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[Miss Molly]

shoot -- back from my field trip & spoke with my local post office again, and they say the eggs package has not come back through -- she will keep an eye out for it tomorrow, but she thinks it's likely it has been returned to sender -- so Molly, it might be showing back up on your doorstep.

i will give my broody some other eggs instead, and will just have to wait for ANOTHER girl to go broody to get isbar eggs!  Molly, i'll let you know as soon as one does...

Oh what bummer...I'm really sorry about that..

 

[PetRock]

I am considering the nipple waterer or there is a new tiny cup waterer I saw that works on a pressure valve. I am not sure how good those are but one of the hatcheries uses them and I sort of like them.

HI Chiquita..... I was thinking about it maybe, but these quail I hatched have gone bananas in the last two days. Jumping all over and just trying to get out of where they are. They are 4 weeks old, and I took 3 boys out to make more room, but I think I may need to take more out or make another red neck brood box until my stupid self gets the quail pen done.... Is there something magical that happens at four weeks that makes them nuts?

We are installing the cup waterers in our new breeding pens. I'll let you know how they work once we have them installed and chicken tested!

My Bobwhite quail are nuts already and they are only 2 1/2 weeks old. They pop up and out of the brooder almost every time I open the top to replace their food and water. Then it is a game of chase the quail! They are fast little buggers! Can someone tell me how to tell the difference between male and female? All 19 look exactly the same!

 

[Miss Molly]

My 3 Banty blrw eggs should be hatching Monday. I candled last night and saw movement in all 3. These would be my first chicks to hatch in my incubator.

I love BLRW....I bet the Bantam's are adorable...I should get a few and try to frizzle them

 

[Miss Molly]

ohh Molly did you keep any of the Empordanesa you hatched? I would love to see photos of the not so young chicks and would love to post them on my penedesenca FB page

Yes I do Jason, I will get picture on my next day off..They are all really sweet. I did end up with a lot of boys :/

 

[Miss Molly]

So cute

 

[Miss Molly]

I really like his color...BEAUTIFUL!

<3<3 they look so sweet <3<3

 

[GallusGirl]

Some quick pictures I took this afternoon of my little hatchery Sebrights, 8 weeks old.

Silver Sebright (Lux) jumps up on the arm of the patio chair trying to find treats (with my little garden of chard, tomato, and squash in the background):



Golden Sebrights Leon (who needs rehoming) and Kayle (who is the tiniest but also at the top of the pecking order because she's scrappy) in front of their coop on the back of the patio chair:

 

[HighNDryFarm]

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The egg goes dormant after it is laid. A fertile egg has an ovum that has divided once or twice before then. You can barely tell if an egg is fertile.

Crack open an egg and on one side of the yolk you will see a white spot. On a fertile egg, that spot will be a little bit bigger with an upraised yellow outer ring. Some say it will look more like a donut.

There really is no difference between a fertilized egg and a not fertilized egg--except some of us have compulsion to toss them into the bator.....

The other Rooster question that your were asking is about separating the Rooster. You may have to but only to protect the backs of the poor hens if he is too frisky. . They will all be much happier with a well behaved Rooster to guide and protect them. That is the natural way for chickens and once you see it you will really like it.

Oh, so eating the fertile ones is no big deal? I might have to force myself to not think about that.

The one for-suresies rooster that we have (an OE) is a little sweet mama's boy, of course he's only about three weeks old too. I sorta suspect one of our EE's being a roo but I still have hope. Which breed would be better to keep if they are both roosters?

If the EE is a Hatchery boy he may be mean. Mean Roosters become soup(or find someone that wants a rooster) and are not allowed!

You will need to see. Sometimes they will become aggressive, which is common during their teen age years. You need to see which one is the nicest.

Way too early to say and if we threw out every boy that actually acted like a boy..well, we wouldn't have any offspring.

My new Marans roo (grown young man) has been a little bit eyeing me when I come in the pen. Today he danced towards me and I followed him around threatening to pick him up. There is a huge flock of my other hens with another roo who is free ranging all around this boy and he has a measly two girls, so I get that he thinks he was gypped on the harem and he's going to learn who he can and cannot be top dog of.

Look, we can't ask these boys to protect a flock for us and then do something that makes them think they need to defend the flock and then off their heads for it.

They're roosters and if you want to own one then respect them. I'm not saying that all Roos who show aggression can be good boys but I am saying, make sure you didn't do anything to challenge them. Don't make soup out of them for doing their job.

 

[lualshannon]

Some quick pictures I took this afternoon of my little hatchery Sebrights, 8 weeks old.

Silver Sebright (Lux) jumps up on the arm of the patio chair trying to find treats (with my little garden of chard, tomato, and squash in the background):



Golden Sebrights Leon (who needs rehoming) and Kayle (who is the tiniest but also at the top of the pecking order because she's scrappy) in front of their coop on the back of the patio chair:

They are just too cute! I love those big eyes.

 

[ronott1]

Quote: If the EE is a Hatchery boy he may be mean. Mean Roosters become soup(or find someone that wants a rooster) and are not allowed!

You will need to see. Sometimes they will become aggressive, which is common during their teen age years. You need to see which one is the nicest.

Way too early to say and if we threw out every boy that actually acted like a boy..well, we wouldn't have any offspring.

My new Marans roo (grown young man) has been a little bit eyeing me when I come in the pen. Today he danced towards me and I followed him around threatening to pick
him up. There is a huge flock of my other hens with another roo who is free ranging all around this boy and he has a measly two girls, so I get that he thinks he was gypped on the harem and he's going to learn who he can and cannot be top dog of.

Look, we can't ask these boys to protect a flock for us and then do something that makes them think they need to defend the flock and then off their heads for it.

They're roosters and if you want to own one then respect them. I'm not saying that all Roos who show aggression can be good boys but I am saying, make sure you didn't do anything to challenge them. Don't make soup out of them for doing their job.
Good point here and I hope I did not make it sound like that. I hope to help clarify what I meant with the following.




This is one of my Roosters. He was very friendly to people. I sent a trio to Chiqita for Gomez Bantams to get but he was not able to take them. They became Chiqitas.

I am very proud to say he gave up his life battling a Mountain Lion! None of his girls were eaten.

A good rooster is not one that I have to wear gloves to handle. He will not run at me, fly through the air and try to hit me with his spurs. Roosters like that do not belong at my place. A good rooster to keep will defend the flock, alert to flying predators and feed the girls treats. He will die defending them too but he will not attack people.