California - Northern

[tommysgirl]

I came home and found the hatcher off! Two pipped egg too. An inline fuse was blown so there may have been a power surge.

I will check in a bit to see if the chicks are a alive.

Very sad....

no no noooo. I am willing to bet it will be OK but prayers and crossed fingers for you

LOLOLOL I sometimes feel like I am making sweet love to a stump.... OH WAIT! Wrong forum!

you make me laugh!!!!!!

I just checked and the egg with a pip in it chirped back at me! I hope the res make it. they are supposed to hatch today....

Yay for chirping eggs!!! go babies go!!

We have very expensive, 12 ft deer fencing around the garden because the deer threw after hour parties in our garden and when I tried to run then off, I swear I heard them laugh at me and my pajama choice...and they wouldn't let me play any reindeer games...oh wait, that was the winter guys! ;d

Clever... for us it's the stinking peacocks. The get into and poop and scratch up everything small. No annuals allowed. They laugh even louder than deer

That
That is one beautiful shade of brown! Oh how I wish empathy were a bit more on the calm sweet side! Our flock has to "get along" we'll since snow and high predator rates limits free range possibilities half if the year...

With that what do you think of this flock mix

Buff orph
Australorp (1)
Newhampshire red (1)
Leghorn (1)
EE
Crested cream legbar
Golden Campine

I will end up adding a second coop for breeding as I only want on roo.... Now I just have to pick the breeding breed!

But then my crazy chicken brain thought I could just borrow a roo for a week and poof my bator will be full of whatever I want.

Someone stop me!

I think it's a lovely start

and who you kidding, No one around here is going to stop you. I really do like your list. I really like my calm sedate Australorps. I am getting EEs next week and I am hankering for some of Deb's Golden Campines. you will have a beautiful egg basket with this mix.

 

[Miss Molly]

I just checked and the egg with a pip in it chirped back at me! I hope the res make it. they are supposed to hatch today....

Good luck Ron, sorry to here your trouble

 

[Deerling]

Sorry to hear about the missing eggs and malfunctioning incubator. Hope everything goes well in both instances!

Any updates, Ron? Picture updates, perhaps?

 

[Wishing4Wings]

heh -- similarly, i went from planning to get 4 chickens to having 14 and if all the eggs that are under my four broodies actually hatch (chances are that it will not be a perfect 100% hatch, of course), i'll have somewhere around 40 chicks running around... ooops.

...ooops.

Hope your eggs arrive safely.

OK who watches project runway?????
Patricia made silkie poof hats!

The model looked like she was having trouble seeing too!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

the pene's seem to do ok with the dry type hatch then bump up the humidity at the end. I thought I had it dialed in on a few hatches but now something is going goofy.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

One of our hatch a long friends in AZ has an AC for the chicken coop! Quite clever, I Say!

true. Dar has A.c in his chicken condo

 

[ronott1]

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Sorry to hear about the missing eggs and malfunctioning incubator. Hope everything goes well in both instances!

Any updates, Ron? Picture updates, perhaps?

Thank you for all the well wishes and egg hatching prayers!

There are more pips this morning! so there will be more chicks hatching! I will get a couple of pictures of the new ones this morning.

The first Blue Egg layer is splash. These hatch slower than the penes so they could very easily incubate with them.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

That
That is one beautiful shade of brown! Oh how I wish empathy were a bit more on the calm sweet side! Our flock has to "get along" we'll since snow and high predator rates limits free range possibilities half if the year...

With that what do you think of this flock mix

Buff orph
Australorp (1)
Newhampshire red (1)
Leghorn (1)
EE
Crested cream legbar
Golden Campine

I will end up adding a second coop for breeding as I only want on roo.... Now I just have to pick the breeding breed!

But then my crazy chicken brain thought I could just borrow a roo for a week and poof my bator will be full of whatever I want.

Someone stop me!

With the big combs up there watch Frost bite. The best way to keep them from getting it in the coop is plenty of ventilation. Up there I would possibly keep a light handy for the nights that may get below 10 but still keep the ventilation going. Closed up coops hold humidity and then even 32 or lower can cause frost bite. We have been in the teens a few times this year and my coop is open It stays dry and have not had any frostbite even with 8 out of 10 winter nights this year at or below freezing

Didn't this line sort of answer your question?

Borrow a bator from someone

and do both!

 

[lawatt]

Oh NOOOOOO! I'm so sorry. The eggs are very fresh, they will last another day. I hope you find them. If not, I can resend some. I will keep my figures crossed .

thanks Molly, i'm sure they will turn up today... Daisy the broody is looking forward to them!

 

[chiqita]

That
That is one beautiful shade of brown! Oh how I wish empathy were a bit more on the calm sweet side! Our flock has to "get along" we'll since snow and high predator rates limits free range possibilities half if the year...

With that what do you think of this flock mix

Buff orph
Australorp (1)
Newhampshire red (1)
Leghorn (1)
EE
Crested cream legbar
Golden Campine

I will end up adding a second coop for breeding as I only want on roo.... Now I just have to pick the breeding breed!

But then my crazy chicken brain thought I could just borrow a roo for a week and poof my bator will be full of whatever I want.

Someone stop me!

I missed this. With that group is get a cream leg bar. You'll get ccl what I call ultra mega eyes and light olive eggers. NY cl too is loud, however. But not marans loud. However if you want to do something with the extra room chicks CL'S are smallish not really dual purpose. But they are decent protectors.

Mine does not like black chickens however. I have racist chickens and dog >>.