Minnesota!

[Daisy9696]

This snow is ridiculous!! My chickens have spring fever and want to be outside!

 

[cochins1088]

This snow is ridiculous!! My chickens have spring fever and want to be outside!

Agreed.

Hopefully it will melt soon.

 

[Minniechickmama]

This snow is ridiculous!! My chickens have spring fever and want to be outside!

Some of mine ARE and have been outside all winter, but just in the last week they finally started getting themselves into their coops at night. My juvies I put out on Saturday were miserable yesterday in their PVC tractor. I went and bought straw and put it around 3 sides and covered it better and they should have been happier last night.
I am SO SO SO SO SO SO SO ready for the sun to shine!

 

[bantiesrule]

This snow is ridiculous!! My chickens have spring fever and want to be outside!

Not only my chickens, ME TOO!!!!!! Where the heck is the flip-flop weather?

 

[Daisy9696]

I let my ducks peek their heads out of the coop! They normally love being outside but I have to say that is the fastest I've ever seen a duck run for the coop! Hurry up spring and get here!

 

[Minniechickmama]

Easter Egger chicks are like a box of chocolates.... you never know what you're going to get.
Notice the poofy cheeks AND the feathered feet!

 

[Angiebubs]

Awwww! I didn't know EE'rs ever had feathered feet? And I keep trying to find out if there is ANY corolation between chick color and adult coloring-doesnt seem to be any consistancy. I have a 1.5 week old EEr and think its going to turn out like my other two-brown/black (partridge)

 

[Minniechickmama]

It is all dependent on what is going into them. This one had an Blue Ameraucana momma and a Partridge Cochin dad. That is the only possibility with who is in that flock for me to get this. I look forward to seeing the adult color because I am keeping this one! I had a Black, feather-footed EE last year that laid khaki colored eggs. It was rather different. I can't promise that this one will lay Blue or Brown or Green (if it is a pullet), but it came out of a bluish egg. I got 7 chicks from EE eggs and I am pretty sure they each looked different. Too funny. All the ones out of an EE that is mottled and in with my New Hampshire Red pen is giving me the same old Black and Brownish-Gold pattern that is common. That is okay though.
Here is a handsome cross, must be Buff Silkie with BLRW:


I don't keep many crossbreeds around, they are just for getting Easter Eggers or eggs for eating, but some of them sure are the most handsome or beautiful birds.
I do have a few grumpy chicks here too:

 

[lmatvey]

Oh yes, I just hatched a Sebastopol gosling last month. She's the sweetest. I had 2 eggs shipped to me from Celtic Oaks Farms in Florida.

Where are you getting your eggs from? I want to buy a few local eggs in hopes of hatching out a gander for my little girl.

For incubation tips, I recommend you follow this article. It's a great read and explains just about every aspect of goose egg incubation. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/491013/goose-incubation-hatching-guide-completed



Here's a picture of her at 2 days old.


Here's what she looks like now. She's 1 month old.

Really friendly looking baby!!! There is someone on youTube with a "goose" named Oliver that has some cool videos. I will have to check my email to get the name and number of the person who I am getting eggs from.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Easter Egger chicks are like a box of chocolates.... you never know what you're going to get.
Notice the poofy cheeks AND the feathered feet!

Minniechickmama--will you post a pic of this one when it's all grown? How cute is that baby EE?!