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  1. eliseswart

    2016 Gosling Hatch-a-long

    I have no idea, but thanks all of you for your nice words. A tuft, a tuft? Is that the thing on his head? We call him punkie or: the monk. I thought all the geese here were Toulouse. They call them grey geese (Les oies grises). They're all X-something, I think . They're growing very very...
  2. eliseswart

    2016 Gosling Hatch-a-long

    Hello, I'm Elise, Dutch, living in France. I have chickens and quails, until the neighbours from the next village gave me some of their goose eggs to make a nice giant omelette. But no, I set the 6 eggs 5 weeks ago in the incubator, 4 were infertile but the other 2 were ok and hatched last...
  3. eliseswart

    Coturnix Quail hatched her own eggs

    Great story! I have a quail sitting on eggs for 14 days now. I separated her from the others because they attacked her for some reason. She started to make a nest, so I let her keep the eggs and after 4 days I changed them for fertilized eggs from a friend, having no male quail myself. So this...
  4. eliseswart

    June 2015 Hatch A Long HAL

    I just put 33 quails eggs into lock-down, set 50 the 29th of May, checked them yesterday and 15 were not fertilized, 2 had cracks. I saw an egg with the air chamber on the wrong side, but I put it back in the hatcher anyway. Sometimes they hatch. We'll see. Outside I have two Brahma-x mothers...
  5. eliseswart

    APRIL Hatch-A-Long 2015: PLEASE READ FIRST POST

    katatonic123: they are just great! And giant as well. Mine are the same size at 2,5 month. Incredible! Lovely birds, congrats.
  6. eliseswart

    APRIL Hatch-A-Long 2015: PLEASE READ FIRST POST

    After 6 weeks (first time everything failed) my dear black Brahma succeeded hatching 4 chicks 8 eggs were not fertile. I'm afraid I need a serious discussion with the one to blame, the rooster DSK, that is. But I'm happy with the 4 chicks, 2 brahmas and 2 farm chickens. My quail hatch was...
  7. eliseswart

    Anybody setting eggs this weekend? (4-25-15)

    Yes, I can see the first little beak breaking the eggshell, it is day 17 of the quail hatch. And I wanted to go to bed early! And yes, RubyNala97, after this round I'll be hatching the duckeggs of the neighbour. And this weekend one broody hen will have her chicks, if everything goes well...
  8. eliseswart

    APRIL Hatch-A-Long 2015: PLEASE READ FIRST POST

    The eggs of my black Brahma all turned out bad. I don't know why. Probably in the beginning of the hatch something stopped them or infected them. I don't know. They looked ok to me, though. I'll give her another try tomorrow with a fresh nest, fresh eggs and a fresh start. It is possible to...
  9. eliseswart

    Anybody setting eggs this weekend? (4-25-15)

    And I set this morning 39 quails eggs in the bator, so I don't have to wait as long as a chicken hatch. (But after that I'll be hatching ducks and geese for my neighbours in the next village. They'll put them in the brooder, I only hatch them, which is fun.
  10. eliseswart

    APRIL Hatch-A-Long 2015: PLEASE READ FIRST POST

    Tomorrow is day 21 of my Brahma broody hatch! Her two half-sisters at the neighbours hatched 18 eggs last week and I used the eggs of the same parents as well. I'm so excited. She does not leave the nest any longer, refuses water and food, only growls when I say "good morning!". I took some...
  11. eliseswart

    APRIL Hatch-A-Long 2015: PLEASE READ FIRST POST

    Yesterday on Easter Day The Black Gall (Brahma sweetie) started her 3 weeks sit. She sat in the box where all the others are laying as well, no problem, I took the box with chicken and eggs and put it in the rabbit hutch, that I keep for these occasions. She didn't move, just made this funny...
  12. eliseswart

    My rooster killed by a fox

    Thanks everybody. I wanted to hatch his eggs immediately, but I came to my senses: I have enough chickens as it is. And I have three 3 weeks old chicks (probably female) with Mr Big as father. But he is missed, this wonderful bird. Sunday they're going to hunt down the fox. I feel sorry for...
  13. eliseswart

    My rooster killed by a fox

    Oh, I'm so sad, my gorgeous Mr Big was killed by a fox Sunday afternoon together with my oldest hen. He was not dead yet, so I had to kill him to end his suffering, which was even worse. He was the sweetest rooster and so beautiful. I'm afraid that is the price of freedom, since my chickens can...
  14. eliseswart

    Backyard Brahmas!!

    Hello everybody, Last year a friend gave me 10 eggs of her mixed Brahma flock to hatch and all the eggs produced lovely birds. I kept one rooster and 2 chickens, one of them is now the mother of 3 one week old chicks. Her sister, a big black Brahma is just beautiful, but has layed only three...
  15. eliseswart

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I finally saw my frist chick of 2015. His mother told him where and how to eat and drink. Isn't he cute? Waiting for the other 4 to arrive tomorrow, hopefully. She does not leave the nest at all.
  16. eliseswart

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    First chick arrived yesterday, no pics, because he was hidden under his mother. He looks just like her, at that age, really. No idea which of the two roosters is the father. I gave her the 4 other eggs 1,5 day later, so maybe today or tomorrow I'll have some more chicks&photos. It is so...
  17. eliseswart

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Ms Grey is doing fine. I candled the eggs yesterday (day 12) while she left the nest to eat a tiny piece of pear I offered her. The huge egg my neighbour had given me was not fertilized. I feared it to be a double-yolk anyway. (I hope the rooster I gave her is ok, though) The 4 Sussex eggs are...
  18. eliseswart

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Finally! Last year not one of my farmyard chickens went broody, so a friend gave me 10 Brahma(x)-eggs (her chickens being very good brooders) and I hatched them myself in the bator. 100% succes, beginners luck I would say, I never did this before in my entire life. So here in central France...
  19. eliseswart

    Do they smell it is Sunday?

    Hahaha, no, just nature pancakes. I now give the neighbours' chickens their share as well and they love it and come running to me from everywhere. My French neighbour never gave her chickens treats like this before and she always had trouble getting them back into their roost, until I arrived...
  20. eliseswart

    Pea-people who can speak French?

    J'habite dans la Creuse, non, je n'ai pas de paons, désolée, que des poules en des cailles. Mais je parle français. I live in the Creuse, and no, I don't have any peafowl, just chickens and quails. But I speak french.
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