Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[chiqita]

I've got 60 quail coming from Sahwithchicks, and am looking forward to it. I'll decide next fall if I want to over winter breeding stock, or just restock each spring. Depends on how good they taste! I've not eaten domestically grown quail; just wild ones. I spent some time this weekend going over what I've got here and what I've ordered for chicks and eggs, and have figured out that I will have everything I wanted soon....plus some. So now, unless something really awesome comes up, I won't be claiming much other than some repeats of a few things. Maybe some more Silver Sussex, and certainly more golden cuckoo marans. And I'm always up for more English Orpingtons. I'm learning the hard lesson that even if I can afford to get everything....I can't. I don't have the time or energy to care for everything. Affording something isn't always about money. Sigh.

coturnix are not even close in taste. Or breed really. I don't know why we call all 3 types quail. be interesting to see if you like it.

Well really, you should replace breeding stock every year with quail anyway, and they don't lay well very winter unless under lights. Come October of next year I will give away or slaughter this bunch instead of keeping them over winter. I haven't had any problems with my quail, but I wouldn't have hatched my current group in September if I had foreseen they wouldn't lay me anything yet, even being four months old. I did sell quite a few trios though, and I think I got left with a LOT of males.

Too many boys can also stop laying. Get it down to 1/4 to 1/5 and they will start sooner. O was trying to figure out when we would actually have 13 he's of light last week. That is why I broke down and did light. If 2 weeks isn't enough they will come in the garage and suck it. They are just so much happier outside I hate to do it.

oh wow Oh, I missed alot I bet DH's dad can tell us a bunch of ways to get stuff to grow. He is a 90 y.o 3rd generation farmer, DH is a 4th generation farmer, the whole, well most of the reason we moved from California to Indiana is to take care of mom and dad and be able to keep them living independently on the farm im the Spring Summer and Fall, in the Winter they Vacation at our house.lol and keep shoving dad up on that tractor every Spring and setting him loose in the fields Well we pretty much blew it yesterday when we didn't go with mom the ER in the ambulance to the hospital yesterday. We thought she was "faking it" to get a vacation from taking care of dad. When we called the hospital at noon they said she was stable and not to rush down. By the time we mosyed on down to the ER after stopping to buy chicken food we get to the ER to find out she had a massive stroke.

they didn't even tell her DR they told him she was having trouble slurring her her speach. not that she was STILL having a stroke and he had to order blood thinners. She tried to tell us that in the ER that they had done NOTHING and that she was dying and needed heparin. We of course told her she was not dying and she would be fine, before we knew what happened.She us alive and about to communicate with us. That is the best thing that her DR said was "miracleous" and that she might recover fully.

Holy crap! Glad she is doing better. Hopes for a full recovery. I hope your year gets better.

THANKS.... It looks like I can have bob whites without a permit here. I will look into it further.

CPL!!! Im so sorry about your momma! I hope she remains miraculous and gets the heck out of there! Sad note for me...its been -20 s at night for a while with still more ahead...my 5 yr old buff orp Princess passed last night...Makes me feel like a horrible chicken keeper! The heaters went on and Ill be cooking up a huge pot of warm stew for them tonight before bed! Im going to the feed store to pit 6-7 more bags of shavings in the pens for extra warmth!

 

[Brookhavens]

CPL, hope your mom gets better fast so she can get out of there soon.

Hate when the little ones get sick. The older they are I think the worse they get. MyDD just turned 18 and I know when she is sick that's all I hear is "Mom."

Very excited here. I received 3 Tolbunt and 5 BBS Marans from Sonew123 last week and I candled them this morning (day 5) and ALL eggs have veining in them!!! I've never had shipped eggs do that.

that they all keep growing.

 

[draye]

I need cleared.

Sent out Papa Brooders Eggs. Tracking #: 0312 2120 0001 6967 7395 .

 

[Bettacreek]

Ugh. Since I'm getting new breeds in, G said not too many chickens. So, I'll thinking long and hard about who stays and just how big my breeding groups are. I guess a quad of seramas is fine for now, then replace the roo and two hens when I get the silkied seramas (if I get my hands on them). The whit leghorns are going to go. I have some babies to replace them, since the hennies aren't laying very well. The main problem is those roos. I promised them safety here after the bear incident, plus one is G's roo. I could downsize on the cornish crosses. I have ten hennies, but.they've been providing all of our eggs, since the leghorns are getting to be too old. Then, who do I kepp on the ameraucana boys? The dom is a splash, and I wnt him, but that red breasted black is gorgeous. The blue barred is already on the "go list". I suppose the bbr can go too, since I just got bbs marans eggs from Donna, so I'll get a substitute for his. Ugh. Hard choices!

 

[mzstre]

oh wow Oh, I missed alot I bet DH's dad can tell us a bunch of ways to get stuff to grow. He is a 90 y.o 3rd generation farmer, DH is a 4th generation farmer, the whole, well most of the reason we moved from California to Indiana is to take care of mom and dad and be able to keep them living independently on the farm im the Spring Summer and Fall, in the Winter they Vacation at our house.lol and keep shoving dad up on that tractor every Spring and setting him loose in the fields

Well we pretty much blew it yesterday when we didn't go with mom the ER in the ambulance to the hospital yesterday. We thought she was "faking it" to get a vacation from taking care of dad. When we called the hospital at noon they said she was stable and not to rush down. By the time we mosyed on down to the ER after stopping to buy chicken food we get to the ER to find out she had a massive stroke.

they didn't even tell her DR they told him she was having trouble slurring her her speach. not that she was STILL having a stroke and he had to order blood thinners. She tried to tell us that in the ER that they had done NOTHING and that she was dying and needed heparin. We of course told her she was not dying and she would be fine, before we knew what happened.She us alive and about to communicate with us. That is the best thing that her DR said was "miracleous" and that she might recover fully.

Wow, you really had a rough day yesterday! Prayers are being said for you and your family. I hope she has a quick and smooth recovery!

CPL!!! Im so sorry about your momma! I hope she remains miraculous and gets the heck out of there!


Sad note for me...its been -20 s at night for a while with still more ahead...my 5 yr old buff orp Princess passed last night...Makes me feel like a horrible chicken keeper! The heaters went on and Ill be cooking up a huge pot of warm stew for them tonight before bed!

Im going to the feed store to pit 6-7 more bags of shavings in the pens for extra warmth!

I'm sorry you lost your Princess!

Morning y'all! It's definitely going to be a long one here. DS, who's almost three, has never been properly sick in his life to date a s is now dealing with something that his system REALLY doesn't like. He has a fever that keeps fluctuating between 100-103. He's been a little down the whole weekend but yesterday it just slid downhill. I was up all night with him. I think I fell asleep with him draped around me on the couch around 500 this morning. Managed to get about 15 minutes when DD woke up and had to hand DS to DH so I could tend to DD. Fed her and put her back to bed and was able to get about an hour before DH had to go to work.

Now have to see if my neighbor will be kind enough to go to town to mail out two boxes of eggs that are packaged.

It always made me feel so helpless when my boys were really little and sick. I hope he feels better soon!

to you all!!!

 

[mzstre]

Ugh. Since I'm getting new breeds in, G said not too many chickens. So, I'll thinking long and hard about who stays and just how big my breeding groups are. I guess a quad of seramas is fine for now, then replace the roo and two hens when I get the silkied seramas (if I get my hands on them). The whit leghorns are going to go. I have some babies to replace them, since the hennies aren't laying very well. The main problem is those roos. I promised them safety here after the bear incident, plus one is G's roo. I could downsize on the cornish crosses. I have ten hennies, but.they've been providing all of our eggs, since the leghorns are getting to be too old. Then, who do I kepp on the ameraucana boys? The dom is a splash, and I wnt him, but that red breasted black is gorgeous. The blue barred is already on the "go list". I suppose the bbr can go too, since I just got bbs marans eggs from Donna, so I'll get a substitute for his. Ugh. Hard choices!

I hate making those kinds of decisions. I have 2 Basque cockerels and 3 bantam Cochin cockerels that have to either be re-homed or sent to freezer camp. It's very difficult here to re-home cockerels.

 

[WVstruttin]

I hate making those kinds of decisions. I have 2 Basque cockerels and 3 bantam Cochin cockerels that have to either be re-homed or sent to freezer camp. It's very difficult here to re-home cockerels.

CPL might be interested in the basque cockeral

 

[Bettacreek]

Oh, received my eggs from SwindleDana and DMRippy today! Despite good packing, the PO managed to break one of the birchen marans eggs from Swindle. How they managed, I'll never know. Thanks ladies! And thanks very, very much for the extras, Donna!!

 

[Bettacreek]

I know! It especially stinks because we HAD sixty some birds and I kept selling/downsizing. Now, I'm down to twent six birds outside and only keeping two ducklings (butchering one, keeping the other if it's male), keeping three quail and only three serama. Plus there are only two or three leghorn chicks...

I hate making those kinds of decisions. I have 2 Basque cockerels and 3 bantam Cochin cockerels that have to either be re-homed or sent to freezer camp. It's very difficult here to re-home cockerels.

 

[mzstre]

CPL might be interested in the basque cockeral

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll check with her. I have 2 that are breeding age now, but I have 3 more that are 11 weeks old.