BYC Café

[pennyJo1960]

Your making great progress if she rubbed rubbed against you ..
I have chicks hatching in the little bator but brooder is ready

 

[DobieLover]

Your making great progress if she rubbed rubbed against you ..
I have chicks hatching in the little bator but brooder is ready

What's hatching?

 

[pennyJo1960]

These are some I placed here just before red started to molt .. All from my girls
EE also my pullet is marans she is with Smudge who is also

 

[Shadrach]

I snapped.
She's done.
She's in the broody breaker in the run and there she'll stay for at least three days.
The chicks peeped and carried on for about 15 minutes before dusk started to set in. I put a fresh bowl of very wet Flock Raiser mash in for them and dripped a little in front of them and they attacked it. One little Millie started scratching around. The big mouth complainers are the Sebrights. They'll get used to not having her. She's a horror. They are better off on their own. But...
@bruceha2000, your comment about an auntie gave me the following outlandish idea.
I moved Astrid and her nest into the maternity ward with the 6 bantam chicks. She's been right on the other side of the HC watching them for 8 days. I took one of the Millies and held it in front of her. She just looked at it. I set it down on the edge of her nest. It ran across the nest in front of her and she just watched it. No puffing up, no screeching.
She did seem a bit upset over the distress peeping of the chicks when I quite literally threw their "mother" out the door and closed it but sat tight on her nest. I had to get her and the eggs out of it to get it back in the brooder but she walked right into the ward and climbed on and everyone is in there now. As is the brooder plate which I had to tuck the chicks under because they had no idea that was their new "mother".
I'm sure I will be up at the crack of dawn to see how everyone is.
So help me, I wouldn't even care if that stupid bird Veronica was dead in the broody breaker.
I don't know if anyone remembers me mentioning when Malcolm had his accident that I didn't know if one of the hens went off and killed him and I wrote that Veronica just wasn't normal. I NEVER should have allowed that bird to set. I should have stuck with my instincts. Well I'm going with them now with Astrid. I think she'll be good to the chicks while she finishes hatching out her brood. The bantams are so tiny I bet they won't be much bigger than Astrid's chicks when they hatch and I hope that if the bantams are in with her while she incubates her clutch she will care for them when she takes her chicks off the nest. We'll have to see how it all shakes out in 12 days.

I hope it works out DL.

 

[Shadrach]

Good morning Cafe.
Coffee is made.
It's already too warm to be interested in doing much.
Cillin and Treacle are still fighting on and off. If they don't sort themselves out one of them is going to end up dead, or too badly injured to save.

 

[Perris]

Morning all
Thanks for the coffee Shad; cool and overcast here, so a nice hot beverage will warm me up

Sorry to hear that

Cillin and Treacle are still fighting on and off.

Here Chirk chases his dad Sven round the garden a couple of times a day, but once his tail regrows (assuming the fox damage didn't get the feather follicles) I suspect there'll be a reckoning between them. Sven is such a sweetie, he's now shepherding the May chicks that Eve has had enough off (she has done 9 weeks, fair do's), and he's keeping an eye on Maria's week olds; what a star!

 

[DobieLover]

I hope it works out DL.

The chicks are doing fine. I obviously have to manually remove Astrid for her broody break. This morning was her shortest break since she started sitting on this nest. The chicks have not done too much distress peeping and went straight for the food this morning. They have to figure things out. But Astrid just watches them and doesn't bother them. I have no idea what to expect when her eggs hatch.
What will the bantams do?
What will Astrid do?
All unknowns but I can always separate them the morning of hatch. I'm just going to observe their interactions until that time.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. It's a fair bit more pleasant for me this morning. But it's going to go over 90 today and that I am not looking forward to.
I'll be second coating the cabinets boxes and door/drawer fronts this morning. Granite goes in tomorrow and they'll make dust so I want the final finish on them well dried before that happens.
I've got walls up and 2 coats of mud in the bathroom.
The final coat of repair mud is ready to sand in the corner bedroom.
I've selected wall colors.
I'm seeing the first finish line...

 

[Perris]

The chicks are doing fine

that must be a relief! You, the chicks, Astrid and her brood are all on a bit of an adventure - fingers crossed for a stress-free journey from here!

 

[DobieLover]

that must be a relief! You, the chicks, Astrid and her brood are all on a bit of an adventure - fingers crossed for a stress-free journey from here!

The new happy, non-dysfunctional family.