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yea that's what I thought too, guess I will go down the street and buy eggs off Miss know-it-all... lol
Going to make DH real HAPPY lol

Maybe try and look around on craigslist. Maybe you can find someone close selling eggs so then you don't have to socialize with her lol

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I know this has nothing to do with chickens but I just have to share this with someone and you guys have been so great thought you might get excited with me, and scared and nervous all at the same time.
My Nubian doe is showing signs that she may kid in the next 24 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WooHoo I have been waiting for 5 mths., But now I'm scared If she has problems I wont know what to do???????

Yes this is my first time having kidding going on at my place.
No I have NO IDEAL what to do.

Wish me ALL KINDS OF LUCK PLEASE !!!!!
and does anyone have anything to calm me down... DH says I'm driving him and the dogs nuts with all the pacing, and the nervous chatting. lol

I have also bought my kids (boy does that sound funny lol). So not much help from me. Maybe Janet will get on later and be able to give you a few pointers. Good luck and check in with us!

Ok people trust me I'm not crazy

I have a plan for my egg laying operation. I'm wanting to wind up around 30 layers. So that's why I'm picking up chicks everywhere! On the way to BigR I told my wife I won't pick up anymore chicks unless they are BLRW (I'm pretty sure no feed store gets them) or a leghorn breed! So my Son and Daughter run back to the chicks and my daughter comes back and says "guess what? They have White Leghorns!!" My wife looks at me and just shakes her head lol! We now have a white egg layer in the group or I should say 4 of them! And I couldn't resist these cute little grayish colored EE'ers. I am now done with chicks and I will finish out my layers with the hatching eggs this spring! Oh and yes they are all pullets!

Your buying chicks like crazy! Congrats on your many new additions

 

[raisinemright]

Lol I know cccccccchickens, but I'm sure we are done for this spring. This will give us a nice variety of layers running around.

 

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Lol I know cccccccchickens, but I'm sure we are done for this spring. This will give us a nice variety of layers running around.

Just a heads up-it gets worse each year lol, You will have a nice egg basket

 

[FlockMaster-614]

I need to get pictures up but all six little Easter Egger chicks are doing great. They are soooo loud. We all picked up on the other night and I got the loudest one! It screeeched! It was adorable but it was too loud for such a tiny cute body. Lol!

CCCCCCCChickens: lol, sorry for the confusion. I know they're ee's and unfortunately I know I can't show them. Someone should really work on a purely mutt show for mixed breeds! Lol may I be the first to volunteer? But my sister didn't understand that, she thought I would pick show birds and she would get to hold the rest. I'm still not sure she fully understands the concept but she fell in love with the lightest one with a squiggle line on her head so I had to point out it wouldn't always look that way. Lol siblings so fun.

Hey I've got a quick question: I have a Little Giants Incubator with an automatic egg turner and I know what the temp should be but what is the correct humidity? You're suppose to add water to the bottom to regulate it but it doesn't say what it should be.

Ah, silly newbie questions.

 

[oldrooster]

Quote: I thought it was a scam 25 years ago in my science class they told me about it and then they said another day that a glacier pushed down from the artic made the great lakes, northern Indiana flat southern Indiana hilly from melting. then they told us here in the Bloomington area in our limestone there are creatures that you'd find in tropical areas fossilized in our limestone, so put it together you have "climate change" before humans lived here from tropics to ice age to what we have now. yea, makes me believe in it, a whole nano second.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Good afternoon, everyone. I thought I'd pop in for a small rant / warning here. This morning, one of my red sexlinks, Flicker, had a dusky comb. One we had that was similar in appearance to her died of some sort of heart problem, so my first thought was that she was having heart issues. After checking her over, though, I discovered the telltale swelling in her abdomen and eggy diarrhea. She is internally laying, which means her time left with me is limited.

Since it is chick season and many people are looking at chicks in their feed stores, I thought I would put this warning out there. Of course, my words are meaningless to anyone who plans to raise their hens a couple years and then butcher them. However, for those of you who keep your birds as pets, I highly recommend that you avoid getting red sexlink pullets. I have had 11 in my time with chickens, and 5 of them have died either from internal laying or other problems linked to their genetics, all at around 3 years of age. Soon to be 6, I guess. They have such great personalities, and they are so fun, but it's just heartbreaking to be where I am now, having to decide whether or not a beloved pet hen's quality of life has gone down enough that I should end her suffering. I'm not saying that all red sexlinks will succumb to this, and I have heard of some living long, happy lives, but where I am now, I don't see the 50-50 chance of them internally laying as good odds for longevity in them.

I hope that anyone who already has sexlinks has better luck with them than I have. I personally will never buy another. I'm hurting too much from losing them like this.




Anyway, I don't want to bring the thread down. I'm happy to see all the chick pictures and news of hatching. I was beginning to think people were talking to me with all the discussion about pipping going on! I've got 78 days until I head out to pick my chicks up from Meyer's, and the chicken math is attacking with all these adorable baby pictures showing up! I just keep telling myself, I don't have enough room to add any more chicks to my order... I hope my willpower lasts long enough!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I need to get pictures up but all six little Easter Egger chicks are doing great. They are soooo loud. We all picked up on the other night and I got the loudest one! It screeeched! It was adorable but it was too loud for such a tiny cute body. Lol!

CCCCCCCChickens: lol, sorry for the confusion. I know they're ee's and unfortunately I know I can't show them. Someone should really work on a purely mutt show for mixed breeds! Lol may I be the first to volunteer? But my sister didn't understand that, she thought I would pick show birds and she would get to hold the rest.

I'm still not sure she fully understands the concept but she fell in love with the lightest one with a squiggle line on her head so I had to point out it wouldn't always look that way. Lol siblings so fun.

Hey I've got a quick question: I have a Little Giants Incubator with an automatic egg turner and I know what the temp should be but what is the correct humidity? You're suppose to add water to the bottom to regulate it but it doesn't say what it should be.

Ah, silly newbie questions.

Ok, I thought you were asking. EEs are great chickens, I love mine. The problem with a mutt show is there would be no real way to judge them since there is no standard for mutts. You would just have to give out awards like most unique comb and stuff like that. It would be a much different atmosphere than a normal show, but still a good one. Good idea, maybe one day someone will. I don't add water in mine until lockdown. I usually keep it at around 35-45 and then at lockdown 60-70. But I also know my hydrometer read a little low. What do you plan on hatching?

 

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Good afternoon, everyone. I thought I'd pop in for a small rant / warning here. This morning, one of my red sexlinks, Flicker, had a dusky comb. One we had that was similar in appearance to her died of some sort of heart problem, so my first thought was that she was having heart issues. After checking her over, though, I discovered the telltale swelling in her abdomen and eggy diarrhea. She is internally laying, which means her time left with me is limited.

Since it is chick season and many people are looking at chicks in their feed stores, I thought I would put this warning out there. Of course, my words are meaningless to anyone who plans to raise their hens a couple years and then butcher them. However, for those of you who keep your birds as pets, I highly recommend that you avoid getting red sexlink pullets. I have had 11 in my time with chickens, and 5 of them have died either from internal laying or other problems linked to their genetics, all at around 3 years of age. Soon to be 6, I guess. They have such great personalities, and they are so fun, but it's just heartbreaking to be where I am now, having to decide whether or not a beloved pet hen's quality of life has gone down enough that I should end her suffering. I'm not saying that all red sexlinks will succumb to this, and I have heard of some living long, happy lives, but where I am now, I don't see the 50-50 chance of them internally laying as good odds for longevity in them.

I hope that anyone who already has sexlinks has better luck with them than I have. I personally will never buy another. I'm hurting too much from losing them like this.




Anyway, I don't want to bring the thread down. I'm happy to see all the chick pictures and news of hatching. I was beginning to think people were talking to me with all the discussion about pipping going on!

I've got 78 days until I head out to pick my chicks up from Meyer's, and the chicken math is attacking with all these adorable baby pictures showing up! I just keep telling myself, I don't have enough room to add any more chicks to my order...

I hope my willpower lasts long enough!

Sorry to hear about your RSL. I decided not to buy production birds from hatcheries anymore. They tend to have lot of laying problems and it is just heart breaking, because most of the problems you can't help. I plan on only buying a few easter eggers and hopefully no impulse buys, but I am weak. What all do you have in your order this year?

 

[FlockMaster-614]

Yep, I love mine too, they're beautiful the two hens I've got and I can't wait to see what these chicks turn out to look like.
Hmm, you're right well still, they're nice to look at.
Ah, alright I'll mess with that hopefully it works well these coming hatches. I plan on getting silkies from Kab and some Welsummers from another bycer on here and some Barred rocks if I can find some I'm so excited but nervous at the same time. I don't want to mess up and lose chicks or eggs so I want to get it right. My first hatch never did well. 1/14 eggs made it it was a cheap thrown together thing my dad and I cooked up so we learned better.