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I can virtually guarantee he gets two more months. I'm curious too.

"he" does seem to have the legs for it. I had the same thought. Typically one of the more uprright stances among the birds as well. I will likely let the turkeys out of their pen next week, move these birds in. I'm sure they would like the space, and the turkeys are already as big as my...

Foreground bird is interesting, but much darker than will do well on these grounds. The various red and "whatever" birds behind will all disappear better most months. The almost all black bird is in the picture, back right, hiding. I know it doesn't know what its future holds, but it does...

OK, I've done a head count, looked at the new chicks, looked at the old ducks, taken a quick survey of the male/female ratios. Setting another batch of chicken eggs this weekend. and hopefully processing four birds - two drakes, two roos. and @LaurenRitz sorry I missed your comment last...

16 weeks +/-

I declare four of those "well colored" (and I am optimistic). Two as somewhere on the road to desired. The remaining two are looking like meal material.

At least the bat house (empty, still) is intact?

Everybody seems fine this AM. Hungry, but fine. Only the ducks are loving the grounds. The goats don't like it squishing between their hooves.

Coming up on 5 inches of rainfall in four days. More rain expected today, again Friday. Looks like a few goats were sleeping in the hen house when we got last night's lightnng strike (pressure wave shook the camper, it was CLOSE). The left the hen house. By going thru a 4x4 sheet of concrete...

Yup. And 7/8 not black or white. :)

Another was a mid quit - I should have candled again before lockdown, didn't. The eggs on either side are seemingly developed, but not progressing. Will "interfere" Saturday, but not hopeful.

Camera still messed up - looks like its set to soften or something. Sorry.

In other Homestead news, as I walk the electric fence this morning, I find that something has absconded with two duck eggs and a chicken egg, in differing directions, and something much larger got one of my injured ducks. This should probably be over on the other thread so I will copy it there...

8 of 12 is definitely better than I have been getting. So if I'm going to be really cold-hearted about it, I really wish the one black one that hatched yesterday was the one that failed to thrive, not the yellow one that followed it. Black one will still be put to productive use of course, just...

Lost one overnight, count is back to 8. Going to call it "failure to thrive". Still no activity from the remaining three eggs - one of which pipped two days ago - tiny air hole - and has done seemingly nothing since. Will do an "exploratory" this weekend, see if I can figure anything out...

Sorry about the picture quality. Looks like my camera is applying some filter. I'll figure it out later, take new photos with the additions. Two more hatched. So nine now, I think