Just wanted to post a pic of our growing babies...it's been a little while since i have been on here......
at first we were nit real sure if this was a boy or girl....but now....
We know it's a roo =) he has grown into a beautiful Roo !
Here is Fancy when she was younger......
and here she...
I have 12 6 1\2 month old sex-link pullets and they have not started laying yet..from the internet and what people has told me...they should be laying by now...what do i do ? can i go ahead and give them a little bit of egg ration or do i wait till they start laying ? just wondering.....thanks
Ok so my Chick Peeped last night...it did it all wrong and died from it :( instead of going all the way around the egg pipping it made a small whole in the top of the egg and when i went down this morning to check on it it was already dead....so i did not know how long it had been that way so i...
I am on day 22 now and still nothing....at the end of day 17 i candled my egg and there was movement and a lot of it ! i have not touched it since that night and now like i said at the top i am on day 22...my husband and i at different time's this morning thought we saw the egg moving but it was...
Well i am on day 11 in the bator and i had to throw out my first batch because they were from the hen that stopped setting..my mom gave me four eggs to hatch/play around with bator lol but any how i have 4 and they are all doing really good and #4 egg has movement in it :) so happy about...
I have a cochin hen and she has went the past 3 days without laying an egg....went to feed this morning and there were still no egg...so a little bit ago i heard the most weirdest noise and i went down to check thing's out and there were 2 eggs in her nest...oh and she is the only one laying...
Ok so wow i have 6 chick's and they are some pooping machine's....they are dropping everywhere ! i clean there brooder out atleast 2 time's a day and i am wondering if maybe i am feeding to much or what ? like with in 5 min's of me cleaning it out it is full of poo again lol ! and some of it is...
well i seen some movement lastnight,this morning i went do to turn them and i very quickly candled a few and i seen Blood Ring's but some movement....will they end up dying ? 3 of the eggs i set were Staggered eggs.....my hen stopped setting....she had not set on them for a few days and when i...
Well i looked at my eggs tonight and now there only a few that look decent...some have a slight blood ring forming and vein's have gone away...and on one there are veins every where but it looks like the yolk my have broke or something ? it looks kinds murky in the egg but a little black spot...
U know you are a chicken addict when every weekend you say Just 2 more and thats it....well i am way past just 2 more and thats it....i am to the part to were we say omg were did these all come from ! lol instead of sleep walking i am sleep buying (CHICKEN'S)
I got a sex-link cockerel and he is about 16 weeks old and his comb and wattle are bright red and his comb is big and already kinda lay's to the side and we are out side and up very early and i have not once heard him crow or even a noise out of him ! will he soo or is there something wrong with...
Well i candled my 8 eggs today and all were doing great but 2...i seen blood spot's but no vein's...so i cracked them open and it was just yolk....but all my other's are great ! vein's and eyes :) so i am hoping they cont...to grow and do well !
My babies i got a few days ago :) 1 Black Australorp an 1 Brown IDK ? lol
Mom What is that Flashy Thing ?
I said put it away !
They Are Completely different but they are still cute !
I have a blue cochin/wyandotte mix and she has had a rough mth ! first she had a clutch and we had a bad storm and it broke all her eggs due to coop damage...then a week and a half after that she had layed and started setting again and a hoot owl some how or another got in our coop and killed...
Everything is looking good ! i had to throw one out because the hen had stopped setting and it was too late for the little chick :( it had formed a very thick blood ring and all vein's went away...so my son (age 7 ) wanted to see what it looked like so i cracked it open for him and it was the...
They are at 3 days...
some are 1 day longer in incubator then other's
pic's aint very good but you can see the vein in this one really well !
all the other eggs look like 1 and 2nd pic...
My mom gace me this little chick and i am hoping it is a little pullet but i don;t know how to tell lol she said if it is a roo then i can swap but i don't want it to get fully grown before i swap because i mess with it alot and i am already getting attatched :(
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