2015 HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long, Join us IF YOU DARE!

RavynFallen said:

OMG!!! That LOOK!!!
Lady Grey's first eggs would fit easy, lol... she had to show off her new ability to me today...

She keeps this up and looks like I'll be brooding Calls over the winter, lol...

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Awws! Such a show off! She's adorbz!

Scovy Momma said:

Awws! Such a show off! She's adorbz!

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Thanks!

So is your little guilt trippin' chickie... way too cute!!

RavynFallen said:

Thanks!

So is your little guilt trippin' chickie... way too cute!!

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He is trippin' all right!

Happy Birthday!!!

I have a question for the group, interested to hear the opinions. The pullets I have are 7 months old, one of my EEs Snow is on the bottom of the pecking order, in fact would not come out of the coop today until everyone else was out. My question is when my chicks hatch should I bring Snow in to be with them so she is not the bottom of the older pecking order or is that a bad idea because she might pick on the babies. Like I said interested to hear opinions on this.

Thanks

CUTE Photos!!!!

My dateless eggs had a chirp yesterday. Last night a pip, this morning 6 pips.............I took photos of the EEs, here's why:

A 12 year old girl talked her dad into buying her some chicks. She's going thru divorce junk parent exchange every week, he just lost his job of 25 years She has two new little sisters 1 year old and newborn from mom, I'm sure she's thrilled *sarcastic* ......just this beautiful kid that wants to be a vet and asked more questions for her age than EVER!!! I saved the eggs for her to gather and she just lit up!

She picked out her two, a WS and I THINK an EE. Will pick them up next week after returning to dads. My thoughts went to: record the EEs that are hatching now and see if she would rather have them? And she gets to see them from hatch to baby! I need to learn how to take short clips of the progress and will email them to her dad for approval before asking her if she would rather have the newbies Also need to be sure it's not a roo in there as cities are not allowed roos. Now to just get past any issues ......


I saw someone else has silkies on here? For some reason my silkie's eggs are a challenge. i have one still viable and she stopped laying. I'm going to create her a quiet nest only she can get into.......seeing some aggression from the other hens that was not there before? Still waiting on the other silkie to lay. It took about 7 months for Peeky to lay and still no Silkie babies......we'll see if her egg pips, the other egg didn't look quite right.....no blood rings, it was alive but the egg was not "full" as the others were.

Off to pick hubs brain on recording this hatch

kguinness76 said:

I have a question for the group, interested to hear the opinions.  The pullets I have are 7 months old, one of my EEs Snow is on the bottom of the pecking order, in fact would not come out of the coop today until everyone else was out.  My question is when my chicks hatch should I bring Snow in to be with them so she is not the bottom of the older pecking order or is that a bad idea because she might pick on the babies.  Like I said interested to hear opinions on this.

Thanks

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My lowest hen picks on the younger chicks. I didn't let them spend too much time together until the chicks were about 6 weeks old. They had hiding spots from her. Now that she's established third in line, she's better with the other pullets and chicks. I'm not sure I can answer your question exactly. Snow will figure out that she's higher than the chicks. Is she laying? My lowest hen integrated much better once she started laying.

tao chick said:

My lowest hen picks on the younger chicks. I didn't let them spend too much time together until the chicks were about 6 weeks old. They had hiding spots from her. Now that she's established third in line, she's better with the other pullets and chicks. I'm not sure I can answer your question exactly. Snow will figure out that she's higher than the chicks. Is she laying? My lowest hen integrated much better once she started laying.

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She was laying, she actually stopped laying over a month ago now. All of my other birds are still laying. She is not broody because she goes out everyday, and she is not molting. I was think stress because she is at the bottom of the pecking order and because I did an exam of her last week and no mites or fleas, eyes and nose were fine. I could not find the vent because she was wiggling and I could not get through the fluff.

Scovy Momma said:

He's expecting more friends & guilts me with that look!

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What an expression!!!! I hope you have another one for a friend..................

Scovy Momma said:

He's expecting more friends & guilts me with that look!

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So Adorable.