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Saturday, May 20, 2006 - Fowl!

Our 22 chicks are about 1-1/2 weeks old now, and they are all healthy and growing fast! We will have to separate the ducks and turkeys pretty soon. They are fun to watch, and since we've never had the turkeys or guineas before, I'm interested to see how they change as they grow.

We found a bird on the edge of our pond last night. It was rather, how shall I say...lifeless. We had never seen one of these before, so we came inside to look it up. It wasn't difficult to find out what it was, what with the peculiar white beak and strange-looking blue legs. It was an American Coot, apparently migrating through Ohio (according to the maps we found on the internet).

Maybe these are more common than I think. I'm somewhat new to paying attention to the birds around here. Here's a picture we found:

We thought it was a duck at first, but as you can see - no webbed feet. If we weren't homeschooling, I probably wouldn't have the least bit of an interest in birds. I'm glad I'm not missing out!

Amey

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Saturday, May 20, 2006 - Wow!

Posted by jinyeah3

How fascinating, and what a great picture! Thanks for sharing it.

Jenette.

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Monday, May 22, 2006 - Just to clarify...

Posted by CircleZ

I found the picture on the internet, I didn't take it myself. Just wanted to be clear about that (the name of the picture taker is on the bottom right corner of the picture). :-)

Amey

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I'm a midwestern gal, living my dream life on 7 acres in the country. I love Jesus, my husband, three children, Daisy the Wonder Goat, and our chickens. I'd still love to someday have a miniature jersey milk cow.

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