California - Northern

[Honora]

Here is a picture of my lavender orp pullet for honora
@Honora

She is gorgeous! Wish I had one but all the lavender orps I hatched last Spring were cockerels, haha!

 

[Lynn Manes]

Those are some well fed chickens, and I love your use of ice to cool them down while feeding them.

What is their entire diet besides those veggies?

My apologies for this late answer to your question. I've not had a chance to get on BYC for a while. We switched our chickens to Dumor Layer crumbles, but we felt they weren't laying as well, so we changed back to Homegrown Layer Mash, both products are from Tractor Supply. Our egg laying has increased again. I also throw out a handful of black oil sunflower seeds and some scratch now that the weather has cooled down, along with alfalfa hay, which they really love. Also,in Summer, they get a weekly spa inside their nests comprised of various herbs, marigold flower heads, dandalion flower heads, catnip leaves, lavender flowers & probably a couple more items I've forgotten to mention. They like getting into the nests to lay their eggs and have a snack Our motto, which goes on all our egg cartons, business cards, etc., is "Home of Happy Birds". I think our birds, chickens,quail and ducks are all quite content. My chickens especially always have lots to talk to me about. Lol

 

[QueenMisha]

I would love some help on identifying these hens.

Those appear to be White Rocks.

 

[Blueeheeler]

Thank you Everyone for the classification of my Hens. Good to finally know what they are now I can finally name them too.

I have 4 White Rick Hens and 2 Ameraucana in my Hen House

 

[hannahhammonds]

Hi there everyone I am up near South Lake Tahoe. El dorado county.

 

[caychris]

Hi there everyone I am up near South Lake Tahoe. El dorado county.

Welcome

How many and what kind of chickens do you have?

 

[hannahhammonds]

No. at this time I am hatching them. Just having problems with candling and telling how far along they are and if they are still with me or not. and maybe being over worried they are amerucana

 

[ronott1]

No. at this time I am hatching them. Just having problems with candling and telling how far along they are and if they are still with me or not. and maybe being over worried they are amerucana

Try candling using the flashlight app on a cell phone.

It is very easy to tell where an egg is in incubation--It is based on the day you set them

 

[hannahhammonds]

The only thing is I got them all at different stages I have one that is light on one side dark on another but still has veins. Then there is one so dark I can't see anything but is also starting to be light on the other end of the egg. Not that the egg it self is dark just the inside I can faintly see veins. But idk

at a loss. And I am just starting out.

 

[ronott1]

The only thing is I got them all at different stages I have one that is light on one side dark on another but still has veins. Then there is one so dark I can't see anything but is also starting to be light on the other end of the egg. Not that the egg it self is dark just the inside I can faintly see veins. But idk

at a loss. And I am just starting out.

Did you set them all on the same day? If so, go by that. If the temperature is off, then they will either hatch a bit late or a bit early but if they do not hatch close to 21 days, they will not hatch.

Hatches go from about day 20 to about day 22--sometimes a straggler on day 23. If an egg has not hatched by day 23, it is likely not going to hatch.