Saturday, September 30, 2017

When your husband insists on bringing home work at the Weekend....


and he is a Science teacher....



Aren't they totally cute. Only two have hatched... but we are happy. Buying hatching eggs via mail during the Hurricane season really challenges hatching rates.
The mainly yellow fluffy effort hatched on Thursday ..the black sploded last night. They are very very friendly and chatty and will go back to school for the weekdays for a few weeks so the children can see them grow.


The yellow shelf in the back ground is actually the brooder from Brinsea an  Ecoglow 
It is working really well so far and was an Early Christmas present to me. It uses very little power and hopefully is a lot safer than a heat lamp.



I think this little one approves anyway!

They were hatched on Thursday and Friday respectively and are eating and drinking and chatting. I think we may be having ducklings joining the Guinea pigs in the laundry this Winter...

Oh and if you are interested in Ducks they are Anconas... more info here

from an old gravestone

If you hold your nose to the Grindstone
and you leave it there long enough,
Then soon you'll say
there's no such things
as brooks that babble
and birds that sing,
these three will all your world compose,
just you, the stone and your poor old nose.

(from memory so may not be word perfect)