Good luck with the eggs Laura!!! Don't you just love Stacey? Ohhhh and her place is awesome!! It like a menagerie of every species of animals living in harmony. Glad you were able to get a couple new Amelias!!! Kudos to Ron.home from a roadtrip to Davis/Dixon today, to pick up 8 eggs (4 birchen marans, 4 SFH) from Thistledown Farms, and then met the fabulous Ron in a Dixon parking lot to hand off two of his CL/penedenseca crosses! we are all now home, the eggs are already tucked under my broody Eleanor (she conveniently got up for a stretch when i got home -- one of the existing eggs that was underneath her had broken, but i was able to get it cleaned up & put the new eggs in before she came back), and the two Amelias are a bit freaked out but settling in to their transit lounge, where the rest of the flock can't peck them, but can see them:
THANK YOU, Ron! it is a real treat to have amelias again, after mine passed away -- i'm hoping they will settle into the flock with ease, since at least they are vaguely familiar (undoubtedly cousins of some sort of my original amelia). should i take the little ankle bracelets off right away, or is it okay to leave them for a while?
and wish me luck with my broody's hatch! countdown til april 21...
(and Kim, Ron passed along your "hi" -- and I said hi back!)
What kind of eggs?
Veins!!!
Duck egg on this one.
home from a roadtrip to Davis/Dixon today, to pick up 8 eggs (4 birchen marans, 4 SFH) from Thistledown Farms, and then met the fabulous Ron in a Dixon parking lot to hand off two of his CL/penedenseca crosses (hatched from Deann's eggs, i'm pretty sure)! we are all now home, the eggs are already tucked under my broody Eleanor (she conveniently got up for a stretch when i got home -- one of the existing eggs that was underneath her had broken, but i was able to get it cleaned up & put the new eggs in before she came back), and the two Amelias are a bit freaked out but settling in to their transit lounge, where the rest of the flock can't peck them, but can see them:
THANK YOU, Ron! it is a real treat to have amelias again, after mine passed away -- i'm hoping they will settle into the flock with ease, since at least they are vaguely familiar (undoubtedly cousins of some sort of my original amelia). should i take the little ankle bracelets off right away, or is it okay to leave them for a while?
and wish me luck with my broody's hatch! countdown til april 21...
(and Kim, Ron passed along your "hi" -- and I said hi back!)
