MARYLAND THREAD!

[CherryChick1]

Awesome!

Went to work this morning and had one of the most wonderful experiences ever. Four of the eggs MOVED!!!

 

[Maeschak]

Thanks so much!

Here is the website for Wagners in Mount Airy as well.
http://www.wagnersmeats.com
I use them for beef, so hopefully they can help out. How many do you have to butcher?

 

[Maeschak]

Thanks so much!

There is this place as well: http://www.hoffmanmeats.com/services/custom-butchering-processing.html
If you read the tiny print it looks like they will do 'other' animals under certain circumstances. I'm guessing if you have enough chickens they might help out.

 

[CherryChick1]

Well, four of the eggs move regularly. The other two not so much. One is definitely pipping, possibly two are. We definitely heard cheeping! THEY’RE ALIVE!!!

 

[Carlito4real]

Here is the website for Wagners in Mount Airy as well.
http://www.wagnersmeats.com
I use them for beef, so hopefully they can help out. How many do you have to butcher?

Thanks for the help I have about 16.

 

[MROO]

Hey Marylanders,

If anyone is interested, I have a surplus of bantam juveniles. All are between three and four months old and all are hand-tamed. They will be tested in the next two weeks (for 4H,) but they are from an NPIP facility and my birds are all tested and clean, so they should be fine.

I have a small starter flock (5) of Sebrights - they need to go together.
2 gold-laced cockerels (IMO, the slightly older one is gorgeous!)
2 silver laced pullets
1 gold laced pullet

Three Old English Game Bantams (OEGB)
1 OEGB Black Breasted Red cockerel (we think!) He hasn't gotten his full coloring, yet, and he's already really pretty!
2 buff-colored OEGBs - possibly Red Pyle, as their color is just starting to come in. The older one is definitely a cockerel. The younger one, I'm not sure yet, but I think is a pullet. They look to be Red Pyle, but I've never seen Pyles this young, so I'm not positive. They are both nice birds - pale buff with red-gold hackles and points, and no blue in their tails (like Japanese bantams would have)

I may also have 2 4-month-old white Silkies, if I can talk my daughter into down-sizing. Silkies are notoriously tough to identify until they start either crowing or laying, so you'd take your chances on gender with them.

I am in the farthest North-Eastern corner of Maryland, about an hour north of Baltimore, but I will drive a reasonable distance to meet someone.

I'll try to post pictures this weekend, as soon as I have a second pair of hands available to help. Maybe, by then, I'll know for sure what my 4Hers want to do about the Silkies ...

 

[CherryChick1]

Well, four of the eggs move regularly. The other two not so much. One is definitely pipping, possibly two are. We definitely heard cheeping! THEY’RE ALIVE!!!

SO, two of them hatched overnight or early this morning while the library was actually quiet. The one that I suspect hatched first was the Black Australorp (from Lg dark brown egg). It had been very active most of yesterday. I think that the green egg (Carolina Blue Sex Link) hatched after. The chicks are too adorable. They seem to want out, but I am not touching the incubator at least until tomorrow to give the other eggs a chance. We see a white spot on the CBSL chick’s head, so we surmise that he’s male. They are very active and are moving the other eggs all over the incubator, but everything that I have read says don’t open the incubator.

 

[CherryChick1]

Here’s a picture.

 

[besorto]

Hello again everyone!

I was wondering if anyone in MD would be interested in a hen trade of sorts. I have a white cochin just under a year old and she's already gone broody around 3 times. She's a wonderful mother and overall very sweet, but I just can't afford so many birds. She's hatched out 3 bathes of around 9-12 chicks each and I'd love for her to go to a home where she can be a mom as often as she'd like. I would like a young production chicken in exchange if possible. I just have waaay too many broodies this year and feel guilty when I don't let them hatch out chicks. Thanks!

 

[CherryChick1]

SO, two of them hatched overnight or early this morning while the library was actually quiet. The one that I suspect hatched first was the Black Australorp (from Lg dark brown egg). It had been very active most of yesterday. I think that the green egg (Carolina Blue Sex Link) hatched after. The chicks are too adorable. They seem to want out, but I am not touching the incubator at least until tomorrow to give the other eggs a chance. We see a white spot on the CBSL chick’s head, so we surmise that he’s male. They are very active and are moving the other eggs all over the incubator, but everything that I have read says don’t open the incubator.

SO, two of them hatched overnight or early this morning while the library was actually quiet. The one that I suspect hatched first was the Black Australorp (from Lg dark brown egg). It had been very active most of yesterday. I think that the green egg (Carolina Blue Sex Link) hatched after. The chicks are too adorable. They seem to want out, but I am not touching the incubator at least until tomorrow to give the other eggs a chance. We see a white spot on the CBSL chick’s head, so we surmise that he’s male. They are very active and are moving the other eggs all over the incubator, but everything that I have read says don’t open the incubator.

Hi All,
I went in to check on the chicks and the eggs. I put the two chicks in the brooder/box that I made up. They ate and drank fairly quickly. They discovered the warmer and fell asleep beneath it. I think that the other eggs are a goner.
There was no movement from any of them while I was there. I still hope that when I get to work in the morning there will be at least one or two more fuzzy little sweeties. I am just not hopeful as I haven’t seen any pipping. Tomorrow becomes day 23. At that point do I just assume that they are dead and discard? I guess that I could open them to see what may have happened. Any suggestions and or wisdom?