Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[caj1985]

I remember mine from Dick last year was packed the same. I hatched one chick from those eggs.

Mine from Dick are hatching now. They were beautifully packed in foam egg shippers. Unfortunately, it looks like I got someone else's shipment. I ordered two dozen red dorking and put 8 into lockdown. I have 4 that have hatched. All with 4 toes and one feather legged. I just looked at the couple of hatched eggs that I still have and realized that what I thought was a poorly written RD is actually ORP. I have two blue orpingtons (one is the one that I talked about last night that hatched too early and disembowelled itself.) and a small black feather legged something.

I am hoping the two that actually say RD and are pipped actually hatch.

 

[KYTinpusher]

madamwlf - LOVE your new avatar!

 

[cluckitall]

I remember mine from Dick last year was packed the same. I hatched one chick from those eggs.

Ack! That's a bummer -- I was seriously considering breaking down and buying eggs from him...

 

[chiqita]

ERP! So excited.
may I present to you..
Clovis and his many wives

White Bresse from a breeder out here who got them from GFF (chicken tows) . They are between 2.5 and 3.5 months old, I think she combined 2 grow out pens. but they look mature to me .

 

[coldupnorth]

madamwlf - LOVE your new avatar!

x2
*You should put that egg in the incubator - to test fertility, of course

 

[cluckitall]

ERP! So excited.
may I present to you..
Clovis and his many wives

White Bresse from a breeder out here who got them from GFF (chicken tows) . They are between 2.5 and 3.5 months old, I think she combined 2 grow out pens. but they look mature to me .

BEAUTIFUL!!! So when are their offspring going to be on the swap thread?

In all seriousness, they're absolutely lovely -- congratulations and I'm jealous!

 

[chickenbelle]

I remember mine from Dick last year was packed the same. I hatched one chick from those eggs.

Oh no...I hope mine turn out better. I have 14 left to put in the incubator. Surely I'll at least get a pair or trio out of that. Wish me luck!

 

[chickenbelle]

LOL! Not yet We'll call this story "Your first mission, should you choose to accept it..."

So here I am, just pulled into CPL's driveway practically, and Rachael is like "Okay, I need you to do something." Which is what I went over there for -- she's juggling a lot right now and I could tell she was getting a little stressed and behind on stuff (no wonder!). So of course I said "Okay" and she hands me a plastic bag containing zip ties and wire cutters and says "Here's your tools. Go out to the front coop. You'll see the problem."

Well, the problem is a poor little Russian Orloff who apparently wasn't smart enough to go in out of the cold one night and froze in the pen, poor thing. The challenge is that CPL's front coops and pens rival Fort Knox. So my mission was to extricate said poor little frozen Orloff from what is essentially a hermetically-sealed, impenetrable fortress, preferably without dismantling the entire thing, lol! I had to sit there and look at it for a while before figuring out how to gain access without absolutely tearing the pen to pieces, extricate the expired Orloff, and seal it back up again.

Yeah, Rachael? Next time just install retinal scans and passcodes -- it'll be easier

I'm bummed, though -- one thing I didn't get to was learning how to give serama manicures!

And what did I miss? I missed something. What did you do to BM6's tupperware???

Hilarious! Poor Orloff, but great story. Sounds like you ladies had a good evening!

 

[chickenbelle]

I would say that's surprising since so many people talk highly of Dick Horstman.

I was really taken aback. I expected them to be packed WELL! At least some bubble wrap or something besides newspaper. Maybe he had an off day and let someone else ship them out...?? I was bummed. Hope they make it.

 

[cluckitall]

Seeing the pics of Zeke has sent me on a trip down memory lane. I worked in a pet store when I was in high school. The owners raised mullacan (sp?) cockatoos. They were such sweet, needy birds. I never bought one because the other thing I saw a lot of was people getting sick of whatever animal and selling them back to the pet store. These poor birds mate for life and it is so devastating to them to loose their mate. We had a five year old blue and gold macaw there. I worked a lot with him to rehabilitate him. The previous owners brought I. A sick, skinny, mean bird. After a few months, he would let me, and no one else hold him. With a little more time, the other sales reps could hold him if I got him out of his cage. The people who bought him, bought a bird that was cuddly (as cuddly as a macaw can be), sweet, and healthy. I had wanted to buy him so bad! But seeing how heartbroken he was and how hard it was for him to recover, I knew as a teenager that I did not have the ability to commit to him for 40-50 years. I also fell in love with a Goffins cockatoo that I named GoGo because he liked to dance. I didn't buy him either for the same reason. I really got angry at people at that job...overbred dogs, snakes that were too big, reptiles that lost limbs because the owners didn't bother to take care of them. There were a lot of good people and owners there too, I just remember the bad ones more vividly.

Lilwanis, I hear you. Drives me crazy with any animal, but even a dog is only a 15-16 year commitment except in very rare cases. Most people go "Oh, cute!" and don't realize they may very well be making provisions in their will for their new feathered companion. Parrots are not easy, they can be very hard to retrain once they get into bad habits, and a frightened, ****** off parrot can cause serious damage. And worse, they don't ever grow up and leave home!