Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

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Starting to work up a little website for my birds. Since Cedarcreek is my kennel name for my Aussies, figure it would work for my birds. Made up a generic logo to blanket across my snakes, dogs, and chickens. Opinions? Would rather change it now, than later!


 
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 :). Congrats on your new birds! We really like our Bresse. Be careful though, ours are always underfoot and I'm really worried we're going to injure them. They're always looking for treats. You have a nice looking group there!
 
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.
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I am hoping the two that actually say RD and are pipped actually hatch.
Wow! Wonder what's going on at his place to be having these issues.

Lots of those black feather legged somethings out there...wonder what those could be.
 
I would say that's surprising since so many people talk highly of Dick Horstman.
I'm very sad to say that I had the exact same experience with them. I ordered 2 dozen eggs, received 28 along with 2 bantam somethings. Only 18 of those eggs made it to the incubator, only 3 made it to lockdown where they all died about day 19 or 20. I was very, very sad. Since I always set some of my own eggs as control subjects when I "hatch" shipped eggs, I know it wasn't equipment failure as 4 of my 5 eggs hatched beautifully. I really want some of their birds, but I don't know if I will try again.
 
I just finished my weekly chicken chores. I have fixed the muddy run issue by adding straw to absorb the moisture. I figure it will be great compost by the time the chickens are done with it and it was the best I could come up with until spring when I do a complete redesign of that run. They were a bit skeptical at first, then I threw in some scratch and meal worms. They thought I was the best thing since sliced bread. Then I brought over a wheel barrow to clean out bedding from the coop. Henry sounded the alarm and gave me a look that said, "I knew you were no good." :rolleyes: well, it was nice to be loved for a moment anyway. Now that I have finished with the offensive wheel barrow they are back in the straw. Glad they like it, but now Henry is getting all the credit for discovering it. He's a sneaky one. :gig
 
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