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  1. helenbk1966

    ISO White Marans, Wheaten Marans, Super Blue Egg Layers

    Wow hat is a big egg! But even your small one is much larger than the little fairy eggs our CLB was laying. I’d love to hear from you when you have fertile eggs or chicks if you’re willing to ship. Thanks so much for all the info!
  2. helenbk1966

    ISO White Marans, Wheaten Marans, Super Blue Egg Layers

    Sooooo you wanna sell an of your hens? Or some chicks or some fertile eggs?
  3. helenbk1966

    ISO White Marans, Wheaten Marans, Super Blue Egg Layers

    Yes we have 3 EE hens already.
  4. helenbk1966

    ISO White Marans, Wheaten Marans, Super Blue Egg Layers

    Hello chicken people! I am in search of the above breeds, ideally within an hour of Maryland zip code 20853 but willing to have items shipped if I find what I want. Ideally I would like older pullets, second choice would be sexed female chicks. Third choice would be hatching eggs. The...
  5. helenbk1966

    ISO female EE, OE or Polish hatched in July or August

    Looking in Rockville, Silver Spring, Brookville or Olney. (Or anywhere else that is 20 minutes or less away from zip 20853. We had a disastrous hatch in August. 16 polish eggs we got 1 hen and 1 roo. The roo has chronic health issues so we will be "ending his gene line" soon which will...
  6. helenbk1966

    HELP! Broody hen rejected the incubator babies!

    I forgot to say I did remove them. They are in our brooder. In the bathroom I spent an hour scraping chicken crap out of 2 days ago
  7. helenbk1966

    HELP! Broody hen rejected the incubator babies!

    My BO went broody for the first time late March, and at 19-20 days we popped 5 chicks from the site under her. She immediately burst into happy mommy songs and was a devoted mommy, even tho we put them in in the middle of the day. (They were pecking the crap out of each other so we had to)...
  8. helenbk1966

    chicks pecking each other in incubator

    Totally off topic I love your signature!
  9. helenbk1966

    Comment by 'helenbk1966' in article 'Brooding with Mama Heating Pad'

    I wonder if you could market this as a kit? And make a feathered cover for the heating pad so it's just like a real mama chicken? I am reminded of experiments with baby monkeys. They were given 2 artificial surrogate mothers. A wire one with food and a soft snugly one with no food. They only...
  10. helenbk1966

    Time between first hatch and last hatch-will be putting chicks under a broody

    Thanks! Excellent info on outdoor brooding!
  11. helenbk1966

    Time between first hatch and last hatch-will be putting chicks under a broody

    We had 13 eggs that candles as fertile at day 10-12. 3 hatched yesterday day 21, 2 hatched over night Day 22. Several more have pips. I have read here and elsewhere that you don't want to give up before day 25. At what point do you need to take the first chicks out of the bator and pop them...
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    Comment by 'helenbk1966' in article 'How to have marital bliss and chickens too..'

    Another piece of advice: If you call to cancel an order of chicks make sure you call at least 3 times. Apparently 2 calls does NOT do the trick. The arrive of 6 fluffy ping pong balls that neither one of us was expecting is causing some marital strain.
  13. helenbk1966

    Amercauna finally laid an egg!

    All of Ferns sisters have been laying for weeks. Today I found out why she delayed her career! She laid a gorgeous blue whopper of an egg!
  14. helenbk1966

    Do these khaki ducklings look 3 1/2 weeks old?

    We got these as freebies from someone who had only had them for 4 days and said they were 3 weeks old. They are no bigger than our chicks who we KNOW are 3 weeks old. When can we leave them out at night?
  15. helenbk1966

    Can u sex khaki Campbell's by color at 3 weeks old!

    Someone is offering them to me but does not know the sex. I've heard male ducks will get amorous with female chickens and can harm them so I need to know the sex. Thanks!
  16. helenbk1966

    Chicken Charm bracelet

    Handcrafted chicken charm bracelet. Made with chicken love. Help me support my girls! Shipping is $4. PayPal required. Thanks for looking!
  17. helenbk1966

    Grafted 5 chicks- 100% success !

    Flossie was UBER broody for 2 1/2 weeks before the chicks came home. She sat on a pile of ceramic eggs we keep in the nesting boxes to remind the girls where they are supposed to lay. Of course Flossie terrified them all while she was broody so no one would lay in there. We are hoping they go...
  18. helenbk1966

    Grafted 5 chicks- 100% success !

    Flossie our buff Orp is an awesome mom! We didn't even wait til dark because one chick was beating up on the other 4. She straightened that out right away! It sure beats raising them indoors!!
  19. helenbk1966

    cutest chicken names!

    We try to name ours based on their breed origin. Adelaide the Austrolorp Gertrude Jersey Giant (Gertrude is tha name of the only WW2 WAC flyer still missing in action, she's from NJ. Hubby vetoed Snookie, LOL) Shirley Partridge (partridge rock- named for mom of Partridge Family Show) We had a...
  20. helenbk1966

    Brooding 5 chicks and 5 ducklings together with great success!

    That's interesting. I always thought there would be hostilities from any adult hens that were not the mom. My baby Orpington actually jumped high to pechpk the adult austrolorp in the head today and the adult just looked at her like ***? Lol
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