California - Northern

[tommysgirl]

hatching update this morning -- the egg that had pipped but then sat there unchanged all day finally hatched overnight, as did an egg that hadn't even started pipping when i last checked last night -- a splash & a black isbar, to join the two blues and the two birchen marans.

no more pips showing, but today is day 22, so i'll give them a bit more time, just in case...

and if no more hatch, then for the shipped isbar eggs, it's 4 out of 16, only 25% hatch success -- but with my own (non-shipped) marans eggs, only 2 out of 4 (50%) -- so i wonder whether i'm doing something wrong along the way? (although, the pullet who laid the marans eggs is still fairly young, so perhaps that's played a part, too?)

still, the six chicks are beyond delightful!

Congrats on these, Good Luck with any remaining and

that you only get a cockerel if you want one

Norma is playing at being broody again so I imagine that one of these days she will be serious about it...she has amassed a nest of walnuts and has spent large parts of each day sitting on it. Last night though she didn't coop herself which of course...because she is Norma and feels nest boxes are overrated her nest is in the 7 or so inch tall space under the "coop" which is an xl Vari kennel Tom retrofitted. Anyway today may be the day she decides to go for it so I have started saving Del eggs for her.

 

[chiqita]

Congrats on these, Good Luck with any remaining and that you only get a cockerel if you want one

Norma is playing at being broody again so I imagine that one of these days she will be serious about it...she has amassed a nest of walnuts and has spent large parts of each day sitting on it.  Last night though she didn't coop herself which of course...because she is Norma and feels nest boxes are overrated her nest is in the 7 or so inch tall space under the "coop"  which is an xl Vari kennel Tom retrofitted.  Anyway today may be the day she decides to go for it so I have started saving Del eggs for her.

(Insert pictures of Norma walking around with 4 little seedling walnut trees following her here)

 

[lawatt]

Congrats on these, Good Luck with any remaining and

that you only get a cockerel if you want one

Norma is playing at being broody again so I imagine that one of these days she will be serious about it...she has amassed a nest of walnuts and has spent large parts of each day sitting on it. Last night though she didn't coop herself which of course...because she is Norma and feels nest boxes are overrated her nest is in the 7 or so inch tall space under the "coop" which is an xl Vari kennel Tom retrofitted. Anyway today may be the day she decides to go for it so I have started saving Del eggs for her.

hooray for broodies! i have some isbar x isbar/marans F2 (i.e. an OE crossed with my blue isbar) eggs if you'd like some variety...?

 

[tommysgirl]

(Insert pictures of Norma walking around with 4 little seedling walnut trees following her here)

hahahaha

hooray for broodies! i have some isbar x isbar/marans F2 (i.e. an OE crossed with my blue isbar) eggs if you'd like some variety...?

You are speaking my language and Thanks! I will be making a drive to see you at some point but for now I am going to try her out on eggs from round here to make sure she is good at it. The Del eggs will either be pure or they will be red stars so I am excited about hatching them as well. But yes when the mamas are tried and true they get the chance to hatch some more exotic eggs

 

[Hangtown Farms]

What breeds will be hatching?

the usual
white empordanesa
crele penedesenca
black penedesenca
silver ameraucana x crele penedesenca

 

[Audio51]

hatching update this morning -- the egg that had pipped but then sat there unchanged all day finally hatched overnight, as did an egg that hadn't even started pipping when i last checked last night -- a splash & a black isbar, to join the two blues and the two birchen marans.

no more pips showing, but today is day 22, so i'll give them a bit more time, just in case...

and if no more hatch, then for the shipped isbar eggs, it's 4 out of 16, only 25% hatch success -- but with my own (non-shipped) marans eggs, only 2 out of 4 (50%) -- so i wonder whether i'm doing something wrong along the way? (although, the pullet who laid the marans eggs is still fairly young, so perhaps that's played a part, too?)

still, the six chicks are beyond delightful!

Congratulations, Lawatt! I am looking forward to setting up my eggs. They are due to ship on Monday! But they will go under a broody.

 

[minmin1258]

WooooHoooo...I'm a Grandma!!!!!

 

[Audio51]

(Insert pictures of Norma walking around with 4 little seedling walnut trees following her here)

 

[Audio51]

WooooHoooo...I'm a Grandma!!!!!

Woo Hoo!

 

[PetRock]

I put them over the feathers band then the feathers cover them as they come out of the collar. Try moving the collar up and tightening it up a bit.

Too low can cover the crop.

Thanks, Ron. I need to try the collar again. He started crowing at 5:30 AM and did a series of crows almost every 30 min until I let them out at 7. I think that I'll put him in a kennel in the garage tonight without his collar and put the collar on him when I put him in the yard at 9 AM. It's the early morning crowing that I think will bother the neighbors the most. We don't have space for the Pita Pintas at the farm yet so I'm hoping that I can keep him here for a while longer.