"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[NonnasBabies]

Here's a pic of my peacock & guinea eggs in the bator -- this was before I added the 3rd peacock egg. What a hassle new software can be! I went to download pics from my camera & realized we never had installed the software on the new home computer. Well, it won't take my old camera software so we had to put the new software -- which I then had to teach myself how to use to downsize & crop photos & all that!
anyway, I *think* I have it figured out enough to post a pic now! then I have to put the fun away & finish my last lesson plan & take my finale exam in my acct. course!

Happy Memorial Day to all - & we remember & honor all of our veterans.

I like your setup!! Lots of luck on the eggs!!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Hi everyone!! Happy Memorial Day!! Hope you all have a wonderful day giving thanks to our soilders!!

I've got babies!!

Put 19 on lockdown and 19 have hatched!!

Love my incubator!! I've got Guineas starting to hatch!!

For those of you who raise ducks... When do they start feathering out??? Mine are starting to get so big but they haven't started to get any feathers at all!!

Congrats on your hatch!!! LOL LOVE your mess o' ducklings -- they are SO cute!!! dont' know anything about when they feather out though -- I'm sure the duck experts will be along later!

 

[kuntrygirl]

e My peahen White Spot laid an egg this evening!! WE  HAVE A PEA EGG HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! e
She honestly was in labor -- she paced & called & paced & called -- dug out a shallow place in the front corner of the run (of course she ignored my beautiful nesting area I made)!
the others gathered around her & all sank down in a circle & kept her company as just after sundown she crouched in her place & finally - laid the egg.

After that, they all got up & wandered away & totally ignored the egg, so I went out & got it & popped it into my bator.

Now I have to set up my old bator so I can use it as a hatcher & let this other egg incuabate an extra week. If it's even fertile -- but I think it is, as I heard them sounding off w/the "trombone" noise -- very differerent from any other call I've ever heard them make.

YEA !!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy Terri !!!!!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Julie I just candled the two pea eggs you gave me & both are showing veining & moving embryos!!!! here we go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!e

This is great news !!!!!!!! I was sooooooooooo hoping that they were fertile. I'm a crossing my fingers that they hatch.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Here's a pic of my peacock & guinea eggs in the bator -- this was before I added the 3rd peacock egg. What a hassle new software can be! I went to download pics from my camera & realized we never had installed the software on the new home computer. Well, it won't take my old camera software so we had to put the new software -- which I then had to teach myself how to use to downsize & crop photos & all that!
anyway, I *think* I have it figured out enough to post a pic now! then I have to put the fun away & finish my last lesson plan & take my finale exam in my acct. course!

Happy Memorial Day to all - & we remember & honor all of our veterans.

Great set up Terri. How long was it before you added the 3rd pea egg. I'm trying to figure out this staggered hatch stuff. I wanted to add another egg but I was afraid with lock down and turning and all of that stuff. What do you suggest? What is the latest that you would suggest someone add another egg in the incubator?

 

[kuntrygirl]

Hi everyone!! Happy Memorial Day!! Hope you all have a wonderful day giving thanks to our soilders!!

I've got babies!!  Put 19 on lockdown and 19 have hatched!!  Love my incubator!! I've got Guineas starting to hatch!!




For those of you who raise ducks... When do they start feathering out??? Mine are starting to get so big but they haven't started to get any feathers at all!!

Congrats on the hatch! Cute pics !!!!!!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Oh boy. I'm telling myself I don't need more chicks. :/

Oh you need them!  They are excellent layers of large chalk white eggs

Gracie, do you still have those chicks? PLEASE SAY NO !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kuntrygirl]

No peeps yet Terri. And I am a nervous wreck. I'm starting to think that the was cracked open was the only fertile egg. I'll keep you posted. I have a long weekend of being nervous. I hope that I don't binge on chocolate and forget about my juicing. LOL

Cupcakes are soooo nice. How sweet.

Nice trip planned Terri!

Keeping my fingers crossed for you Julie!!

Thanks Missi but I think it's a finished deal. I think with the girls moving from box to box and temps up and down, killed them.

So, now I wait for the pea eggs in the incubator. :/

 

[kuntrygirl]

Well, it's time to start building more coops, a couple movable chicken tractors and an extension on to the peacock aviary/flight pen. I have been looking at tractors and I found this one on the internet and I seem to like this one better. What do you all think?



Does anyone have any advice or suggestion or advice when it comes to movable tractors? Did you experience any problem building the one you have or what would you do different if you had to build another chicken tractor?

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Well, it's time to start building more coops, a couple movable chicken tractors and an extension on to the peacock aviary/flight pen. I have been looking at tractors and I found this one on the internet and I seem to like this one better. What do you all think?

Does anyone have any advice or suggestion or advice when it comes to movable tractors? Did you experience any problem building the one you have or what would you do different if you had to build another chicken tractor?

NICE!!! I LIKE that design!!!! We built ours in one weekend (including my painting it) - it's held up quite well considering it was just materials we had laying around - the only things we bought was the piece of fiberglass corrugated roofing material & the solid rubber wheels from Harbor Frieght - wire is hardware cloth & I do recommend that -- I have caught a possum trying to rip through (a .410 shell took care of that idea) and watched a hawk land on top of the "run" area (couldn't get through the hardware cloth).

Jim built the "axles" for the wheels out of solid blocks of wood at an angle w/a pin through them so we can kick it back & level the thing on the ground, & he put a hitch on the front of it so when we want to move it, we just kick the wheels forward & up & hook it to the lawn tractor & move it wherever we want it to go. I have closeups of the wheels at home I can post to show you what I'm trying to explain. We didn't have plans or anything, just looked at some designs on BYC & made it up as we went along. My favorite thing about it is that I can use it for very young chicks - it has more room than my brooder, which is off the ground - and it works quite well until they get old enough to go into the grow-out pen. Ours has a ladder that leads to the upper part of it & it can be locked up tight at night so they are off the ground & safe from predators.