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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

ALL TOOK AT RUFFORD COUNTRY PARK NEAR WORKSOP LAST WEEKEND. LYNNE

Twelve Geese eggs were put in the incubator this evening. Ten that we purchased from a local breeder and two that our new Geese have layed.

The first night that the incubator has been working with eggs in it, all is working as it should be. The temperature is exactly right and the humidity is fluctuating one per cent either way. The incubator has a warning alarm if the heat rises or falls above or below the correct temperature. If the temperature of the incubator rises it will quickly kill the embryo. If it falls it is not such a disaster. As long as it is corrected within four or five hours the eggs will be OK. The other important part is to keep turning the eggs otherwise the embryo will stick to.

When incubating an egg it will need to loose 13% of it weight, so weighing the eggs periodically whilst incubating is a good way of telling if the egg will hatch correctly. The weight loss helps the membrane that you can see when you open a boiled egg needs to shrink, leaving a gap between the shell and the membrane that makes an air pocket. The air pocket allows the hatching Chick to breath whilst it is breaking through the shell. Controlling the humidity correctly allows the air pocket to get larger through the incubating period.

Whilst the Embryo is forming into a Chick it needs oxygen and give off carbon dioxide. The forming Embryo also needs food and feeds on the eggs yolk through blood vessels. The hatched Chick will also feed on the yolk for a day or so after hatching. Incubating eggs is very interesting, but it can be a worry. When we were incubating Ostriches we were very successful. Ostrich eggs are meant to be the most difficult to hatch, so hopefully we will get it correct when incubating Turkey and Geese.

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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

Memorial for USS San Diego. Penny Chicago Chicago Chicago

Interesting Tree in Seaport Village. Penny Chicago Chicago Chicago

Here is another photo of a Ganada Goose in the fork of a tree where her nest was. She has her nest there every year. It is a very large tree with 3 forks coming off it. When the youngsters are ready to leave the nest, about 6 of them, they tumble down the tree and then their parents take then down to the water nearby. Occasionally a gosling does damage its wings and this shows up when they are ready to fly and can’t, which makes them very vulnerable to foxie loxie if the injured goose leaves the pond. Usually the park staff capture the goose and send it to a sanctuary to live out its life. These photos were taken in a beautiful Toronto Park. Rosie’s Mum in Toronto.

Couple of pictures for the gallery if you can include them. Pete.

Our incubator is now up and running and ready for our first eggs to go in to start incubating. 25 Bronze Turkey eggs arrived yesterday, they will go into the incubator tonight. We will be collecting 10 Goose eggs tomorrow that with the 2 that our Geese have layed will go in the incubator tomorrow. The temperature of the incubator is 37.5 c or 99.5 f. The humidity for Turkey and Geese eggs need to be at about 55 per cent.

Turkey eggs will take approximately 28 days to incubate. Geese eggs about 30 days. About two days before the eggs hatch they will go in to a hatcher. That is when we hope to be able to show the hatching on the webcam. We are trying to find one that will be suitable for the webcam.

It is better to have all the eggs hatching at the same time. That would need for the Geese eggs going into the incubator a couple of days before the Turkey eggs. For the first couple of weeks we will put the eggs in the incubator as we get them. We will also need to candle the eggs to see if they are fertile. That will need to be done after 6 days. We have got to cross our fingers and hope that most of the eggs are fertile. At this time of the year when the birds are just beginning to mate, it can be a bit hit and miss. I will try to take a photograph of a an egg when we candle them.

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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

Eight of our new Geese.

The other four.

From the left. Chicken Egg, Turkey Egg and our first Goose Egg.

Well what a surprise, I have won this egg in a raffle at our local garden centre, I had already bought Easter eggs for everyone. Wish I could share it with you all !! We will still be eating it at Christmas! Rose W’canton.

Bird of Paradise in our Hotel Garden. Penny Chicago Chicago Chicago.

As you can see by tonight photographs, we collected our Geese last evening. The eight are a little moth eaten and will do and look better when they are are allowed out on the grass to graze. They are about a year old. To our surprise when we went to feed them this morning one had layed an egg. We don’t know how long that they have been laying, or if the Geese have been mating, but we will try to incubate the egg.

The Four Geese were hatched in the November and December last year. Very late for Geese eggs to hatch. We don’t know how they will be if we mix to two lots of Geese. There may be one almighty fight causing some of them to get killed or injured, so we will keep them apart.

There are too many Geese for us to keep on the Farm. A trio will be about right, so we will sell the remaining nine. I must admit hearing Geese honking is a nice sound to have on the Farm.

We changed our incubator today. The original incubator would incubate 190 Chicken eggs. To be honest I thought that on that working out, it would incubate about a 100 Goose eggs. On reading the instruction book it will only incubate just over 50 Goose eggs. Being we hope to hatch every week, we changed the incubator for one double the size. As you can see on the photograph, Geese eggs are a lot bigger. The one in the photograph is the one we found our Geese had laid this morning is not a very big one.

I emailed Rose, W’canton telling her to send her Giant Easter egg to us. We would well tuck into it, and it must be some thing to do with when Thornton was born, as he has managed to find some chocolates from time to time. The last one being just over a week ago when he was found in one of the Cottages, with a box of posh chocolates that had been part of an anniversary present. Thornton had reached up on his rear legs and pulled the chocolates down from a cabinet, and was found stuffing himself. Thornton does like his chocolate.

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Late night again after collecting the Geese Will do photographs…

Late night again after collecting the Geese. Will do photographs including the Geese tomorrow.

One Family of Holiday Guests this week are from Wales. Seven altogether, five being Children. Other than the teenage Daughter all of the the other four have been helping us around the Farm. They must be enjoying it as they are getting up early to help with the mucking out and are with us for most of the day. We have needed to muck out a very dirty stable for the Geese to be housed in that we are collecting this evening. It has taken ten trailer loads of wet and very heavy muck to clear the Stable. All of the Children have helped. Mum also got stuck in. The job did take less time with the help that they all gave. The best bit being is that they all enjoyed it, especially the ride on the quad to the muck heap.

Joseph came out with a couple of funny remarks. He calls the Quad and Trailer the Poo Chariot. The best one though being that the smell of the muck cleared his nasal cavities. Every time I remember the remark I cant help but laugh. He is a funny Lad. All the Children are very good to be with. The youngest are twin Girls that I am having a little difficulty understanding their Welsh accent. The older boy Callum did work hard helping with the Stable. I reckon that they will all sleep well tonight.

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

3 of our new Chickens.

Another three. Well at least you can see another ones head.

Our incubator.

The Higher car ferry, Dartmouth. In June this year to be replaced by a much larger ferry. This one takes 16 cars, the new one will take 32!

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Just got in after a long day Got some Chickens…

Just got in after a long day. Got some Chickens. Will tell you about them in tomorrows Diary.

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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

Here are some pictures from San Diego California where I am visiting with my husband (he is attending a conference). It is not as warm as one would think here, sadly, but is still very nice and warmer than Chicago where it is supposed to snow again! Penny Chicago Chicago Chicago

Thank you all that have sent in donations to keep the webcams broadcasting. It has stopped us from having to cut down the number of viewers who can view the webcam at one time for this month. It cost me many thousands of pounds annually to keep broadcasting. At this time of the year our visitor numbers increase so much that it is becoming uneconomical. I can see that most of you that use the Forum have sent us a donations. It is very much needed and appreciated. Hopefully donations and any revenue that we get from Google will keep the website going.

I started the webcams at Denbury Farm nearly six year ago to market our Holiday Cottages and to hopefully save on advertising. It would now cost me substantially less the advertise in the nationals papers every day than what it cost me to keep the website going. I do have to think of that as the webcams are not bringing in many visitors to the Farm that advertising would.

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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

THESE WERE ALL TOOK AT RUFFORD COUNTRY PARK NEAR WORKSOP LAST WEEKEND. LYNNE.

On Wednesday night there where ten Badgers feeding at the same time. As one went off to the left another one came out from the Sett. So it looks very much if there are still eleven Badgers in the Sett. The same number as last year.

Tomorrow we are going to a Poultry Show and Auction to hopefully buy a few Chickens. Most of our Holiday Guest ask if we have Chicken and do we have eggs for sale. It will be good for our Holiday Guests Children to be able to feed the Chicken and collect the eggs.

Today we had a incubator delivered so that we can produce some Turkeys and Geese. It is a fully automatic incubator that will incubate up to 190 Chicken eggs. Again it will be good for our Holiday Guests Children to be able to see the eggs hatching. We will also try to show some of the hatching on a webcam. We are having some fertile Turkey eggs delivered, hopefully next Tuesday, and I am trying to get some Goose eggs.

I have in the past incubated Ostrich eggs reckoned to be the hardest eggs to incubate, and was quite successful. That came about after paying someone to incubate our Ostrich eggs, he managed to give all the Birds that was getting on for nearly 100, Yolk Sac infection that caused them all to die. As you can imagine I was not best pleased. The person hatching them wasn’t best pleased either when I tipped out twenty that had died on his doorstep. The cause of the infection was because his hatcher was dirty. I was told what chemicals where used in cleaning hatchers before special cleaners were made. I never had a problem with the incubating or hatching.

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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

THESE WERE ALL TOOK AT RUFFORD COUNTRY PARK NEAR WORKSOP LAST WEEKEND. LYNNE.

On Wednesday night there where ten Badgers feeding at the same time. As one went off to the left another one came out from the Sett. So it looks very much if there are still eleven Badgers in the Sett. The same number as last year.

Tomorrow we are going to a Poultry Show and Auction to hopefully buy a few Chickens. Most of our Holiday Guest ask if we have Chicken and do we have eggs for sale. It will be good for our Holiday Guests Children to be able to feed the Chicken and collect the eggs.

Today we had a incubator delivered so that we can produce some Turkeys and Geese. It is a fully automatic incubator that will incubate up to 190 Chicken eggs. Again it will be good for our Holiday Guests Children to be able to see the eggs hatching. We will also try to show some of the hatching on a webcam. We are having some fertile Turkey eggs delivered, hopefully next Tuesday, and I am trying to get some Goose eggs.

I have in the past incubated Ostrich eggs reckoned to be the hardest eggs to incubate, and was quite successful. That came about after paying someone to incubate our Ostrich eggs, he managed to give all the Birds that was getting on for nearly 100, Yolk Sac infection that caused them all to die. As you can imagine I was not best pleased. The person hatching them wasn’t best pleased either when I tipped out twenty that had died on his doorstep. The cause of the infection was because his hatcher was dirty. I was told what chemicals where used in cleaning hatchers before special cleaners were made. I never had a problem with the incubating or hatching.

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

These are the last photographs that we have.

1, Badger print found in the Valley. Vicky

2, Ewy. Vicky

3, Arnie in his new coat. Vicky

4, Geese on the lake at Denbury. Vicky

Photo of a Canada Goose in the fork of a tree where her nest was. She has her nest there every year. It is a very large tree with 3 forks coming off it. When the youngsters are ready to leave the nest, about 6 of them, they tumble down the tree and then their parents take then down to the water nearby. Occasionally a gosling does damage its wings and this shows up when they are ready to fly and can’t, which makes them very vulnerable to foxie loxie if the injured goose leaves the pond. Usually the park staff capture the goose and send it to a sanctuary to live out its life. These photos were taken in a beautiful Toronto Park. Rosie’s Mum in Toronto.

Ewy gave birth to Twins today. We heard a Lamb calling in the Woods this morning and went to investigate, finding an unnamed Ewe had given birth. Normally all of the Sheep are together but Ewy was missing. About midday Ewy turned up in the Horse Field on her own. She called out when she saw us, looking towards the edge of the Wood where we saw her Lambs. It was as if she was telling us that she had Lambs. Thornton joined us to walk up to the edge of the Woods to where the Lambs where. We were all allowed a short look before Ewy called for the Lambs to follow her into the Woods. Vicky’s photograph of Ewy that she sent in last night was fortuatous.

To my surprise the Goose started to sit her eggs yesterday. In fact I thought when I saw her on the nest yesterday that she was laying and egg and was resting on the Island. But other than short spells in the Lake she has been sitting the eggs. I only noticed the Geese mating on two occasions but I am sure that when it looked as if she was making her nest she was turning the eggs. 28 to 31 day is the incubation period.