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

[BullChick]

cuz it is true!

Did you see the link?

 

[Chaos18]

cuz it is true!

You say it like its a bad thing.

Shalom freind!

How are you today?

 

[BullChick]

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..............


Ahhhh!!!! SOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!! Duckburds of two times the sweet and burb attitude swimmies in a bowl of water just for duck. Innocent little burdchild is swimming sweetly with much Cute. Webz, foldable neck with attached bill and winglets all go together to make a package of Burd!! Must hug these warmlets!!

I will take that as a yes!

 

[jwlpoultry]

Quick question. If you had to choose between Bantam Cochin hatching eggs, sizzle hatching eggs, plain silkie eggs or drizzle polish eggs which would you choose?

I'd say frizzled polish!!

Frizzle is normal feathers. Sizzle is a frizzled silkie bred to have certain traits of the silkie such as black skin and 5 toes.

Frizzle, Sizzle and Frilkie. I thought Frizzled meant the turned up feathers. I don't know the difference between a Sizzle or a Frilkie. I was told this was a Frilkie.

A sizzle is probably just a very fancy frilkie that has been bred to have specific traits.

 

[5Sons Coop]

First ever hatch was huge success. 24 quail eggs and most hatched already. 10-12 hrs early.

I feel like giving a red carpet speach to thank everyone that wrote the countless articles I read to make this first hatch so successful.

 

[BantyChooks]

You say it like its a bad thing.

How are you today?

It is!

I will take that as a yes!

Yes. I saw link to sweet webbed Burd babies.

 

[jwlpoultry]

Morning Chaos, Mc Banti and Shalom to Benny.

 

[audy5000g]

I recently discovered (by accident) that if you use Blukote on a chick, it stays around FOREVER! I have a little dab that got on a baby's head just over his eye. It's still there 8 weeks later - if I keep him, I'll name him Prince for the purple eyeliner. In all seriousness, it lasted FOREVER on the down, and lasted about 4 weeks or more on his leg (the intended target). So if you have cohorts of chicks and can work out a system (left leg vs right leg vs head, etc.) it would be a very easy and non-intrusive way to mark them just out of the egg - you can then band them when they are bigger. 

Boiled eggs! I can't believe no one mentioned boiled eggs!!!! Dax, I won't offer to be your wife (trust me, I'm too much of a PITA anyway, you wouldn't want me), but I WILL offer the advice of a busy person - keep a whole bunch of boiled eggs in the fridge. You just grab one or two, and shove them in a baggie or tupperware bag. They are fine out of the fridge for several hours, nicely room temp by lunch time (or in your case, a few hours). 

I was all set to say how the Dollar store baskets were a miserable failure for me, and then you posted this! Brilliant! Not sure why I didn't think of it, but I'm totally doing this next time I hatch with more than one cohort...

I am printing this out and taping it to my medicine cabinet (which will now contain wood glue and masking tape - along side the pack of cigarettes for bee sting first aid). You are my hero. 

So sorry to hear about the bee drama. Love hearing about the mushroom spawn. I keep meaning to try this, even got a few books. No time to read them, though...


Yikes - so glad they were ok otherwise, though. 

BTW, been meaning to ask - did you ever find a good (less expensive) source for potable water hoses? I am fixin' to set up automatic waterers in the runs for the summer, and plan on using that. Most of the spans are short enough that it may actually be reasonable to try (and I may set up a little hydrant near my coops anyway). 

Oh wow!!! e

You know, it bothers me that I think that Dotty was alive and just out and about being stupid and broody for several days before being attacked. But then I remember how carefully I tried to look for her the whole time. Silly little girl. So glad your girl survived! 

Meanwhile, it may be overkill, but after Dotty I thought of some ideas about strategic enhancement of my fencing along the bottom to discourage the smaller predators from coming into my yard (could make me broke, of course - that's a lot of hardware cloth...)

Yeah, so sorry, but if you hatch, you have to think about what to do with the boys. And if you don't want to do it yourself, and decide to rehome them, be aware that sometimes they COULD go to be "bait" to train fighting cocks (at least around here), or someone's dinner and they just didn't tell you. 

Trust me - my first time I let it go a little too long before culling the boys. They were all drawing blood from each other, and attacking the poor girls who were completely terrorized. It was so horrible. It is not a kindness to try to keep all boys. Best to plan ahead. 

Not sure how old your children are, but it is always a good thing to know where your food comes from. This may be an opportunity. Meanwhile, I NEVER name a male chick unless I know I will keep him. And sometimes you have to cull anyway if they are mean or sickly.

Final comment - related to your original question. Depending on where you were reading the discussion. technically, when discussing breeding, "culling" just means removing from the gene pool. Some breeders use the term "cull" meaning they have decided a given bird will not be used to breed for some reason. It does not mandate that the bird be killed. For instance, some breeders "cull" a pullet/hen form a breeding program, and move her into a layer pen to produce eggs - just no babies.

For what it's worth...

- Ant Farm 

Thanks we have raised meat birds forever and hunt. So they know where the food comes from. Yeah!'

But baby roos were just a shock for me because I never considered it.

I'm ok if people take them for food. The cock fight I don't like. Yikes!!!

But I do have a few trustworthy guys who will raise them for soup.

Thanks for all your advice.

 

[BantyChooks]

First ever hatch was huge success. 24 quail eggs and most hatched already. 10-12 hrs early.

I feel like giving a red carpet speach to thank everyone that wrote the countless articles I read to make this first hatch so successful.

 

[BullChick]

Morning Chaos, Mc Banti and Shalom to Benny.

Good morning