Honestly, I couldn't see much. I waited and thought I saw life and was all excited, but at Day 11, it was obviously not growing/moving, and I was quite sure they had passed, so I opened them up. I cracked them in half to open them and it was a mess of a yolk that poured out. Some blood ring...
Here are a couple of shipped Maran eggs. Their air cells were completely mangled and these died early on. When I cracked the egg in half - I found the embryos stuck to the bottom of the air cells. Any idea what this means? These eggs were shipped to me and then I let them sit in a cool room...
Hi everyone! I'm looking to see if anyone has come up with a good way to manage the sorting. I had a very successful mealworm farm several years ago, but I remember it taking so long to sort them all. I'm OCD, so it was pretty bad. I sorted with chopsticks lol I see that some people now do...
My name is Dawn, I am a RVT, and I live with my boyfriend in Norco, CA. Our family consists of 1 horse, 3 dogs and 3 cats, and 3 fish. My flock of consists of 19 chickens and 20 Coturnix Quail: Game Hen, EE/SilkieX, Silkies, Blue Orpington, SeramaX, Australorps.
I've raised geese and ducks...
Here is the beautiful coop/run that my wonderful boyfriend built for us. He built it from the ground up. He takes all the credit for this amazing coop. The chickens and I just love it so much.
The front of the run is now complete...well...we still need to put a return spring on the door...
I rescued a Game Hen 4 months ago from a dog attack and she seemed to have completely healed from those wounds. But last week I noticed that she was no longer going into the coop at night. Before this, she was the top bird. I checked her over but saw no signs of sickness - so I just kept an...
Thank you everyone!!
Ozzie - that's actually one of the things we still have left to do! We have to do that and some of the other finishing touches. Good eyes!
cnjtnt - here are more pictures of the waterer. It holds a little over 2 gallons of water and is easy to refill. The height of the...
lol - his name is Cody and while he may keep predators out...if the chickens got out, he would LOVE to eat them. Andy says I can't blame him, after all, he IS a BIRD dog. But I think he should know the difference between birds for hunting and our own pet birds. He's beginning to figure out...
Thank you everyone!!
LOL - I thought we were SLOW to get this built. It hasn't been the top priority and we can only work on it on the weekends and it's been months!!!
It's been really cold out lately - night time falling to 37 degrees. I think that's FREEZING. I was worried about the...
Thank you everyone. We are quite proud of it too and constantly adding additional little features to make it nicer. I think it's a good size coop/run now.
UPDATE: 12/9/09
Still have some finishing touches to complete on the extension to make it look nice, but the chickens are all moved in and loving it. Let me know what you think!! Thank you!
This is the doorway into the extension run and the chickens happily checking out their new play area.