California - Northern

[zooweemama]

I'm test hatching a dozen Bresse and mixed farm eggs in my new to me cabinet hatcher/incubator. They are due to hatch this Saturday!

Oh boy!! Peeps soon for you!

 

[PetRock]

Oh boy!! Peeps soon for you!

Sometimes I wonder what in the world I am doing! I still have the Pita Pintas plus 2 others in the house at night. A group of Bresse and Langshans are headed to the farm this weekend and then the PP group will be outside all the time. All just in time to have new babies in a brooder in the house. I am taking a hatching break after this! I just didn't want to wait a few months before trying my new hatcher/incubator.

 

[Ali707]

Since we were discussing Barred Rocks and their stripes, I thought that I would share some pics of my poor molting 3 1/2 yr old hatchery Barred Rock hen named Memly. I wish that I had taken pics of her last week. She looked like a scroungy naked neck! As you can see, her neck feathers are coming back in and she no longer has a completely naked butt!

Ha ha, new name!! Baboon Butt! That looks seriously itchy to me.....

Thanks guys! <3 The hard past is trying to figure out WHAT is taking them out. It matters in trapping strategies. :\

Game camera!!!! Got any old baby monitors? Set them outside so you can hear the commotion.

You probably should have asked who isn't hatching right now. It may have been a shorter list.

 

[PetRock]

Ha ha, new name!! Baboon Butt! That looks seriously itchy to me.....

I was going to say she has a baboon butt and then just before I posted, I deleted the comment!

She is my lap chicken but for some reason, she doesn't want me to pet her right now. It must be uncomfortable!

 

[ronott1]

Amy Beth, Did you say the pullet from Wisher lays Blue eggs?

 

[zooweemama]

Amy Beth, Did you say the pullet from Wisher lays Blue eggs?

None of the pullets I got from you that day laid anything other than brown eggs. I only kept 3 and gave the rest away. ALL brown layers. The one pictured here lays a darker brown egg with speckles (welsummer like), the other 2 lay a brown egg a little darker than an Orpington egg. I am considering getting rid of one of those 2 though because she is constantly stashing her eggs and I don't find them until she is about 6-12 eggs in. Sometimes...never. :\ I don't want to breed egg hoarders but she is a seriously pretty Egger.

 

[zooweemama]

Amy Beth, Did you say the pullet from Wisher lays Blue eggs?

I will say though that the Eggers are all pretty and have lovely dispositions. Even the egg hoarder is lively and smart (she figured out how to get on our covered back porch via a tiny hole- seriously we are blown away by her craftiness). Of all my chickens they are the sweetest and prettiest mixes I've ever had.

 

[ChickNmamma]

I'm so excited. I feel like a big girl farmer now. haha! We've been culling ducks and chickens we don't want to breed. I did figure out that my Silkie hens hatched CL X Silkie mixes. I think roos though. Boo. Now the Silkies are dead. I took all the Silkie eggs I have been hoarding and put them in the incubator. I'm not sure what a CL roo X a Silkie will produce really but I miss my sweet little girls already and hope to get a girl or two to carry on their sweetness. They will be like tiny little soft Eggers right? LOL

Hi Amy,

Really sorry to hear about you loosing your Sillies - they are the sweetest birds.

I hope you can get whatever it is soon and your mix eggs hatch out. I have been wanting Sillies that lay blue eggs - so if you get any "extra" girls I wouldn't mind having one if she lays blue/green eggs. I was going to try it next year with my AMs - but if you already have some and can bear to part with one that would put me further along with that plan. I have three Silly chicks here - two Blues and one Black - not keeping them. If you "need" some pure Silkies to grow out - let me know - they are big enough the broodies are ignoring them now so they can be on their own. I think they are between 4 and 6 weeks old, by my guess. They hatched while I was gone for two weeks - so somewhere in there... I have no clues on sex though - its almost impossible to tell at that young of an age.

I also have two silly boys - they are ALSO sweet, although I don't handle them as much as I do the boy I am keeping. I will give you one if you want to make more silkied feathered birds - your crosses will all have smooth feathers but by breeding them back to the silkied feathers you can get back to the soft.. just let me know.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I have one SG Dorking Pullet--She wen Broody three times this year so not too many whit eggs. She is laying now though.

The Icelandics sound like Penedesencas and Amelias. Maybe they would be ok here....

I am also looking at Jaehorns.

Jaerhorns are really neat. Molly raises them. Icelandics would not be good in the city. Like Kelly says they love to roost in the trees

So anyone hatching? LOL

You probably should have asked who isn't hatching right now. It may have been a shorter list.

Lol exactly

 

[Chickengirl1304]

haha Just looking not to be alone. rofl!

I am test hatching about 2 dozen eggs right now. I have about a dozen sizzle/silkie eggs covered by my CL roo (because I miss my girls we lost this week). And then I tossed in some random eggs from my favorite hens to see if my CL boys are doing their jobs. I don't even want to keep any- I just want to see how hatchable the eggs are with them right now. 

Ha ha you are not alone I am among the crazies hatching in the winter!!