Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[Teila]

Good morning folks

Congrats on finishing the midsemester exam cwrite

Snoozeys Quote: “I was anti social way before I found Facebook”

. I can be grouped in the anti social category also. Not into social gatherings at all; avoid them like the plague!

Love the comparison photos Sam! Lol at the ‘Tassie pack’ Fancy.

Shopping List:

* Bread
* Milk
* Eggs
* Coffee
* Dinner

[Hang on .. Scroll back! Eggs? Don’t you have chickens?]

Well, yes, funnily enough I do but I do believe you are confusing my chickens with chickens of the egg laying variety. My chickens are actually chickens of the molting or broody variety!

Up until yesterday, I did have one chicken of the egg laying variety but she has decamped over to the dark side and is now broody also.

Bambrook Bantams is now officially a no egg zone. We do however, have one featherless chicken; one semi broody/semi molting chicken with invisible babies; one full on broody chicken with invisible babies and a mumma chicken with real babies.

If there was a market for invisible chicken babies, I would be rich!

The best chance Bambrooks Bantams has of seeing any eggs in the distant future is if one of the just over one week old Nuggets is a girl!

Bless her little frizzled feathers, LuLu has decided that this motherhood thing looks like fun!

I found her yesterday in the nest box sitting on an egg she laid (going to hang onto that one as long as I can so I don’t forget what eggs look like

). I told her it was free range time and popped her in the garden. She spent the next 20 minutes toc-tocing around the garden, showing her invisible babies all the good spots and protecting them from Turtle Doves before retiring back to the nest box!

I don’t think so sweetheart .. dream on .. not a chance!

 

[Sidhe13]

Sunday night I set 24 eggs in the incubator. Yesterday morning I put 8 more eggs in and noticed it didn't seem very warm inside it, even though the twmp gauge read 37.5. I put 2 thermometers in it and the only read 31deg! Maybe that is why I didn't have any survive last time! I have recalibrated the incubator and am keeping a close eye on the thermometers in there.

 

[Steampunked]

Finally, my rooster is crowing! Okay, he does sound as if he might have extreme constipation, or possibly be a goat instead, but he is crowing!

Now I want some dang eggs. I have eleven girls, and not a single egg between them! They have crushed shells, free range greens, a tonne of bugs recently (hacked apart a European wasp nest and gave them all the larvae), top quality laying pellets and tonnes of food scraps of all delicious kinds.

Maybe they're too spoiled to lay, since I've never asked them for rent.

 

[K Spot]

Finally, my rooster is crowing! Okay, he does sound as if he might have extreme constipation, or possibly be a goat instead, but he is crowing!

Maybe they're too spoiled to lay, since I've never asked them for rent.

 

[IamSamSam]

Good morning folks 

Congrats on finishing the midsemester exam cwrite 

Snoozeys Quote: “I was anti social way before I found Facebook”  .  I can be grouped in the anti social category also.  Not into social gatherings at all; avoid them like the plague!  

Love the comparison photos Sam!  Lol at the ‘Tassie pack’ Fancy.

Shopping List:

* Bread
* Milk
* Eggs
* Coffee
* Dinner

[Hang on ..  Scroll back!  Eggs?  Don’t you have chickens?]

Well, yes, funnily enough I do but I do believe you are confusing my chickens with chickens of the egg laying variety.  My chickens are actually chickens of the molting or broody variety!

Up until yesterday, I did have one chicken of the egg laying variety but she has decamped over to the dark side and is now broody also.

Bambrook Bantams is now officially a no egg zone.  We do however, have one featherless chicken; one semi broody/semi molting chicken with invisible babies; one full on broody chicken with invisible babies and a mumma chicken with real babies.

If there was a market for invisible chicken babies, I would be rich!

The best chance Bambrooks Bantams has of seeing any eggs in the distant future is if one of the just over one week old Nuggets is a girl!

Bless her little frizzled feathers, LuLu has decided that this motherhood thing looks like fun!

I found her yesterday in the nest box sitting on an egg she laid (going to hang onto that one as long as I can so I don’t forget what eggs look like ).  I told her it was free range time and popped her in the garden.  She spent the next 20 minutes toc-tocing around the garden, showing her invisible babies all the good spots and protecting them from Turtle Doves before retiring back to the nest box!

I don’t think so sweetheart .. dream on .. not a chance!

LOL.

 

[IamSamSam]

Sunday night I set 24 eggs in the incubator. Yesterday morning I put 8 more eggs in and noticed it didn't seem very warm inside it, even though the twmp gauge read 37.5. I put 2 thermometers in it and the only read 31deg! Maybe that is why I didn't have any survive last time! I have recalibrated the incubator and am keeping a close eye on the thermometers in there.

Oh no. I had a jn model do that and got angry at my second last hatch. Bought a new suro rcom and had 20/24 hatch and survive. I was so happy glad I spent extra money.

 

[IamSamSam]

Finally, my rooster is crowing!  Okay, he does sound as if he might have extreme constipation, or possibly be a goat instead, but he is crowing!

Now I want some dang eggs.  I have eleven girls, and not a single egg between them!  They have crushed shells, free range greens, a tonne of bugs recently (hacked apart a European wasp nest and gave them all the larvae), top quality laying pellets and tonnes of food scraps of all delicious kinds.

Maybe they're too spoiled to lay, since I've never asked them for rent.

Hope they haven't decided to moult like my 15 week olds ! I was trying to work it out but I'd say no eggs for sometime for me and my roo isn't crowing

 

[Steampunked]

Hope they haven't decided to moult like my 15 week olds ! I was trying to work it out but I'd say no eggs for sometime for me and my roo isn't crowing

Can chickens moult that early? There are a tonne of feathers everywhere, but no bald patches anywhere...they're all about 20-24 weeks (some maybe 26). I am used to those feathers drifting all over the place, but I thought that was because I had thirteen chickens!

 

[IamSamSam]

Can chickens moult that early?  There are a tonne of feathers everywhere, but no bald patches anywhere...they're all about 20-24 weeks (some maybe 26).  I am used to those feathers drifting all over the place, but I thought that was because I had thirteen chickens!

Mine are. Feathers everywhere in the coop. It's possible not to have a hard moult like Dusy or my RooRoo

 

[Fancychooklady]

Hope they haven't decided to moult like my 15 week olds ! I was trying to work it out but I'd say no eggs for sometime for me and my roo isn't crowing

Haha, my lovely blue laced black wyandotte hen named ' not so ordinary Audrey ' is looking very ordinary today. She has dropped at least 1/2 of her bundle overnight. Went to the feed store and got some game bird finisher to raise the protein levels.