California - Northern

[SilkiesForEver]

Does anyone have experience with Plymouth Rock bantams? I just got a white pullet who is from champion lines, but the previous owner was just giving her away.
According to standard, what do you think of her?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Jason, I candled your eggs yesterday... Looks like a least 14 a growing. Maybe a few more, it's hard to see through those beautiful dark eggs..

Great news. Tell your husband to get busy building a new run

Hi Jason! I was thinking about Calamity Jane maybe.

I posted on the dark egg thread and will check out the Olive Egger thread. The Rare Breed thread seems a bit too negative for me. I do not want to support threads like that. Too much Drama.

Ron love the name. Agree on the thread. Heritage thread and ameraucana threads are the worst though imo

Woke up this morning to a bator full of chicks Yay!!! My first fluffy butts of the year.




Just a quick pic a took this morning and most had just hatched so they aren't fluffed up yet. There are way more hatched now and so far I've gotten 2 splash chicks. Just a few more eggs to go


Here are some pics of our pergola by the pool that DH has been working on. It's almost done...well at least until we start with the "rock work" and barbecue area. But that's going to be awhile maybe a year or two. For now we get to enjoy having shady spot hang out under near our pool

Yep...costco grape box. The strawberry boxes work great too. They work great for keeping chicks seperate. No guessing between lines or breeds. You can even do staggered hatches because the chicks in the box don't "soil" the eggs that aren't ready to hatch yet. Once they are done hatching, I just pull the whole "box" out

Trisha

GREAT IDEA !

Aw, sweet Betty!! How neat to see. I love mamas and babies.

I had so much more to say but I've got a migraine coming on. Frustrating. Malcolm is still nursing so there's only so much I can do for them. But I wanted to say that I've been putting out big girls (who are almost three weeks old) into the brooder with the little ones (one week old) one at a time. Their brooder shares a screen wall, so they're kind of used to them. Anyway, none of the big girls liked it. They all went over to the screen and peeped loudly and paced back and fourth, wanting to get back to their buddies. BUT one of the little Buff Orpingtons is showing his rooster colors and would go over with his chest puffed out and bump them if they got too close. So proud! What a good little man. He didn't seem over the top with it.

I really want to get a gate for our driveway. It's very private but we keep getting people drive up the driveway and it's really unsettling, especially because it's usually so quiet. It's just the kids and chickens and I here during the day, too. One crazy women kept saying "I used to live here" and I had to say "Okay, but we live here now and I am asking you to leave and not come back" multiple times. Creepy.

We just moved out of a rental. we had a 800 foot driveway up a hill in the forest. It was scarier for the people driving up mine though

My incubator is full again

At least Jason has reserved some of the EE chicks

The bantam buff Brahmas are a test hatch for fertility so I can start selling hatching eggs from them, I have a couple pure W/BW Ameraucana eggs in there, a few LF BLRW eggs and lots of bantam Blue Laced Red Wyandotte eggs to start building up my flock of those. Soon I will be getting W/BW Ameraucana eggs from a breeder I have been trying for 2 years to get eggs from

and I have porcelain d'Anver eggs coming in the next few weeks. I absolutely love the pair I have and just had to have more!

Fun seeing everyones new chicks!

They are all so adorable!

No wonder it is so easy to become a hatch-a-holic!!

Picture of the eggs I started on Sunday~

Are those my future chickies on the bottom and second to bottom row ????

 

[gryeyes]

Betty with her chicks yesterday

There is nothing on this earth more heartwarming than a hen with chicks.

 

[chickee]

Great news. Tell your husband to get busy building a new run

Ron love the name. Agree on the thread. Heritage thread and ameraucana threads are the worst though imo

GREAT IDEA !
We just moved out of a rental. we had a 800 foot driveway up a hill in the forest. It was scarier for the people driving up mine though
Are those my future chickies on the bottom and second to bottom row ????

The eggs are all mixed up. I have buff x blue wheaten (green eggs) that produce those beautiful turquoise eggs you like so much, then I have the buff x wheaten hens (turquoise eggs) bred back to a blue wheaten rooster that should produce a bluer turquoise egg, and some pure W/BW Ameraucana (blue/light blue) eggs. The blue egg in the top row that has an A on it is out of my splash wheaten Ameraucana hen. I think the paler blue eggs are out of my blue wheaten Ameraucana hen. These will be the first chicks out of my buff hens x blue wheaten rooster (I was using his wheaten father) so it will be fun to see what color the chicks will be

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote: Super creepy. We used to have people open our gate and come up our driveway. Then my DH put this sign at the gate, and WALAH - no more unwanted visitors. He put it up as a joke, but it really does work!

My incubator is full again

At least Jason has reserved some of the EE chicks

The bantam buff Brahmas are a test hatch for fertility so I can start selling hatching eggs from them, I have a couple pure W/BW Ameraucana eggs in there, a few LF BLRW eggs and lots of bantam Blue Laced Red Wyandotte eggs to start building up my flock of those. Soon I will be getting W/BW Ameraucana eggs from a breeder I have been trying for 2 years to get eggs from

and I have porcelain d'Anver eggs coming in the next few weeks. I absolutely love the pair I have and just had to have more!

Fun seeing everyones new chicks!

They are all so adorable!

No wonder it is so easy to become a hatch-a-holic!!

Picture of the eggs I started on Sunday~

Gorgeous eggs! Love the blues especially!

Does anyone have experience with Plymouth Rock bantams? I just got a white pullet who is from champion lines, but the previous owner was just giving her away.
According to standard, what do you think of her?

Not familiar with Bantams or the SOP for Plymouth Rocks, but there are people that can help you in the Heritage LF thread in the Breeding/Showing section. I've been learning a TON there. I know they aren't LF chickens, but there are at least 2 APA judges in that thread - Walt and Bob.

 

[ChickNmamma]

My incubator is full again

At least Jason has reserved some of the EE chicks

The bantam buff Brahmas are a test hatch for fertility so I can start selling hatching eggs from them, I have a couple pure W/BW Ameraucana eggs in there, a few LF BLRW eggs and lots of bantam Blue Laced Red Wyandotte eggs to start building up my flock of those. Soon I will be getting W/BW Ameraucana eggs from a breeder I have been trying for 2 years to get eggs from

and I have porcelain d'Anver eggs coming in the next few weeks. I absolutely love the pair I have and just had to have more!

Fun seeing everyones new chicks!

They are all so adorable!

No wonder it is so easy to become a hatch-a-holic!!

Picture of the eggs I started on Sunday~

What an absolutely beautiful bunch of eggs. I have a few banties too - but they are all running together, and their eggs are delicious

 

[ronott1]

Check out these weird eggs one has no shell the other is rubbery

Hi Liz!

They will do this when the first start laying or when they start back up.

Give them free choice calcium and they should get back to normal soon. If they keep laying them like that for a week or two, check into parasites.

Best!

 

[ElitePoultry]

Heres what im going to use to keep the eggs seperate during hatching. These are suet baskets from walmart. They have 2 different sizes. These are the deeper ones. I think ill be able to fit both side by side.

 

[juststruttin]

Check with Jeremy--Bay area thread.

I think he only has blues. Am I wrong. I have lots of blues, but she is set on lavender. LOL

 

[juststruttin]

Yep...costco grape box. The strawberry boxes work great too. They work great for keeping chicks seperate. No guessing between lines or breeds. You can even do staggered hatches because the chicks in the box don't "soil" the eggs that aren't ready to hatch yet. Once they are done hatching, I just pull the whole "box" out

Trisha

Brilliant!