Maine

[Cknldy]

Yes, they are zipping! Beautiful eggs too..congratulations!

 

[Jazor]

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Rock Stars en route!

 

[87jmchugh]

Our babies have finally arrived. We even received an extra female! DH and I are soo excited and a wee bit nervous, much as first time parents can tend to be! Bringing DOMs back!!

 

[lazy gardener]

Congrats on hatch McKenney.

Congrats on Doms, J and M

Jazzor: When my BSL started laying, she laid a lot of "rubber eggs", sometimes 2 in one day. It's just a glitch in the conveyor belt when the egg passes through too quickly to get the shell applied. I expect that it will correct it'self. Sometimes, a hen at the end of her reproductive cycle will chronically lay shell-less eggs. When I was a kid, I had a pet broiler hen that never bothered to put a shell on her eggs. If I had been able to stick a frying pan under her at the right time, I would have been all set for breakfast!

I'm expecting eggs to hatch tomorrow night.

What an incredibly beautiful day it was today! Brooder is all scrubbed, and ready for shavings.

 

[quailtrail]

Our babies have finally arrived. We even received an extra female! DH and I are soo excited and a wee bit nervous, much as first time parents can tend to be! Bringing DOMs back!!

Congrats!!!!!!!!

 

[suzMEchicks]

So exciting and interesting to read about all the new babies coming. They are so sweet! Makes me think maybe next year I will get a few more chickens. There are so many more interesting breeds to check out.
I tried to be a good mother to one of my white leghorns today. She has been pretty grungy from winter anyway and then today. Went through puddles and landed in a dust bathing area. She was covered with black mud from head to toe. So I gave her s bath on the back porch. She proceeded to go back to the dust bath area and was worse than before. I ended up giving her a bath and blow dry in the bathroom. Then let her finish drying in the coop. Half way through I'm thinking "what am I doing?". She looks all white and fluffy now. I guess her sister should be next. Although I felt like a crazy person bathing a chicken in my house!

 

[dowgirl71]

I'm from the Bangor area and this weekend I will be going to N. Conway, NH and driving home on Monday. I'm looking for some Wyandotte chicks, either SLW or BLRW. Does anyone know if I might be able to find any of these chicks in my travels through Western Maine or even that area of NH?

 

[hoppy]

At what age do you remove the roos nailspur?

 

[quailtrail]

Maybe thats what my BO roo needs?? I have girls with bald spots I love him but he's too hard on my girls lol!

 

[MEMama3]

Seriously? Off by a day! I live right on the Fryeburg/Conway line and as of last night I had smooth and frizzled SLW chicks (as well as an adorable mix of "mutts"). If you're coming through again in a month I can help you out.

I thought I'd share pictures of the chicks I'm hanging onto. I kept out two SLW/Marans mixes (both females). One has a double jointed wing... Odd right? I also kept a frizzled SLW/Buff Orp pullet and an frizzled SLW/? roo. Here they are in all their cuteness:


I'm not sure what kind of markings that Orp will have, but her wings are so beautiful. She is such a doll. She's also the only one not yet named. My daughter doesn't like to rush into these things. The roo is something french my husband came up with. I can't pronounce it, so I'm calling him Bill. My son named the all black marans Hailey and I named the black and white marans Dottie Speckles.