Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[AyeUpChuck]

Yeah Ive set well let's just say.... A LOT of eggs in the last few weeks and I candled last night and of 120 I only pulled out 14. I have 60 that go into lockdown on wed!
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Oh and I splurged and bought a mini maglight tht is 225 lumens. Talk about WOW! The only thing I really couldn't see inside of was a few of my Marans which are about a 7-8 and my 2nd gen OEs. Could only just see the air cells in those but am pretty sure there are babies as they'd sort of just glow if not. Won't know until hatch day!

 

[AyeUpChuck]

Oh and I'm sending eggs out to bHep and COF tomorrow and fulemene on tues and spoiled chicken thurs or Friday!

 

[AyeUpChuck]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/722953/paypal-hatching-eggs-swap-feedback

Everyone should use this thread as well! There's actually a form you can fill out too that I think goes to KYTinpusher for a spreadsheet? That way we can all see how things are going!

 

[crystsal]

Please place all ads in the Buy Sell Trade forum. Thanks.

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[bradselig]

Bradselig sent me paypal lastnight. Please clear him. Thanks

 

[madamwlf]

Cleared!! Sorry

 

[cluckitall]

Just went out to the coop and what did I find (lying on the ground rather than in the nesting box, but hey)? My first pullet egg!

My cuckoo marans/white rock cross has laid her first egg! It's little but not teeny, about as dark as her mom's but it has speckling on it She's five months and one week old today. Her brothers were all big enough to slaughter at 12 weeks, and pretty meaty. I want to give her some time to settle into a routine and see how she lays and how large her eggs look to be before I decide for sure, but I think I may just have to hatch myself out some more utility layers!

 

[madamwlf]

Just went out to the coop and what did I find (lying on the ground rather than in the nesting box, but hey)? My first pullet egg!

My cuckoo marans/white rock cross has laid her first egg! It's little but not teeny, about as dark as her mom's but it has speckling on it She's five months and one week old today. Her brothers were all big enough to slaughter at 12 weeks, and pretty meaty. I want to give her some time to settle into a routine and see how she lays and how large her eggs look to be before I decide for sure, but I think I may just have to hatch myself out some more utility layers!

congrats!

 

[madamwlf]

So I'm sure some of you will think me crazy but we raise mice to feed my 2 snakes. It's cheaper and I get healthier mice then what the pet stores sell. I have 2 breeding females and just added a third. Needless to say 2 snakes don't eat that many mice. Any extras are put down and feed off to either the dog (only one will eat them) or the chickens. So today I put 3 small mice down and feed them to the chickens. It was quite a hoot watching the carnivore side of them come out.

 

[cluckitall]

Yeah, they can be pretty gruesome sometimes!

And when my son had a snake, we did that too. Cheaper, better, and you get mice to play with!