Hi, I am glad to be here. Finally!
I am a mother to 3 children (17,9,6mo), 2 dogs, many cats, Chamberlin 10mo old naked-neck-road-red-rooster, a speckled hen, a young 6mo old red hen, Guini and a new 1week)peep!(...more to come!)
I am also a singer in a Rock Band and I LOVE CHICKENS! (BIRDS)
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I am so glad I am not the only one!
My friends think I am weird! lol
These birds are awesome!
Chamberlin still thinks he is my baby chick...ill post pics when I can
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Love my fine feathered friends.....all of them!
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ha ha mine is in the kitchen now! I do the same...
I keep him in a small box. (with big enough holes to look out, but not to put his head out)
He can not stretch his neck out to crow inside the box. He is happy, warm & snug AND QUIET for the night
Hi everyone....glad to be here!
I love this site!
Chamberlin(10 month old naked-neck-road-red-roo) was crowing a lil loud this evening so I brought him in to post with me!
I have 3 children, a wonderful husband, 1 new peep(my first hatch ever), "Chamberlin" a speckled hen, Ginni, young red...
ya...today still no hatched peeps
i'll take them wayyyyy out in the back and feed the ol'Oak Tree
Thanks everyone for all your support
Next batch to come in a week!
...ps: I carefully opened the eggs tonight....no smell...no peeps....that made me happy! my lil'peep was the lucky one!
awesome...thank you all...
im seeing a dark mass in them but the light is still shining through the egg like there is still lots of liquid in them...
not all solid dark like the one when the chick hatched: with that one, i could see the air bubble and the dark mass of baby bird
these are...
ONE peep hatched right on time...now what do i do with the other two eggs still in the bator 3 days over-due?
I am thinking they were at different stages in the nest (all cold except one, that one is not hatched yet either)
oddly enough! the most frozen egg is the one that made it!
When do i...
I need to know when to take the other eggs out...how many days past due should I wait? its been 2 days....
they are not as dark inside as the egg that hatched...looks floaty inside no movements anytime I have looked
As for hatching the peep...I love it!
OH! I have found my calling! I am a...
Thank you!
I have always come to this site for info over the past year...just decided to go ahead and make a profile
Still learning how to get around and post some pics of my new baby!
im new so it will not let me post any pics yet.....
I had to tell someone!
My very first peep hatched last night!
Yup...saved 2 cold eggs and one fresh warm egg from my hens below freezing nest...she was not sitting on them yet...put them in incubator 21 days ago...one made it! wow. Oddly enough: the egg I wrote "cold ?" on is the one that...