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[FrChuckW]

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yeah, but then I would have to build a big flight cage to hold everybody and I know they can't take the cold too well either. Guess I'll have to see what I can do about that. Was thinking of converting the living room into the combo fish/birdroom as I never use it anyway and just move the furniture into the parlor room.

However, gonna wait and see what happens in the next couple of weeks and maybe checking out some more properties with land around them. More on that later.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Buttons can take the cold just fine if they are acclimated to it and have shelter from the elements. I read on the buttonquailusa site that you can use an item similar to the reptile rocks as well to help them keep warm. So a box with hay in it, with a reptile rock inside would be perfect snuggle territory! I'm hoping to be able to keep my buttons outside this winter, though I don't know how well that will work. I have so many now, and am planning on making a pretty good-sized cage for them...the cage would fit in the house, but as to where is a different story!

 

[shelleyd2008]

Yeah. I'll need to if they'll let me charge it. I hope I get that money soon, I'm burrowing under the barrel now....I've been scraping the bottom for a month!

But anytime is fine, I'm usually up and moving around by 10 or so. So I guess if you leave your house around 10-ish, then I should be done with the kids when you get here, or at least almost done!

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Ok, I'll be there around that time, then.

btw - how many eggs did ya come up with?

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

I think there are 2 1/2 dozen right now, but the hens should have already layed by the time you get here, for the most part anyway. Dad's stupid hens keep breaking their eggs, so only like half what we get from them daily are hatchable. Then some of their eggs also have wrinkly-looking shells, so I don't think those are good for hatching either. But it should be almost 3 dozen

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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coolness, that should fill a bator, then. (leaving room for the fan and thermometer to sit in there, too.)

so far I've hatched out 19 chicks - the other eggs were set a day or two later, so they might still hatch out. I have a Jr. egg in there that is pipped, too.

I am wiped out - we delivered the donkeys today (the pair we sold that we did not want to have to deliver

) at least it wasn't far to go, and he came over to help load them, though. I still got a ... umm... a body part that is near and dear to my heart

nearly ripped off. Got a major bruise and major owie time - gonna pop a couple of advil tonight before bed, hopefully can short circuit the aching muscles. (thankfully, after three children, that particular body part is mighty flexible

)

see ya tomorrow morning.

eta - no matter how I try to be PC that still sounds dirty, doesn't it?

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

Oh Cindy! I forgot to tell you. That black silkie girl has hatched her babies!

She had 10 eggs, and hatched 7 on her own. 2 of the others were a bit delayed, so she has them now after they hatched in the bator (other babies hatched yesterday). The other egg was a midway quitter. But she still has 10 chicks. I had gotten some eggs for the June swap, only one of them even developed. It hatched yesterday, so she has that one too!

And that blue splash girl I got back from you only set on the eggs that one night, but last night Heidi the buff jap girl we got from you decided it looked like a good idea! She has been a good girl most of the day, and it looked so good that one of the BTW jap girls has joined her this evening

It was so cute, I went out there after dark to check on them, cause Heidi had gotten off the nest when the white jap girl went in there. So I had to see if there was at least one hen on there! Heidi had rejoined the white girl in the nest, and when I looked in on them, Heidi had her heda sticking out from under the other girl's wing!

It was so cute! I hope at least one of them stays on the nest, I have found a couple of nests lately with half-developed dead eggs in them

Guess someone started to sit on them and quit.

I can't find Sissy, the mama to the splash girl. I did see her yesterday morning, looking all fluffy, so I imagine she is setting again. Nugget is setting, such a cutie! She squeeks at me everytime I go in the building, whether I'm messing with her or not!

The two silkies that use the porch as their nest box are both broody again, and what's really cute about this is that their chicks are still sticking with them! So there are the 2 broody hens with 2 chick heads poking out of various parts of their bodies!

I swear, these birds are crazy!

 

[cthrash1]

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Congrats on the babies and thanks for the update...Were any of the chickies belonging to the black Silkie? Or was she setting on other girls eggs?

 

[shelleyd2008]

5 of them were hers actually, and there were 4 that look like BTW japs. Of course, none of the silkies are pure, since she hangs out with the phoenix, jap, and millie roos, but there are 5 black chicks and 4 white chicks. The one from the swap is also black with feathered legs...supposed to be a silver phoenix, I'm thinking it's not

Oh, I forgot to send you the ingredients for that stuff we were talking about the other day, I'll do that now.


Bad news though, that EE pullet is starting to look like a roo

So as far as I can tell, the only one that is almost for sure a girl is the rumpless. But I do still have that phoenix/game mix, she should lay white eggs if you want her? Unless you want the rumpless girl, that's fine too. Don't know what I'm going to do with 5 EE roos!!

And they are so pretty too

 

[cthrash1]

Yeah, the EE roos are beautiful all dressed out in full feather. Saw one up in town (of all places) the other day...He was really pretty, kinda backward birchen colored... whitish on bottom black saddle and hackles then a couple other colors mixed in all over. Told Ron we ought to stop and try to catch him and take him to Bill and Marianne. He looked at me like I was nuts... Hmmm...