California - Northern

[SpringPeeper]

We love Celtic names. With a surname like McCombs we've had license to splurge a bit. The children's 1st names are pretty normal but we used traditional spelling on all the middle ones. With our last child I was told that we had saddled them with unwanted names. How rude. She was single and had no children so all of her opinions are unchallenged. (I have found that parenting is a most humbling experience).
So I must share:
Nolan (means Noble, also Great Grma surname) Creag (p. Creeag, means rock)

Elsie (Scottish diminutive of Elisabeth, hit 3 of 4 great grandma's in one name, means God is my helper) Aine (p. Onya, means Joy, not after the singer, my middle name is Joy)

Aislinn (p. Ayezlyn, means vision) Aoibh (p. Eve, means beauty)

Maive (p. Mayvie, means cause of great joy) Sinead (p. Shuhnade, means God is gracious and is a very cool version of Jane).

We think names should be worthy of living up to and hope that our children do so with theirs.

McCombs is an appropriate name for crazy chicken folks

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[HenHacienda]

Hahahaaa a friend and I sign our emails PICA = Partner In Chicken Addiction. hahah

 

[SpringPeeper]

Chicken math...you're doing it wrong. I didn't think it was possible, but yes, you're doing it wrong. You need to use chicken math to justify getting MORE chickens!!!

I think it is working for me the same way they were talking earlier about getting their fix from hatching for others. My property is smaller than my chicken-keeping family members so I get to go chick-crazy and try out different breeds and hatcheries but end up only taking up a few spaces in my flock. It also makes it easier to stagger my layers' ages while still going on a chick binge every year.

 

[HenHacienda]

HEY LOOK AT ME, I JUST HATCHED!! I'M NO LONGER A "NEW EGG" HAHHA

 

[Hangtown Farms]

2 partridge penedesenca hatched 1 zipping 2 pipping
and in the Genesis a Brown Red Ameraucana is pipping

 

[SpringPeeper]

By the way, @BCollie the Wyandotte was declared to be an exception to my mom's growing out aversion. I took over some of the Marans early to keep him company and she borrowed a broody set up from me so she could keep him on hand. She already loves him.

 

[SpringPeeper]

My camera sucks (so do my photography skills) so the colors aren't showing up very true. Most of the blueish ones look a lot darker than they are.

My daughter is pointing to the chick she wants to name 'Black One'.

She knew they were going to be going into the off-limits brooder for the night, so it was tough to get any pictures without her sneaking in some petting. This picture is probably the closest to the actual color from the ones I got.

This is just one of my daughters' EEs she wanted to take a picture of when we were done with the Orpingtons.

The one hiding his face under the pale chicks is the only one who looks really black in person, so he's probably mine. My mom thinks black birds are ugly.

 

[casportpony]

HEY LOOK AT ME, I JUST HATCHED!! I'M NO LONGER A "NEW EGG" HAHHA

Congrats!

-Kathy

 

[Chickengirl1304]

One of my girls standing up on the gate, hAd to take a pic of her.

 

[chiqita]

When washing eggs prior to incubation, does one use unactivated Oxine or do you use the citric acid as well?

It depends on what you are trying to do. If you are trying to clean off salmonella and ecoli and mg/ms it needs to be activated and in warm water. I am doing a test with this on my party eggs I dipped them all in 140° activated oxine water but did not rub or wash so to speak. Theoretically this should kill bacteria but not take off the bloom.