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[OR4-hmom]

While we are on the subject how to you pronounce "Cochin"   Ko Chin?  Ko Shin? "Ko Sheen"  "Ko Cheen"  It's been bugging me for years??????

Thanks @lawatt
for your contribution.  Sorry about your hatch.  I hope you get more than you think you will out of it!  

Might be wrong but it's Co-Chin for me. Campine got me for years.

 

[BCollie]

Hi guys! So like I expected, I got some chicks at the show. I do have a quick question...do they need to be on paper towels for the first few days?

 

[tommysgirl]

Might be wrong but it's Co-Chin for me. Campine got me for years.

oh Lordy is it Cam Pee Nay or something??? I have been pronouncing it in my head like you would answer these questions...

What did you do last weekend? Camp

What sort of trees did you see? Pine

Thanks for saving me from having to embarrass myself re cochin....picking up Bantam cochin hatching eggs from a gal in Chico at some point and would hate to identify myself as a noob.

 

[lualshannon]

if i came across d'uccle in a french piece of writing, and had never heard it spoken, i would guess to pronounce it "dew-cleh," more or less -- not "clay," since there's no accent over the e?

so, my shipment of 17 isbar eggs has now been in the incubator for a week, so candled -- one absolutely developing, one probably, three maybes, five probably-nots, and seven definitely-nots (most with completely detached air cells). i took the definitely-nots out, will re-candle the rest again tomorrow & perhaps take more out.

*sigh* -- thank goodness they were free except for shipping. i'm about to give up on shipped eggs for good -- and a little concerned that i may end up hatching one lone chick out of this batch.

I am part French, and in France the annunciation would be just as you described : )

Lual

 

[OR4-hmom]

Hi guys! So like I expected, I got some chicks at the show. I do have a quick question...do they need to be on paper towels for the first few days?

If they are starting to get wing feathers they should be a couple days old and should be able to get around without slipping. If they are real hound and all downy it wouldn't hurt them to have a non-slip floor.Stupid spellcheck, always changes young to hound.

 

[OR4-hmom]

oh Lordy is it Cam Pee Nay or something??? I have been pronouncing it in my head like you would answer these questions...

What did you do last weekend?    Camp

What sort of trees did you see?  Pine

Thanks for saving me from having to embarrass myself re cochin....picking up Bantam cochin hatching eggs from a gal in Chico at some point and would hate to identify myself as a noob. 

I found the answer to this one in the CSU thread, pine is pronounced peen, like ball peen hammer.

Every time I add a breed I consider myself a noob.

 

[tommysgirl]

Hi guys! So like I expected, I got some chicks at the show. I do have a quick question...do they need to be on paper towels for the first few days?

I think it is a matter of preference but I always have bought some of those nice thick blue paper towels called "Shop Towels" pretty sure you can get them at any hardware store. I use them until the roll runs out.

How exciting what breed(s) did you get?

 

[lawatt]

I guess I should feel lucky. Ordered 12 from CA, hatched 5 under a broody. I got 21 from OK, 3 broken in shipment, 13 made it to lock down, 7 hatched. Ordered 12 from Megan during heat of summer, put them under 2 broodies who did a bad job and only got 1 to hatch but at least 5 developed. This last order was 30 eggs and 23 are still going strong. Along way from counting hatch success, 5 days to go.

I wonder about how the breed stock is fed, or if lack of vigor is due to small gene pool.

I'm pretty certain the eggs, and breed stock, are not to blame -- over the past year I've received shipped eggs of four different breeds (isbars, marans, campines [which i pronounce "cam-peen," incidentally], and cream legbars) from five or six different people, at least a dozen eggs each time, and the most that's ever hatched is three, and one batch (the CLs) produced zero hatchlings. the people I got the eggs from all have successful hatches, and when i incubate my own flock's eggs, they hatch like wildfire -- so, i'm pretty certain its the shipping process, somehow. i'll just stick to local eggs from now on.

I am part French, and in France the annunciation would be just as you described : )

Lual

yay! i only learned french in high school, and keep meaning to try to re-learn someday (i'd LOVE to go live there for a while), but glad to know my accent is still passable.

 

[BCollie]

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My mom got two Black Copper Marans and I got two Buff Polish.

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Thanks, they're all a few days old as they all have wing feathers. I went ahead and put down pine shavings

 

[caychris]

New Buff Orpington's with cat like instincts.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10203310799032304

These are so cute and and so different than the Delawares.