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Quote: NO milk duds, I have too many crowns!!! I'll take snickers. And candy corn. Annnnnnd almond joy. We never get trick or treaters here but I always carve a pumpkin and get a bit of candy just in case.. Anyone want any teenage guineas? You have to help catch them. They are driving me...

My silkies are soo cute. I love em. They squeak like stuffed animals. Pretty sure my big splash one is a roo but I have to try and keep him somehow. No more toe massacre yet and hubby is home to watch the chicks. I got one of those premiere heat lamps yesterday and boy are those things HUGE!!!!!

Quote: No, I had serious blood yesterday. Had to blue-cote a poor bloody toe and this little chick was running around grabbing and pulling until they squealed. I switched over to a red light (wasn't hot enough to warrant one but they have lots of room to get away) and they seemed to calm down..

Quote: Ack!!! I have to keep all my chicks far far far away from my kitties. They won't bother big chickens but woe to the chicks if they get out in my sunroom. I have nightmares about it! I am so sorry. I am hoping that when *I* get home today that my evil little yellow chick has not eaten...

I know the feeling mugs, we have FOUR separate groups of chickens and it's driving me nutso! I can't wait till I can integrate into no more than three groups. LOL. I just wish these guineas would decide they'd rather live in a tree so I could have some more room. They are taking up all my...

One of those little yellow mutt chicks is eeeevil. Came home to the little one trying to eat off the toes of my MFD's. Grrr.. I bluecoted one and switched to a red light (my ceramic brooder light was really hard to get out of my other coop!) and they are all passed out sleeping now. If he...

Actually this is the fifth time I've incubated and I keep dreading to have to 'cull' a chick for some weird deformity. Thank goddess, it has not yet happened. Everything that actually hatched was meant to hatch. I only open eggs afterwards to see if there was an error in my process. In this...

Ah interesting! I know one of the chicks that hatched out of a medium size brown egg was a fluffy yellow chick. It had the shell stuck to its tushie! Two of the huge eggs hatched and a bunch of the smaller ones, plus the mediums. So maybe if there was a silkie in the mix that's why some of the...

Did you see my chicks, shellz? Maybe you can guess what hatched out. I was kinda bummed the two dino size eggs didn't make it - for some reason the humidity was too high for those huge eggs! They were black chickies tho

Someone in another thread said that MF d'uccle also are easily sexable within a few weeks. Is that true? And how? I'd like to see if I have another 10 boys ..

Group hug!!

Quote: Hahaha. I get them when they are too young to know they should be scared. Right out of the egg! I plop them on my towel and they just sit there like 'wha???'. Plus I have a pretty decent camera.

Ok, I'll go look at all these little yellow chicks and see if any of them have five toes. They all have feathered legs, but only one egg that hatched was marked 'sf' so lesse! Hmm. Ok maybe gretchen threw in an egg that wasn't marked since the two yellow tiny ones in the brooder right now...

Ok, I think this is the SF, but the 'mutt eggs' also yielded about 5 yellow chicks, all with floofy legs. Some are bigger and some smaller. Mutt egg #1 - have several of these: Three of these: Three of these: Two of these: Lots of these (MFD): And some miscellaneous yellow mutt...

Going off to take pics of my new chickies - I ended up with 6 dead in shell - 2 MFD, two SF and the two largest mutt eggs. Oddly enough, all the other eggs looked to have perfect 'wetness' but the two gigantic eggs (which had gigantic black chickens in em) looked to have drowned. I had humidity...

Quote: Yep and there's two more MFD in the bator that popped out, plus one more bantamy looking mutt egg. Can't wait to see what the mutts end up looking like - so far there's three chipmunk style, two black and one black and yellow. I can't find the paper to see what the mixes were. Maybe I...

Three more before I left. Oh, and as I said in the hatching threads, the incubator IS open in my picture, but that's not the one I am using for hatching. I was using a second incubator as a 'midpoint' as I had over 30 eggs in my 'holds 20' brinsea. So when I get a big hatch they look like...

Chicken explosion!! I will try to take a pic before i go to to work but I had a zillion little babies packed in like sardines when I woke up this morning. I count 17 so far! Only one gretchen egg so far that I can tell - the little yellow favorelle. Larger ones are mutt eggs. There's one...

I have one more MF trying to get out. Lots more pips but no one else trying to get out just yet. I'm hating the fact that I have to go to work tomorrow and found out the heat isn't working upstairs where the bator is. (it's a wiring problem that I'll have to get fixed by our service contract...

So far I have one mutt, one MF and one favorelle out.