The Fam:
2 boys , 1 girl
An amazing and wonderful husband who never ceases to amaze me
One really big dog, a Berner, Charlie, who Is AWESOME.
One really odd dog, a Corgi named Max, who is also awesome.
6 cats, which I hate to admit because it paints a picture in peoples minds...
Pharoah, Cookie...
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Thank you!
I set 11 eggs yesterday. Hopefully some will hatch...
I'd love too see pictures but I totally get the endless rain. Hopefully you will get some sun soon
Has anybody done this?
I have a white crested black Polish roo and a buff Cochin and a Black Cochin hen.
I am curious about gene dominance with the crest , comb, color variations and feather legs. What shows up and what dissapears?
Does anybody know ?
My chickens are young, my roo looks very...
So I started a search last year to find mottled Houdan eggs. Boy, are they hard to find. I did find a place that will ship fertile eggs but last year when I had ordered (December) the Houdans werent laying anymore, so they sent me a crested variety pack instead per my request..
Out of that hatch...
We have one sultan, standard size, which is still a fairly small chicken compared to our others. She is an odd little "duck". Always sleeps under a Cochins wing, and honks like a duck . She is fairly friendly but also a little flighty as well.
She is one of our best layers steadily producing...
Fred's Hens :
If you want to save some of that rooster's DNA, you should gather the egss over an 8-10 period, keep them cool, pointy end down. Go for a hatch. If you only have 16 eggs and only 6 produce live chicks, well.. that is that.
I suspect you are under the gun to say goodbye to the...
hi to all.
My hens have been laying for about two months now. We have a roo who was hatched in december and many of the eggs appear fertile. In your opinion, how old should my laying hens be before I try and hatch some of their eggs. The hens lay three a day and I need to rehome the roo due to...
This is a great question. I've been worried about the same thing.
I wonder about the sand method. Is it easier to clean up or just have a more deodorizing quality?
So I got three new Barnevelders out of 14 eggs, that were shipped in freezing cold weather. I totally trust the breeder. Her packaging was outstanding.
I am very happy with them. They were hatched last Thursday.
As you guys all know, shipped eggs are always an iffy proposition, so any live...
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How long do you wait? I've read of people saying they have day 25 hatches commonly. I'll probably wait until then, another 2 days for me, just to see what happens. of the 3 unhatched, 2 were alive but smaller than the rest on day 18, and the other one appeared the same as the others...
3 out of 10 hatched yesterday! Very cute little fuzzies.
Quick question though, do you guys have split hatches happen? Meaning several pip and zip the first day and then a day passes with no action in any of the eggs?
I always wonder if the soccer team that gets born first messes with my...
You guys are the BEST! Thank you so much for the information about your own head injured chicks. I'm still stunned at what they can do to each other. I think it was an EE hen who started this bullying. She's very possessive of her Roos.
I hesitate to say she seems better today as that always...
Grats to all the new chick hatchers. Looks like this group is getting some really good hatches!
I'm on day 19 and I remember now what this waiting is like...
Time to start compulsively cleaning...
Maybe I will go and look one more time...
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I just about laughed til I cried when I read this one. (Do they also make cutting remarks about the other hens' fashion sense and recent weight gain just in earshot of the others?)
Hi,
Have a 5 month old hen , who was attacked by her coop mates yesterday.
They have plenty of space, in the coop and in the run, and recently started over on laying crumbles, free fed all day. They get yogurt about every other day and other treats daily.
I brought her in and she has about a...
Hobby...and its easy to justify the costs when you factor in, we don't go out , we don't drink, we rarely even rent a movie and we use the library instead of purchasing books and movies, and we only eat take out about once a month. Some people I know can sucessfully justify expensive purchases...
Congrats everybody on your new little hatchlings! Its exciting business this hatching thing
I went into lockdown at 12:00 today. Have ten little eggs in the Brinsea. All Barnevelders. I wonder how you guys get more to fit. With a sponge and the Accurite, theres bearly any room left. Hats off...