Muscovy Moms, Ducklings and their Dad

Park Falls Thorburn, Nova Scotia

Muscovy Ducklings Eating

Muscovy Ducklings Two weeks old

Silkie Chicks

Since all the chicks died, but the one little black and white one, I had to go out and buy two chicks. Sigh ... this whole buying chick thing is really counterproductive to my whole saving money by breeding my own thing. Unfortunately, i cannot have just one chick. Once the chick hits around two months old, mom will leave it and then it will be all alone with no close friends/siblings. It would get picked on and be horribly lonely.So, I got two silkie chicks to go with it. Silkies are an adorable, small, very tame breed. Honestly, it's not a breed I wanted to add to my flock, I prefer larger more aggressive chickens as they aren't preyed upon as much, but pickings are slim this time of year and it was a choice of drive 40 minutes and buy silkie chicks for $8 each or drive 2 hours and pay $7 a chick for barnyard mixes. 

They are ridiculously cute! They make wonderful friends for my black and white chick and hopefully they are both female and will become part of my Frizzle Fonzi's flock. If you cross a Silkie and a frizzle you get a Sizzle (It's like a designer dog breed )

Hugs and love!

Hatchling Update

Sadly, the little yellow chick that was born yesterday morning died and I found another chick this morning that died halfway out of the shell :( Thankfully, the little black chick is doing fantastic and Heckle still has three viable eggs. Maybe one of the other eggs will hatch! I really need one more chick so the little black one has a friend. If I have to, I'll go out and purchase one.

We also have a Saxony duck sitting on eggs. Went through her eggs this morning and she only had three incubating, so took away all the others. It would be nice if a couple of Saxony would hatch as I have people wanting to purchase some.

It's really not the right time of year for hatching, so not going to allow anyone else to go broody. We'll try again next year. At least we ended up with some hatchlings this summer.

The six little Muscovy hatchlings are 7-9 days old now and doing fantastic.

Wishing you all a wonderful Tuesday! Hugs and love!

Two Chicks

Yesterday, I shared a pic with y'all of the adorable black chick that was born. Today we have a yellowish chick! We now have two chicks! Not sure if anymore will be born, but overjoyed to have the two!

Honestly, it's a horrible time for all these young to be born. They should of been born late spring/early summer. However, I'd rather be late to the dance than not at all! As a newbie poultry farmer these first births are important and get us moving in the right direction.

I'll update later on how everyone is doing! LOVE!