Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[Jessimom]

The eggs are hatching up a storm. The mutts are over half way with 18 out. I delayed adding humidity for 24 hours just to give them more of a chance. The lowest the humidity went during the entire first 19 days was 49%. I added water just now to bring it up to 80. I did not bring my scale from the USA so I am just going visual on the air sacks.
Type

Original count

Into Lockdown

Percentage
Lake Elsinore Mutts

18

14

78
OGM Mutts

30

20

67
Black Copper Maran

8

5

62
Blue Laced Red Wyandottes

8

8

100
Australorps

9

6

67
Total

73

53

73

The “fanciest” breed did the best so far with the control group of Lake Elsinore mutts above average. OGM warned me that some of hers eggs were over a week old when I picked them up but even some of those seemed to do OK. It such a shame I had the car trouble during the great December chicken run. I really wanted some barred rocks. Still, if I was crazy enough to try and get there, I would have missed the plane. As it was, my late arrival at LAX cause my luggage to miss the plane when it was held up by TSA for secondary screening. The trailer wheels, voltage converter and rat poison would all cause TSA to pull the boxes off the conveyer belt and implement a manual inspection. They all had notes from TSA to say they had been opened by them. The 48 mutt eggs that went in the hard sided golf bag, along with the frozen ham automatically had a manual inspection as the golf bag’s dimensions cause issues on the conveyer system. This was the reason I placed the eggs in it – I knew it would circumvent the xray process.

If any of you lurkers out there are from SoCal and want to participate in the Spring “Getting the Flock Out of Here” event, PM me. I am looking for monster chicken breeds: Buff or Brittish Orps, Rhode Island Reds, Giant Jerseys, Plymouth Rocks. I also would like some Polish, Frizzle and Silkies as well. I will pay



The coop is coming along










chickens!!!





looks part polish? waddayathink?



The lake elsinore mutts

You have a great view!! I love the coop. Gorgeous hatching chickens!! Thanks for the great story!!

 

[ozexpat]

You have a great view!! I love the coop. Gorgeous hatching chickens!! Thanks for the great story!!

i have a soft spot for the A coops. We are up to 18 coops, 20 tractors, 2 grow outs and 19 brooders.

We have also built 2 duck houses, a goat house, mozza's pen, a piggery with 5 pens and 3 farrowing stalls, an egg house with feed room, septics, compost areas, and a fence around the place,

And there are still 9 days until the 3 year mark!

The cement shed/pump house is getting a concrete roof this week. That should round out the projects if this next typhoon does not stop too much work

The next rainy day project is a goat milking stanchion and then a dummy sow for our boar to fall in love with.

 

[bamadude]

The heart wants what the heart wants.
My first ex wife was a dummy sow

 

[FridayYet]

i have a soft spot for the A coops. We are up to 18 coops, 20 tractors, 2 grow outs and 19 brooders.


We have also built 2 duck houses, a goat house, mozza's pen, a piggery with 5 pens and 3 farrowing stalls, an egg house with feed room, septics, compost areas, and a fence around the place,

And there are still 9 days until the 3 year mark!

The cement shed/pump house is getting a concrete roof this week. That should round out the projects if this next typhoon does not stop too much work

The next rainy day project is a goat milking stanchion and then a dummy sow for our boar to fall in love with.

Quite amazing when you look at it all together like that.

Bravo!

 

[ozexpat]

Piglet processing

All but 1 boy were castrated. They are on track with weights. Its a very even spread and all above goal.

In 3 weeks they will be weaned and sold.

 

[bamadude]

Mountain oysters?

 

[ozexpat]

Mountain oysters?

very small ones

 

[Penny Hen]

yes it does.

I will ask for more photos tomorrow

It could be an Easter Egger. Some of my Olive Eggers (MaransXAmericana) F2's are beardless but have the short wattels and comb.

 

[scottcaddy]

@ozexpat can you stop at Los Ángeles, Region VIII, Bio-Bio, in the center of Chile next time you take a run anywheres and pick me up a few dozen hatching eggs and slip in the bag please?

http://www.perdiz.cl/area_avesvivas_in.html#aves



< for those that havent seen them http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-great-tinamou-lays-the-fanciest-eggs-in-the-bird-world >

Slick move Miss Sally!
If it can be done, you picked the right man for it!
I will come up to see you shortly after you get the eggs hatched?
Scott (

Miss Sally)

 

[bamadude]

very small ones

Yum