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    Measures have been taken, so fingers crossed we'll get a result.... The goslings that are coming tomorrow will go straight into the brooder box, so hopefully the problem will be sorted by the time they go out.... Still cant quite get over the enormity of it! Shocking!
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    Well this morning all was well in my poultry pen.... Came home this avo at 4:00pm and the little lad came in screaching saying there was two ducks dead in the pond... Strange I thought, very strange! Got out there and fished the female Muscoveys out, and saw the marks round thier necks. Then looked down the pen (which is huge) to see 3 more dead adult ducks, and a few scatterd 6 week old ducklings. The fox must have got stuck in the pen, it had been trying to dig out under in several places, but had the time to bury 4 ducklings, the One of the adult birds was still warm.... cant tell
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    That sounds horrid... how bout making a trap for them, and putting near to the hatching duck egg's.... My nan used to use a part jar of honey (I think)... watered down slightly so they drown when they go in. Put the lid on but make a couple of holes in it. I can remember these ghastly looking jar's of dead ants being dotted about the house. They lived in a really old cob cottage, and the ants lived in the walls... it was quite usual to see a line of trooping ants walking up and over the worktop on thier way to the fruit bowl! Urgh!
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    Just chick crumb at the moment
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    They're great thanks, in a big carboard box indoors, got the infa red lamp on them on half power, and quite high up, and they're loving it they have ad lib chick crumb and a plant pot saucer of water, and seem to be helping themselves very well. Time will tell I guess... hopefully I'll have some chicks hatching soon and might be able to integrate them with the broody hen??? never tried it before, but it might be worth a go. Thanks for asking x
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    Aw
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    A friend of mine hammered an old paint tin to the side of thier shed in among the clematis... Robins nested there every year
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    She was happily watching the chickens attack them, when the ducklings were trying to run to who ever they could for warmth, they are still very unsteady on thier legs, stumbling over, and if I didn't move them, they would have been picked off quite quickly by the carions crows and magpies My other ducks have been great mothers, very protective and shielding them well, but this mum was far too relaxed! I wouldn't have taken them if I thought they weren't in any danger. Ahhh right, I was just wondering. You did the right thing then good luck with them
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    Too right, its great for the kids to learn another side of keeping animals too, and understanding where their food comes from, and how its been reared.
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    She was happily watching the chickens attack them, when the ducklings were trying to run to who ever they could for warmth, they are still very unsteady on thier legs, stumbling over, and if I didn't move them, they would have been picked off quite quickly by the carions crows and magpies My other ducks have been great mothers, very protective and shielding them well, but this mum was far too relaxed! I wouldn't have taken them if I thought they weren't in any danger.
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    Found these two calling for thier mother this morning, shivvering little bundles of fluff.....she's a bit young and doesn't seem to have a clue what to do with them, so Its under the heat lamp they go
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    Simply stunning!!! x
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    Just a thought, but I remember quite well my Nan going crazy about these unexplained turds turning up all over her doorstep and the surrounding vacinity.... She arrived home unusually late one evening to find a bladdy great toad on her doorstep, with a freshly laid toady turd!!!! They thought it was a hedgehog till then too! Might also explain the sluggish looking remains????
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    Aw, cracking little tale, lovely to find x
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    Just had a thought hun, why dont you stick with the plastering for the time, and just do one day a week on the farm, to get a tatse of things to come. I started off being an "apprentice" Herdsperson, milking on the weekends, for no more than the bloody learning of it... and then went to college, and qualified up to farm management.... at least then I could expect no less than the standard rate of pay.
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    Dont get me started on farming!! ex farmers wife..... note the EX!!! lol
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    What sort of ducks are they?.... My muscovey eggs are quite small, apple yards are better, and I have one aylesbury who lays a fair size, but deffinatley not huge....
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    Yup! And if you do have a cock running with them, the eggs DON'T taste salty! (despite what my wife thought) thats a classic!!
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    lol, "egg cups" hun The chicken that I get the belters from is light sussex, she's 3 years old now, but lay's like a goodun
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    This is my lad, William, and as he helps me feed the chucks and ducks, and collect egg's, he had first dib's on the two MASSIVE double yolkers, for his lunch! I had one very happy laddie I can tell you Just look at the colour of those yolks... .... Still wondering if keeping hens is worth it? xxx
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    Beautiful shots!
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    Thats a classic, gorgeous :)
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    No wonder he can keep warm with all that hair I didn't have a clue what he was, great pic though
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    Lovely pictures, I dont think I've ever seen those birds!!
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    Funnily enough Jay's were the first two birds caught in the larsen at my place. I put out brown bread, in and around the trap as bait, and a nest of eggs in one side. They went for the bread. Now use them as call birds as they make a good racket!
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