Laree's "I CAN'T STOP MYSELF FROM HATCHING!!!" Hatch-a-long

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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One of my lavender Ams is trying to be broody AGAIN just 6 weeks after last time...no way, no how. She channels the devil when she's broody!!

 

[BHep]

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AWww I'm sorry, it's so hard to lose them.

Thanks



and not sure if you know..... there is a poll on NNs in the Breed, Genetics & showing sections.. You should check it out.

 

[wolftracks]

I have several hatches due starting on June 2nd.

I got my Sportsman running.

Setting 100+++ tonight

It's not that I can't help myself. I just have so much more room now.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Kind of reminds me of my little OEGB hen last year. She hatched 4 or 5 chicks herself but raised 18

 

[dsqard]

The official winner of the Foul Fowl contest is ma2babygurl13! Congratulations and please PM your address to Laree. She has the prize for the contest.

I think I have figured out what I am going to do for extra coop space. I have been looking at plastic sheds and I think I have found one that would work really well. I could split it into two sides. One side for the turkeys and one side for the Brahmas. The Ameraucana chicks can go into the other coop once they are big enough since it is supposed to hold 30 (I wouldn't put 30 in there but it can hold 19 I figure just fine).

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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AWww I'm sorry, it's so hard to lose them.

Thanks



and not sure if you know..... there is a poll on NNs in the Breed, Genetics & showing sections.. You should check it out.

Thanks! I'd love to see one of my turkens as the pinup of the week!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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Kind of reminds me of my little OEGB hen last year. She hatched 4 or 5 chicks herself but raised 18

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15806_hpqscan0001.jpg
http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/qq337/shelleyd2008/chickens/OEGB/PICT0053.jpg

Her chicks are almost as big as she is!

My banty hatched 3 chicks earlier this year, early April I'd think. She gave them up pretty quickly when they started to get as big as her, they weren't fully feathered yet but they did fine outside when she abandoned them, I think they were 3 weeks old? Wonder if it's because they got so big, she thought they were old enough to be on their own? But now I see yours kept with it...


And I'd like to say that it's a truth universally acknowledged that a single chicken coop is in want of a broody hen. I cleaned out the coop broodies yesterday and last night had TWO more broodies on eggs, one was the nasty piece of work buff orphingon who I took her chicks yesterday, so I understand that one, but the other was my phoenix, who had broodied earlier this year but didn't protect her chick from the big girls in the coop and unfortunately lost it. I put their fuzzy butts right back up on the roost last night! I am done hatching!

I still haven't sold a single chick out of the 12 that hatched last week, and it's not for lack of trying! I got an email last night "I don't know what you're trying to sell, I've never heard of an olive egger. Do they lay white or brown eggs?"

 

[BHep]

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Kind of reminds me of my little OEGB hen last year. She hatched 4 or 5 chicks herself but raised 18

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15806_hpqscan0001.jpg
http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/qq337/shelleyd2008/chickens/OEGB/PICT0053.jpg

Her chicks are almost as big as she is!

My banty hatched 3 chicks earlier this year, early April I'd think. She gave them up pretty quickly when they started to get as big as her, they weren't fully feathered yet but they did fine outside when she abandoned them, I think they were 3 weeks old? Wonder if it's because they got so big, she thought they were old enough to be on their own? But now I see yours kept with it...


And I'd like to say that it's a truth universally acknowledged that a single chicken coop is in want of a broody hen. I cleaned out the coop broodies yesterday and last night had TWO more broodies on eggs, one was the nasty piece of work buff orphingon who I took her chicks yesterday, so I understand that one, but the other was my phoenix, who had broodied earlier this year but didn't protect her chick from the big girls in the coop and unfortunately lost it. I put their fuzzy butts right back up on the roost last night! I am done hatching!

I still haven't sold a single chick out of the 12 that hatched last week, and it's not for lack of trying! I got an email last night "I don't know what you're trying to sell, I've never heard of an olive egger. Do they lay white or brown eggs?"

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Clearly they lay eggs with olives inside ... worst part was I had a picture up too next to a white egg... pretty clear what an olive egg was to me at least.

 

[BHep]

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amazing how many time I tell people that some of my chickens lay blue eggs, the look on their face is priceless