Spent most of the day cleaning out, so another muck covered day, also managed to slice my hand with a scraper when cleaning off one of the perches. I've also moved the black pair of Pekins back outside with the other blacks now to make room to move chicks from brooder 2 into their cage later in the week, leaving brooder 2 free for this weekend hatch. Have just had a quick peek candle of a few of the eggs in incubator 2 and atleast 4 of the Dutch eggs are fertile, but looks like all the cuckoo Pekin are clear...good job I've now replaced our cock bird. Will candle all the eggs in there properly tomorrow.
Sadly lost our Silver Partridge boy this morning to (I think) a heart attack, he was getting on a bit and maybe just couldn't cop with moving out of the shed into their pen a couple of weeks ago, so now looking for a new boy to replace him as the only chick I have from them this year looks like a girl.
Had dinner at the in-laws tonight...or the Bahama's as we call it...I think if you averaged the temperature of their house out over a year, it'd still come in way above the 30's. Dinner was lovely though and a nice break from us cooking and having to do all the washing up, the only downside was that I had to shut the birds up tonight by torchlight, which is a pain..especially when you have 3 call ducks hidden under one of the houses and won't come out!
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