Recent content by BadPenny

I am so sorry to hear this. I lost a hen at around 7 this evening, she was 4.5 but otherwise your post could have been mine. I hope that your bird passes as quietly as mine did.

Well, only that one hatched of the retrieved eggs. I gave the others two more days and nothing happened, so they went out on the big compost heap. I'll get a photo of the one that did hatch out with its mom and siblings. It was initially MUCH smaller than the sibs (being at least a week younger...

Yep! You need a very small, old fashioned teaspoon to do egg and spoon races with these ones. :)

Here, you wait for them to be trying to clear out inventory. They start (I think) up to $6 based on breed, but wait a while and if they don't go the price goes down and further down.

I decided to give it 24hrs or so, and if we didn't get an incubator, so be it. Well, I used a hot water bottle at blood heat (because it turns out that I have no reliable thermometers in my house), changing out the bottle every few hours with a little nest of surgical towels over the top. By...

I’ve posted to my state thread looking for an incubator to borrow but in the event I can’t get one? Long story short, 12 eggs candled last weekend all looked viable - 10 looked to have a week or so left. (They’re various silkie x bantam crosses so about 19 day incubation). 2 are much much...

Incubator to borrow or space to rent? Our broody hatched 4/12 eggs and decided this morning that she is done. The other 8 eggs all looked viable a week ago and 6 of them should be due to hatch in the next few days. 2 of them will be at least a week more (broody hen was an egg hoarder and...

We eat a lot of casseroles (you can basically throw in any vegetables you want, cheese, maybe dry bread, and I like to use some bacon fat) - we can use up 18 bantam eggs in a casserole that will last for several meals. We also eat a lot of "baked french toast" - basically bread pudding, I like...

Thank you! I appreciate your response.

We got our extremely broody silkie some fertile eggs to hatch. She sat on them like a champ for 4 days. Then we introduced some new pullets into the run and long story short, when the silkie goes out for her feed and exercise the pullets all run into her box and hide there. When she comes back...

I've got yet another broody gal and since I don't want any more bantam silkie crosses at the moment... I'm looking for meat or dual purpose eggs to put under my broody silkie ASAP. Please message me and let me know what you've got, how much for six eggs, and where you are. (I'm north of...

Thanks! Three out of five isn't bad, I'll take it!

Thanks. They were strongly suspected. :/ Oh well, it'll be off to freezer camp with them in another 5 weeks then.

My five bantam crosses will be seven weeks old in two days. Any guesses to who might be a cockerel and who might be a pullet? The grey (barred) headed one is/was a runt and still seems to be catching up in size to the others. For clarity I'll be identify them from L to R and call them the...

My girl ditched her chicks at 4 weeks this year. It was a surprise since her mom NEVER gave up her babies (in fact she, and her daughter, went nuts when I took her daughter and her eggs out to the brooder). So maybe not so much of a surprise that the daughter went running back to mom as soon as...