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Incubation Update: The Goslings Are Hatching! (Long Read)

14 April 202114 April 2021 ~ Forged Mettle Farm ~ Leave a comment
Spot the pips?

Sometimes, the quiet in an incubator with eggs in lockdown is deafening. What’s going on in there? Are the air cells large enough? Are the goslings still alive?? And then, out of the blue, a pip appears!

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Incubation Update: Pilgrim Goose Eggs – Second Candling

5 April 20215 April 2021 ~ Forged Mettle Farm ~ 3 Comments
Definitely alive! We’re in the homestretch.

The goose eggs are nearly three quarters of the way through incubation. Today, I candled to verify continued development and weighed the eggs. I also visually checked the air cell development.

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Incubation Update: Pilgrim Goose Eggs – Second Candling

31 March 20216 April 2021 ~ Forged Mettle Farm ~ 1 Comment
Getting the daily “spa” treatment (misting & cooling)

It’s the second candling, roughly halfway through the incubation period. There’s good news and bad news, but overall, it’s looking very good.

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In The Incubator: The Year’s First Pilgrim Goose Eggs

25 March 20216 April 2021 ~ Forged Mettle Farm ~ 2 Comments
These were completely hidden beneath a thick layer of shavings

Our lovely ladies have been laying, reliably, so I was able to collect a dozen huge eggs in short order. With luck and lots of hand-turning (and misting and cooling), goslings will emerge in a few more weeks!

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Haiku: Maddening Mire

26 January 202126 January 2021 ~ Forged Mettle Farm

It’s been raining. A lot. Though it’s stopped for now, it’s left behind sloppy, slippery mud. Everywhere. And that clay mud gets on everything, bogging down the wheels of the cart I use to convey feed to the animals, clogging up the tread of my boots…imagine walking in that same mud with now-treadless boots – good times.

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Musings: Life At The Farm Continues

19 May 2020 ~ Forged Mettle Farm

Many lives have been changed by the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic; some have argued that our lives will never be quite the same. Strangely, though, life here, now, hasn’t changed as much as it might otherwise have. Spring means new life, growth, and opportunities to learn.

Runner ducks: charming, energetic, and great egglayers!
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