Icelandic Chickens

[NotAFarm]

Anna is still on her golf balls. Will be transferring some of her and Asta's eggs from the incubator to her. They will be due to hatch the 29th.
The eggs I put into friends incubator (before I got mine) are due to hatch tomorrow!! I will be raising those in a brooder along with my Easter Hatch chicks.

I know you are all probably tired of seeing my SLW foster mom with her Icelandic and Java chicks, but........here they are again!! Some are two weeks old today and the rest will be tommorrow!! I managed to get all 11 of them in one picture!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Never tire of seeing pics!

 

[The Sheriff]

Duh! I could look at pictures of chicks all day! Come to think of it, I do!

I have to go sweep and mop or something......

 

[AK Michelle]

I got a chick!!! and 6 more pips!

DD called to tell me so I asked which one hatched so she's looking in the hatcher talking to me nad then glances over, "uh, mom, we have a cracked egg in the incubator"

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flashback a week or so DS collects eggs, I go out to spring clean the coop and kick all the girls out into the yard. A buff was being broody and when I toss her out I find 6 eggs of verying sizes and colors under her fluffy behind.

DS hasn't been collecting all the eggs I guess. So we take the eggs in and I candle them. One of the blue ones seems pretty developed so I slip it in the bator, the others are marginal so I toss them.

fast forward to Sunday Ex's dog kills chickens including my blue egg layer

Yesterday morning when I moved the Icelandics to the hatcher I didn't think the blue egg was as close to term so I left it in the bator with the turkeys thinking it had another 3 or 4 days to lock down.

OK, now I don't want to put it in the hatcher because I want to know which one it is. So I asked DD to get a rubbermaid bowl and put a piece of self liner in the bottom and put it on the turner in the bator to heat up, in 30 minutes I will have her lay the egg in there so it can hatch and I won't have to worry about the poor chick having to get a leg stuck in the turner.

 

[NotAFarm]

Michelle, Don't you just hate when work interferes with chickening?!

That your blue egg is a girl!!!

 

[NotAFarm]

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Me, too!!!

.......and me, too...

 

[AK Michelle]

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I do, I do. Poor DD knows I'm nuts, I called to ask her to send me Pics so I can see for myself

 

[call ducks]

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I do, I do. Poor DD knows I'm nuts, I called to ask her to send me Pics so I can see for myself

HAHAHA, your DD, knew you were nuts long ago

hAHAHA sorry i could not help

i want pictures!!!

 

[AK Michelle]

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I do, I do. Poor DD knows I'm nuts, I called to ask her to send me Pics so I can see for myself

HAHAHA, your DD, knew you were nuts long ago

hAHAHA sorry i could not help

I want pictures!!!

That's what I said

 

[call ducks]

Quote:
HAHAHA, your DD, knew you were nuts long ago

hAHAHA sorry i could not help

I want pictures!!!

That's what I said

well not icelandics but here are some