Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
We are still short of photographs.
A few pictures taken in my garden.
Large Red Damsel Flies. CH.
Common blue Damsel Flies. CH.
Tadpole eating a fish-food pellet. CH.
Greater Spotted Woodpecker on the bird feeder. CH.
Bee on a Geranium. CH.
We have been hatching eggs for a month or so, and other than a very few mistakes it has been very successful and enjoyable. We have incubated Turkey, Geese and Bantam. The Geese were the only eggs that have given problems. Out of nearly forty eggs purchased we only managed to successfully hatch two. The eggs were either not fertile or didn’t make it to the full hatching time. Our own eggs from one of the Geese that we purchased a couple of months back had very good fertility and we managed to successfully hatch most of the twelve that we incubated. We have left the Goose who layed the eggs sit a few. We believe that she is sitting two now that are due to hatch if they survive on Saturday.
We have not any experience in breeding Turkeys but we are told that the are very friendly. After being told that we have decided to try to purchase and incubate Pied Turkey to keep as pets. As their name suggests they are a very attractive Black and White. Their colouring takes your eyes away from their ugly heads. We have been hatching Bronze and White Turkeys. We had a problem with splayed legs with five of the first twenty Bronze that we incubated. This was caused as the floor of the hatcher was to slippery. Those who we knew that had incubated Turkeys told us to knock them on their head as they would not ever be able to walk, but we decided to hobble their legs with strips of elasticated bandage. We thought that it was worth a try and it worked, with four of the five walking as if there was never a problem in the first place. We finished up having them for four weeks and they became very friendly, so much so that they would fly onto our shoulders like a Parrot.