July 2022 Hatch-A-Long

[Waterfaery]

@UThobbyfarmer , thank you so much for the advice!

Everyone else, please learn from my mistake. Don't drop eggs. My guinea held on for four days after the accident. Four days. Passed yesterday. Day 17. Feathers, feet, she had everything. I have a new appreciation for eggs now.

Spoiler: Eggtopsy

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Oh, I'm so sorry

 

[Dragon Slayer Trinket]

Oh, I'm so sorry

It is what it is. I learned my lesson. Thank you though.

On a birghter note, I just got my first external pip! Blue laced Red Wyandotte. Local eggs. The flock rooster died about a week before I got the eggs, so I am very pleased.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

It is what it is. I learned my lesson. Thank you though.

On a birghter note, I just got my first external pip! Blue laced Red Wyandotte. Local eggs. The flock rooster died about a week before I got the eggs, so I am very pleased.

Man you've had a rough few weeks!
I'm so sorry you lost the lil baby and ya boy!

 

[Dragon Slayer Trinket]

Man you've had a rough few weeks!
I'm so sorry you lost the lil baby and ya boy!

Thanks, but I think I might be misunderstanding. What boy?

 

[Dragon Slayer Trinket]

Thanks, but I think I might be misunderstanding. What boy?

Oh! Do you mean the Wyandotte Roo? I bought these eggs, they're not from my chickens. Never met the parents.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Oh! Do you mean the Wyandotte Roo? I bought these eggs, they're not from my chickens. Never met the parents.

Oh ok yeah...well not quite as bad then for ya.
So many I know have been losing their boys right and left!
I always worry bout dropoing an egg!
Very first time I ever held an egg (other than from a store) was our duck!
Knew absolutely nothing bout em except that Granny had em when I was little!
My daughter comes running in saying Cheese (Quaker & Cheese) laid an egg!
I said really, held out my hand and completely off guard that it was still warm and dropped the thing!
Duh did I think it came outta frige LOLOL?!

 

[Dragon Slayer Trinket]

Oh ok yeah...well not quite as bad then for ya.
So many I know have been losing their boys right and left!
I always worry bout dropoing an egg!
Very first time I ever held an egg (other than from a store) was our duck!
Knew absolutely nothing bout em except that Granny had em when I was little!
My daughter comes running in saying Cheese (Quaker & Cheese) laid an egg!
I said really, held out my hand and completely off guard that it was still warm and dropped the thing!
Duh did I think it came outta frige LOLOL?!

Oh my! I was a little surprised the first time I felt a warm egg too. I dropped a basket of eggs on Easter once... That wasn't fun.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Oh my! I was a little surprised the first time I felt a warm egg too. I dropped a basket of eggs on Easter once... That wasn't fun.

I bet!

 

[OzarkCountryGirl]

I found this little lavender keet in the corner of the barn alone. It had apparently hatched out under Estelle (Spangled English Orpington) earlier today and gotten out of the nest somehow. I picked it up and put it back under Estelle, and stood back aways and watched. It was about two minutes later she reached underneath her feathers, grabbed the baby by the back of the neck and yeeted it acrossed the stall! What a witch! Poor baby hopped/ran back to the corner where I initially found it and hunkered down. I guess that explains how it got out of the nest in the first place.
Now it's safe and in a brooder box with the royal purple keet that hatched out in the incubator yesterday (THAT one kept playing lawn billiards with the rest of the eggs, the brat!).

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I found this little lavender keet in the corner of the barn alone. It had apparently hatched out under Estelle (Spangled English Orpington) earlier today and gotten out of the nest somehow. I picked it up and put it back under Estelle, and stood back aways and watched. It was about two minutes later she reached underneath her feathers, grabbed the baby by the back of the neck and yeeted it acrossed the stall! What a witch! Poor baby hopped/ran back to the corner where I initially found it and hunkered down. I guess that explains how it got out of the nest in the first place.
Now it's safe and in a brooder box with the royal purple keet that hatched out in the incubator yesterday (THAT one kept playing lawn billiards with the rest of the eggs, the brat!).

OMGeeze! That's crazy! Does it seem ok?
This her first baby?