INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[flyladyrocks]

FYI all, I am experiencing incubation envy

 

[browncow15]

I've always had good luck with Eprinex for both internal and external parasites.

Thanks!

I assume they have some kind of lice or mites.  Here's a link to help you identify and treat them:  http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/08/poultry-lice-and-mites-identification.html

Thanks! I'm pretty sure they have lice No way my babies I just picked up are going out there until the bugs are gone! DH will just have to live with them in the house!

Any thoughts on if treating my broody will affect the eggs?

I feel like a neglectful chicken mommy first round worms now lice!

 

[browncow15]

BTW have you seen my new babies?!? :-D

2 of the 4 Bielefelders from @ChickCrazed
(Don't mind the poo)

And some Jubilees from @kittydoc (I banded the two with the chipmunk markings, we'll see if they turn out to be girls)

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[Faraday40]

I have some eggs due to hatch tomorrow, but have no pips, zips, or chicks. JUST EGGS! Since I saw wiggling eggs in the turner Tues night, I really thought they would have been early. Because of this, I put them into lockdown Wed am. (Day 17, maybe 18) Has anyone ever seen rocking eggs 4-5 days before a hatch? My hatches have always been predictable, but these were started by a broody & finished in an incubator. (Kind of dirty-looking, but that's how they looked after my broody sat on them for a while. )

Meanwhile all I can do is stare at the hatcher & wait.

 

[flyladyrocks]

A boy and his bird - not a chicken, an orphaned magpie - but nonetheless a really cool story so I had to share! http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/...tm_campaign=daily-newsletter&utm_medium=email

 

[Kiniska]

So I have to show off my new brooder box. I am lucky enough to work in research and the doctors are always getting shiny new equipment that comes in wonderful crates. Being a scavenger I take these crates home and make stuff out of them. My current chickenk coop is 80% recycled plywood from shipping crates. Any way, I needed a new brooder box and the day before the chicks show up this appears on the dock.

So I cart it home and cut a hole in one side then zip tie a heat lamp to the edge, done in 20 minutes.

 

[Kiniska]

My new little polish at 2 weeks. They are rapidly entering ugly adolescent Stage.

 

[Faraday40]

(This was photoshoped & from our March hatch. Still no Easter chicks or even pips yet.)

 

[raisinemright]

Last count 17 out and still a bunch more zipping and peeping!
Here is one of the silkies

That's the fun of hatching barnyard mixed eggs! You never know what will pop out..

 

[Kiniska]

Last count 17 out and still a bunch more zipping and peeping!
Here is one of the silkies

That's the fun of hatching barnyard mixed eggs! You never know what will pop out..

Great! Isn't it so exciting when they start hatching?