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topdog24 said:
Well, i have been busy since i got home, been exspanding chicken yards, clearing out garden, we have hatched 1 lavender orping cross from a broody hen, and best of all, my OEs that i worked on for months have started laying, the first pic is with my phone, the second is a digital camera, much more realistic The light spot is where the pullet scratched the egg before it dried, i am just tickled pink with these, now i cant wait to get started on phase 2 and then on to marketing these F1 eggs. i am happier than a pig covered in crap.:ya oh, i didn't set the date on the camera.
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Big congratulations!!! That's a lot of work, waiting, blood sweat and tears getting started, huh? Hope it continues to go well for you.
 
It's been chicken crazy town around here.
I have chickens that need butchered. No chicken in the freezer. But it's just too hot for butchering.
None of my broody hens are open, bit these little red Cochin pullets were popping out eggs like mad. So I put some into the incubator to see if they were fertile. Yes! Then that noisy girl decided she would sit, so I gave her some. Then I had a few hatch in the incubator. I thought I would be smart and swap her eggs for those new chicks. They were fine all night. But come morning time she broody was having none of it! At that point my "too many irons in the fire" and procrastination on that brooder suddenly was a huge problem. So yesterday I spent the better part of the day getting the green house rearranged, brooder moved and finished to where it can be used. The good thing about this heat is that the babies were actually warm enough most of the time. One of those babies had a bit of trouble right at first with having its legs stick out front when it tried to walk. But spending that one night under a hen helped it and now it can walk pretty good. Just a bit wobbly this am.

So now in my incubator I have 3 stages of eggs!!!!! :hide I need another incubator for a hatcher!!!!!! Having 3 stages and its only 6 days until the next 8 are supposed to pop. I must be crazy. I am glad they are incubating though because now 2 of those red pullets have decided they want to stay in the nest box and act broody. BUT they don't know what they are doing yet!!!! They need to grow up a little more. I'm not going to have them ruin eggs. As of right now I have 29 eggs from the little red pullets who have had the big FLUFFY black Cochin as the Daddy. Hopefully we will at least get some pullets to have some choices.

This may be chicken crazy town here, but I'm not going to any interventions that for sure ;)
 
LemonMeringue said:
Wow Pam, you sure have been having some chicken fun! Hope you shoot that coyote! Maybe squashing that naughty one eyed Jack will teach him a lesson. :lau
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I sure hope so lemon my flock isn't happy they haven't been let out their coop. If one eyed Jack doesn't quit his days are numbered I Thought all that extra care would have kept him from becoming aggressive. I read that marens were originally breed for cock fighting. It just goes to show you that urge toward aggression is still there after they started to change to breed for egg color
 
Well it's not a perfect job. But he healed up well.

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