bonbean01
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They are so cute!!!! Thanks for the pics 
ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal
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elevan
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Guinea keets go to their new home this morning. DH is bummed but we have 4 hens setting on 30 eggs each already
promiseacres
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Tonight's chores were kind of comical. We went out (DH and I) followed by 4 of the 5 cats. Scratch jumped into the pig's pen when we fed as he nightly enjoys eating with Spam. Next up we had to catch Ling Ling (the ducklings daddy) and put him over the fence from the backyard so that he could go into the coop. Then we had to look for Sandy (duck mama)...she was in the old doghouse that she had nested in. DH bent down to pull Sandy out and I held her while he grabbed ducklings and then I set her down with the ducklings as she started calling to them.
Next we started herding Sandy and the ducklings toward the coop with the cats following behind me. Sandy was quite nervous about that one but she went into the coop with her ducklings unharmed. Then Sandy decided she wanted the same corner of the coop as the Mama chicken and her chicks. The ducklings knew where Sandy wanted to go and ran under Mama chicken. That made Sandy mad - how dare that hen steal her ducklings! So she started attacking Mama chicken.
DH was getting eggs out of the nest box while this was going on so he sat a cracked one on the shelf below a roost and handed me the rest.
DH decided to try to break up the duck / chicken fight. He bent down and tried to move Sandy and the ducklings to a different corner. Nuh uh, she wanted THAT corner so she moved back and the ducklings went back under Mama chicken. Game on...again. So he moved Chicken Mama to a different corner. Crisis averted.
Meanwhile a chicken had jumped off the roost and was pecking at the egg that was cracked. Which got another hen's attention and she jumped down. Then a rooster decided "it was time" and jumped on the first hen to mate her. So here's this chicken with a rooster on her with her head hanging off the shelf desperately holding onto this egg shell....when all of a sudden a screech comes from one of the hen's on a different roost. I look around to see what's going on to find Scratch the cat hanging from the coop window looking to see what's going on.
DH and I started laughing, locked up the coop and went to love on the cats. Crazy chore night.
Next we started herding Sandy and the ducklings toward the coop with the cats following behind me. Sandy was quite nervous about that one but she went into the coop with her ducklings unharmed. Then Sandy decided she wanted the same corner of the coop as the Mama chicken and her chicks. The ducklings knew where Sandy wanted to go and ran under Mama chicken. That made Sandy mad - how dare that hen steal her ducklings! So she started attacking Mama chicken.
DH was getting eggs out of the nest box while this was going on so he sat a cracked one on the shelf below a roost and handed me the rest.
DH decided to try to break up the duck / chicken fight. He bent down and tried to move Sandy and the ducklings to a different corner. Nuh uh, she wanted THAT corner so she moved back and the ducklings went back under Mama chicken. Game on...again. So he moved Chicken Mama to a different corner. Crisis averted.
Meanwhile a chicken had jumped off the roost and was pecking at the egg that was cracked. Which got another hen's attention and she jumped down. Then a rooster decided "it was time" and jumped on the first hen to mate her. So here's this chicken with a rooster on her with her head hanging off the shelf desperately holding onto this egg shell....when all of a sudden a screech comes from one of the hen's on a different roost. I look around to see what's going on to find Scratch the cat hanging from the coop window looking to see what's going on.
DH and I started laughing, locked up the coop and went to love on the cats. Crazy chore night.
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bonbean01
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elevan
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Dang cat took one of the ducklings. Grr. 
ksalvagno
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Where do you take your goats for processing? Or do you do it yourself? Where I was previously taking them is now too far for me.
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elevan
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Hoffman's Meat Processing right there in Cardington.ksalvagno said:
