week and a half? And another chick has hatched...

I need to find a spare broody.

 

[RollingAcres]

Went out driving today....sure was pretty!

The fireweed is almost done blooming.

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And a flock of dumb chickens were sitting in the road. (I think they technically are ptarmigan, but everyone here just calls them dumb chickens)

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Such beautiful pictures!

 

[Bruce]

The fireweed is almost done blooming.

Gorgeous!

Ptarmigan are good eating. We used to hunt for them often when I was stationed on Kodiak Island.

If they were as bright as the one's where Al lives, must not have been much effort to bag a few.

 

[Mike CHS]

Gorgeous!


If they were as bright as the one's where Al lives, must not have been much effort to bag a few.

On Kodiak, they seemed to prefer living in shin high scrub area so they were hard to get them to flush unless you had dogs. I was young and didn't have any but several of the more senior people had them.

 

[Bruce]

Well now you know you need to hunt the stupid ones that live in the more populated areas.

 

[HomesteaderWife]

How are things your way @Alaskan ? Haven't check in on the thread in some time and curious to know how the weather is for you, and how the family and flocks are? Wishing you all well from Alabama!

 

[Alaskan]

Ah..... the joy of fall.

We have already had ice, tiny hail, and snow.... but nothing has stuck.

Lows of freezing, highs in the 40s.

All 5 boys are back home. But it is working out well. Just way better cost wise for them to be at home. Eldest is doing online college and second is at the local community college.

I am trying to continue to downsize my flock... haven't been very successful.

I did want muscovy ducklings this summer, but I had a bunch of predation last fall and winter... down to 2 first year females...

They brooded WOOD CHIPS this summer!!! Yep, they had zero eggs under them!

And now that it is cold one of those girls IS BROODING!!!! And this time on actual eggs. Yeah... crazy.... I forgot to write down when she started.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

And now that it is cold one of those girls IS BROODING!!!! And this time on actual eggs. Yeah... crazy.... I forgot to write down when she started.

Hope she is more successful with eggs than she was with wood chips! I guess if the chips would have hatched you would have had wood ducks?

 

[B&B Happy goats]

...good one FEM

 

[Baymule]

FEM you beat me to it, smart aleck remark! Love it!