Nah, I just had always assumed the cold in the fridge injured the germinal disk in some way, but eggs are resilient. That's why I candled them anyway. I've owned and hatched chickens for 18 years, but this year I am incorporating chickens into my educational curriculum (I'm an environmental...
The hen is still sitting tight and, oops, her five well-refrigerated eggs are all developing (I thought that viability went way down after a week or two in the fridge but I guess not!?)
I noticed she has a few lice, so I am waiting for an order of Elector PSP to come in to treat her before I...
All five chicks have hatched and are adapting to brooder life. I took them away last night after all were dried off and swapped them for refrigerator eggs. So far mama is sitting tight.
Thank you Ridgerunner, you've given me a lot to think about. I waffled for too long on this and missed my window to swap the eggs yesterday I think. So I will go ahead and do the following:
I'll pull the serama chicks as they hatch and move them to a brooder. I'll put several eggs from the...
I wasn't going to post, but I couldn't find an answer to my question. I have 5 serama eggs currently pipping under a broody LF hen in my coop. Temps will be in the 50's in my area today, and below freezing at night. I have LF eggs in my incubator that are on day 12. I prefer to take the serama...
5 1/2 month old double trouble Petra (more orange) and Ember (more black with white tail tip). Someday they might hunt mice, but at the moment they prefer to "catch" rabbit droppings and bugs!
Maggie is probably 14. I was told she was an Old English/phoenix cross, although she could be anything. When I got her in 2013, I noticed that unlike most hens, Maggie had two sizable spurs, which were already fully developed. Since it takes most roosters several years before their spurs are...
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We have quite the variety of breeds.
4 white leghorns
9 sex-links (8 red, 1 black)
2 wheaten ameraucanas
3 EE
1 egyptian fayoumi
2 shamos (dark and wheaten)
1 B.A
1 B.O.
2 rocks (white and barred)
2 RIR
4 quail d'anvers
1 blue modern game
2 cochin (black and MF)
18 OEGB (1...
Thanks for the great ideas! I don't have a feather pillow... if I were to collect and wash feathers from the coop and put them in a cloth bag do you think that would work too?
Also, radio update says we may not be hit as hard as previously thought, still around a foot of snow expected though.
Hi, I have a bit of a predicament here. I have two freshly hatched serama chicks with one more egg due any day. The problem is, here in NH we are expecting a blizzard to hit on Friday morning with a high possibility of power outages and I don't have a generator. Most of what I've read about...
I'll join! I'm planning to set black oegb (splash too if they lay anything) and serama eggs under a broody on the 6th! I've collected three black oegb and five serama eggs so far over the past three days and I'll also set whatever else I get between now and the set day. At the moment I have a...
Got BB and RB for my seramas, sold every bird I brought but one roo, and bought an absolutely gorgeous black OEGB trio from the same gentlemen who won the old english bantam class! Overall, a very good day! We'll be back tomorrow morning for the awards and to collect our birds!
Oh, I'm so happy I finally found this thread! I haven't posted here in a while, but I will be attending poultry congress again this year. I will be exhibiting a bunch of little seramas and a couple of shamos! I also have some birds for sale, pre-orders welcome, PM if you are interested in more...