Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: oh Sumi hit her up with your castle thread! she will love those pics or your adventures!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: 50 and counting.... If we get a place with some land I'm planning on adding quite a bit to my flock.

Off topic: It's SNOWING. I'm busy typing here, but staring out the window at the same time, wow, we got a small blizzard going on outside. And we thought it was spring LOL! I haven't seen snow fall in 13 years. It's awesome. And blooming cold!
LOL Sumi that makes for a hard time looking back at the computer screen after staring at all that light! I am also freezing today, wonder if its from being outside for the past 2 days!

 

[wingstone]

I know the feeling Sally, I would love to keep a pen of jersey giants, but they just grow to slow

 

[ozexpat]

36 immigrants and about 16 locals - do about 50 - and that number rolls

if you ask me in 2 months it could be 150 though

 

[cochins1088]

I did about 3 hours of research on iodine and navels last night, and decided to use the tincture. I was very careful and only put a small amount on the black stub, because I did read that it could burn the skin. Here's hoping for the best!

Thanks again everyone!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

OZ
If I PM you my navel info that I have in the article, can you have a look it so I can update it with correct info? I worry too because it says cut with scissors and it needs to say something else because you cant just cut it with a sharp one or it will bleed..... also I will add that aviary zoo procedures to the bottom and perhaps you can read it and see if I should add anything else about navels, I don't want people doing some of the really surgical procedures! I cant find the stupid link but I will search for it just in case I forgot to copy stuff into my notes!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I know the feeling Sally, I would love to keep a pen of jersey giants, but they just grow to slow

what do you grow for meaties Wing?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I did about 3 hours of research on iodine and navels last night, and decided to use the tincture. I was very careful and only put a small amount on the black stub, because I did read that it could burn the skin. Here's hoping for the best!

Thanks again everyone!

awesome!!

 

[wingstone]

Quote: hubby insist on freedom rangers,,,back to ordering chicks every spring,

 

[cochins1088]

Oh gosh... The conversation is too many chickens?

I started with a beautiful flock of 12 LF cochins. I then started hatching,and hatching, and hatching until we had nearly 50 of them. Mom put a stop to it and said I need to sell some, so I got the number down to 30. I lived happily with my flock of LF cochins for 5 years, but then last year, it all changed.

I decided that I needed more breeds, and that I was going to breed towards the standards of perfection. So I went out and bought a ton of different hatching eggs last fall. I now have 15 LF cochins, a dark brahma, 2 silkies, a sizzle, 2 leghorns, about 35 cochin bantams including buff, barred, silver laced, blue, black, white, silver pencilled, birchen, red, partridge, and a few others, 3 fantail pigeons, 3 black east indie ducks, 10 khaki campbell ducks (1 crested), my new sebastopol gosling, and I'm still counting. There are many breeds on my want list.

I'm going to set up a bunch of breeding pens for the different colored cochin bantams. I figured if I was going to breed something, it's have to be bantams to keep the price of food down.

Also, a guy wants me to hatch his peacock eggs and he said that I could keep some of the peachicks.

Now here comes the sad part, mom gave me a new 20 bird limit. How am I suppose to do that? It's not going to happen, haha. I'm hoping that selling and shipping eggs from breeding pens will help pay for feed to keep her happy.