Recent content by TheMadChickenLady

I'm so sorry to hear about everyone's losses.

confession time... My 17 happy chicklets are now 21! I went by The Feed Bucket to get some chicken feed, and they had babies the exact same age as my babies in the brooder! How could I resist? (especially after learning that they were all girls!) So, of course I ended up coming home with a...

Quote: Wow this thread moves quickly! I had a great time meeting you, Joy! Thanks so much for showing me around the farm and talking chickens with me for so long. The guinea eggs went into my incubator the very next day, and the others went under my broody hen... I'm crossing my fingers that...

If friends and family know better than to call early in the morning, but you wake up at 4am daily to check on your new peeps... give treats... and change newspaper. (then don't even get too upset when they instantly poo all over the fresh newspaper )

Quote: Ok, I've deleted some messages from my inbox so hopefully I can again receive messages. It's crazy that it doesn't give me notice that I've reached my limit until I miss messages. I'm terrible at deleting (like to save things), I have 23,000 messages in my email inbox so I guess...

*beep beep* We now interrupt your regularly scheduled program... *beep beep* Sorry to be completely off topic, y'all, but I'm posting here in hopes Joycats will see... between now and tomorrow... Her message inbox is full and it won't let me reply there. Joy, Does somewhere in the...

The babies in my incubator are hatching! I started with 24 eggs.. 22 made it to lockdown. They've been hatching all day, and it's hard to tell exactly how many are in there, but the total is definitely well into the double digits! Here are three peeping (tee hee) out of the side of the...

I have internet again! After over three weeks with no internet, the less than helpful folks at AT&T still have not come out to the house... but today it decided to fix itself? It's been an eventful few weeks. My old hovabator gave up the ghost and surged to 110 degrees one day while I...

You might be the crazy chicken lady when: You go to a bar on Mardi Gras, meet a complete stranger, and spend 30 minutes talking to them about chickens! (As it turns out, they used to raise chickens when they lived in another state!)

Quote: Hello MadChickenLady - I have guineas and love them. I will be selling the hatching eggs and keets all summer just as soon as they start laying. Mine usually start laying mid April. I have mostly normal pearls and whites, but I have a few royal purples and lavenders too. I keep a...

Hi y'all! Is anyone in the Upstate going to be selling guinea eggs this spring? My incubator is full at the moment, but in April or May I'd love to hatch some guineas... and it would be a bonus to get to meet someone from BYC!

You might be a crazy chicken lady when you: Take a cell phone picture of the backside of a roosting hen, then immediately send it to several friends with the caption "Guess What? Chicken Butt!" While none of them found it as hilarious as I did, none of them were surprised, either.

Tonight will be the eve of day 10, so I'm candling tonight! I am so egg-cited! I candled early a few days ago when I had some "city-boy" friends visiting... I am hatching brown eggs, and was candling with a small LED flashlight, so I wasn't sure if I'd be able to show them enough to get them...

Quote: I am not sure there is any way to PREVENT it, but you can look for signs ahead of time. Some sort of odor, the shell weeping, or just one tiny bubble coming out, etc. If you ever see any of that, remove the egg. Don't even try to "see what will happen". "Gee, that egg is weeping and...