Colorado

[Mtn Margie]

Maggie, sounds like your Momma is going to be perfect!
I see a pool for Adam's EE starting......

 

[maggiemo]

Maggie, sounds like your Momma is going to be perfect!
I see a pool for Adam's EE starting......

I just checked on them outside and one chick was drinking and I could hear peeping and momma growling so I left them to it.


Adam. Get a close up pic of Godzilla and we start our 'guess Godzilla's sex' pool.

 

[coloradogal]

Don't say that!! She is only 6 days old... I mean its possible but I hope not.. She hatched out of a giant EE egg... Bigger then the jumbos at the store and she has always been bigger then the rest..

She is just big boned

the mantra of so many of us.

 

[krcchickens]

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Don't say that!! She is only 6 days old... I mean its possible but I hope not.. She hatched out of a giant EE egg... Bigger then the jumbos at the store and she has always been bigger then the rest..

She is just big boned

My EE's are huge too

 

[jgurshtein]

Don't say that!! She is only 6 days old... I mean its possible but I hope not.. She hatched out of a giant EE egg... Bigger then the jumbos at the store and she has always been bigger then the rest..

She is just big boned

LOVE THIS!! And i hope she's a she for you, too. I'm calling Murdoch's later today to find out if their first chick shipment is on time for tomorrow!!

 

[trochefarm]

has anyone seen speckled sussex chicks in the littleton, parker area yet.... we are planning on picking up some chicks tomorow and they are on my prioroty list.... i was in longmont today and passed on them just thinking we would find them on tomorrows excursion. now im a little worried! i called elizabeth and theirs didnt come in

I think the Parker feed store is supposed to get sussex in a week or two.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Y'all are pretty quiet tonight. I spent the day burning slash piles and am waiting for the rest of the family to get home to see if I am making dinner or not. I will have a salad if it is just me eating! I am having fun watching the new chickies grow and play.

 

[Pozees]

Had a busy day here. I worked on taxes while Bob worked on some one-person tasks on the shed, then I went out and primed all the roof/eave facia while he cut the hole for the cupola and got the frame in. He is struggling to get it level, thought it was until we came inside and looked at it from in here, and it looks like one side is slightly high, so he'll probably adjust it a little more before he starts screwing it in place. Decided we had better prime the facia before putting on the drip edge. We think we might get one half the roof done tomorrow

Also moved the 4 week old pullets into a larger pen, they are about fully feathered, so I didn't give them a heat lamp. Checked on them several times, they are doing fine.

Eggs in the hatcher aren't doing anything, which is of some concern, today is day 21, they should be pipping. Had some trouble getting the humidity up but a wet cloth in a container finally pushed it up to 55%, and after reading what Chick posted about ventilation I had removed the plug from the vent hole, which may have been why humidity dropped, but looks fine now. Oh well, they will either hatch or they won't I guess, I've done what I can. Shipped eggs. Always iffy.

 

[coloradogal]

splay leg update: The one with the unabsorbed yolk with splay leg didn't make it. It's always a 50/50 chance when that happens. The other one I am still cautiously optimistic. The little chick is still very small but I just checked it's little crop and its completely full. I took the bandaid brace off last night and it's walking normally. Other than the size, you'd never know it had leg issues the first couple days of its life.

Beaker (cross beak chick) is still growing. I believe it is a hen. I think out of this second to last hatch, out of 8, only 2 so far are showing rooster characteristics.

 

[Pozees]

splay leg update: The one with the unabsorbed yolk with splay leg didn't make it. It's always a 50/50 chance when that happens. The other one I am still cautiously optimistic. The little chick is still very small but I just checked it's little crop and its completely full. I took the bandaid brace off last night and it's walking normally. Other than the size, you'd never know it had leg issues the first couple days of its life.

Beaker (cross beak chick) is still growing. I believe it is a hen. I think out of this second to last hatch, out of 8, only 2 so far are showing rooster characteristics.

Wow, only 25% males would be excellent!