Animal Update

Most of the little piggies are just over a week old and the other 4 will be a week old tomorrow. To start this post off, I've included a video that I took today of the little ones waiting while their mommas ate their breakfast.

The babies are really starting to explore their enclosure as they follow their moms around.

The baby bunnies are also doing good. Getting bigger by the day it seems. And now they're starting to eat and drink with momma. Our other doe also had some more babies and I've made a new cage to keep them safe. That will be in the next post. I haven't taken a picture of the new babies yet because I didn't want to disturb the momma and babies too much. I had to move them to the new cage and that's disturbance enough.

The one muscovy duckling from the first clutch of eggs is living in the hanging cage in the coop.

I had two guinea keets in there with it but one died. Don't know why. They had warmth, food and water. And one of the guineas is batshit crazy and kept attacking me when I would go near the coop so I gave them the other guinea keet. Figured if it survives, fine. If not, fine. But I definitely NOT be letting them hatch eggs next year. For one thing, two keets out of all the eggs they had is just a really bad hatch rate. Another, these guineas are barely worth the constant noise they make. And to have one trying to attack me is so not acceptable.

But in some better news, I've had two more ducklings hatch out of another clutch. We'll see if that's it or not. Unfortunately, these look like muscovy/cayuga mixed so they will be mules. A full muscovy will look like the one in the previous picture. Most domesticated ducks are derived from mallards. Muscovies are not. The two are close enough to breed, but the resulting offspring is sterile. So I won't be selling them because I don't want to sell people sterile animals. But that doesn't stop them from being VERY cute.

And that's all of the new pictures I've got for right now. I just put some chicken eggs in my incubator today and I will update you all on that in about 7 days when I candle them. As I said, I will be posting pictures and directions on building the new rabbit cage for my next post.

Take care all and have a good night.