Utah! - Page 772

Man.  I wish I lived closer.  I wish I could help you out in some way.  I am glad things are settling down for you and your family.  Life can be tough at times.  We get through it somehow.  If there is anything, you can think of, that I can do in any way, let me know.  I think it would be fun if you get that web cam from Wendy.  That would be so good for you.  :))

Cynthia, not to mention we could watch the eggs' progress, as well?

 

Chickendad, wishing you a speedy recovery from the surgery! I've got some girls about the same age as yours, and I'm getting excited about who will lay first. I think there's a very good chance it will be my Welsummer, or possibly my GLW. Their faces are now going from pink to red. Guess I'd better get my rear in gear and get that nest box installed!

 

Lisa, Sphinx, I've got to share something with you - Park your chickens over the thistles for about a week, and they'll take care of the problem for you. When I got the run built here, I put it in a spot where there was a huge thistle without thinking. I looked at it and thought, "Oh, well that was stupid. They're not going to be able to use that space at all!"

 

Oh, how funny it was when I noticed several days later than the giant thistle was gone. All that's left is a small, brown stump. Never underestimate bored chickens, I tell you. They demolished that thing.

Here is a picture of poor Rocco.  I hope it grows back soon.  It doesn't seem to bother him though.  I could dress him in a monk robe and let him hand out flowers, oh wait, the hair would be the other way around.  Oh well.  It does look bare but there are little bits of feather stumps sticking out.  We did separate him from the larger hens, he and elvis hang on one side of the coop and the larger hens get the other side.  So we  haven't totally ruled out the large hens as the culprit.  The cochins got their room back in the house. Hurry up and heal Rocco, I need my room back, oh wait, Sierra has 11 ducklings in there that arrived today and 9 duck eggs in the incubator that should be here at the end of the month.  Good thing she can only keep four of them.  (and the one teenager she has out in the duck pen for a total of 5)  I guess I will get my room back in about oh two or three weeks......or months.......or the way things go, NEVER!!!!!

 

Yee-owch! That rooster dun bin hazed! It makes me want to pet him and comfort him just looking at it

Anyone have a Cochin Bantam Hen for Sale? We had to get rid of our little Cochin because he turned out a he. My daughter raised him as a chick and wants another Cochin. Anyone have a hen they can part with?

Aw poor Rocco! At least it is not an open wound, that is a good thing

Got my eggs today

Opened the box

Four broken and cracked eggs. No extras. I have 8 BJG left, 12 very pale pale green, some almost white, some kind of pale yellow green "Americana"(Doesn't that irk you that they call them that!?!) EE eggs, and 12 Barred Rock.

Soooooo I looked at them all with the candler, lots of detached air cells wobbling all over. Some look pretty good.....but surprise!!! 1 has started with out me, veining and the whole bit. I don't know if it will work, maybe it got hot somewhere along the way, and then quit when it cooled off, maybe it is still going.....maybe somebody sat on it before they collected, but I will try and see. I wrote on that one with the blue marker, you can see in the pic....that is the one I am watching, I figure it will either be toast in a few days or I will get excited and hope to have one out before I leave :)Looks to be about 3-4 days along. The EE eggs are so weird, there are two that are really big and a light mustardy color. They look like they are from the same hen, same bumps on one end, same shape, same color.....will be interesting to see what comes out of those. I think those babies will be called Voldemort and Darth Vader. They look evil lol.

here is the starting point, group shot:


Who the heck lays these??




YELLOW eggs???? weird.

Wow Lisa, that's kind of fun that you've already got one egg veining. I hope that one makes it and you get a chick hatched before you have to leave! Those mustard eggs are pretty wild. I've seen blue, green, chocolate, and speckled eggs, and the mustardy-yellow one is the oddest one. How does that work?

 

Sorry that some were cracked, though. I'm hoping you got a lot of potent eggs among the remainder of the group that will hatch out for you.

It will be interesting! They were not packed near as nicely as other eggs I have ordered through the mail, this is the first time I have received broken ones... So don't know if I will get more there. These were on sale, plus I used my gift cert i won at chickenstock, so I am glad I did not spend a ton. The BJG eggs look really nice, they are really pretty, smooth, nice shells, clean.The egg cartons were stacked in the box, and the carton on top was the BJG, they were the ones that cracked But I still have 8, so hopefully some will do ok. Hear that Birdguy? These will all be for you Cross your fingers!

And I will hope Voldemort and Vader hatch just to see what that is about.

Thistles suck but I put my chicken pen where they were growing in my back yard,  No more Thistles.  I'm leaving June 25 for a 10 days alaska cruise.  I am lucky that my daughter is going to take any babies I hatch and I am paying the neighbor boys to sleep at the house so that I don't have to board the dogs.  They are going to take care of adult cats and all the chickens.  The kittens are going to friends.  I am looking forward to the cruise

That is a huge egg!  I'm sorry you had a bunch get cracked.  And too weird on one that has started. I will say this, if you're seeing veining, it's definitely alive. Because of my candling addiction, I've seen eggs die before, and the change is pretty dramatic. Veins disappear.

 

I can't remember if I ever showed you guys this or not, but I thought it was funny. When we bought this house, it was a "fixer upper". Great bones, but the house was very, very dated.  We immediately set to work. When we did the front room, we chose a lovely shade of green for the walls.  Fast forward two years, and I got an EE that laid eggs the exact same color as the wall. Here's a picture of the egg, wall, and a piece of white paper for comparison.