French frogs

[yellowblack]

Is this a better way to store my chicks then the below picture?

 

[WVduckchick]

Is this a better way to store my chicks then the below picture?

Either way is fine, but they will quickly outgrow both!

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Get up earlier

I'm usually going to bed about the time you get up....

Thanks..
I used to be a licensed practical nurse but I don't think I'd be good in ICU or ER. That takes some tough stuff! But charting a years worth of paper work would do me in!
I'll think on a name.

WV I'm so sorry about that danged ankle. A bad sprain is so hard to heal..bless your heart! Keepa wobbling til its better

My son started out as an RN....

    I will, but not until I'm gainfully employed!

Its actually much better this morning.  Swelling is down a little, but its a nice pretty purple color today.      Shifting the bike would definitely be out of the question still. 

By the way, hubby is feeling a lot better now too.  He got out and about all day yesterday.  Suuuuuurre has been a loooooonnnng 5 weeks! 

Wow has it been that long.....sounds like it's getting much better now.

Good morning, all.  It's wet here too.  It was 62 and raining yesterday, supposed to drop to 19 tonight.  Enough, already.

I wish I could figure out how to do screen shot....I swear next Monday they are calling for 5 degrees......well that's Michigan for you.

Got to go in to work for a little while. Then my oldest daughter is coming to spend the weekend!! e:
Geez! A 40 degree drop!

Hope your visit rocks friend....

Is it safe?

 

[DnDFarm]

Ok, I'm too lazy to type it again, so here's a copy and paste from the AM thread. I'm going to owe Sid a lot of eggs...


Ok, did a 5 day candle of my Sunday set, and it's confirmed. I have a gorgeous black rooster that is 0% fertile in 75 degree weather. The splash is still 95%, and the girls all came from the same batch, so it's not the girls. I've wasted space in the incubator for the last time. I have a gorgeous black rooster that won't reproduce. Now I have a dilemma, and 3 options:
1. Leave the black with those girls and wait 6 more months until I can replace him with a blue from the splash pen, basically ruining my whole year with 4 laying hens.
2. Put those light blue and splash hens in with the splash rooster, and get more chicks, but take the chance of diluting those blues even further.
3. Take my blue rooster with the leakage, put him with the light blues, and hope he produces a non-leaky black to replace him this year.

Trimming feathers is not an option for me. I'm not manscaping a bird just to see if it will work when his brother is 95%. He's getting on the girls, I've seen it. He's either infertile, or has horrible aim. He won't reproduce, so he has to go. It's a shame, because he's the closest to SOP I have.

My blue rooster is gorgeous. He's the biggest, most well shaped rooster of the 3. He was the alpha before the pen split, and is currently in an OE pen with BCM culls. For those of you that don't know, my issue with him was leaky shoulder feathers, and that's why he was put in the OE pen.

Someone once told me to build the barn before I paint it. Do I put this big blue in with the girls, keep all the cockerels and grow them out to see who leaks and who doesn't, then hopefully get a non-leaky blue or black to take his place? If I do that, am I compromising the females by breeding carriers? What would you guys do?

 

[DnDFarm]

The blue rooster I still have is the one in my avatar

 

[FridayYet]

Easy. Send the blue one to me.

 

[dan26552]

Ok, I'm too lazy to type it again, so here's a copy and paste from the AM thread. I'm going to owe Sid a lot of eggs...


Ok, did a 5 day candle of my Sunday set, and it's confirmed. I have a gorgeous black rooster that is 0% fertile in 75 degree weather. The splash is still 95%, and the girls all came from the same batch, so it's not the girls. I've wasted space in the incubator for the last time. I have a gorgeous black rooster that won't reproduce. Now I have a dilemma, and 3 options:
1. Leave the black with those girls and wait 6 more months until I can replace him with a blue from the splash pen, basically ruining my whole year with 4 laying hens.
2. Put those light blue and splash hens in with the splash rooster, and get more chicks, but take the chance of diluting those blues even further.
3. Take my blue rooster with the leakage, put him with the light blues, and hope he produces a non-leaky black to replace him this year.

Trimming feathers is not an option for me. I'm not manscaping a bird just to see if it will work when his brother is 95%. He's getting on the girls, I've seen it. He's either infertile, or has horrible aim. He won't reproduce, so he has to go. It's a shame, because he's the closest to SOP I have.

My blue rooster is gorgeous. He's the biggest, most well shaped rooster of the 3. He was the alpha before the pen split, and is currently in an OE pen with BCM culls. For those of you that don't know, my issue with him was leaky shoulder feathers, and that's why he was put in the OE pen.

Someone once told me to build the barn before I paint it. Do I put this big blue in with the girls, keep all the cockerels and grow them out to see who leaks and who doesn't, then hopefully get a non-leaky blue or black to take his place? If I do that, am I compromising the females by breeding carriers? What would you guys do?

 

[DnDFarm]

Easy. Send the blue one to me.

I think you misunderstood the question

 

[WVduckchick]

Aw geez, I'm sorry SC, that bites.

Could you put the black male with just one of the girls (yes, build another small pen for just 2 birds, possibly temporary), for maybe a month, then test her eggs...

and then option 2 with the rest.

 

[DnDFarm]

Aw geez, I'm sorry SC, that bites.

Could you put the black male with just one of the girls (yes, build another small pen for just 2 birds, possibly temporary), for maybe a month, then test her eggs...

and then option 2 with the rest.

I'm done with Johnny. Honestly, I think my best option is option 3. Put that big blue alpha in with those girls and hope for a black rooster this summer. I can't get a black from Jack, and I need a black rooster in my breeding plan. I'm not bringing in any outside blood yet