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

[cluckcluckluke]

Quote: I had to much water and not enough drainage with mine. Not to mention my layer on some of the trays was like 3 inch thick.lol.
hahah, Sprout cake!

Howdy

For Luke and others who were interested I have an update on the rooster collar my friend LG ordered.
It arrived and she admits that she was excited to give it a try and popped it on him before bed “I knew better than to try the collar at night, rather than have a full day to make adjustments”. She got woken by his crowing the next morning but the blanket she had put over part of the coop had slipped so it was brighter than it had been on previous mornings and the garbage truck was doing it’s rounds so this might have set him off also. After some minor adjustments, the next morning she did not hear any crowing. “One of the girls likes to peck at it for him” lol.

Will keep you updated!

Sounds great.....mine has yet to come

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Do you know how long it took your friends collar to come?

 

[Teila]

Sounds great.....mine has yet to come

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Do you know how long it took your friends collar to come?

LG lives in Oakland, California so she was lucky enough to only have to wait a couple of days after ordering.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

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Ahh, ok

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[Bens-Hens]

Thanks for the info Teila.

 

[Karen Whitfield]

hi

Hi youngchooklover

 

[Karen Whitfield]

YES I HAVE 3 Chicks oute ...all Marans.


BUT BAD NEWS.......We had a state of emergency!! Power went out this morning ( right on hatch day )and I really didn't know what to do. I had to go off to school as well. So I wrapped the bator in a doona...but then my sister reminded me...I HAVE A BROODY!!! So we snuggled up the 3 hatched but still wet chicks in jumpers and collected the eggs from the bator and quickly made a mad dash through the cold rain to the chicken coop. There I managed to get 3 chicks and 8 eggs under my bantam broody. The 2 left over eggs that didn't fit went back up into the incubator covered in the doona and I hoped the power would come back on for them.

I have now returned home, power is back on...but no pipping from the two.
I have yet to investigate the broody, but I don't want to disturb her as the eggs/ at that time WET chicks have had enough stress.

fingers crossed for you Luke!

 

[mumabokbok]

Just sold my first dozen hatching eggs from my own marans

A bit exciting.

Congratulations, I feel your excitement, we have also just sold our first dozen of hatching eggs and posted them as well. A little excited, now to wait 21 days to see what her hatch rate will be. It's pretty cool because we actually bought the eggs and hatched the chicks which are now laying the eggs. We ended up sending express post which cost $33 but it's at the buyers expense so I guess if they want them they'll pay.

 

[SandeeC]

How are your other hatchings going Luke? Hope they hatch for you
I had one in my last hatch that pipped, had his beak showing and all and just gave up the ghost
I hope all is ok for ya

HI to youngchooklover Hope you enjoy it here as much as I do These guys are great

 

[satay]

Congratulations, I feel your excitement, we have also just sold our first dozen of hatching eggs and posted them as well. A little excited, now to wait 21 days to see what her hatch rate will be. It's pretty cool because we actually bought the eggs and hatched the chicks which are now laying the eggs. We ended up sending express post which cost $33 but it's at the buyers expense so I guess if they want them they'll pay.

Congrats on your first sale. This is not my first sale of eggs (first sale for my own marans though) so not sure why i was so excited lol. They were sold to a lady that often buys thing from me out here and takes all my excess roos. She is fertility testing for me like Sam. Express post is the best way to post eggs, If they can make it to your buyer intact that is the first major hurdle out of the way.

 

[satay]

Nice Satay.

We are on wait list now for our first 'full cycle' home grown birds to lay their first eggs. I know the excitment. We have birds we have hatched grow and lay eggs, but none that were fertilised here. If we are lucky, few more weeks.

Our FWM is 16 weeks and starting to go darker in the face so hope she is an early starter, would be awesome if she started around 19 weeks. The others I think might take a bit longer.

Yah i hope she starts too lay early for you to Ben. I was so shocked when mine started to lay at 18 weeks. They have not stopped since. I am impressed with how well these lay so far.