NC - My 1st Chickens

[Jx2inNC]

I'm thinking about putting some of my eggs in the incubator soon, once I get the fan installed on the unit.
The only pure I'd get could be Silkies and the Easter Eggers (if you consider that "pure"

), but will still be fun. I enjoy seeing what comes out with the mixes anyway...

 

[Jx2inNC]

 

[<3 N.C Chicken Chick <3]

You sure do have a bunch of birds

How big is that waterer? How often dose it empty. My flock has a 5 gal one and it can last a little over a week.

 

[Jx2inNC]

You sure do have a bunch of birds

How big is that waterer? How often dose it empty. My flock has a 5 gal one and it can last a little over a week.

Yeah, I do...although most are banties so it doesn't seem like a ton to me for one reason or the other. Ha
That's a 5 gallon waterer. Depending on the weather and if they cover it up with straw...usually in the ballpark of 5 days or so.
The banties don't drink much, so it lasts longer than you'd think, but I have some smaller waterers if it it gets inclimate or too hot out.
I'd like to make a gutter system or rain pan up at the top of the coop with a hose leading to a trough or something...but I doubt I'll get around to something like that anytime soon.
I have been sitting buckets at the bottom of the small coops roof and collecting water, though. With hard rains once in a while like we've been having, I tend to get a good bit of, if not all, the water I need to fill up their waterers.

 

[Jx2inNC]

Well, I think you know what this means.
Tomorrow is day 18...

 

[Jx2inNC]

They just started popping out last night.
I hope most of the others are just slow, or else my hatch ratio isn't going to be too amazing.

Oh, and they knocked over the thermometer, hygrometer. So...it's assuming from here on out. Haha





Video of them saying hello:



And a recent "egg fart" just for good measure:

 

[Jx2inNC]

Hatched 18...need to check the excess eggs and see what my hatch ratio would be.
Day 21 was Sunday, but I had some hatch as late Wednesday! I was surprised...

More pictures to come.

 

[Donlan73]

Wow ... Great pictures! I am so new to this and loving it so much. Just don't know what I have. Her are the 3 I rescued.

 

[Donlan73]

Well I have been getting 3 eggs a day...I have 3 hens and 1 roo, so I am happy. Just increase the run for them and mercy where they happy. Gonna get me a brooder as these are layers I was told. Soooooo glad I found this place...love all the pictues.

 

[Jx2inNC]

Very nice!
I've been MIA for a while, sorry.

Here's some of the Sultans and Blue Laced Red Wyandottes I picked up in the summer:

And a few extras (trying to sell the pretty Easter Eggers to make some room, but they are so cute!):