while ben was swimming ben found a turtle stuck in the filter basket
then Bon took the filter cover out and he took the turtle out to see it.
and he was a box turtle.
Category: Critters
We found a new broody hen
She is an easter egger and she is sitting on 9 eggs.
Daddy has marked all the eggs which include 6 brown and 3 white.
Only 2 chicks hatched
From 9 chicken eggs, 7 of them were fertilized, however some chicks couldn’t get out of their eggs.
Six quail chicks have hatched
Unfortunately one couldn’t wake up from his sleep, and daddy had to put him to the ground. Now there are five of them running in their coop.
First eggs!
In the morning, daddy found 3 eggs from the quail coop, they look so funny!
The next day, we had 3 more in the morning. Later in the day, when we finished watching TV in the afternoon, we all came out to check the quails again. Then surprisingly, we found 6 more eggs! We only have 8 quails, at least 1 rooster who is super noisy, so some hens might have laid more than 1 egg a day.
Ben brought 3 and Bon brought 3 back to kitchen, we washed all the eggs, which is 12 total, and we are waiting for them to be boiled now.
And the rooster crows!
Not the white Amberlink but the black Easter Rooster!
Something stole one chick
In the afternoon, a not nice squirrel got into the chicken coop to eat our corn. Then he a ran around the coop, the play pen, and scared all the chicks until dark. The chick did not want to go inside, so they flew to the roof and over the fence. Some got stuck in our neighbor’s yard, and Daddy had to cut a hole on the fence for them to go back. However one chick did not make it, we counted them the next morning and we lost one ISA Brown.
All guineafowls are out
Daddy let 3 of them out for the night and they did not stay near the coop. We couldn’t hear them in the morning anymore.
BB are sad, but not very sad. Maybe the guinefowls don’t like us, we might need to find some geese to help us instead.
Oh no, they are back, near the bush. So we gave them water and cracked corn, we hope they will keep playing in the yard.
Update on June 28: Daddy found them in the coop, so he closed the door and gave them corn and water. They will stay inside a little longer until we get some more chicks.
One guineafowl has gone
Daddy let him out for him to play, but he flew away over the fence. Bon said “A ta da!” We can’t hear his voice anymore, he must be in the wood. We hope he will come back to his friends.
A coon stole our marshmallows!
The trap door was shut but nothing inside.