Today is my 20th Wedding Anniversary. It's hard to believe my Wife and I have been married this long.Been together 21 years.Where has the time gone?
Actually I can't believe she has put up with me this long.
Went to a swap meet today and got...14 ducks...10 Aracauna chicks ...6Hamberg chicks...6Black Polish bantams ...4 Cochin chicks...2 adult Cochins...3 Mille Fleur d'Uccles...2 Blue Wheatens...and 2 Black Indian Runner ducks.
Wow thats alot of chickens...what was I thinking ?
Oh yeah,Thats...
My family and I went to the Lucasville swap meet today.It started uot as a nice day but as the day went on it got pretty chilly.
To make a long story short...I bought some Bantam chicks when we first got there.Put them in a small cardboard box and thought they would be OK.But later the tempature...
We had 10 hatch yesterday.Lost one... .13 so far.10 more to go.
One of our Hamburgs hatched,its so tiny.I had to put it by itself because it kept getting stepped one by the others.
One of the Americanas wasn't doing well.Just layed there on its side most of the day yesterday.
I kept taking a...
Checked my incubator this morning at 3:00 am,before I left for work,and to my surprise I found a pipped egg.By 11:00 am I called my wife and we had a hatched chick and another pipped egg.It hatched just before I got home this evening.
The last one that hatched still hasn't completely absorbed...
I should have some peeps by the week end. Everything looks good you can actually see the chicks moving in the egg when I candle them.It is so cool.
Saturday or Sunday is day 21.I had two sets of eggs that I set a day apart.25 eggs total.
Well I candled my eggs last night and am happy to say we have veining!!!
Last time I tried this I think my eggs got too chilled from the cold weather.They didn't make it more than 4 days.
I have 29 eggs in the bator right now some did candle clear but I'll give them another week.
My hamberg...
When we moved a while ago we had 5 hens we gave to my Mom because we didn't have room for them.She called me last night and asked if I wanted them back because she has more than she needs.I got them tonight and they have alot of feathers missing on their backs and some have no tail feathers.Is...
Well my first try at hatching eggs in the bator failed.
Going to try it again.Ihave six Americana eggs and Thirteen eggs my Mom saved back for me.
The eggs my Mom gave me will be interesting.
She has Buff Orphinton and Black sexlink hens and a barred plymouth rock rooster.So hopefully everything...