EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Akrnaf2]

Okay, Here's my Roo Biter :

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My sex linked hen/Roo :

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He's very flighty, so I was having a hard time getting a picture of him. He got out of the baby pen, and managed to survive the cats... so apparently, flightiness has paid off. Catching him to put him back took 2 people though. my EE Roo's :

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On the right is the roo. The lady next to him is Louise.

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This is the other roo, in the corner on the left, they are thing #1, and thing #2. They have 6 hens, total, between them. Neither are aggressive, or mean, and they like us, though they don't go out of their way to be held or cuddled, despite my daughter wishing they were more cuddly. She's had better luck with her silkies/cochins being cuddly. The sex linked hens are okay being touched, the polish are flighty as all get out, and the cochins are big cuddle bugs. Our RIR likes being picked up and she's definitely our Alpha hen. As to the roo's, I don't know if the two I've hatched so far, are males or females.

I don't like your fence at all! Any borrowing predator can enter very easy to your run! You need to add some net in 90° to your fence near the floor. And it shoukd be at least 3 feet wide and buried in the soil.

 

[kajira]

glad you are doing better

lol
you can do it!! so long as there are no storms LOL
you missed Kaj to Kathy

very pretty!!

ummm nope

HOLY CHEESE!!!
YOU SPELLED IT RIGHT!!!!!

LOL!!!

very handsome

what is an water bubble on their head?

so how many chickens do you have now??

Okay... so... 4 chochin hens, and 1 roo. 3 polish crested, and 1 red sex link.

8 EE's.

5 sex links and 1 roo in the juvie pen.

1 silkie, and our cochin hatchling, still in the house.
1 solo hatching silkie, also still in a brooder, with a stuffed animal.
2 ducklings.
1 red sex link in with the 5 turkeys.

Was supposed to get four more ducks and some random baby chickens today, but they didn't get here, so i'm hoping they aren't all dead tomorrow if USPS didn't lose them. The guy who shipped them is REALLY upset about them not being here, since he paid for 1 day shipping.

I have 14 eggs that I have to candle in 5 Idays for lock down in the silkie pen... (both my mail lady, and my 4h chicken leader, want silkies from me now, and any EE's, extra ducks or geese.) so.. depending on what hatches... and what's what... we will see.

I also, supposedly have 10 ducks coming from metzer farms, because I didnt' think I was getting anymore ducks from the other guy.... and he doesn't sex them, so if I ended up with all Drake's, I needed girls anyways... so ordered girls from metzers. lol

His are a swedish cross of some sort and I got layer 300's coming from metzer, along with pekins.

;o

I'm pretty much done with my flocks after this, besides culling extra roo's, and getting my turkey flock off the ground.

 

[kajira]

I don't like your fence at all! Any borrowing predator can enter very easy to your run!
You need to add done net in 90° to your fence near the floor. And it shoukd be at least 3 feet wide and buried in the soil.

It's not a run. It's a free range goat area. The chickens are loose in my yard.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I don't like your fence at all! Any borrowing predator can enter very easy to your run!
You need to add some net in 90° to your fence near the floor. And it shoukd be at least 3 feet wide and buried in the soil.

she has a poultry guard dog too

Okay... so... 4 chochin hens, and 1 roo. 3 polish crested, and 1 red sex link.

8 EE's.

5 sex links and 1 roo in the juvie pen.

1 silkie, and our cochin hatchling, still in the house.
1 solo hatching silkie, also still in a brooder, with a stuffed animal.
2 ducklings.
1 red sex link in with the 5 turkeys.

Was supposed to get four more ducks and some random baby chickens today, but they didn't get here, so i'm hoping they aren't all dead tomorrow if USPS didn't lose them. The guy who shipped them is REALLY upset about them not being here, since he paid for 1 day shipping.

I have 14 eggs that I have to candle in 5 Idays for lock down in the silkie pen... (both my mail lady, and my 4h chicken leader, want silkies from me now, and any EE's, extra ducks or geese.) so.. depending on what hatches... and what's what... we will see.

I also, supposedly have 10 ducks coming from metzer farms, because I didnt' think I was getting anymore ducks from the other guy.... and he doesn't sex them, so if I ended up with all Drake's, I needed girls anyways... so ordered girls from metzers. lol

His are a swedish cross of some sort and I got layer 300's coming from metzer, along with pekins.

;o

I'm pretty much done with my flocks after this, besides culling extra roo's, and getting my turkey flock off the ground.

so only 25 chickens right now?

 

[BantyChooks]

18,092,421

Banty - I think your real number should be 21,000

Aw, snap.

 

[Akrnaf2]

I don't like your fence at all! Any borrowing predator can enter very easy to your run!

You need to add done net in 90° to your fence near the floor. And it shoukd be at least 3 feet wide and buried in the soil.

It's not a run. It's a free range goat area. The chickens are loose in my yard.

Ok
I thought that beyond the fence ther is the wilderness.

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Aw, snap.

Go big or go home! LOL!

 

[campingshaws]

I'm rather surprised that link shows so few sultans.... Are they really THAT rare?

I follow an Instagram account that celebrates every hatching sultan like the spontaneous realization of fire. So yes?

 

[kajira]

she has a poultry guard dog too

so only 25 chickens right now?

About that, I think. We only get 1 egg per day on average... i just need the little buggers to start laying. lol

I like my chickens, but if I can end up getting enough duck eggs, and my kids will eat them... besides having a few chickens down the road just for fun, I might switch over to ducks/turkeys/geese instead.

I haven't decided yet. I'm going to give it a couple years and play around with them and see what I like better.

I love my husband. He's totally putting up with me. LOL

 

[BantyChooks]

Go big or go home!  LOL!

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