tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post1379850399238850260..comments2024-02-29T10:26:56.584-05:00Comments on Ohiofarmgirl's Adventures In The Good Land: You never know what you are going to find in the barnyard.....Ohiofarmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02606563929369721111noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-47651526039428808412015-09-25T10:42:49.929-04:002015-09-25T10:42:49.929-04:00YES!!! Carol, thanks so much for saying this! I...YES!!! Carol, thanks so much for saying this! I've always noticed it also and I wasn't sure if it was just me. But, yep - they never really mesh with the group.<br />ps these same pair of hen/duck hens killed an earlier hatchling so i knew he'd never make it. always a terrible find. :-/Ohiofarmgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02606563929369721111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-44031442686914025092015-09-25T10:26:00.264-04:002015-09-25T10:26:00.264-04:00Our ducks and chickens lay together too. Makes fo...Our ducks and chickens lay together too. Makes for a challenge because the hatching time is a week different! <br /><br />I had a chicken on eggs a couple of weeks ago, and I noticed my grown turkeys taking an unhealthy interest in her and the nest. At one point I watched them grab her by the neck and fling her off the nest! I segregated her for awhile, but towards the end of the setting period I had left the coop door open too wide and the doggone turkey bullies were at it again. I scolded them and shooed them out, and saw a broken eggshell on the ground with a feather stuck on it. So I started to yell at them again.<br /><br />Then I saw the lone chick on the ground with his eye seemingly pecked out, bloody. I doctored him and put him in the brooder alone (and really told off the turkeys). A week later I had a batch of guinea keets so I put them in with him. Everyone is doing fine! None of the other eggs hatched out, guess too much stress and assaulting of mama.<br /><br />The lone chicks always end up being a little....off, don't they? lizzybaxterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05560075141830422842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-5740248878647830992015-09-24T22:48:39.304-04:002015-09-24T22:48:39.304-04:00We need Barnyard CSI for sure! ha! actually i this...We need Barnyard CSI for sure! ha! actually i this henny and a little duck hen have been fighting over a nest. i cannot believe he actually hatched. he was the only one. for heavens sakes!Ohiofarmgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02606563929369721111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-27218287202074412232015-09-24T21:09:34.649-04:002015-09-24T21:09:34.649-04:00How do you suppose that a duck egg got under a chi...How do you suppose that a duck egg got under a chicken? Did she just go sit on some random egg or did a duck lay in the chicken's nest? Could she have ducknapped the little guy? So many unanswered questions.PJnoreply@blogger.com