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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Beewyched on June 15, 2011, 11:04:48 pm

Title: Bedtime routine ... finally!
Post by: Beewyched on June 15, 2011, 11:04:48 pm

We housed our ducklings in their newly built desres 3 weeks ago (having weaned them off the indoors/heatlamp stage) & kept them in a covered run (sorry buzzards no dinners for you here).
We let them free-run after a week & have had to chase/cajoule/ bribe/herd the little darlings in EVERY night since  ::)

Weyhey - they put themselves to bed tonight, the little angels  :love: :&> :love:

Title: Re: Bedtime routine ... finally!
Post by: Andrew on June 16, 2011, 09:36:37 am

You will have to train turkeys in a few weeks time too. Hope they are all thriving.

Title: Re: Bedtime routine ... finally!
Post by: Beewyched on June 16, 2011, 04:08:39 pm

Hiya Andrew  :wave:

All doing fine - much better behaved than the ducklings or any of the chicks we've hatched so far  ???  They are so amusing - not timid at all. Can't get over how much they've grown already.  Hope the weather warms-up enough next month for them to go outside & get some fresh air - they're still basking under the heat lamp 24/7 at the mo.
Really weird -they love sleeping on their (full) feed trays.