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

[daxigait]

I tried to behave myself

You did. She got that name from her breeders because they had to keep her in the house for a few weeks when she was born like they do all their babies since they put them immediately. Apparently, she was rather chaotic running all over and getting into trouble in the house so they called her Chaos. I would not do it, but they keep them in a tiled front room mostly in playpens for two weeks. She liked to get out and run all over. She follows me everywhere when I am out in the goat pasture.

 

[Chaos18]

You did. She got that name from Whole breeders because they had to keep her in the house for a few weeks when she was born like they do all their babies since they put them immediately. Apparently she was rather chaotic running all over and getting into trouble in the house so they called her Chaos. I would not do it, but they keep them in a tiled front room mosrly in playpens for two weeks. She like to get out and run all over. She follows me everywhere when I am out in the goat pasture.

I would think a tiled floor would be hard for them to get good footing on.

 

[daxigait]

Good morning Abi and Liz.

 

[daxigait]

I would think a tiled floor would be hard for them to get good footing on.

They use lots of towels she said. For traction and to catch pee.

 

[BantyChooks]

My 11 chicks are all doing well, eating, drinking and already little poop machines. In a perfect case of irony, true to my prediction, my Welly pullet is broody. After dissuading her a couple of days, I came home after being gone all day to find her pancaked down on goodness only knows what besides the three ceramic eggs in the nest for the new layers, staring blissfully out into space and screaming like a banshee at anything that had the bad judgement to go near her. She is 8 months old. I guess tomorrow I'll see if I can get some more bantam eggs from my neighbor and swap out the fake eggs and whatever else she is parked on for the bantam eggs. I'm at capacity with 22 layers now so I'm not doing any incubating or brooding of standard sized chickens  this year.

To increase the irony, I went in the coop to also catch one of my 6 month old OEGB pullets as flat as a pancake on 3 more fake eggs and two Welly eggs. She was off the nest 15 minutes later so I pulled the fake eggs and gave them to broody Dolly who immediately tucked them under her and went back into her trance.

Like she couldn't have done this this three weeks ago.  Silly hens, that's why God made incubators.

One.... Two.... One more to go

Good morning all

 

[minihorse927]

@minihorse927

awwwwwwww!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

You did. She got that name from her breeders because they had to keep her in the house for a few weeks when she was born like they do all their babies since they put them immediately. Apparently, she was rather chaotic running all over and getting into trouble in the house so they called her Chaos. I would not do it, but they keep them in a tiled front room mostly in playpens for two weeks. She like to get out and run all over. She follows me everywhere when I am out in the goat pasture.

she sounds sweet!

Good morning Abi and Liz.

Good Morning!!!

 

[Chaos18]

They use lots of towels she said. For traction and to catch pee.

Sounds like a lot of extra laundry.

 

[daxigait]

Sounds like a lot of extra laundry.

Like I said, not me.

 

[5Sons Coop]

You did. She got that name from her breeders because they had to keep her in the house for a few weeks when she was born like they do all their babies since they put them immediately. Apparently, she was rather chaotic running all over and getting into trouble in the house so they called her Chaos. I would not do it, but they keep them in a tiled front room mostly in playpens for two weeks. She like to get out and run all over. She follows me everywhere when I am out in the goat pasture.

And I thought I was in great need of a barn.