No Prizes...just FUN
Did you decorate your coop? Does your best hen have a thing for Frosty or any other Snowmen? Has Rudolf come and stolen your feed corn to the bewilderment of your birds? Did you give your wife or hubby a present package filled with chickies?? Do you think fuzzy chicks...
Last hatches went off like popcorn! 100% fertility and aboout 85% hatch rate I was HAPPY. (using still air styrofoamies-Only one has a turner, Im the turner for the rest) My Nov 29th due date...gave me 2 happy turkens, 1 baby quail (out of like 20 quail eggs) and 2 hatched but died later...
I picked up a LOVELY, quality,White frizzled cochin from a fella while buying a peahen.....and with it came 2 black ??? hens. They are silkie sized, came from a pen containing 2 black silkie hens, he claimed they were mother and daughter by this white friz roo.(and thats all that was in pen...
Already thinking about the fair...have always showed waterfowl, never chickens, dont even have a APA SofPerfection guide. But I like the off beat birds Can Showgirls and Frizzled Polish be shown and if so..as what??? THANKS in ADVANCE!
I was just THRILLED to find her....I think she is gorgeous, still having a hard time fitting in, but Im sure she will. I think shes Beautiful, then again beauty is in the eye. What I love and is hard to take with my cheapie cam is her feathers on her head are white with gray lacing.
Ok soooo my egg gathering this eve led to this BIG gem. LOL What is it and who it came out of I havent a clue-from a pen with all young hens. No ridges, shell appears normal...going to put in the incubator for grin and giggles, but still curious WHO gave me this..AND HOW...pen contains...
I just need to vent...I placed and order with them and got a shorted order with birds dropping over dead. They sent 28 replacements and now over 1/2 of them are gone. Each day its 2 or 3 or 4. I just walked in from the brooder room and it was 3 today. They have PLENTY of ROOM and HEAT and...
Of COURSE I have some GREAT eggs. And of course there were really bad storms in the area last night...but the power didnt go out till today. Out 30 min and temp already 82 in bators. (and no I have not opened them) Power co says no power for about 3 more hours. How long can the eggs go...
Oh Lordy, last night something went amiss with my incubator and my temp was 118-120 this am, so the eggs were at that temp I can assume for 8 hours or so. Some I had JUST put in, other are duck eggs that have been in a week. Pull them or leave them???