Imagica5 and SunBaked, welcome to BYC from a fellow Tucsonan!
Arizona Chickens
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I realized today that our new chicks are about the same age. I have four Delaware chicks and with my luck at least one of them will be a rooster. You're welcome to any that I get.
I realized today that our new chicks are about the same age. I have four Delaware chicks and with my luck at least one of them will be a rooster. You're welcome to any that I get.
mclevinson
Songster
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Hey, next time chicka! You pm my your phone nuber and I'll make sure you're up! Had a lovely time though.
Hey, next time chicka! You pm my your phone nuber and I'll make sure you're up! Had a lovely time though.
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TT! -- I absolutely love this picture - your BO hen is beautiful - I love the different shades on her feathering. Those babies are so cute and I bet they'll be gorgeous when grown. I've never seen a lavendar orp before.
Arizona Dreamer --- I'm sorry about your bad hatch. I've ordered eggs shipped eggs twice - 1 batch had zero hatch and the other did pretty well - you never know what kind of handling the eggs are going to endure on their way to you.
Turkey Breeder -- I wish I was closer too - I love fresh tamales. Our neighbors make them each Christmas and give us a dozen - Yummy! Let me know next time you are visiting your brother and also have some extra tamales. I can stop by your brother's house and buy some from you.
Just for fun - and since I had 3 broody hens all at he same time, I bought some inexpensive eggs from someone on craigslist to try my hand at hatching chicks again. I put 12 eggs under my 3 broodies (3 under each frizzle and 6 under a small Ameraucana). Tossed one at day 14, since it was clear. On day 17, I removed the 11 eggs and put them into my homemade incubator for hatching. I wanted to watch them hatch and was planning to raise them up with chicks I had ordered online. Out of the 11 eggs put into the incubator, 10 hatched.
http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt4/manddteach2/babychicks008.jpg
Mixed breeds - probably RIR/EEs - I gave 5 to a friend and kept 5.
http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt4/manddteach2/babychicks016-1.jpg
A few days later, my MPC order arrived: 3 Black Copper Marans, 2 Welsummers, 1 Speckled Sussex, 1 Red Star, 1 Easter Egger and 7 Easter Egger Bantams (pic includes the 5 chicks I kept from my hatch)
http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt4/manddteach2/newbabychicks003.jpg
My large EE chick with 6 of the EE bantams - I was surprised at how little and cute the banties are - I'm also thrilled at the colors - I hope the little silver one (probably splash?) is a female
http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt4/manddteach2/newbabychicks017.jpg
i will let you know when we go to my brothers house my brother go's to our house once a month
sometimes every two weeks their at 75 ave and cholla usually make corn but sometimes we make red chile
chicken or beef and sometimes green chile chicken tamales this week was
slow we had 3 dozens left of the corn tamales my moms friend was going to get them from queen creek
but she was not able to make the trip this week
TT! -- I absolutely love this picture - your BO hen is beautiful - I love the different shades on her feathering. Those babies are so cute and I bet they'll be gorgeous when grown. I've never seen a lavendar orp before.
Arizona Dreamer --- I'm sorry about your bad hatch. I've ordered eggs shipped eggs twice - 1 batch had zero hatch and the other did pretty well - you never know what kind of handling the eggs are going to endure on their way to you.
Turkey Breeder -- I wish I was closer too - I love fresh tamales. Our neighbors make them each Christmas and give us a dozen - Yummy! Let me know next time you are visiting your brother and also have some extra tamales. I can stop by your brother's house and buy some from you.
Just for fun - and since I had 3 broody hens all at he same time, I bought some inexpensive eggs from someone on craigslist to try my hand at hatching chicks again. I put 12 eggs under my 3 broodies (3 under each frizzle and 6 under a small Ameraucana). Tossed one at day 14, since it was clear. On day 17, I removed the 11 eggs and put them into my homemade incubator for hatching. I wanted to watch them hatch and was planning to raise them up with chicks I had ordered online. Out of the 11 eggs put into the incubator, 10 hatched.
http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt4/manddteach2/babychicks008.jpg
Mixed breeds - probably RIR/EEs - I gave 5 to a friend and kept 5.
http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt4/manddteach2/babychicks016-1.jpg
A few days later, my MPC order arrived: 3 Black Copper Marans, 2 Welsummers, 1 Speckled Sussex, 1 Red Star, 1 Easter Egger and 7 Easter Egger Bantams (pic includes the 5 chicks I kept from my hatch)
http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt4/manddteach2/newbabychicks003.jpg
My large EE chick with 6 of the EE bantams - I was surprised at how little and cute the banties are - I'm also thrilled at the colors - I hope the little silver one (probably splash?) is a female
http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt4/manddteach2/newbabychicks017.jpg
i will let you know when we go to my brothers house my brother go's to our house once a month
sometimes every two weeks their at 75 ave and cholla usually make corn but sometimes we make red chile
chicken or beef and sometimes green chile chicken tamales this week was
slow we had 3 dozens left of the corn tamales my moms friend was going to get them from queen creek
but she was not able to make the trip this week
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we still have left 7 dozens of tamales
that would be nice if you live closer
so you can try them made from fresh
corn with no cholesterol using only
the freshest ingredients my mom
said if they did not do coffee so early
we could take some so the people can try
them but they are usually ready by noon
or 1 pm
Freeze them and I'll take a dozen!
i pm you my families phone number maybe you did not receive
it have a great weekend i got home at 1 pm today
we still have left 7 dozens of tamales
that would be nice if you live closer
so you can try them made from fresh
corn with no cholesterol using only
the freshest ingredients my mom
said if they did not do coffee so early
we could take some so the people can try
them but they are usually ready by noon
or 1 pm
Freeze them and I'll take a dozen!
i pm you my families phone number maybe you did not receive
it have a great weekend i got home at 1 pm today
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Welcome! Imagica5 , Sunbaked, and any other new people that I missed.
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The chicks spent there first night outside with a heat lamp. They all did fine but I was nervous for them.
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Isn't it odd how you worry about them right from the start? When I first got mine they were kept in the brooder outside. I put a remote-sensing thermometer in the brooder, which relayed the info to my alarm clock and projected it onto the ceiling. For the first few nights I must have woken up dozens of times to look up and check the temperature.
Isn't it odd how you worry about them right from the start? When I first got mine they were kept in the brooder outside. I put a remote-sensing thermometer in the brooder, which relayed the info to my alarm clock and projected it onto the ceiling. For the first few nights I must have woken up dozens of times to look up and check the temperature.
mclevinson
Songster
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Thank you
. I'm loving this site, finally people I can talk chickens to!
I know, isn't it great? You can babble about feeding treats, egg size and shape and color, hatch rate...and nobody's eyes glaze over!
Thank you
I know, isn't it great? You can babble about feeding treats, egg size and shape and color, hatch rate...and nobody's eyes glaze over!
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