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  1. KathryninQuebec

    Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

    Looks almost like something my hubby built on an old trailer frame. It works great but we had to fence off the underside. Too many of the flock didn't want to go in at night. Getting them out from under so they wouldn't become racoon dinner was a real back breaker. Not to mention they liked to...
  2. KathryninQuebec

    Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

    The best tasting meat/eggs we ever had from our chickens and pigs was the year we couldn't get pre mixed feed and supplemented with barley, garden waste and scraps / forage. If we ever get pigs again Barley is our go to!
  3. KathryninQuebec

    Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

    Pretty pictures. What are the cup cake wrappers for?
  4. KathryninQuebec

    Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

    OK. Photo of the year! Too beautiful and too cute all at the same time!
  5. KathryninQuebec

    Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

    One of our happiest Summers with back yard babies was when we raised Turkeys. Soft coos and gentle natures. I was even able to shepherd them around the property every afternoon for fresh forage. Our supplier stopped business. I've been on the look out for a heritage breed we could propagate ever...
  6. KathryninQuebec

    Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

    Well yes, life has been busy. How time flies. For the last few years I've been wanting Silkies. Not because they are irresistibly cute but because we worried about power outages or the ability to afford a new incubator as prices go up and supply chains faulter. Silkies are heralded as being...
  7. KathryninQuebec

    Organ?

    If I had to guess it may be bruising/pooled blood. Did you find this in every bird? How did you dispatch them? Killing cone? Holding down and removing the head? In very large meat birds I have also seen globes of white or cream colored fat which my husband, a Quebec butcher, calls "Suif du...
  8. KathryninQuebec

    What Would You Do? Giving shipped eggs to broody bantam.

    Yes, she is in great condition. Her first hatch is 8 weeks old now and have been on their own since 5 weeks. I separated them once she started laying again. Thanks for your input :)
  9. KathryninQuebec

    What Would You Do? Giving shipped eggs to broody bantam.

    Monday I excitedly received 48 Barred Rock eggs from B.C. Canada. I let them sit 48 hours and they have been in my incubator ever since. So that would make 2 full days in the incubator without rotation. Today my good mama Bantam Wyandotte Golden Lace hen went full blown broody on me again. She...
  10. KathryninQuebec

    May hatch-a-long

    Thanks, those are the Bantam Wyandotte GL. Their mamas kept me in eggs all Winter :)
  11. KathryninQuebec

    May hatch-a-long

    Final Count: 7 Canadian Blue Bresse and 9 Bantam Wyandotte Golden Lace. Only 30% hatch rate on the shipped eggs but they did come a very long way. Sorry for the delayed post but we are battling flooding with the big thaw up here. Here are the pictures!
  12. KathryninQuebec

    Hatching shipped eggs

    OK Scotch tape baby didn't make it :( But out of the 24 shipped Canadian Bresse we got lucky 7 healthy chicks! From our own 11 Bantam Wyandotte Golden Lace we got 9:jumpy Good day on the homestead.
  13. KathryninQuebec

    May hatch-a-long

    9 bantams hatched! 2 bantams and 15 Bresse to go. 2 Bresse have externally piped. Now I have moved the 9 cheerleaders to the brooder I can hear some small peeps :D
  14. KathryninQuebec

    May hatch-a-long

    Here is a video of our 1st 3 hatched. We now are up to 5 of the bantams :jumpy
  15. KathryninQuebec

    Problems with hatching

    How is it going? Any signs of life
  16. KathryninQuebec

    May hatch-a-long

    Just answered my own question from the articles section on BYC "My Eggs are Hatching Early! Again, are you sure you have the hatch date calculated correctly? Was your temperature a little too high? High temperatures will cause eggs to hatch early. Or, are you incubating a small bantam breed...
  17. KathryninQuebec

    May hatch-a-long

    OK so I'm in lock down and hatch day, the 21st day is tomorrow approximately 8:30 pm. 2 of my own Bantam Wyandottes are showing pip holes starting. I have hatched 2 batches of leg horn/ red sex-link chickens last year. I have never seen early starters. Anyone ever seen bantams or otherwise start...
  18. KathryninQuebec

    May hatch-a-long

    Well we are in the final countdown here. I did my final candle tonight. 2 of the Bresse (one of them being the scotch tape baby) seem to have died in late development :( . I just took them out of their cradles and laid them on the floor of the incubator. I also raised the humidity to 70%. Here...
  19. KathryninQuebec

    May hatch-a-long

    2 of my bantam Wyandottes went broody 2 months ago. Got 6 chicks :)
  20. KathryninQuebec

    May hatch-a-long

    This will be my first time having them. I am raising mainly for meat. I am mainly trying to raise them to enlarge the breed. All the heritage breeds I hope to perpetuate as there are not many heritage breeds in our neck of the woods.
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