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In the foreground you can admire the beatiful duck house that
me and my father hand built for them: it is made of painted
wood, with insulated walls, moving windows, sliding doors for easy cleaning
and maintenance, pivoting double-use door/entry ladder, complete with electrical
internal lighting and heating, and a timer to turn them on and off...
Well, even with snow covering the garden, they go in
only because their food is supplied by us inside this hen!
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Pio Pis nest: she is not very good at sitting on her eggs, but
certainly lays a lot of them, and big ones! During summer she lays almost
one egg per day, generally from 70 to 90 g!
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Unfortunately Pio Pis changed her mind after about two weeks
of sitting on her eggs: so we had no hatching, and no ducklings, at least
for this year, 1998. But when she was sitting, she was very determined,
and sometime would not leave the nest even to eat: heare you can see that
she accepted food (tomatoes, of course) directly sitting in her nest!
So we surrounded her with everything she could wish: water and food,
all within beak's reach!
Nevertheless, she did not manage to resist the four weeks needed
for successfull hatching: we even tried to force her putting her with her
nest in the closed duck house, alone, but to no avail.
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