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

[Fire Ant Farm]

SQUEEEEEEEE! I just shined the LED through the canopy and sure enough! I've got my first internal pip. To make sure I wasn't imagining things, I clucked at it and sure enough, the little mouth opened and closed.

GO BABIES!

Here's an update on my life with my chickens. To catch anyone up who isn't familiar with what happened, I lost most of my flock to a massacre by my neighbors dogs about a year ago. The only survivors were a serama mama and her 3 babies that were being housed in a separate area. I had spent hundreds getting a flock started of specialty breeds, they were young and in their coop when the dogs came over and got into the coop and killed all of them. It was devastating...but here I am nearly a year later and these are the birds I have now; 4 partridge brahmas (1 rooster, 1 hen and 2 month old chicks), 2 mauve orpington pullets, a pair of chocolate orpingtons, 4 barnevelder pullets (2 black and 2 blue), a pair of silver laced orpingting teenagers, an assortment of other layers (for the eggs) and 11 babies. I ordered 10 chicks from My Pet Chicken that arrived last Tuesday. I sold 4 of those chicks and then went to the feed store and bought 5 more...haha, love chicken math. Speaking of...after I bought my chicks, my husband told me to go count how many chickens I have!!! Count them?? Who counts how many chickens they have? He apparently doesn't understand chicken math! I'll have to fill him in one of these days. I gave my seramas back to the lady I got them from because they weren't fairing well with all of my full sized chickens. Anyway, I must go feed all those birds but wanted to fill you in first.

I'm sorry to hear about your loss (I missed it), but glad you are rebuilding!

Another full day of work working to get the growout tractor ready for the oldest babies - they are almost 7 weeks old now, and REALLY need to move outside SOON.

While I was on the porch wrangling hardware cloth, a peahen from our neighborhood's feral flock came down the driveway to visit me - I couldn't get my phone out fast enough, that's her walking behind the car. But later she hung out in top of one of my fence supports. They usually move through as a flock (I had all of them wander through my yard a couple years ago), weird for her to be cruising around on her own (and you could hear her friends complain about it several houses down). This flock of peafowl has been in the neighborhood since the 1930s, when they were owned by someone who lived here. Since then, they have lived here - they don't belong to anyone anymore, and just wander our neighborhood as their territory.









Fish tacos for dinner - yum! (I use cabbage leaves rather than tortillas.)



- Ant Farm

 

[daxigait]

@Sally SunshineSorry I missed you. I hope you are improving. She is cute, but the Chaos part is just funny.

@Fire Ant Farm I will try that. Thanks.

 

[runt325]

what kind of chick is this plz

 

[BantyChooks]

That's really cool, Kristin!

And you have grass... Warm, green, summer-y sweet grass....

 

[BantyChooks]

what kind of chick is this plz

Purple edged orangutan.

 

[runt325]

What is it

 

[BullChick]

Today someone delivered 52 eggs for me to hatch for them. They are weird asian birds - O' Shamo and the like. Guess they will go into the bator tonight.

I'm sorry you have to watch babies being born, and play with them with no further responsibility.

 

[BantyChooks]

What is it

Seriously?

We aren't magic. You've been told on the other thread if you wish to know the breed, you need to provide more info and better pics. We can tell you it is a chicken, and that's it.

Capisce?

 

[runt325]

 

[BantyChooks]

Much better.

Where did you get it? Looks rather like an EE to me.