Bay Area BYCers!

[OrpingtonManor]

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Use cuticle nippers to snip the bands - usually need to snip in two places, and the pieces of the band just fall off. Not great for reusing, but much easier on the little tykes than trying to pry the bands off in one piece. Plus the bright shiny object (the cuticle nippers) might distract the mamas from the fact that you are kidnapping and torturing their babies.

By the way - the piano has gone off to King Middle School - thank you so much for arranging!

Hi Dyann! I just edited my post to say I had used nail clippers. Everyone can now grow unimpeded.

Great to hear about the piano. King MS really needed a good one! I know two band directors who use that room who will be THRILLED!!

 

[Chooklet]

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Brilliant minds think alike, right kfchickenlady? Once again proving that anything is possible with the proper grooming equipment.

 

[OrpingtonManor]

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Brilliant minds think alike, right kfchickenlady? Once again proving that anything is possible with the proper grooming equipment.

btw - the mamas were not distracted in their mission to kill and destroy me. Luckily, I outsmarted them and locked them in the tractor to huff and puff!

 

[jeremy]

Anybody interested in some Blue Wheaten Ameraucana chicks?

They're popping out like popcorn in my Brinsea right now!

 

[jeremy]

Debi, sorry it has taken me so long to get this to you hut here's a picture of the eggs our OEs from Wynette hatched from.

They were a pretty kahki-olive color.

 

[cherylcohen]

Darn those broodies, I have TWO now...both speckled sussex. The first one Abby got off her eggs and then went back after eating etc into an EMPTY nest box! leaving the eggs to get cold for hours....

are they dead then?

 

[jeremy]

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How long have they been incubating the eggs? If for only a few days then the eggs are probably still in the early stages of development and might not have been bothered by her absence much.

However, if you really want her to sit on the eggs and hatch chicks you should isolate her in a kennel or something similar so she cannot leave the nest.

 

[cherylcohen]

I don't want her to sit on the eggs but I'm not home enough to break her broodiness, so I put a few eggs under her and now her hatch mate is broody too, I have Abby in a coop all by herself...argh

Never trust a broody, is my mantra

 

[OrpingtonManor]

one of my chicks was neglected and rejected by the broodies TWICE as an egg, which I then warmed in the bator and returned to them. after the last rejection, I left it in the bator, figuring it was dead. this was about a week and a half into the hatch. I thought the egg was a loss, but it hatched, and is now back with those same mamas as a thriving chick. I wouldn't give up on the cold eggs.

eta - and the chicks I grafted under the broodies are huge by comparison to the two still in the brooder. Life is better with a broody mama.

 

[cherylcohen]

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okie dokie