Our new baby!

[narnia]

Welcome to the world and our setting Our first two ducklings hatched out half an hour ago.....gasps of wonder and delight ........hopefully, four more to come .....

[Guest Spiral]

Congratulations! I'm sooooo jealous xx

[narnia]

They are very lovely

[Guest Spiral]

any photos?

[sunnyday]

Oooh - photos?!!! :1b

[narnia]

yes, we have lots of lovely photos, but someone will need to tell me how to put them up??

[sunnyday]

yes, we have lots of lovely photos, but someone will need to tell me how to put them up??

Ah - cooeeee Sue - are you there???

[Steve]

When you reply, narnia, click the 'more reply options' underneath the text box. This will bring up a further text box, underneath which will be a button to add attachments. looking forward to seeing them - although I need to warn you that Helen hatched chickens out for her nursery, and we're still looking after two geriatric chickens six years later...

[Guest Spiral]

That's exactly why I won't do it Steve. At home I already have three children, two cats, two gerbils and one dog.......but I'd love chickens and/or ducks too.

 

Good luck there Narnia x

[narnia]

No long term keepers here, I'm afraid. They go back to the farm where they are very lovingly looked after and kept for eggs...........outdoors, so they live happy lives. We just don't have room for keeping them, but do have all the pleasure of keeping them for a few weeks.

[sunnyday]

AHHHHH - OOOOH - they are gorgeous - wonderful photos - thanks for sharing :1b

[Panders]

They are lovely they will imprint you and think you're their mummy Narnia, unless you do have their mum there. Could we have some fluffy pics as well please?

[hali]

owwwww bless them

[narnia]

definately yes to the fluffy pics tomorrow when they go under the brooder

[Fredbear]

Ah congratulations on the safe arrival of your new babies, lovely pics, thank you for sharing.

[Rea]

How lovely

[lashes2508]

Oh how fab , they are wonderful and what a wonderful experience for the children and staff , I know we would go quackers if we had the chance !

[zigzag]

ahh I am so jealous. We are maternal enough about our butterflys when they come out of the cocoon!! Maybe we will consider this next year, Is it expensive and quite easy??

[narnia]

It has been very easy. Local farmer brings all the equipment and leaves it with us a day or so before the eggs are due to hatch, so that it's not too long for the children to wait, though we could have had them for longer if we wanted to. As to expense, given that he provides absolutely everything, including feed, sawdust, incubator, brooder, cage etc, Ithink it's realistically priced at £80. We can keep them for as long as we like and can rehome the ducks if we want to, or keep them, or he will take them back to the farm. It's a lot cheaper than the other living egg things I have seen and it's such a wonderful experience that I think it's worth every penny

[SueJ]

These are lovely Narnia and you are so lucky to have such a generous local farmer who will do this for such a good price. We are currently asking for donations so that we can do living eggs again this year but at a cost of just under £300 this is not something we can afford without asking parents to contribute. Hopefully they will and we will have chicks (not ducklings I'm afraid) in the last half of the summer term. We have done this a couple of times before and our chicken keeping parents and staff have rehomed the girlies - the boys all go back though as no one wants to risk upsetting their neighbours with a crowing cockerel.

 

The children and their parents love it when we do this project so fingers crossed we raise enough pennies.

[zigzag]

Goodness, makes the caterpillars look really cheap!!