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[racinchickins]

So this is my Legbar pullet I hatched in April. What do you think?

Wish I still had a pic of it as a chick. Maybe I can find one tomorrow.

Did that come from the eggs you got from me? It's definitely both a boy and not a legbar.

 

[wheezy50]

I don't have any pictures yet, but will try to get some up later if anyone is interested. I have three silkie roos to rehome. All three are from BradS, very nice, calm birds. Two blues ( they both have a tiny bit of gold coloring around the neck) and not the correct comb for a silkie. Correct number of toes and good crest but I'm not sure they should be "breeders"

The other guy is a very nice white roo. 5 toes, feathered feet, good crest. Only fault I could noteis that his comb is brighter red than supposed to be but other than that I'd say close to perfect.


Let me know if anyone is interested in these guys, I'll get some pics later today. I'd be happy to work out some kind of swap!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

we got our goat stand made.

 

[hoosiercheetah]

we got our goat stand made. 

HoooRRAAAAAAAYY GOATSTAND!!

sorry, I just assumed you painted a red stripe on the side.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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I guess we could. We still need to paint the goat shed. It would be done at the same time. But the stand we made is mostly scrap material. It looks ok but nothing that I expect to last for more than 3 years. Still I needed it to train the kids how to stand still.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

it has been my experience with ducklings that the feathers come in close to the down color or lighter, but not darker.  My khaki's are a nasty or dirty mud color that changes to a much lighter tan.  But the black sweedes started off black fuzzies and their feathers are still black but now a bit shiny.  But their creamy down necks changed to white necks. 

Thanks for your experiences! I did some googling after reading your post and found that she's quite similar to both Butterscotch and Pastel call ducklings. And also Snowy ( ), but not as much. Looks like I'll have to let her feather in before I know.

Thank you! I did put them in the barn & I Lysol all over everything. I am trying to do it right. There were some birds there that were horrible looking. Dirty and smelly I felt so bad for them.

Yes, unfortunately that's not uncommon. :/ Even more unfortunate is that that's one of the reasons you should quarantine all birds from swaps and meets like that--they may have arrived at the swap healthy, but they have then been exposed to all the other birds there and may have picked something up. Better to be safe than sorry!

@pipdzipdnreadytogo
  [COLOR=8B4513]Your little duckie is so adorable! I may have missed it, but how did you end up with one duck egg? Aren't you supposed to have a long row of ducklings? [/COLOR]  

That's what I was hoping for, but it didn't go according to plan. We ordered 12+ call duck eggs, and 18 arrived, but every one of them had detached air cells. By lockdown, 12 were clear, 5 looked like they had quit early on, and Wibbles was the only viable embryo. Then, the baby was in the wrong position and couldn't reach the air cell with her beak. I think she may have actually internally pipped with her foot! I feel quite lucky that she even hatched after all! Now I'm terrified that I'll check on her and find her stuck on her back or dead or any other nightmarish scenario my mind can come up with. But that may just be the mother hen in me. Or is that mother duck now?

(ETA: I feel like I should add here, the eggs were packaged beautifully and all were fertile, so it certainly wasn't the seller's fault that I got only one duckling out of 18 eggs. I think we all know what to blame for that, or at least anyone that has ordered hatching eggs knows. )

She really is the cutest thing, though, isn't she? I have a paper towel draped over the EcoGlow with strips cut in it to give her that kind of 'going through mama's feathers' type of feel. Well, the other night she pushed the paper towel out a bit and sat underneath it, perfectly hidden. When I pulled it up to move it back into place, she shot right to her feet, looked up at me, and shook her little wings like she was so surprised!

[COLOR=006400] Just a quick note about lime. If you're going to use it, make sure you do NOT get quicklime or slaked lime. They are dangerous and will burn your skin and do bad things to your lungs if you inhale them (I believe they are used in construction somehow?). As @Mother2Hens says, you want garden lime (which is used to adjust the pH of your soil if it is too acidic).[/COLOR]

Quicklime Is used in mortar for masonry and its a component of concrete. The stuff you put in the garden is hydrated lime, but its still fairly caustic and should be handled with care.




Also, ginger snaps are the breakfast of champions.

Uck, yes, these! Lime kind of scares me, though, because my sister's boyfriend was working with it a few months ago and ended up with burns on his legs and neck from it. -shudder- Be careful with your birds, y'all!


And I was under the impression that hot fudge sundaes were the breakfast of champions.

[COLOR=006400]Some of you have said you sing to your flock. How many leave a radio on for your animals? We sometimes leave the tv on for our dogs while we are gone. If I sing to them myself our yorkiepoo jumps on my lap and tries to lick my face. And not in a 'please keep singing' kind of way. More of a 'please make it stop' kind of way.[/COLOR]

I don't know if you'd consider it similar, but I do have a baby monitor in the coop so that I hear what's going on out there in the night, and whenever I'm brooding chicks they also get the sounds of the coop. I think it may be one of the reasons my little duckling hasn't protested to being on her own (yet), because it sounds like there are other birds around. I also use it for quarantine if I can, so new birds get used to the noises that my girls make. They're awfully dramatic sometimes.

 

[Leahs Mom]

I also use it for quarantine if I can, so new birds get used to the noises that my girls make. They're awfully dramatic sometimes.

That is a great idea to give the monitor to the quarantined birds!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

[COLOR=006400] I don't find purling very different from knitting. But I knit weird because my mom, who is left-handed, taught me, and I am right handed. Regardless, I prefer crocheting. I'll have to check out O-zone. I like most music (except opera, for some reason), but I skew toward classic rock, 80s-90s pop, and jazz.

Some of you have said you sing to your flock. How many leave a radio on for your animals? We sometimes leave the tv on for our dogs while we are gone. If I sing to them myself our yorkiepoo jumps on my lap and tries to lick my face. And not in a 'please keep singing' kind of way. More of a 'please make it stop' kind of way.[/COLOR]

I used to always have a radio on for my first flock. Now I do sometimes. With as many chickens as is have they are so loud only the ones near the radio can actually hear it.

 

[kittydoc]

All seven of our black/lavender split English Orpingtons hatched yesterday, even the one I dropped and cracked on Day 18! Its internal membranes were intact, so I used a little melted food-grade paraffin applied with an artist's paintbrush to cover the cracks. I was told it was probably not necessary that late in the incubation after I did it, but when that chick started to pip very close to the waxed area, I scraped off some of the softened wax with my thumbnail. That little sucker zipped in a flash (at lest there was SOME benefit to me dropping it on the table!). If I knew which one it was, I'd name it Humpty Dumpty, even though my story had a better outcome!

I absolutely love my Brinsea Mini-Advance incubator. It only holds 7 eggs, so I will have to get something bigger for next year, but it is an outstanding product. Every fertile egg I have put in it has hatched. That only includes the hatching eggs I picked up by car, not by the USPS (from which I had a zero hatch--partly the USPS' fault, 1 loss my fault, most due to the eggs being sold were poopy and too porous).

I'm taking recommendations for 40-50 chicken egg incubators that have an automatic turner. I know a lot of people use a Hovabator (I think model 1588?). The Brinsea models for that size are incredibly expensive and it would take forever to get my money back, so I am looking for something cheaper, but not cheaply made or with wonky temp/humidity control.

Thanks!!!

 

[raisinemright]

Here is our newest addition to the farm.

His name is Bugsy's But I call him,
Sir lointipfiletmignonporterhousenewyorkstripbrisketburger!