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karen [Member] in response to: Predictions of a Long Hot Summer

karen [Member] — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 04:27:00 +0000

They don't call the Redbank Nature Reserve the Bealiba Second Cemetery for nothing (mine shafts everywhere...)

Evan [Visitor] in response to: Predictions of a Long Hot Summer

Evan [Visitor] — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:19:54 +0000

"I've got a plan for a spot of stress relief."

Yes, but the ground will be too hard for grave digging...

karen [Member] in response to: Ducklings - Day 3

karen [Member] — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:24:46 +0000

Alas these days, some of the excess boys do end up on the table.

Whilst I end up in the back room pretending they aren't on the table.... others in the house are less conflicted...

Sally [Visitor] in response to: Ducklings - Day 3

Sally [Visitor] — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:25:49 +0000

I guess they're not destined for a yummy Duck L'orange when they grow up?

It's ok - I'm slapping myself - bad Sally!

karen [Member] in response to: Open for Business

karen [Member] — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:25:56 +0000

Oh the conversation was had.....

Evan [Visitor] in response to: Open for Business

Evan [Visitor] — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:23:17 +0000

I dare you to change the sign to say, "Fresh Eggs. Direct from a chooks bum to you."

karen [Member] in response to: Doesn't Everybody have an incubator on their coffee table?

karen [Member] — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:48:51 +0000

I don't think temperature has much affect on chook hatchings, mostly it's a quantity game.

In order to get enough hens we just have to hatch more eggs than we can when "patiently" waiting for somebody to go clucky, stick and stay. We've had a couple of chooks recently that just gave up before the incubation period was completed and the goose last year kept pushing the eggs away so she could hatch more straw..... Once she starts laying again in Spring we can get goose eggs into this incubator as well as ducks.

Sally [Visitor] in response to: Doesn't Everybody have an incubator on their coffee table?

Sally [Visitor] — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:29:58 +0000

So chook eggs aren't like crocodile eggs - the temperature they're incubated at defines the sex?