"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[kuntrygirl]

Ok moved two pea eggs into the hatcher this morning! These are from my peacocks - my very first ones - candling showed dark blobs inside but I couldn't tell if any movement or not & didnt' want to leave them outside too long so will hope for the best.

I can't believe none of ya'll want any guinea keets! they are the cutest things! C'mon I have 10 of them looking for a good home -- don't you want some natural pest control?

Walked into my utility room at 4 a.m. because I heard my one peachick hollering - the little brat was perched on top of the brooder box! Time to get a lid or move them to the bigger, enclosed outside brooder!

LOL @ the little brat was perched on top of the brooder box. I had a lid on my brooder on Day 7. Those little jokers can fly. And no more truck rides for "Prince". He is flying all around the truck while I"m driving.

Terri, we need more pics of the baby pea. I know he has grown. PICS PICS PICS!!!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Here is a pic of some baby keets that were hatched by a lady that I gave guinea eggs. She sent me a pic this morning.

Terri, I have about 6 guinea eggs in the incubator along with the pea and turkey eggs. Why? I have no idea. I"m on overload.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Here is a pic of some baby keets that were hatched by a lady that I gave guinea eggs. She sent me a pic this morning.
Terri, I have about 6 guinea eggs in the incubator along with the pea and turkey eggs. Why? I have no idea.

I"m on overload.

It's called "chicken math".

What am I going to do if all 16 pea eggs hatch? Where am I going to put them? I'll have 21 peafowl!!!! 21!!!!

The keets are SO cute!

Yes I will get pics to post - I promise!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Here is a pic of some baby keets that were hatched by a lady that I gave guinea eggs. She sent me a pic this morning.

Terri, I have about 6 guinea eggs in the incubator along with the pea and turkey eggs. Why? I have no idea. I"m on overload.

 

It's called "chicken math". What am I going to do if all 16 pea eggs hatch? Where am I going to put them? I'll have 21 peafowl!!!! 21!!!!

The keets are SO cute!

Yes I will get pics to post - I promise!

LOL @ chicken math. Terri, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH ALL OF THAT ?????? !!!!!!!!!!!! I can give you names of people who have dropped by my house and have wanted to buy peafowl. Just let me know.

Terri, I picked up 2 more bottles of wine yesterday in hopes of popping them open when you text me once the peas start hatching.

I'm taking suggestions on types of SWEET wines - and I mean SWEET SWEET.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

LOL @ chicken math. Terri, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH ALL OF THAT ?????? !!!!!!!!!!!!

I can give you names of people who have dropped by my house and have wanted to buy peafowl. Just let me know.
Terri, I picked up 2 more bottles of wine yesterday in hopes of popping them open when you text me once the peas start hatching.

I'm taking suggestions on types of SWEET wines - and I mean SWEET SWEET.

Well, I have to get them all hatched first! Seriously, yes, I will be rehoming some of them if I get a good hatch-- I'd have to take a 2nd job in order to house & feed all of them!

It's sure going to be hard to decide who goes & who stays. Of course Amtrak is staying!

I have a bottle of Yellow Tail moscati chilling in the fridge now! It's an Australian wine & fills my criteria of inexpensive, lol! It's nice, mellow - sweet to me, as I usually like dry chardonnay or Zellerswartz Katz both of which are on the tart side.

Just talked to Jim & the humidity is hovering at the 50% mark; I'll boost it a couple more degrees when I get home this evening - I want it around mid-50 mark since there's just 2 eggs in that big 'ol Hova.

Wow just think, one month from today all this year's hatching will be OVER -- and I'll be in St. Louis watching my dear friend show her magnificent silver buff boy Sully - that's the same dog she showed at Westminster that I didn't get to go see!

 

[WalkingWolf1]

Chicken math here as well. Just sent 18 keets to a new home. Put 1 doz. guiena eggs (not sure of age) and 2 doz del/bl. wyandotte and 4 eggs from a chicken that could possibly be a speckled sussex but has a lot of white speckling. Added 8 duck eggs yesterday (my nephew has a drake and 2 hens and has been saving the eggs). The ducks were such a mess on our first duck hatch that my daughter and I vowed no more ducks. She asked why was I putting in more duck eggs

. We are having a ball hatching out eggs and everything has gone to nice homes. The first batch of keets (20) went to a guy on 20 acres with some of it overgrown in wooded area. He has a big pond and he ended up with the 5 mallard we hatched as well. Another guy has taken 30 of the chickens we have hatched thus far. I offered two hens to my boss and she had her husband build a small coop and run. I delivered those this past Sunday afternoon. We are past due for turning off the incubators this far south but can't seem to pull the plugs. On Saturday I delivered two 6mo CornX hens to a guy with a beautiful white rock roo and he will let me know when he starts getting eggs. We'll have to run a batch of those through to see what turns up. At another friends place we put a 5mo CornX roo on 4 delaware hens and I'm sure we'll have to see how those turn out as well. These are the same del hens that I hatched a couple of eggs from. They were with a Blue Wyandotte roo at the farm where I got them from. Been busy here but my daughter is having the time of her life. We actually live in town and have a small coop in the back yard. We currently have two of BigMedicine's project birds we hatched 2 months ago and another little mutt hen we hatched at the same time. Here is a pic of the dellie cross chicks that hatched yesterday.

 

[ellpel]

This is my favorite thread on BYC!

I got in touch with the guy who has welsummers. He said he has some in the incubator now. Are you still interested in some. If ao how Many? I may get some more also.

 

[kuntrygirl]

LOL @ chicken math. Terri, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH ALL OF THAT ?????? !!!!!!!!!!!! I can give you names of people who have dropped by my house and have wanted to buy peafowl. Just let me know.

Terri, I picked up 2 more bottles of wine yesterday in hopes of popping them open when you text me once the peas start hatching.

I'm taking suggestions on types of SWEET wines - and I mean SWEET SWEET.

Well, I have to get them all hatched first! Seriously, yes, I will be rehoming some of them if I get a good hatch-- I'd have to take a 2nd job in order to house & feed all of them! :/   It's sure going to be hard to decide who goes & who stays. Of course Amtrak is staying!

I have a bottle of Yellow Tail moscati chilling in the fridge now! It's an Australian wine & fills my criteria of inexpensive, lol!  It's nice, mellow - sweet to me, as I usually like dry chardonnay or Zellerswartz Katz both of which are on the tart side.

Just talked to Jim & the humidity is hovering at the 50% mark; I'll boost it a couple more degrees when I get home this evening - I want it around mid-50 mark since there's just 2 eggs in that big 'ol Hova.

Wow just think, one month from today all this year's hatching will be OVER -- and I'll be in St. Louis watching my dear friend show her magnificent silver buff boy Sully - that's the same dog she showed at Westminster that I didn't get to go see!

I can't wait to see what your final count will be. LOL

And of course Amtrak HAS to stay. No doubt about that.

I think I saw Yellow Tail Moscati at CVS yesterday when I was browsing the "You Have To Buy Me When Hataching Pea" wine section.

So no more hatching in a month huh? How do you feel about that?

Make sure that you take plenty of pics for us to see. If you have more pics of your dogs, please post. I don't think that the new La-yers had a chance to see those beautiful babies of yours. Just gorgeous.

 

[flewdacoop]

when is the expo and what time

 

[TBJumper0514]

Well guys, here is a pic of my first time hatching eggs from my 2 Sizzle pens. I originally set 15 eggs, all 15 developed and made it to Lock-down and out of the 15 eggs, 14 hatched.
Pen 1 is a dark buff Silkie roo over a buff Sizzle hen and 2 partridge Sizzle hens.
Pen 2 is a blue/black splashed Silkie roo over 2 black Sizzle hens.
What colors are you all seeing here?



I have about 30 more eggs that I'm waiting on. 15 more go into lock-down on Sunday and another 15 or so about 7 days later. I have 15 that I collected that I will be setting tomorrow night as well. Just for fun I switched the 2 roos around and I'm going to wait a couple weeks and start collecting eggs again just to see what colors I get with that combination.
Anyone interested in some Sizzles? LOL!!!! Half of these will feather out like a Silkie and half should feather out like this hen...


With all these chicks that I'm hatching out and also with any luck I’ll hopefully be able to get me a few more hens of different colors to use as breeders for next year!!!

Chris

OMG, I think they are too cool! Maybe when I have more room I will have to get some of these, lol!