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[Mojo Chick'n]

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No, I need to get pics of Speckles with his ladies. As of yet, they still won't perch with him at night, but will perch on the nesting boxes

- I don't think they had room to perch at Shelley's - they don't understand that they can.

I had three hens would not go inside tonight - (other than Miss Celie, who decided it is nicer out without wind) Oprah, Miss Piggy, and Jr. wouldn't go in - the last two are in, now, they changed their minds when I went out to turn off lights - Oprah is still sleeping out. Miss Celie is sleeping on Hubby's kubota again - I think she pooed on his hood

I better clean it off tomorrow before he goes out there.


meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Yeah, she never was really spooky, unless the other chicks were freaking out. I kept her and the older little roo in the house for a week or so (until they started to smell like chickens

) After I put them in the brooder on the porch, I don't really mess with them that much.

Oh guess what? One of the little red pyle cockerels in the brooder is a little jerk!! He has pecked my hand twice when I have reached in there to get the feeder or waterer!! Little brat!

 

[cthrash1]

She's being a good mommy keeping them under her and warm...I thought it was so funny seeing her growl and warn to stay away after your dad gave her those eggs(what's even funnier is the thought of her protecting a golf ball)...Belle never did that, she'd just make that trilly sound as I petted her but she never attacked or anything.

Can't wait til Spring when I have a couple of broodys. I wonder if Australorps get broody? If mine does I'd be able to put a mass of eggs under her she is so fat. And I traded one of my Millie survivor girls to Bandaids littermate...Laynes friend had her. She isn't as large or pretty as Bandaid was but it's okay it'll give me another broody maybe.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I've heard australorps go broody, but mine are still young, so I can't tell ya from personal experience.

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

Do the millies not go broody? It's no big deal, since I have soo many ready to brood at the drop of a hat

It would be good info to know though.

And she didn't growl, she would SCREAM!! "GO AWAAAAAAAAY!!!!"

 

[estpr13]

Morning Cindy. I'm off to go process a roo. Had my 10th of 10 hatch out this morning. Put them into a cardboard box with a heating pad under a green rubber counter pad. they are all under a faux hen I made for them.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Gertie's babies were all out pecking this morning, and wouldn't you know it? I didn't take my camera out

Hopefully they will be out again when I go to feed more later! It looks like there are 5 BR mixes, most of them have white feathers on their legs

I must have remembered wrong, but I could have sworn there were 4 bantam and 4 standard eggs under her! Oh well, no big deal

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

I'm awake and here, finally.

My waterers were frozen this morning

took me forever to break them free. I guess I need to turn on the heat lamps at night again - I didn't last night.

It turns out I have to go to town today anyway - hubby, Jon and I have to go to Walmart so Jon can buy a new computer.
No idea what time we're going, though.

I don't bother with what computer they buy, I just want to make sure I have soy sauce!!! I emptied one while Mom and Budd were here, but I figured I had another somewhere. I made rice last night, and I was sure I had a bottle in the pantry - nope, no soy sauce

Rice just aint the same without soy sauce.

There is this tiny mouse in my office, he keeps scurrying out from behind the desk to look at me - he's maybe the size of those Button Quail

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Speaking of the button quail, they are getting a lot more feathers, now, and they are exploring the tank a lot more. I'm glad to see them out moving around and not all huddling in a pile by the food.

I candled last night,a nd I think all of the eggs I have in the bator right now are good - one bantam cochin eggs is questionable, but it is early yet on those. So I have 13 buff orp eggs to hatch next weekend, and the two cochin eggs a week later.

If all the orp eggs hatch, I'll probably have too many, so I may have some to offer. I was thinking maybe of having a meaty flock of about 8 hens and a roo. That is about the size of my laying flock right now, and that would double my layers (since the meaties will be layers, too.) That should provide the neighbors with eggs enough

and me with meaties. Of course, I only have 5 hens laying right now in the layer flock - Oprah hasn't laid an egg since August, and a couple of others aren't laying either (Shug and Jr. and one other) I don't really count shug and Jr in the mix - Shug lays pretty small eggs, and Jr. hasn't laid yet at all (as far as I know).

My layers right now are Miss Piggy, the two Australorps, Cinn, and Spazz. Sometimes Old Biddy will throw an egg into the mix, I think she and Miss Piggy trade off days to lay, though, so it is still 5 eggs a day.

I'm reasonably sure it is Spazz who is laying in the barn - I need to get her to lay indoors in the coop. But, I know where she lays, I guess, just a matter of if I get to them before the mice do. We got major mice in the barn.

we haven't worked out side much lately, cause of company and cold - but the other day we were working on the lean-to. Hubby was sawing wood and drilling, and making noise, and sure enough, I turn around and Spazz is right there watching, scratching nearby so she can keep an eye on him. I think she missed him being outside more.

well, gonna read some more BYC -
meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I think I would be shocked if I had 100% hatch - even under the broody hen last summer not all of them hatched.


congrats!
Meri

 

[cthrash1]

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OH YAY FOR YOU!!! Those are Bandaids babies...I could never get them to hatch inside, the last one was due yesterday and was cheeping Wednesday morning and rocking the egg and by afternoon no sound, no movement, no pip...Evening no sound, no movement, no pip, so I candled since neither of the two eggs in the hatcher pipped yet and no movement so poked a hole and found it had broke the sac but it was laying on the beak not stuck to it but the baby must've been too big for the egg because it's head was still tucked like it couldn't move. Anyway it was dead when I peeked in. The majority have made it to the hatcher but they've mostly been pipping at the wrong end and drowned, then I get one to pip at the right end and it can't move around. You now have Cochin/BR crosses, and if you have one with no feathered legs then it's a pure BR. And hey, you got your Millies too!!!!