Thursday, June 10, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Unfortunatly we don't have any babies to show off yet. We are working on it though, we have handful of Snowy Mallard and Nankin eggs in an incubator. We have a borrowed-broody bantam hen, that we have half a dozen Nankin eggs under and are collecting Welsh Harlequin, Saxony, Snowy Mallard and of course Nankin eggs to set as soon as we turn on the large GQF incubator. We also order 20 Welsh Harlequin ducklings from Holderreads' Preservation Farm. Hopefully we will be able to "more quickly" rebuild our duck flock after the fox attacks last season.
Happy Hatching Everyone!!! Hopefully some nice young birds will soon be filling our brooders, but until then...we are continuing to collect eggs to hatch. We will not have any hatching eggs available this year. We may have young adult birds around the end of August or middle of September.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Nankin Bantams (The Guys)
These aren't the best pictures, it was later than I thought, and the flash from the camera really messed up the color, but its a general idea of what they look like. I will attempt to get some pictures of them running around on the green grass...they are much prettier against the green.
this is hopefully the replacement for the original cock. (blue legband) (He choked and died...not kidding, found him after I fed one evening.) :(
tall, dark, and gangly...
rosecomb hen, chocolate oeg hen, original rosecomb cock, single comb hen
head shot of blue legband cock.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
More reference pictures...
Summer molt, and young birds after 2005 breeding season. (Bird in doghouse door is a female from Ideal Hatchery, never used in breeding pen, but purchased to add new blood...never did.)
Snowy duckling (hen) and grey duckling (drake) hatched from 07 breeding season. Crossed Fridge w/L. Allen grey hen, with the intention of getting darker snowy, but only hatched drakes...so didn't have birds to cross back. Used trout drake this season too, and hatched 2 pure white drakes.
Mama hen late breeding season (notice head color has lightened.)
Mama Hen and her brood she hatched in '05 (one drake, three hen ducklings)
Mama Hen one of original two breeding hens from OH. Hatched 2003.
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