"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[campingshaws]

Got another one today!

By spring I'm hoping for a dozen a day. Wouldn't that be awesome?

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Congrats on the eggs. Also, love your newest additions, Lemon. Top Dog, seems like yesterday when you started. Wow.

 

[topdog24]

Congrats on the eggs. Also, love your newest additions, Lemon. Top Dog, seems like yesterday when you started. Wow.

It does dont it, well, chicken math runs rampant with me, and going to add more by new years if this hatch comes off, i sure hope it goes well, because i am putting 12 EE eggs, 12 RSL, 6BSL, 6 white leghorn and 5 dominique eggs in the incubator Tuesday, it holds 41 total, so i expect maybe 20 to hatch this first round.

 

[lakones]

Wow! This is a very active group of chickens lovers! Thanks for the welcomes.
I guess I'm figuring out the chicken math too. In addition to the 4 originals I have (black copper marans mix) and the new campine and Araucana chicks I got last week (6 total), mr Roy at cypress duck farms (aka cypressdrake) put some blue copper marans and lemon cuckoo orphingtons in the incubated for me last week.

 

[LemonMeringue]

Wow! This is a very active group of chickens lovers! Thanks for the welcomes.
I guess I'm figuring out the chicken math too. In addition to the 4 originals I have (black copper marans mix) and the new campine and Araucana chicks I got last week (6 total), mr Roy at cypress duck farms (aka cypressdrake) put some blue copper marans and lemon cuckoo orphingtons in the incubated for me last week.

Lemon Cuckoo is such a beautiful, striking color and pattern combination. I hope you will post pictures as they grow up.

 

[campingshaws]

Lemon Cuckoo is such a beautiful, striking color and pattern combination. I hope you will post pictures as they grow up.

I love lemon cuckoo too. I need a second coop so I can have a sussex flock and an orpington flock. The two I have are lovely, like doves, but not friendly. I like to have lap birds.

 

[campingshaws]

I've seen a sussex hen or two eyeballing the nest box that's out in the tractor. Hopefully one will jump in soon. I can't believe it's been so long, even with the pox. Hopefully they won't be stressed when they're finally healthy. Everyday I think I'll sell the RIW, and I change my mind a dozen times.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

I need to go find that thread. My husband traded with a lady he works with for some eggs from her Buff Orpingtons and her new RIR hens. They are going to be for our youngest to pick a few for raising for 4-H. We are supposed to get them Tuesday. But will have to wait until the ones in the incubator pop out first.......then Lock and Load again!

Think I"m going to do the same thing. RIR hatch due Thursday of this week -- now strongly considering some Silver Laced Wyandottes - I just love that color pattern!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Got another one today!

By spring I'm hoping for a dozen a day. Wouldn't that be awesome?

You'll get there!

 

[LemonMeringue]

Think I"m going to do the same thing. RIR hatch due Thursday of this week -- now strongly considering some Silver Laced Wyandottes - I just love that color pattern!

Those are pretty. The Wyandottes that we got this year were pretty, but not nearly as heavy of birds as they should be. We traded most of them to people that wanted layers. We still have one that lays a TINY bantam size egg. Sigh. She is going to the freezer. I hope you are able to find ones that are better quality than those hatchery ones we had.

Our incubator went into lockdown. Only 1egg looks like it quit. 7 out of the dozen shipped eggs are still jumping. I think that's pretty good considering there were some air cells that looked pretty bad....... Even with the good packing job.