I'm never gonna get an egg!!!

[apryl29]

I was teasing with my comment about that, I just meant they always look so unhealthy to me now. I was at Rural King the other day, and saw so many pasty butts and horrible looking chicks.

Oh, I've heard it before from other people too. Every feed store I'd been to takes really good care of their chicks. It's like buying fish from Walmart.. if I looked at the tank and saw a bunch of sickly looking fish I wouldn't buy any. You might want to call and talk to the mgr about their animal care. That's no way to treat an animal.

Oh lol! I thought you were serious for the exact same reasons. If I could I'd take them all home because I feel horrible for them. The bigger feed store around here pretty much had their chicks living on poop mountains with a huuuge amount of those having poop mountains on their butts. One little bantam had almost as much poo as chick.

That's horrible too. Doesn't give me much confidence in those stores.

 

[Chickassan]

Nope, I hadn't been in there in ages and I won't go back. The animals were in horrible shape not just chicks they had rabbits and doves. The stores feed is in open bins and full of webbing from those grain moth caterpillars just nasty!

Oh, I've heard it before from other people too. Every feed store I'd been to takes really good care of their chicks. It's like buying fish from Walmart.. if I looked at the tank and saw a bunch of sickly looking fish I wouldn't buy any. You might want to call and talk to the mgr about their animal care. That's no way to treat an animal.



That's horrible too. Doesn't give me much confidence in those stores.

 

[apryl29]

That place needs shut down. Can you call the health dept on them?

 

[Crooked Chicken]

Hi everyone. Just checking in to see if there's anything new.

I think Eve might be getting to lay -- she made a little nest the other day. She's 5 months old now. All of her brothers have been mating her :/ so she spends most of her time hiding from them.

Soot on the left (4 months) and Eve on the right (5 months)

The boys have gotten big and a few are trying to crow. Coal (BSL) is an outcast -- nobody seems to like him. He's very rambunctious.

Coal

Split

Kebbie and Ginger - 4 months. Both of these girls were hanging out with their papa yesterday -- following him, pecking him and he'd do his little dance around them.

I don't know about anyone else, but I am ready for warmer weather. That coop is disgusting and I want to give it a good cleaning.

 

[WVduckchick]

Beautiful flock @Crooked Chicken!
Eve does look close! I bet it won't be long

I'm getting more eggs than I know what to do with now. A couple dozen a day! I can't even sell or hatch this many!! Lol

Been crazy around here. I've done 2 hatches this year, and my second broody hatched at least 2 of her 3 today, I think I felt a pip in the final egg so I didn't bother her anymore.

My 2 incubator hatches have been 100%. 10 bantam cochins and 4 OEGBs in the first set, and 17 black copper Marans (shipped!) and 3 lav orps. I sold the first 14, some of the BCMs are for me. I was shocked they all hatched, especially being shipped.

All of my incubators are full now, Call ducks, more cochins, cream legbars, royal palm turkeys, seramas. I'm a certifiable nutcase. Oh and I have a broody Call duck. I'm letting her sit to add to my flock.

This past weekends hatch

Lexi, my Grey call duck, wants to be a momma.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I need to build another incubator. Maybe i can hide it in my bathroom....

 

[Crooked Chicken]

Beautiful flock @Crooked Chicken!
Eve does look close! I bet it won't be long

I'm getting more eggs than I know what to do with now. A couple dozen a day! I can't even sell or hatch this many!! Lol

Been crazy around here. I've done 2 hatches this year, and my second broody hatched at least 2 of her 3 today, I think I felt a pip in the final egg so I didn't bother her anymore.

My 2 incubator hatches have been 100%. 10 bantam cochins and 4 OEGBs in the first set, and 17 black copper Marans (shipped!) and 3 lav orps. I sold the first 14, some of the BCMs are for me. I was shocked they all hatched, especially being shipped.

All of my incubators are full now, Call ducks, more cochins, cream legbars, royal palm turkeys, seramas. I'm a certifiable nutcase. Oh and I have a broody Call duck. I'm letting her sit to add to my flock.

This past weekends hatch
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Lexi, my Grey call duck, wants to be a momma.
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Oh my.... you really have gone crazy! Those little silvery yellow chicks are the cutest!

Whatcha going to do with all those birds/eggs? Good for you on selling some! I know it's not everyone's plan, but I'll be eating some of mine. But in the meantime I'm going to just keep loving them. I've been having a week-long laziness spell....

I honestly loved hatching out the chicks, but that integrating stuff is for the birds! They still stay mostly separated when I let them out. It's been stressful for me and the chicks.

I am still giving a lot of eggs away, but keep running out of cartons. I've got to go look at the recycling center for more. The cost of buying egg cartons and all the extra feed doesn't feel very justified when I just give the goods away, lol.

I need to build another incubator. Maybe i can hide it in my bathroom....

I don't think it will hide there very well unless Mr. Capricorn has his own bathroom! But since you have lost some of yours, it would be a good way to build your flock.

I just got one of those styrofoam jobbies from the feed store. It worked fine as long as I kept a close watch on temp and humidity and propping the top a bit when needed.

 

[Chickassan]

Eve is so pretty, she reminds me of the girls we had here when I was little. @Crooked Chicken , a couple more days and my little group should be three stronger they go on lockdown Thursday but I'll probably do it tomorrow because they're already talking every now and then.

 

[WVduckchick]

Oh my.... you really have gone crazy! Those little silvery yellow chicks are the cutest!

Whatcha going to do with all those birds/eggs? Good for you on selling some! I know it's not everyone's plan, but I'll be eating some of mine. But in the meantime I'm going to just keep loving them. I've been having a week-long laziness spell....

I honestly loved hatching out the chicks, but that integrating stuff is for the birds! They still stay mostly separated when I let them out. It's been stressful for me and the chicks.

I am still giving a lot of eggs away, but keep running out of cartons. I've got to go look at the recycling center for more. The cost of buying egg cartons and all the extra feed doesn't feel very justified when I just give the goods away, lol.




I don't think it will hide there very well unless Mr. Capricorn has his own bathroom! But since you have lost some of yours, it would be a good way to build your flock.

I just got one of those styrofoam jobbies from the feed store. It worked fine as long as I kept a close watch on temp and humidity and propping the top a bit when needed.

I hate the integration too. I let broodies hatch out ones when I want to add to my flock. I just shift boys around mostly. The majority of the ones I incubate get sold. The BCMs are for me, but I'll be building a new pen for them. And the CLs and turkeys, if any hatch.

Eve is so pretty, she reminds me of the girls we had here when I was little. @Crooked Chicken , a couple more days and my little group should be three stronger they go on lockdown Thursday but I'll probably do it tomorrow because they're already talking every now and then.

You hear peeping already?

 

[Chickassan]

Not alot but a couple peeps, the ones last year were making noises before lockdown too. These are the only breed I've hatched get noisy so early. Its muffled but its definitely peeping. That's why I was considering lockdown at the beginning of tomorrow instead of the end just in case. The last thing I want is for someone to get squished in the turner.

I hate the integration too. I let broodies hatch out ones when I want to add to my flock. I just shift boys around mostly. The majority of the ones I incubate get sold. The BCMs are for me, but I'll be building a new pen for them. And the CLs and turkeys, if any hatch.



You hear peeping already?