2015 HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long, Join us IF YOU DARE!

[Cynthia12]

 

[sonshine15]

I just love all the pics, puppies too!! I like the cream color mentioned in the photo above also. Not sure how to multi quote to reply to everyone on their posts but they're all just great!

The "gerbils" meant somehow one must have replaced the roo. That chick is at a dead run chasing my finger and comes running when the door opens. Never seen a chick that fast and I worked where we sold them. I know she's got a couple+ weeks to go. Just crossing my fingers.
Oh, and I did change to dry! The air sacs are looking better, although Fridays batch looks a tad small. Crossing fingers again. Just finished locking them down. The room humidity is a great post!!! Never thought of that before.........of course......here come the clouds so will be a bit up and down with the air hole coverage....

So happy to have found this thread!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Good luck!

Choppers are great! Hubs has receeding gumline and he is a bit younger than I ha ha ha... I had a neener neener nana nana poo poo mintute with him!

I just remembered, I banded my new chicks with colored zipties, so I'll be able to take some pics like this when they grow up too!
My kind of color scheme

And thanks for reminding me that I need to make a dentist appointment.... Not!

a rustic livingroom

I saw like the little heart beat to. XD

So cute!!!!

its cool to candle! white duck eggs my fav to candle!

Instead of cleaning the sewing room I bought more fabric. Oops.

So, I am having a tough time trying to find a source for cochin or brahma eggs. I'm loving the look of lemon blue cochin. Anyone here know of a source? Actually, I don't need to find pure breeds. I'm trying to add to my flock of rainbow layers. My current three layers are all medium to light brown egg-layers. I have two that will be laying soon that will probably lay light brown eggs. I have two dark brown egg laying pullets (one BCM and one Welsummer) and one blue egg laying pullet (CCL) that are 7-weeks-old. Big light-colored fluffy birds with pretty eggs. (The reason I say light-colored is because I already have some black birds in my flock. I'd love some lemon or lavender in my yard.) The cockerels I'm keeping will be blue-egg gene (Ameraucana) and dark brown egg gene (BCM). Maybe I need some EE? What do y'all think? Oooh, does anyone have some crested, bearded, feather-legged mixes that they would send me?

I may be the most impatient crazy chicken person. I unexpectedly started this whole endeavor in April. Now, I have 18 young birds, 8 eggs in the incubator, and I want to set at least a dozen somewhere between 10/3 and 10/9 so I can hatch along with y'all. It's a good thing I have a large barn/coop. It will be an interesting winter around here. ;-)

and they call me a chicken nut! HA HA HA this cracked me up! so lets give this a run down.....

SHE WANTS ONE OR TWO OF EACH PLEASE! anyone got any eggs?

I just love all the pics, puppies too!! I like the cream color mentioned in the photo above also. Not sure how to multi quote to reply to everyone on their posts but they're all just great!

The "gerbils" meant somehow one must have replaced the roo. That chick is at a dead run chasing my finger and comes running when the door opens. Never seen a chick that fast and I worked where we sold them. I know she's got a couple+ weeks to go. Just crossing my fingers.
Oh, and I did change to dry! The air sacs are looking better, although Fridays batch looks a tad small. Crossing fingers again. Just finished locking them down. The room humidity is a great post!!! Never thought of that before.........of course......here come the clouds so will be a bit up and down with the air hole coverage....

So happy to have found this thread!!!

if your on a the BYC AP, it gets all screwy for me so I dont use it.

on full byc webpage.... you click multi under them as you read through posts and want to comment on them. when you clicked all of the MULTI posts you want, hit reply.




ps.... what do you mean air hole coverage? at hatch you keep them open as the embryo needs oxy in there. If you need humidity add a dish of water with a sponge in it or marbles so the chicks cant drown in it. Not sure I understood that correct .

 

[mixedUPturk]

Instead of cleaning the sewing room I bought more fabric.  Oops.

So, I am having a tough time trying to find a source for cochin or brahma eggs. I'm loving the look of lemon blue cochin.  Anyone here know of a source?  Actually, I don't need to find pure breeds. I'm trying to add to my flock of rainbow layers.  My current three layers are all medium to light brown egg-layers.  I have two that will be laying soon that will probably lay light brown eggs.  I have two dark brown egg laying pullets (one BCM and one Welsummer) and one blue egg laying pullet (CCL) that are 7-weeks-old.  Big light-colored fluffy birds with pretty eggs. (The reason I say light-colored is because I already have some black birds in my flock. I'd love some lemon or lavender in my yard.)  The cockerels I'm keeping will be blue-egg gene (Ameraucana) and dark brown egg gene (BCM).  Maybe I need some EE?  What do y'all think?  Oooh, does anyone have some crested, bearded, feather-legged mixes that they would send me?  

I may be the most impatient crazy chicken person.  I unexpectedly started this whole endeavor in April. Now, I have 18 young birds, 8 eggs in the incubator, and I want to set at least a dozen somewhere between 10/3 and 10/9 so I can hatch along with y'all.  It's a good thing I have a large barn/coop.  It will be an interesting winter around here.  ;-)

Oh friend, u think your bad? I started in March, was given three chickens, now? I have 17, ive been through 40, selling and trading them yeilded us 3 turkeys, 7 ducks, and 3 quail i knew i was a nut before i started?! 21 duck eggs n the bator bought a brinsea 40 after an LG fried my first set... Now we are in buiness!

 

[AllAboutMyGirls]

Hi everyone!!! We will be setting next week!!!

 

[youngchooklover]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/youngchooklovers-flock
Here's my Flock ^-^

 

[CaseyV]

Just set 90 coturnix eggs.

 

[CaseyV]

Oh friend, u think your bad? I started in March, was given three chickens, now? I have 17, ive been through 40, selling and trading them yeilded us 3 turkeys, 7 ducks, and 3 quail i knew i was a nut before i started?! 21 duck eggs n the bator bought a brinsea 40 after an LG fried my first set... Now we are in buiness!

You sound like me. I just moved back home July 1st, had no birds. At one point I had around 100 chickens and 100 quail. I'm down to 7 jubilee orpingtons, 5 lemon cuckoo orpingtons, 6 cream legbars, and 25 quail. Just set 90 quail eggs in the incubator and expecting a dozen or so assortment of black copper marans, sulmtalers, and cream legbars in a few days. I may need to go to poultry addicts anonymous. Lol

 

[tao chick]

Oh friend, u think your bad? I started in March, was given three chickens, now? I have 17, ive been through 40, selling and trading them yeilded us 3 turkeys, 7 ducks, and 3 quail i knew i was a nut before i started?! 21 duck eggs n the bator bought a brinsea 40 after an LG fried my first set... Now we are in buiness!

Haha. I can't get away with buying a new incubator yet. Similar story: My first 6 chicks were a gift. 4 were cockerels so she gave me 5 more chicks. Then I bought and set 45 eggs in the incubator I borrowed from her. 25 hatched successfully. Then my first pair started mating and laying so I set some pullet eggs. I haven't delved into other fowl yet. Ducks may be next.

 

[tao chick]

You sound like me. I just moved back home July 1st, had no birds. At one point I had around 100 chickens and 100 quail. I'm down to 7 jubilee orpingtons, 5 lemon cuckoo orpingtons, 6 cream legbars, and 25 quail. Just set 90 quail eggs in the incubator and expecting a dozen or so assortment of black copper marans, sulmtalers, and cream legbars in a few days. I may need to go to poultry addicts anonymous. Lol

That's a much quicker addiction. If you find a support group that doesn't have the side effect of more chickens, let me know. ;-)