Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[ProfTi]

lol @ profti turkey dancing! you gotta take a video of that...

Send me turkey eggs, I send ya one!!!!! With my little feathered butt and all!

 

[SusanRenee]

Ok, so I was a bit behind......

He's into Jeeps and big diesel trucks.

Sounds like my guy friends. I've learned a lot though hanging out with them. I can tell a diesel brand by sound now and the diff between a 12 and 24 valve Dodge. Gotta come in handy someday!

Well..... the last pen is finished!! The crele orps moved in today. Here are a pic of the rhodebars and cream legabars. Somehow missed getting a pic of the rhodebar cockerel/roo, will get that this week too. Also a pic of one of the crele orp cockerels and pullet. Got a pen cleaned out for the teenagers to move into. A little more work and ALL the chicks will be out of the house. Maybe my DH will want to keep me since there will not be chick dust in the house any longer. The new rabbits are situated... still need one more pen though. I am tired, and going to bed. G'nite all.

You know, I'd almost talked myself out a of a CCL flock, but every time I see one I talk myself back into it!

Good Morning guys!

Was a wild weekend here.
Oldest DD's friend came over on Fridays night. Sent my other two kids to friends houses. We went to town and did our weekly shopping. As soon as we got back home DD's friends Mom called, their dog was at the vet and they were having him put to sleep (16 yr old Basset, Heart issues and liver/kidney shutdown), so back to town we sped. While she was at the vet's we stopped in Petsmart. I really know better then to go in there to just look.... We found a cat who was on her last days at the Humane Edu. Society. She was turned over b/c of her age... which was only 4yrs old. We adopted her. Manx/rag doll mix. No tail, long hair, very sweet and quiet cat. Zero reaction to birds. I think the guy thought I was nuts when I asked to take her over to the bird windows. She is fixed and declawed. A little on the tubby side, but I find it rather cute on her.
We left there after Lelee (DD's friend) was ready. Headed back home to start working on the rest of the chicken houses. Found out we were short 3 sheets of Tin and one box of staples....
Sunday we head back to town and picked up the stuff we were short on. The cashier was a bit of a pain. So we got a bit upset at her rudeness and then did not figure out that she did not charge us for 2 sheets of tin roofing until we were almost home. She also did not charge us for one of the boxes of staples. We did not go back, watch, karma will get me for that... lol
We spent the rest of Sunday updating pens, and putting new roof on ones that needed it. I feel like a Mack truck has plowed me over.
The last of the charges from our card being stolen should run through my bank today. I will feel so much better when that is taken care of and back under control.

Anyway, long weekend. Hope everyone elses went great.

Oh, Lowes has all their veggie, fruit, herb, and flower bulbs on 50% off.

Ohh! Wonder if ours here does too!

So, those eggs that were "delivered" on Saturday, but not to me? I went to the PO this morning, and the lady was very nice, looked it up right there, called the carrier who wasn't home, took my number and told me she'd call. I told her they were hatching eggs and she was very concerned that I get them soon.

The saturday carrier just stopped by my house, to let me know that she made a mistake and delivered them to a house up the road. She had gone to his house, but he wasn't home, so she left a message with him to call the PO. She wanted to update me in person, so I was aware that she was working on solving the problem. She had her kids in the car, it was obviously her day off. So far I'm impressed, but I'm not sure how much longer the eggs will be good for. They are MF Leghorns from BM6. I'm so sad.

Not upset at the PO, they made a mistake and are doing their best to correct. More upset at the guy who got my box, because he didn't bother to bring it up the road to me.

It's always the Sat ones. I got sent a swap package on Sat this weekend, and the guy stuffed it in my mailbox that is on the highway!! Realllllly? I'm darn happy the surprise goose eggs that were in there were fine!

Broody hens are just so fun! You can do all kinds of things to them and they will just sit there and let you. I remember when I was little and I used to put doll hats on them. They just sat there and took it. Now of course I have slightly outgrown some of that behavior. Not all mind you,but some.

Lucy is our favorite serial brooder. She goes broody every few months. She's a dark Cornish so not a lot of fluff. She can still handle eight eggs in the dead of winter though. I love how WIDE they can get. Plus I don't have to clean up after the chicks until I clean the broody coop for the next round.

I have a broody Lucy too! She's a Light Brahma, and her little ones are due this weekend. Going to build a nice brooder pen for her this week...

Sorry Flocks, couldn't help myself. At all. If it's any consolation, by fall, I'll have about 20 breeds/species to offer...

Wow! Then you'll get the double stalk for soaps and eggs!

 

[SusanRenee]

I love the Hubs, really I do. Sunday he collected eggs for me, we didn't collect on Sat as I was gone all day for a fiber arts show and we ran out the door for dinner plans as soon as I got home. I had a second broody, my EE Noisy, and for some reason, she decided the eggs were nicer in the next nest box over and moved and left her 5 eggs behind. Dear Hubs collected the 5 eggs and brought them in for me, which I hadn't had a chance to mark, I usually do. So consequently, when I went out today and saw her in the next box over, I ran in and candled the eggs. 5 sadly no longer going little eggs.... Sigh. I'm just going to try and break her broody, she's one of my best layers and I want her eggs back.

Anyone got good ways to break a broody? I locked them out of the coop into the run this afternoon, hoping if she can't get to a nest box she'll change her mind.

 

[ProfTi]

More adventures in turkey land.....My lilac turkey decided to go for a nice little swim in the humidity bucket of my Sportsman! My roommate was being "helpful" by filling my water bucket on my incubator and left the lid off. I was feeding the other brooder, turned around and there was a little lilac swimming in circles in the bucket just like a little duckling. I didn't know turkeys could swim!!!! He was pretty proud of himself. Needless to say, the lid has been tightly duck taped (no pun intended) to the top of bucket in case someone else decides to take a little dip.

 

[Rocky Maley]

I don't think I would have anything you are looking for! Heavy sigh!

But if there is...please lt me know!

what you got open to any thing

 

[AutumnWinds]

what you got open to any thing

I have some turkens, they are red and red laced with/red roos, but throwing some babies with white bodies and red feathers with white edges.

Also have some really cute b/b/s bantam cochins covered by frizzled roos.

Pics of my birds are on my swap page if you want to take a look.

 

[krazykat0373]

More adventures in turkey land.....My lilac turkey decided to go for a nice little swim in the humidity bucket of my Sportsman! My roommate was being "helpful" by filling my water bucket on my incubator and left the lid off. I was feeding the other brooder, turned around and there was a little lilac swimming in circles in the bucket just like a little duckling. I didn't know turkeys could swim!!!! He was pretty proud of himself. Needless to say, the lid has been tightly duck taped (no pun intended) to the top of bucket in case someone else decides to take a little dip.

watch that video profti

 

[krazykat0373]

I love the Hubs, really I do. Sunday he collected eggs for me, we didn't collect on Sat as I was gone all day for a fiber arts show and we ran out the door for dinner plans as soon as I got home. I had a second broody, my EE Noisy, and for some reason, she decided the eggs were nicer in the next nest box over and moved and left her 5 eggs behind. Dear Hubs collected the 5 eggs and brought them in for me, which I hadn't had a chance to mark, I usually do. So consequently, when I went out today and saw her in the next box over, I ran in and candled the eggs. 5 sadly no longer going little eggs.... Sigh. I'm just going to try and break her broody, she's one of my best layers and I want her eggs back.

Anyone got good ways to break a broody? I locked them out of the coop into the run this afternoon, hoping if she can't get to a nest box she'll change her mind.

susan, I have heard that you could put them in a cage that is hanging from the ceiling, something about the cool air on their hineys and the twirling of the cage breaks them...I don't know if it works or not, I have only had broody turkeys

 

[ProfTi]

watch that video profti

OMG!!! That's exactly what he was doing....just swimming happily in circles!!!! I thought I had lost my mind a minute, In fact, when I first saw him, I thought for sure it was the duck. I would have never thought of them as swimmers. Especially that chubby bronze fellow in the video. You learn something new ever day!!

 

[WVstruttin]

Send me turkey eggs, I send ya one!!!!! With my little feathered butt and all!

I'd almost pay to see this