3rd Annual New Year's Day Hatch!!

[RareBreedFancier]

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Llamas are selling for anywhere from $30-$100 at local auctions here in SW MO.

Can you pop some in a box and ship 'em to me? They are around $500 - $1000+ if you can find them here.

 

[Mahonri]

Laree brooder now at 90 degrees outside.

During the day I may have to turn off the heat lamp or get a lower wattage bulb. I'm confident that the chicks will be fine under the ecoglow.

Water is in the brooder. Chick mash I made myself with my Montel blender is also in a little feeder dish for them.

Grow out pens to be built tomorrow.

Definite pip on the Olive colored egg that I put into the bator fresh from Olive's hind end. Hoping it's a FEMALE.

 

[kathyinmo]

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2 hours is my guess

 

[Mahonri]

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2 hours is my guess

Barely an hour. I could hear the chick that pipped. Woke me up.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Ya know, I have heard others say that, too. Not the case here though. My Silkies lived outside right along side my large fowl chickens. We had 6 weeks of torture this summer of over 100 degree days. Last winter was also horrible. My Silkies did fine. I even had broody Silkies hatch mid-winter. Crazy little birds.

 

[runsw/scissors]

Here they are! I am so thrilled!

 

[kathyinmo]

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2 hours is my guess

Barely an hour. I could hear the chick that pipped. Woke me up.

Must be a female chick then! Girls are so noisy, ya know. Yeah, it's a pullet!

 

[runsw/scissors]

x1 They are LOUD!

I don't think I'm gonna get much sleep either. I am so thrilled.

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2 hours is my guess

Barely an hour. I could hear the chick that pipped. Woke me up.

 

[kathyinmo]

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CLOSE that bator! You are gonna lose your humidity!

Oh, and congratulations, too! Hope you have more coming!

 

[RareBreedFancier]

Ok, all this talk of early birds made me check my eggs when I went in to get cat food... 3 pips and a chick!!!

Thank goodness I did lockdown last night and didn't wait till I got home today. It's a wee black bantie chicklet, can't wait to get a better look at it, can't tell if it's 1/2 silkie or not yet.