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

[emelie]

This is some of them. One intact egg left. Will see if it open tomorrow.

oh my goodness, they are so cute ... have no idea what kind of chicken this is ..they look funny to me .. very nice though
my curiousity: can you sex them from the begin?

congratulations

 

[sjturner79]

oh my goodness, they are so cute ... have no idea what kind of chicken this is ..they look funny to me .. very nice though 
my curiousity: can you sex them from the begin? 

congratulations 

They are silkie and silkie cross polish. The are the hardest breed of all chickens to sex, some are even hard to tell one they are fully grown.

 

[satay]

This is some of them. One intact egg left. Will see if it open tomorrow.

Gratz such cute babies e e

 

[Teila]

Howdy folks

A little bit of catching up to do as I worked on site yesterday. Sadly the big day left me feeling quite unwell yesterday afternoon but after taking it easy once home, feeling much better today. Hopefully I will have had my procedure before the next scheduled on site day; if not, I am thinking I might give it a rain check.

jessbonnitcha congratulations on the great news; how wonderful for you that you will soon have your chookies with you.

locknest4 great job on healing your girl! I see you have already gotten lots of information about BSE but I will just add that I feed my gals meat, just always cooked. Unless it has been a particularly hot day, the meat they find running around the back garden is not cooked

Hi there emelie, welcome to the thread, nice to meet you. Your little ones are adorable.

Anniebee Woot Woot! Way to go Mandy!

Yikes at your weather and the asthma issues

sjturner79 Congratulations! Beautiful bubbers!

LuLu is our little Star today! They all woke me at 04:45AM wanting out and due to the big day mentioned above and my feeling not so flash, I let them out and went back to bed. However, got woken again at 05:15AM by LuLu raising the alarm; raced outside to find a White Faced Heron sitting on top of the coop, looking at the ponds and trying to decide whether he wanted black, gold or multicoloured fish for breakfast. Thanks to LuLu I got there in time to chase him off and a head count revealed that he left hungry!

Good girl LuLu.

 

[kat79]

While still waiting for my ducklings to hatch....Yesterday I found this big bugger of an egg under my trying to brood silkie.


But others next to it for comparison.

 

[Anniebee]

Yeah I would not have put all the emoticons in a post about a soft shell, and that would be a bit of a miracle here considering our water is 7% soluble calcium.
Yes clean dry bits of egg shells means that the chick has safely hatched and the shell has been moved out the nest.
If they were eaten eggs the shells would be sticky.
Hopefully your soft shell problem eases.

sjturner79 ... I realised once I had done the ovation, that I was off the mark.

... and we can't correct ovations. !!

Mindy gets Anitone every other day, and inbetween, a pinch of calcium - both are put on crumbled multi-grain bread, but only a little.

She eats enough to feed two chooks, so gets her calcium from there - but something is occasionally lacking. Little wonder as she lays 7/7 ... with a rare day off.

The last few days eggs have been perfect - but I would expect to find a soft / fragile shell maybe over the weekend ( although hope not ).
They are actually wholly formed eggs, not the balloon things, but have flimsy whole shells which break when the egg drops on her preferred hard masonite surface ??

Have given up putting straw and/or wood shavings in there - she just kicks the lot out and sits happily to lay on the hard surface. Even if she lays outside the box, she will scratch all the wood shavings away - to the bare concrete bricks, and lays an egg on them. !! Weird chookie.

No 2 egg from Mandy Welsummer today.

 

[sjturner79]

While still waiting for my ducklings to hatch....Yesterday I found this big bugger of an egg under my trying to brood silkie.


But others next to it for comparison.

Did she steal the big one from a duck or from another hen?

 

[kat79]

She broke into the duck coop and stole it off the duck..lol

 

[sjturner79]

sjturner79 ... I realised once I had done the ovation, that I was off the mark.     ... and we can't correct ovations.   !! 

Mindy gets Anitone every other day, and inbetween, a pinch of calcium - both are put on crumbled multi-grain bread, but only a little.   

She eats enough to feed two chooks, so gets her calcium from there - but something is occasionally lacking.   Little wonder as she lays 7/7 ... with a rare day off.   

The last few days eggs have been perfect - but I would expect to find a soft / fragile shell maybe over the weekend ( although hope not ).    
They are actually wholly formed eggs, not the balloon things, but have flimsy whole shells which break when the egg drops on her preferred hard masonite surface ??       Have given up putting straw and/or wood shavings in there - she just kicks the lot out and sits happily to lay on the hard surface.  Even if she lays outside the box, she will scratch all the wood shavings away - to the bare  concrete bricks,  and lays an egg on them. !!   Weird chookie. 

No 2 egg from Mandy Welsummer today.    

My chooks will not lay an egg on straw, hay or wood shavings, but are happy to lay on shellgrit or clay type kitty litter.

The thin shells are probably just an anomaly that she was born to produce. She runs them through the internal process too fast. I don't know if there is a way to slow the metabolism/ body rythms of a chook.

 

[Fizzybelle]

Howdy folks

A little bit of catching up to do as I worked on site yesterday. Sadly the big day left me feeling quite unwell yesterday afternoon but after taking it easy once home, feeling much better today. Hopefully I will have had my procedure before the next scheduled on site day; if not, I am thinking I might give it a rain check.

jessbonnitcha congratulations on the great news; how wonderful for you that you will soon have your chookies with you.

locknest4 great job on healing your girl! I see you have already gotten lots of information about BSE but I will just add that I feed my gals meat, just always cooked. Unless it has been a particularly hot day, the meat they find running around the back garden is not cooked

Hi there emelie, welcome to the thread, nice to meet you. Your little ones are adorable.

Anniebee Woot Woot! Way to go Mandy!

Yikes at your weather and the asthma issues

sjturner79 Congratulations! Beautiful bubbers!

LuLu is our little Star today! They all woke me at 04:45AM wanting out and due to the big day mentioned above and my feeling not so flash, I let them out and went back to bed. However, got woken again at 05:15AM by LuLu raising the alarm; raced outside to find a White Faced Heron sitting on top of the coop, looking at the ponds and trying to decide whether he wanted black, gold or multicoloured fish for breakfast. Thanks to LuLu I got there in time to chase him off and a head count revealed that he left hungry!

Good girl LuLu.

Well done LuLu! Beatrice sounded a similar alarm yesterday, she stood up straight and clucked at the bushes whilst I was giving them breakfast, then everyone stood to attention and clucked. I saw what was upsetting her, a big rat - it looked at me, then ran across the yard and into the jungle at the back. Sadly rat catching was the one thing our recently departed cat Lucy was really, really good at. The rat was likely a bit big for the larger girls to try and chase after though, I think. Hopefully he's bothering the neighbours now, as I don't leave food out at night and the wire on their coop is very heavy duty vermin proof stuff. Congrats also on the 15 minute sleep in today, I had to get up at 4:30 lol, though surprizingly Beatrice was not screaming as usual before I got to the pen. When she saw me though, well off she went.

Is anyone else having a problem with ants in and around the house now its gotten warmer? This is our first summer in our new place, and gah, they're everywhere!