Yep! She attempted to lay an egg a couple times, but they came out without shells, so now that she is eating her hen food, she should be good to go! Just hope she doesn't get an egg stuck, because she is a month early with the laying...YAY 3D!!!! Hope is a hen? Beautiful egg she laid!!!!!
so i guess hope will never crow huh?I have not been on in a couple days because I was so busy! Lots of things happened to me recently!
I got two more babies from a breeder on Monday!!! One barred rock and one white rock!!!!:
The white rock is named Maddy, and the barred rock has yet to be named. (ideas anyone?)
Maddy thinks the barred one is her momma hen. XD The barred one is three weeks old, and the white one is one week. The guy sells his chickens (usually when they get bigger), and I got his name and number from some guy at the farmer's market () Right on the same day I called him, he sold us the chicks. He had about 100 of them! His chickens are pure bred and he shows them, and says I could probably show these two also! I need to go to a chicken show. That would be cool. He had a lot of bantams (not sure of the exact breeds, but they were hyper!) and some barred and white rocks, some silver laced wyandottes, white and brown leghorns, lots of ducks (some were ginormous!) and a couple of other breeds. I was going to get a wyandotte and barrred rock, but when I saw how calm and tame the untrained rocks were, I had to get two! I could pick them up and hold them without them squirming! They had to be the softest chickens ever. Can't wait for these buys to get older. (he said that if one (or both) happens to be a boy, he will trade with me for a hen. He is awesome!) I can't get any more chickens now.
Cute! I don't know if I should put them in with the other chicks yet. They smell like nasty barn (I saw in the barn and it looked clean though) I don't think they are diseased or sick, but I would really like to know what everyone thinks I should do. Should I keep quarantining the two?
I also have some other fantastic news- Hope laid me a perfect, tan, itty- bitty egg today! I candled it and it has a yolk and tiny air cell!
Hope's egg compared to a grocery store bought egg (it is a bit darker)
(it looks like the egg has the word "ROBOT" on it in pink XD)
I let Hope out of the closet for about 45 minutes to dust bathe in the sun in the living room as a reward. That is one happy chicken!
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Such a happy chicken photo. She was smiling! Her feathers would ruffle out and then settle and then ruffle out, and then she would dust bathe, move, and then repeat.
That is definitely a hen's tail.
3D just wanted to say that I think Hope is a pullet!I have not been on in a couple days because I was so busy! Lots of things happened to me recently!
I got two more babies from a breeder on Monday!!! One barred rock and one white rock!!!!:ddy thinks the barred one is her momma hen. XD The barred one is three weeks old, and the white one is one week. The guy sells his chickens (usually when they get bigger), and I got his name and number from some guy at the farmer's market () Right on the same day I called him, he sold us the chicks. He had about 100 of them! His chickens are pure bred and he shows them, and says I could probably show these two also! I need to go to a chicken show. That would be cool. He had a lot of bantams (not sure of the exact breeds, but they were hyper!) and some barred and white rocks, some silver laced wyandottes, white and brown leghorns, lots of ducks (some were ginormous!) and a couple of other breeds. I was going to get a wyandotte and barrred rock, but when I saw how calm and tame the untrained rocks were, I had to get two! I could pick them up and hold them without them squirming! They had to be the softest chickens ever. Can't wait for these buys to get older. (he said that if one (or both) happens to be a boy, he will trade with me for a hen. He is awesome!) I can't get any more chickens now.
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That is definitely a hen's tail.
Hi Gracie02 aka Nervous Nelly!Nervous Nelly here!! Day 17 and I think I'm going to lockdown tonight after I mark the air cells so I put the right side up when I lay them down. I am thinking about doing this 12 hrs. early because of the Icelandic eggs in the bunch, which I read tend to hatch a day early. I have read the Hatching 101 over and over...worried about the humidity staying stable as I have had a heck of a time keeping it from fluctuating in the Hovabator. Wondering if, with one vent open, - the other is covered by the fan housing - and the little holes around the wafer mount, the water trenches are enough surface area? Or should I add a small dish under the wire?Also worried that raising the humidity 12 hrs. early will drown the others? Or are we past that??
