Ivory the Rooster: Day 665 *updates*

[kraftyladies]

I just sat here and read this whole thread. What you have done with Ivory is so awesome! He turned out to be a really beautiful roo! Wonderful job!!!!!

 

[Jeevesrules]

I LOVE IVORY!!! Why don't you post some pics of him and his girls exploring!! THAT would be awesome!

 

[77horses]

Thanks everyone!

7L Farm: That's a beautiful painting! And a very handsome (Rhode Island Red?) rooster too!

Jeevesrules: I happened to take some pictures of Ivory and the girls today and will add them as soon as I can!

 

[77horses]

Day 510: Despite the rainy, gross weather today, Ivory and the girls still enjoyed a whole day of foraging! (Well, mostly just Ivory and Jasmine, the youngest hen...Hope is still broody and May is still recovering from an unknown leg injury, temporarily crippling her, so they spent the day inside the coop.

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Ivory and the girls also got a bowl of leftover pasta from last night for a treat, which they scarfed down in probably less than a minute!

It's funny how it seems like they eat so much, yet they act like they're starving...spoiled rotten? Nahhh, not at all.

As for Hope and her eggs, they aren't doing too well, unfortunately.

Weather it's the extra moisture/humidity in the air lately, or something else, the eggs just don't seem to be developing. It could be a lack of fertility, but I doubt it because when I've cracked the eggs open before (NOT the developing ones, of course!), I've usually seen the distinguished bulls-eye mark on the yolk...But, I've currently had to throw away about 10 rotten eggs that were either never fertile in the first place or had started developed but were early quitters. A couple days ago I candled a recently-laid egg and I saw the beginnings of a possible embryo developing...Today, candled again and confirmed that it was yet another quitter. There are 5 eggs left, which have been recently laid and all have ?'s on them because it's too early to tell if anything will develop.

Anyways, here are the promised pictures from today! Enjoy!

"Are you coming to give us more treats, mum?"

Ivory getting a closer look...

Ivory following Jasmine under the fence...

Ivory coming over to check up on everything while I was taking pictures of the broody girls in the coop...

Aaaandddd....the two broody girls:

"Ahhhh!!! The light! It burnsss!!!"

The evil broody glare...

And if you look closely here, it almost looks like her eyes are red...which shows why you shouldn't mess with a broody hen, unless you want to risk losing a finger or having your camera pecked to pieces.

I was lucky enough to make it out of there alive...

 

[77horses]

Day 528: IVORY'S FINALLY A FATHER!!!!

While I was at camp for the weekend, guess what I came home to today?! Two adorable fuzzy butts peeping and running around in the coop!

Ivory is so proud, and Hope (the broody that hatched them) is doing a great job of taking care of them while sitting on the rest of the eggs that haven't hatched yet! I was completely surprised; they hadn't been having any luck with the eggs (most were either not fertile or were early quitters), so I had no idea any of them would make it. In fact, the chicks are healthy and hatched out by themselves perfectly fine.

One of them is completely black with a little bit of white, and with feathered black feet, and the other is grayish/black with a brown/golden face (probably because of Ivory). I'll post pictures later!

Now...any name ideas? I'm not sure if we'll end up keeping all the chicks that hatch (we'll probably keep one or two, and then sell the rest, due to limited space right now...) but I like to name them anyway.

 

[draye]

Congratulations, Ivory.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

How about Ivy for one!

~ Aspen

 

[chicklover16]

I just read through your entire thread in one sitting, it's like reading a book, once I started I couldn't stop.

 

[7L Farm]

Whats that song Ivory an Ebony ? Congrats on the biddy's. I've always had to hatch mine in the bator I bet its neat to watch mom & her Iddy Biddy's.

 

[Pele]

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Yaaaaaaay! I love happy endings!!! You absolutely have to post pics of the babies!!!