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

[EyesOnSunday]

12 grown hens, 1 grown rooster, 8 11 week old Braham's, 10 8 week old heritage reds, 7 8 week old leghorns, 25 heritage dels coming, 6 2 week old GLW, 12 Golden Laced Brahma hatching eggs coming today, (so we will just count them as hatch for the sake of argument) Plus the 24 in the bator that r hatching now.

Grand total 105

My wife is right, I'm NUTS!!!!

HAHAHAHA you have your hands full!

Sally, what about YOUR chicken math?

 

[RenneRae]

6 out! No clue how many pips... It's a mess in there. Um, have I mentioned I have the CPS inspection today so they can sign off on placement of the baby... Just a formality really. I do hope he understands the peeping, pipping, zipping, hatching chickies in my bedroom...

 

[EyesOnSunday]

No outright saying NO, but the lady that came last night......

here is this weeks story...

Sunday I had a lady message me wanting a few silkies, I said its first come first serve (learned my lesson on holding even for a week!)
I asked her to call or text before she came Tues in case they are already sold. she said ok. Her son wants silkies to enter eggs in the local fair 4H.

In the mean time a lady that bought a ton of silkies and cochin last month called and asked what I have as she wants more of the partridge bluish silkies and whites or splash if available.
I told her I have 10 at various stages from a 4 weeks to last weeks hatch. I told her she could have all of them for 30 bucks, and I am giving her a pair of serama JUST BECAUSE
she loves chickens and I can tell.... last time she bought all the cochin and silkies I had, but there was one older roo that everyone kept saying no I cant have him he is a roo for sure. Well she felt so bad for this guy she said, I want to buy him too. Well in the end I gave him to her of course along with another splash hen! Like I said I made money on them, since they were my own eggs, not much but I made the woman so happy and now she is coming for all these others! She drives 2.5 hrs one way to come here, and I told her if she wants them all she can even sell them and make a buck or two, good for her!

Kindness always pays you back, and if it don't the Good Lord sets all that straight on his own! Not that I am very religious but I do know what feels right and wrong, and I swear to myself no matter what I need to live by that!

Anyways, the lady text me and I told her the silkies are all sold, all I have is a few splash cochin and one blue cochin chick. She says ok I need to check with the son (7 year old lol) Well ends up my cell is wringing off the table, and here she is parked outside in her fancy car! Calling me and I see diamond bracelets dangling in the window.... I was like ok I know this will be fun. (usually this isn't what I see holding stinky chickens ya know) so I go down and say hello and show her the chicks and she gruntled her nose and told her son to hold it, well he took the exact same look and back away! So I showed her the silky pen and they loved them, and showed her the cochin pen. I basically talked them out of cochin and told her she should find a reputable breeder and find a great quality chicken that will do well in egg shows. I couldn't help her out because I know nothing of it. but I WAS glad to see them leave empty handed, but I think the chickens are still stunned by the smell of perfume and hairspray! Bawahhhhaaaaaaaaaa (not that I don't wear it Occasionally and in less quantity)

"(not that I don't wear it Occasionally and in less quantity)" you just made me laugh out loud.
It is so true that you can size people up right away. Hopefully I don't run into any problems.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

I have one that pipped on the wrong end. First time for this. Do I need to do something??

False alarm! Just a piece of goo!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

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Yea I like when they come to the window when you talk to them. I guess your there mother now! LOL

 

[NestingHillsSC]

HAHAHAHA you have your hands full!

Sally, what about YOUR chicken math?

Still don't buy into the chicken math! Just isn't right. I say you have what you have! If you have to talk yourself into more chickens....well

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Does a pip in the middle of an egg count as the wrong end???

 

[NestingHillsSC]

 

[cochins1088]

I set my one lonely goose egg this morning. I had saved it for a week in hopes of her laying another one, but she didn't. Probably because of this freak weather. The local high school has had 3 snow days just this month! We keep getting hit with snow storms.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

and counting. I did promise myself I wouldn't do this this time.