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    The Ol' Switcharoo- Will mama accept incubator eggs after I take her chicks away?

    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...
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    The Ol' Switcharoo- Will mama accept incubator eggs after I take her chicks away?

    Thanks NatJ! I went with what I had, but I will make sure I have an alternative on hand from now on.
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    The Ol' Switcharoo- Will mama accept incubator eggs after I take her chicks away?

    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...
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    The Ol' Switcharoo- Will mama accept incubator eggs after I take her chicks away?

    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.
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    The Ol' Switcharoo- Will mama accept incubator eggs after I take her chicks away?

    First two babies are out! They came from the pictured pair.
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    The Ol' Switcharoo- Will mama accept incubator eggs after I take her chicks away?

    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...
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    The Ol' Switcharoo- Will mama accept incubator eggs after I take her chicks away?

    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...
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    Meow Meow Monday!!!

    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!
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    Topic of the Week - How long do chickens live?

    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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    Chick with deformed wing

    I agree it seems likely! Very cool! I wonder if others have experienced chimera chickens before.
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    Chick with deformed wing

    How is Nemo doing now?
  12. tinychicky

    Speckled Sussex? Hen or roo?

    I'm afraid those are cockerels. The combs are just too red for pullets. It sounds like the first one might make a friendly flock guardian though!
  13. tinychicky

    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    2893+72=2965 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...
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    Serama Chicks and Power Outages

    lol, that's gonna be the last resort
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    Serama Chicks and Power Outages

    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.
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    Serama Chicks and Power Outages

    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...
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    FEB HATCH THREAD ...COME JOIN US.... EVERYONE!

    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...
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    Northeast Poultry Congress 2013

    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!
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    Northeast Poultry Congress 2013

    I might be interested in the serama trio. Do you have any pictures of the little guys?
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    Northeast Poultry Congress 2013

    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...
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