fuzzi's Chicken Journal

[fuzzi]

What a great Mother's Day photo of Martha! The chicks look very content
Your thread and Shadrach's are my favorites!

Thank you, that's high praise, indeed.

@Shadrach thread is also one of my favorites.

 

[1muttsfan]

I am in a constant state of denial where it comes to chicks. They are all pullets until clearly proven otherwise.

 

[fuzzi]

I am in a constant state of denial where it comes to chicks. They are all pullets until clearly proven otherwise.

Not a pullet...

They're getting so big...

 

[fuzzi]

As big as they have become, Martha's still doing her best at mothering the chicks on the roost:

The legs on the right side!

 

[NanaK]

As big as they have become, Martha's still doing her best at mothering the chicks on the roost:
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The legs on the right side!

You got a 4 leg chicken!!!
WOW!!!

 

[fuzzi]

You got a 4 leg chicken!!!
WOW!!!

With two of the legs facing backwards!

 

[fuzzi]

Oh, that reminds me...I need to check the leg rings this weekend. I don't want them tight.

 

[fuzzi]

It appears that Martha's giving Hannah a stink eye "Don't come near my chicks!"

The Doms are keeping the peace...

 

[fuzzi]

Cross-posted From My Hatch-a-Long thread

Day 14

Candled Incubator Eggs

2 - Not sure, dark areas
3 - Not sure, dark areas
8 - Not sure, dark areas
9 - Dark saddle (very dark)
11 - Movement, beak, feathers!!
12 - Movement!!


Flashlight Broody Eggs

1 - Not sure, dark areas
4 - Not sure, dark areas
5 - Not sure, dark areas
6 - Not sure, dark areas
7 - Not sure, dark areas
10 - Not sure, dark areas

Even using an LED flashlight I couldn't see more than dark and light areas in each egg.


The second egg I pulled out from underneath Tamar was totally clear! It had no number on it...someone laid it today when Tamar took a break.


One week to go!

 

[fuzzi]

Blue band took a wild strawberry from my fingers today, first time!

Purple band left, blue band front, LC right rear ("Little Chick"). One of my hens, Rahab, had similar black coloring on the neck when she was a juvenile.

Martha, Rahab, and green band (later sold) at about the same age.