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post #421 of 499
2/5/12 at 1:30am
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twentynine.  CONGRATS!

 

Did I tell you that I name one of my chicks from the NYD hatch "29"... it's how many I hatched and it was the last one out...

 

a Blue feathered Olive egger... SWA X FBCM!



Thanks Mahonri, 29 is a nickname I have carried for over 30 years. Many people who I have worked with over the years, have no clue as to what my real name is. While at work, I am 29. NYD hatch last one out being my name sake, must be a story in there some where.

 

I am tettering on the possibility of joining the Easter hatch. Truth is I haven't determined what I am going to do with the batch I just hatched, keep, sell, give away? 

 

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post #422 of 499
2/5/12 at 1:54am

Lockdown! fl.gif

"There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter....Which luckily I am"

- Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

 

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"There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter....Which luckily I am"

- Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

 

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post #423 of 499
2/5/12 at 2:36am
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Lockdown! fl.gif



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Keeper of 26 hens,  4 PW Leghorns, 1 leghorn mix, 1 FBCMarans, 1 Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington, 2 Mama Olive Eggers w/ 15 chicks each, 1 EE, a Barred Rock, a RIR, a CQ, 1 Delaware, 1 Black Star, a Splash Ameraucana, 3 W/BW Ameraucana pullets, 5 polish, 2 Welsummers and 41 juvies of various breeds. YIKES!  Time to SELL some chickens!

 

 

"With God, ALL things are possible."

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Keeper of 26 hens,  4 PW Leghorns, 1 leghorn mix, 1 FBCMarans, 1 Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington, 2 Mama Olive Eggers w/ 15 chicks each, 1 EE, a Barred Rock, a RIR, a CQ, 1 Delaware, 1 Black Star, a Splash Ameraucana, 3 W/BW Ameraucana pullets, 5 polish, 2 Welsummers and 41 juvies of various breeds. YIKES!  Time to SELL some chickens!

 

 

"With God, ALL things are possible."

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post #424 of 499
2/5/12 at 4:25am

Lockdown yesterday for batch #2.

13 EO's

1 Partridge Wyandotte (the other was a quitter)

These were shipped eggs and 14 of 15 made it to lockdown. Thank you Skyline!!

Florida farmer. Wife to Popeye. Mom to 2 sons. We breed & sell LF, dual purpose breed poultry. Marraduna Basque Euskal Oiloa, White Orpington, Heritage Rhode Island Red, adding Black Orpington and Rhodebar. We also breed & sell Glouchestershire Old Spot and Berkshire pigs. I have a mob of Emu that are not yet in production until the fall of 2013. It is a busy yet rewarding pursuit of happiness.
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Florida farmer. Wife to Popeye. Mom to 2 sons. We breed & sell LF, dual purpose breed poultry. Marraduna Basque Euskal Oiloa, White Orpington, Heritage Rhode Island Red, adding Black Orpington and Rhodebar. We also breed & sell Glouchestershire Old Spot and Berkshire pigs. I have a mob of Emu that are not yet in production until the fall of 2013. It is a busy yet rewarding pursuit of happiness.
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post #425 of 499
2/5/12 at 4:55am
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twentynine.  CONGRATS!

 

Did I tell you that I name one of my chicks from the NYD hatch "29"... it's how many I hatched and it was the last one out...

 

a Blue feathered Olive egger... SWA X FBCM!



Thanks Mahonri, 29 is a nickname I have carried for over 30 years. Many people who I have worked with over the years, have no clue as to what my real name is. While at work, I am 29. NYD hatch last one out being my name sake, must be a story in there some where.

 

I am tettering on the possibility of joining the Easter hatch. Truth is I haven't determined what I am going to do with the batch I just hatched, keep, sell, give away? 

 


Hurry Mahonri, Push twentynine over the edge......can't have any teetering going on! 

 

Hatch something at Easter that somebody else wants, they are easier to part with that way!  Ask around and see if you find some one who doesn't have an incubator and do their hatching for them or get eggs for something that is high demand and easily sold.

 

 

 

 

suum cuique

 

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suum cuique

 

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post #426 of 499
2/5/12 at 5:45am
I hatched 4 golden coturnix quail! and my chicken (19) should start to pip by this afternoon and if I'm lucky hatch by tomorrow afternoon! there's plentyvof movement above the air bubble and two or more have started to chirp! probably angered about the 90* temperature this morning... but I'll fix that smile.png

It'll take a bit, but I'll post a link for a pic of my 4 quail... how many did I say I thought would hatch?
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post #427 of 499
2/5/12 at 6:03am
It's not a very great picture, but here it is~

http://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/image/view/id/4926719/album/6153227#

I'll take another when my chicks hatch out... whenever they decide to do that. One of my quail hasn't stopped peeping(if u could call it that) since I took the pic! Is it camere shy...!
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post #428 of 499
2/5/12 at 7:05am

The little guy I helped is doing very well.  His curled toes have straightened.  He is tiny--about half the size of the others has that sticky chick look.  He has trouble drinking with his curled beak, and sometimes he looses his balance.  But he is smart--he waits till everyone else is under the brooder and then takes his time drinking slowly.  He walks funny.   I posted his pic here:

http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/626189/chick-slightly-deformed-spraddle

Sometimes you eat the egg.   Sometimes the egg eats you.
 

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post #429 of 499
2/5/12 at 9:14am
Aw, Kefiren, your chick is so cute! If you get him far enough he should be juuust fine~

I looked in my 'bator a few minutes ago... AAAND I HAVE 3 PIIIIPS! 1 leghornX, 1 EE, and 1 RIR! I didn't think i'd havea pip until at least 3 o'clock.. but I'm not complaining~!
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post #430 of 499
2/5/12 at 10:18am
Woo Hoo Kellyn!! And what cute chickies!!

Also, am I the only one no longer receiving updates? Very strange.

Twentynine, I too am conflicted regarding the Easter Hatch. I now have 31 chickens INSIDE my house. It ain't pretty. It's getting up to about the mid 40's during the day here, so I've been putting the larger of the 5 week olds out during the day, and that helps keep the smell down a bit and helps entertain them, but in itself is quite an undertaking. Oh, what to do... Just how nice would a barn be??

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