Thank you all, I admit to being very frustrated myself right now. What with this baby dying, Blue being injured and one of the babies I brought back from Odessa disappearing last afternoon, I just really have been down. My birds are my escape hatch, just sitting and watching them takes my mind...
I will,, I think he is forming his little family. I've caught him with Red, RIR, lately in a compromising position, I know he and Buffy are an item, and if he can get Fuzzy Butt to be faithful to him he'll have three ladies for now.
Thanks all, I don't think I've ever looked forward so much to an egg hatching! I'm hoping it's big size didn't have something to do with it's sudden demise.
I was just signing on and looked over in the pen and it was standing kind of odd with it's little head down. I thought it was sleeping and was going to take a cute chick pic, turned to get the camera and it fell over and started seizing, died instantly. I never even got to the feed store to get...
I call her Charlotte the Evil One. She isn't really but she is so small when I toss out treats she runs under everyone and looks like a big, black, feathery, rat! She steals all the treats and hoards them. She tries to sit on anything she thinks will hatch and growls like Rottweiler! She's a...
I do plan to, I'm building a pen just for Nugget and his ladies, well lady for the moment, but I'm working on getting some big ladies for the big guy. Buffy is the only big hen I have that is available,, except for Fuzzy Butt and she likes the Nuggetron, but she's still a little small and he...
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Charlotte is doing just fine and I'll post some updated pics of her soon. She has got to be the "broodiest" little hen I've ever come across. She always sits on everyone else's eggs, she hatches huge bunches of babies under her tiny little body and is vicious when it comes to protecting...
Well bad news on the rest of the eggs. It looks like after the last time I candled last week they died in various stages of development, from the day until just couple of days before being due. I guess I'm just going to be happy this one survived, after all they were tests of the younger ladies...
Yes you've seen Buffy before Mahonri, I've had her pic online to try and find out her breed:
Nugget with Buffy:
Still no other hatches though, they were all doing fine I can't understand why this is the only one to hatch!!
It is drier and fluffier and has a light dusting of feathers on...
According to my handy dandy GemOro Platinum SQ601 Digital Pocket Scale the baby weighs 3.42g or 1.21oz. It stood nicely on the scale to be weighed too.
Standing on scale:
In my hand:
I'm afraid Nugget's heritage will never be known, he's just a big, lovable roo! I'm about 99% positive this is his baby, it is just so darn big! I'm going to weigh it if it will stand on my nugget (gold) scale.
It's so funny looking, but so cute! If it stands upright it can hit the heating element, which it learned not to do right away. I've left it in the hatcher talking to the other eggs hoping it can convince someone else to join it tonight.
Here are the first shots of Buffy's first baby! Looking up through the window and trying to show off it's long legs. I don't know if I want it to be a lady or a gentleman, but I guess I'm hoping for a lady,,,, I just have to many boys running around out there!