The first batch of Toulouse eggs have finished (nearly), only 2 out of 10 hatched as yet, 6 had started developing but then stopped for some reason and I have 2 still in the hatcher but I don’t hold much hope for them. My second batch is due to hatch in just over another week so I hope I have more success with them.
The Buff Oprington eggs were even less successful, all 10 were infertile, the hen has been broody and was sitting on at least 9 eggs, when I checked her a couple of days ago she only has 2 eggs left, I’m presuming she (or the cockerel) who sleeps in with her must have eaten them as there is no sign of shell or anything? I’ve put another batch of 6 in the incubator and if these are infertile I’ll have to review our cockerel situation!!
We acquired last Sunday 3 new ducks, 1 pair of black indian runners and 1 white runner drake to bring some nice new blood into our ducks.
The good news is the 2 goslings are growing like made and are just discovering thinks like grass which is great fun, I’ll get some photos on soon, I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that I didn’t mistakenly pick up 2 Brecon Buff goose eggs when setting up the incubator!!
So whats happened???? Have any of the eggs hatched out? It sounds like me waiting (fruitlessly) for my French beans to germinate. I only had to throw the packet away, but whats happened to the cockeral?
Hi Rach,
All incubating is over with now (thank god, it does take over somewhat!), I’ve hatched 5 Toulouse goslings in total, well the chicken hatch 2 of those, I did hatch another one, did all the hard work and then gave it to a broody chicken who promptly managed to squash it the following night, fat bxxxxd!!
Also hatched 5 Norfolk Black turkeys, one of those is quite ill at the moments so I’ll probably end up with 4 but I’ve got hens and stags so thats good, we’ll have to see what happens xmas time!!
Also had 3 swarms of which I caught 2 so I’m up to three hives so far, one of those being the Warre hive.
I was thinking that I should get some photos on and update everything so I must pull my finger out!!
Polytunnels is going well, my french beans are doing lovely in there!!
Ian came back from a show a month ago having ordered another polytunnel for me which is 10 metres by 4 metres, huge! I’m going to forget the veg plot and just use these two, the larger one I’ll do all the bigger root veg in and the smaller one all the salad etc. I haven’t put the big one up yet……if you’ve got any free weekends!!
Hope everything ok with you