Getting back to my interest in being a little more self-sustaining - sadly the north queensland heat has killed off most of my veges and with my attention focused on travelling and renovations over the last couple of months, it has had little help to recover. Project garden will start again with earnest very soon, I promise.
Luckily despite perhaps a little neglect (they possibly haven't got as many scrap treats as usual) our chooks & ducks continue to lay lots of eggs. In fact, we have some additions to the family.
It started as a bit of an experiment. I had a hen go broody, and I had fertile duck eggs - so decided to put the two together and see if the hen could hatch us some ducklings. It was a big learning curve and sadly we lost 2 out of 3 - they started to hatch but died before they made it out. The 3rd, Daisy, continues to amuse us as he/she grows. Hopefully Daisy turns out to be a girl (thus the reason we named her Daisy) because two male ducks aren't much good to us.
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| Daisy hatching |
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| Daisy 1 day old |
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| Daisy with her 'mum' |
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| Daisy about 1 week old |
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| Daisy today - nearly 3 weeks old |
Daisy now lives with some Aracauna chicks I bought. Aracaunas are the blue egg layers and I wanted something a little bit different. I got 6 in the hope that at least half will turn out to be hens. We can't keep roosters here so they would have to go. Time will tell!!
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