Dixie Chicks

[hennible]

Great! Sold food at a farmers market today, first time... Got my hands on some big greenhouses for next season... Working on fighting with some food "laws"... Missing my chickens, loving my ducks... My kids are still alive... Lol
All is well.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Awesome! Sorry about the chickens though... but glad everything else is going great! And big congrats on the food selling!!

 

[Amberjem]

Did someone say purple pigeon?

 

[Ravynscroft]

Ok, now that I'm no longer a resident of Da Nile, here's my oldest Calls... 3 boys and 1 girl, lol...

And baby grey...

 

[Amberjem]

Ok, now that I'm no longer a resident of Da Nile, here's my oldest Calls... 3 boys and 1 girl, lol...



And baby grey...

 

[Ravynscroft]

Breed them! Need more girls, lol... they are great slug and fly hunters... and found out that they are very territorial of their yard, chased off a rabbit heading for the garden...
Plus duck eggs are AMAZING!! And good Calls are in short supply around here... can get anywhere from $10-15 per duckling...

 

[Amberjem]

Breed them! Need more girls, lol... they are great slug and fly hunters... and found out that they are very territorial of their yard, chased off a rabbit heading for the garden...
Plus duck eggs are AMAZING!! And good Calls are in short supply around here... can get anywhere from $10-15 per duckling...

so how noisy are they?

 

[Ravynscroft]

so how noisy are they?

I keep hearing that they're really noisy, but mine just chatter a lot... not very loud, but they love to 'talk' to me... they're super quiet at night, only sound off if something that doesn't belong comes into the yard... and they are super, super predatory wary... first to see anything in the sky anywhere, and boogie fast for cover...

 

[Peep_Show]

Bamadude,

Detached air cell eggs do hatch. They just need a little more TLC. The ones that are problematic are where the air bubble/cell travels freely throughout the whole egg. Those have never done any developing for me.

Stick it in the bator and see if anything develops. If it does, then hatch in a carton with the largest part of the air cell up (kind of like turning your face to the sun).

Good luck! I know it's a special egg for you.

 

[Alaskan]

Total ultra cuteness!

The Am eggs are hatching... Of course mine hatched at the same time as the shipped... So no idea which are which.. there were supposed to hatch 3 days apart so that I could keep them marked.

Whatever.

So far 5 bantam wheaten Am(3 mine, 2 shipped) and one black standard Am... More are in there pipped... But they weren't really due until late today/tomorrow.... So I am leaving them be.

As to my eggs... I lost one bantam wyandotte at hatch.... Pipped then died at hatch... See no clear reason for death, maybe nose wasn't quite clear enough.,.... One hatched perfectly by itself.... One died right before internal pip... One right after.


My Am eggs that didn't hatch are mostly earlier deaths.... I think only one died right before internal pip. For some reason I get a decent number of partly incubated eggs that then rot... (Just from my one Am girl..... That wasn't the case with the wyandottes.... Zero partly incubated or rotten)

Interesting.....

Of my two leghorns, that should have been genetically stellar.... No chicks! One died close to hatch... And had too much internal fluid, the other isn't dead yet, doesn't look fully ready to hatch, is floating about in a milky fluid (but no stench). I put it back in the incubator.... But I should just kill it... We all know that one will not end well.

Clearly I am gonna have to go over my incubation skills.... And all that jazz.....