We have a hope that we can raise some and they will evade the fox and red kite and sparrow hawk etc for long enough to eat lots of ticks and fly larvae around the place...
Unfortunately some of them are quite muddy, not sure how that will affect them, and like the Bielefelder that are rapidly growing the eggs have been through the post which really doesn’t do them any good.
There are 24 in the incubator, 2 have hairline cracks so don’t look good, I think the rest should have a chance despite the mud. The eggs were very speckly so I wasn’t able to see much about the air cell from candling before putting them in...
They are a bit smaller than a chicken egg and with a more distinct pointy end and fat end. The birds themselves are a lot more wild and are not really tamable apparently. We will try to encourage them to believe round here is home and hope they stick around! They are also very noisy so we will be distressed if they decide to set up home by the bedroom.
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