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The new chicks we’re about to have are ducks. I have no idea what a newborn duck looks like, but this looks like a duck’s beak alright. Apologies in advance for the awful soundtrack – you might want to turn your volume down before pressing play!
A quick picture of the chicks on their first or second adventure outdoors. This was a while ago now – I’ll probably post some up to date stuff later on. At the moment I’m just trying out posting via Flickr while I eat lunch.
Update: Having the picture on Flickr was just an excuse for them to put adverts by it, so it’s now in the Gallery here along with all my other pictures, and without any adverts.
Last year, we got involved in hatching chicks by accident, after I thwacked a mother pheasant off the nest by swinging some shears. She flew off and never returned, but we got hold of an incubator and hatched all 10 eggs which went on to become healthy pheasants. This year, with Fred the cockerel in residence, it’s on purpose – a batch of eggs have been in the incubator (a more sophisticated one this year that slowly rocks the eggs) for three weeks.
Seven chicks hatched yesterday and one today. There are five yellow, two brown and one black, and three possible mothers for each, but only one father. They’re all set up today in a new pen, complete with heatlamp, and all eight look healthy and very cute and fluffy.