INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[Saris]

How old are those eggs?



-Kathy

Supposedly they were collected the day they shipped which was a Wednesday. The air cell in the saddle cells makes me think they're older though. There is a penny sized air cell that moves around in the saddle area.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Rooster is out of my shower lol, doing better. Eggs lookin good, I'm on day 13, but turns out I'll be out of town for work all week, so chase will have to handle lock down. Eeek

Otherwise everyone is doing good, staying sold out of eggs

Hope you trained him well, Bj...

Glad everything is going good!!!

Sorry Sally, I thought I had yesterday off work but nope, I have today off instead. Oh well. So had a bit of an emergency this morning. Discovered my husband didn't count heads when putting the large chickens to bed and I discovered Monster, my first batch BCM cockerel roosting in the snowbank by the coop His poor feet were ice cold. I soaked them in cooler than body temp epsom salt water, and have him in the baby crate



I just went out there and checked, he's now standing up when he wasn't an hour ago. But i can't tell how much damage there will be for his feet. Now on to the babies!!





I love this kid. S/he's got that patch of dark feathers on the top that is growing in straight up. This was one of the cream colored babies at hatch.




And then this one... whose fuzz started sticking up after a week. This one is a darker black than the other hatchmate.

Now for the non tufties:




The non tufty black one.




The other non tufty cream at hatch baby





And the blue/lavender? baby didn't want to sit still for good pics in my hand. She's the one that had curled toes at hatch. They are much better after the booties that only stayed on a few hours, but still has 1 toe on each foot that aren't entirely straight.

Hope your roo's feet will be okay, fd!

Really nice looking chicks!!!

Day 4 Bantam eggs:


-Kathy

Very nice, Kathy! I can see a little veining, and a shadow that appears to be the developing embyo... as well as the eye spot! Thanks!

 

[BullChick]

Know what? I'm not commenting. Not even with ur ur chiming in. You boys can say whatever you want. ;-)

Skeered???

No, but now I'm ... Ahem!

Thanks for asking... I'm fine, how are you?

-Kathy

Doing good. But having a time trying to make myself get outta bed.

It's probably better that way.

X2 but we could be missing a lot of fun posting.

Probably!

Skeered???

X2.

X2 but we could be missing a lot of fun posting.

This is very true.

Skeered???

I'm pretty sure she is.

I need to go take care of something!

 

[gotro17]

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For those looking for even BETTER supermarket eggs to hatch...this newer vendor, Vital Farms, seems to be a Co Op of small, free ranging, farmers that contribute to the supply. Each chicken gets a minimum of 108 square feet of pasture. I recently found the blue box at Whole Foods. It's the same egg, just with a No GMO stamp on it to boot!

 

[Bejammie]

Lol out of the shower as in OUTSIDE...man he is loud in your shower. Lol

 

[Bejammie]

Fertile eggs only in ca I think right?

 

[gotro17]

here's the other carton- I've seen it at Ralph's, Von's and Whole Foods (here in CA).

 

[gotro17]

Fertile eggs only in ca I think right?

I don't know. The carton just says free range and I have had several cracked with bull's-eyes. The farms are from all over the country.

 

[fire370]

29600

 

[holm25]

I ams so jealous of all of you!! I can't set eggs till the end of January!!