Here We Go !!

[enola]

Ok, it started like this . . . . . .

A guy at work was going to drown 14 chicks, he didn't have room for them.

I couldn't stand by and let this happen. So, took them home, raised them until I could pick out 3 little hens. Gave him back the other 11 chicks. Someone stole 2 of them. So, I moved to this house with 1 little OEG hen.

Nadine (on this site) was nice enough to sell me an Araucana rooster, named Boom-Boom.

The hen hated him from the moment that he moved in.

So. . . . I bought 2 hens, a Barred Rock and an Ameraucana.

Then I bought a LG incubator. After a couple of tweaks on the thermostat, I put all of the eggs I had on hand (2) in the incubator.

Then luvmychicks sent me 6 eggs from her Ameraucana hens, 3 green, 3 blue. I also put them in the incubator.

Like I said . . . . HERE WE GO !

I have found the cure for chicken fever . . . . more chicks !

Today, I picked up 15 eggs at the PO. They are cuckoo marans from bantaman13. They will go in the incubator tonight.

As I type this, my son is putting together a hatcher for me. It is made out of a frozen steak styrofoam box. I have 2 eggs that will hatch in about 3 days.

We need to get this hatcher done today so I can put the eggs in it tomorrow.

I noticed on a thread today that TSC was getting their chicks today. I call my local TSC and find out the chicks arrived this morning.

I tried not to speed as I drove to town.

I came home with 12 pullet chicks, 4 each of Easter Egger (Ameraucana), White Leghorn and Barred Rock.

After all, won't 2 little chicks look lonely in the brooder ?

 

[Mahonri]

Yup. You've got it bad. Resistance was futile, you have been assimilated.

Welcome to the club.

 

[DuckyBoys]

I know the feeling - see all those chicken breeds in my siggie down there? All of them are NEW this year! I hve 40 chicks in my barn brooder and duck and goose eggs in the bators.

I got it bad too - must resist feed store - but I have to go in today to buy feed...LOL...I am seriously laughing right now at the thought of me NOT coming home with chicks!

Reliculous notion!

 

[enola]

I have a plan . . . . . I am only going to RAISE one breed

starting next year !!!!

EASTER EGGERS !

The planning part is to improve the ratio of feed to egg, so that is why I bought the leghorns, I will cross them with my rooster and have hens laying lots of blue eggs....

The barred rocks are so I can sex the chicks and sell rooster chicks to neighbors who are asking for them for the freezer.

The Easter Eggers are so I can have green eggs by sometime this fall, since other neighbors are clamoring for colored eggs. I was afraid they would become bored with just blue eggs.

The cuckoo marans will lay the dark brown eggs that my boyfriend loves .....

Now I will avoid the chick days by getting my chicken feed from our local co-op since they don't sell chicks

Now we will all sit back

and see how this plan works

 

[cmom]

I hope your birds from TSC turn out to be pullets. A co-worker of mine bought some pullets from TSC and they ALL turned out to be roosters.

 

[enola]

Well I know that at least the Barred Rocks are pullets, I could tell by the spot on their heads.

 

[enola]

My first eggs are hatching !

Boy we got the hatcher figured out just in time !

 

[toyzbox]

WHAT?????? WAIT!!!!!!! What's going on? Are they O.K.????
Ya can't just leave me hangin' like that.

 

[Leah-yes I know I'm crazy]

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Yeah, that's my plan too! I won't have to publicly admit that they are mutts because they will be ee's.

 

[enola]

Sorry to leave everyone hanging, but, in order to support "my plan" I do have to go to work.

So, I wasn't here when they came out of the eggs

But, my soon-to-be DIL was and texted me all eveing while I was working (or supposed to be).

She has never seen anything like this in her life.

She was so excited when we candled the first eggs and has been doing a lot of this

Any way, they have both come out of the egg and both are black.

These 2 eggs came from the Barred Rock and the Ameraucana hens that I bought. So, if they are hens, I can keep them to cross with my Araucana rooster !

They have not dried off yet, so I can't tell if one of them has a white dot on the head or not.