Recent content by KathryninQuebec

I'm thinking that chicks raised by a good Mum will be good Mums too.

If I had to guess it may be bruising/pooled blood. Did you find this in every bird? How did you dispatch them? Killing cone? Holding down and removing the head? In very large meat birds I have also seen globes of white or cream colored fat which my husband, a Quebec butcher, calls "Suif du...

Yes, she is in great condition. Her first hatch is 8 weeks old now and have been on their own since 5 weeks. I separated them once she started laying again. Thanks for your input :)

Monday I excitedly received 48 Barred Rock eggs from B.C. Canada. I let them sit 48 hours and they have been in my incubator ever since. So that would make 2 full days in the incubator without rotation. Today my good mama Bantam Wyandotte Golden Lace hen went full blown broody on me again. She...

Thanks, those are the Bantam Wyandotte GL. Their mamas kept me in eggs all Winter :)

Final Count: 7 Canadian Blue Bresse and 9 Bantam Wyandotte Golden Lace. Only 30% hatch rate on the shipped eggs but they did come a very long way. Sorry for the delayed post but we are battling flooding with the big thaw up here. Here are the pictures!

OK Scotch tape baby didn't make it :( But out of the 24 shipped Canadian Bresse we got lucky 7 healthy chicks! From our own 11 Bantam Wyandotte Golden Lace we got 9:jumpy Good day on the homestead.

7 Canadian Blue Bresse and 9 Bantam Wyandotte Golden Lace

9 bantams hatched! 2 bantams and 15 Bresse to go. 2 Bresse have externally piped. Now I have moved the 9 cheerleaders to the brooder I can hear some small peeps :D