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[Penturner]

Horsefeathers, hopes coming your way for your orps. hope they make you speechless. Keep tryin to feel bed. it's no something you want to get good at and actually do. so just try for a very very long time.
EGG UPDATE! day 20 for the 2 remaining eggs from the first batch. one pipped at 1:00 this afternoon. did nothing for the next hour and a half while we set and stared at it. we took a break for about 20 minutes and when we got back the little stinker had zipped about half an inch. we set and sared at it for another 30 minutes or so and nothin. we even made sounds like we where leaving and everything. nuttin. I think he can smell us. He is laying in the egg going "I knowz you is deah and i hears you eats chickens. K goin back out to check again. By the way my Daughter already named it Big Bird.

 

[Peep_Show]

Horsefeathers might be rendered speechless, but her fingers will fly! Crowing is good, btw, when it's news like that. Good luck with your 'bating.

Penturner, now that you've named it, you have to photograph it! We'll be patient.

We're actually getting something back from Mr. IRS, so our moonscape backyard will finally get some landscaping and decorating by something other than the dogs. I've submitted a request for lots of trees and a pet chicken house (Not poultry, mind you, but pets! Yeah...it's a fine line with a headcount of 3 in some pretty nice cutesy digs) to be incorporated into it after getting a tentative go-ahead from the CC&R's and HOA committee. The one drawback to having street legal birds here is now I have to get all the surrounding neighbors' approval per the requirements of city's Animal Control. 40 of them are really enthusiastic and then we have the one who's over 200 feet away who is not so keen on the prospect.

I just finished talking to Animal Control (a personal visit is always nice) about what my options are about the local ordinances. One complaint and they seize the birds. Gulp! Ergo, they want the consent forms from everyone with a dwelling within a couple hundred feet. (You can have an acre and mucho ponies and goats, but one chicken complaint about noise or smell and the birds are goners...doesn't make much sense, especially if you've ever lived through goatie mating season.)
He didn't think from 200+ feet and several sound walls away they would hear the birds, but if I could try to sweet talk them into signing it would be ideal. The bright side, if there is one, is that if everyone signs off except for the local bully (and he is Mr. Tude) then Animal Control will pay a personal visit to said person to inquire what's the hangup.

It'd be nice for some luck to rub this way....

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Sending tons of it your way! Luck, luck, luck, luck, luck X 5!

 

[Penturner]

Peep Show Lots of luck being brushed your way. No change with the egg since 2:30. still rocking and rolling. i do have a question.
The pip and the line the zip seems to be taking looks very high on the large end of the egg. then the line the zip is taking looks like it is headed almost right over the top of the large end of the egg. almost like the chick is almost sideways in the egg. any need for concern? I have been trying to visualize the chick as it turns and how this will effect the beaks ability to contact the shell. I hope it does not cause the angle to become so shallow as the chick turns that it cannot zip. So far I am not worried as it should not even hatch until sometime tomorrow so it is right on schedule right now.
Thanks

 

[vegaschick]

Today, I took the chicks into an elementary school that I sub at alot. I made a short power point of all my hens (breed, egg color, name) and my coop and brought along a dozen eggs, none of which look alike. I had the chicks in the peepshow (repurposed 10 gal. fish tank) and caused quite a ruckus as I went through the halls to the class that was expecting me. We spread out a blanket and had the children sit all the way around it and just put all 11 chicks in the middle. Not sure who had a better time. Chicks were running around and trying to fly, exploring, climbing and jumping off of the kids legs and some chicks were quite content to just be held and petted. One little boy thought the class ought to hum so the chicks would go to sleep. After a while one of the other boys told him to stop humming cuz it was making him tired. LOL!!! So much fun!!! I gotta go back on Friday to share with a few more classes now.

laceynoelle - I agree, 'bout time we got a few days without the wind! Love it. It's so nice here right now!

HorseFeatherz NV - congrats and good luck on the black orps!

SunnyDawn - Awww, I want Welsummers, Delawares and Ameraucanas but seem to just get more EE's. Love 'em too but running outta room. Gonna have to recycle some chickens. Freezer camp will be looking for volunteers real soon!

Peep_Show - Good luck with the signatures! I'm so glad I live in a rundown old neighborhood in the county and not in a nice new HOA.

Very cool though that animal control will grill the bully if necessary...that's seems so Vegas somehow, and yet kinda ironic. LUCK, LUCK, LUCK, LUCK, LUCK, LUCK, LUCK on your clucks!

Penturner - Oh, so exciting that it's hatching time already! I've only hatched out one time so I don't have much experience to draw on. However, I had one little banty that pipped real low towards the pointy end and it took forever but it zipped in almost a straight line up towards the big end instead of around. It made it out fine and is healthy as can be. Hope yours is too! Good luck with them! Man, those critter grow so fast you can almost see it happen!

 

[Penturner]

Introducing Big Bird. that board he/she is laying next to is all of about half an inch thick and he is not able to climb up on it.
He pipped yesterday at 1:30 and finally won his fight with the egg last night at 12:39 I set with him until three a.m. when I finally had to get some sleep. I then went back at 7:00 and introduced myself. he now thinks my hand is momma. He still is not completely dry so I go the temp in the brooder up to about 100 and put him in it any way. it is draft free and he is continuing to sleep.
I am just rummy right now due to lack of sleep but am looking for one or two day old chicks, or close to it. He is a lil Orphan cause his mate did not make it. I have one more hopeful egg that is due to hatch in 6 days but the little guy really needs some company now. So if anyone in Reno has some new ones. please let me know. If not I may have to just go to Greens Feed and see if they still have any. The full size birds are not anything I am interested in so I would probably give those birds away later on. so if anyone in the area has some type of chicken they would like to have donated to them later. feel free to PM and let me know what breed or whatever. I just need cell mates for the moment.
Okay need to go back out and make sure he is not getting chilled.

Oh I am accepting any guesses as to his color, type, sex or anything else you know how to recognize at all of 7 hours old. I am just calling him a him cause it doesn't work for me.
Other than that, Reno has at least one Serama. Hopefully more on the way and i am looking at buying a pair or trio as well.

 

[ke_ben]

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I've never met a nevadan that could hold a candle to an okie when it comes to yakkin' it up!
Still she's right, we should say "HI!" more often.

So HI EVERYBODY!!! How was your easter weekend/spring break???

Hi ya'll! That is coming from an Okie that is even on the list of Okies in the BYC (out of state), but Sunny is right, they don't shut up and there is a lot of them. I can stay caught up on our thread here much easier.

Congrats on all the new additions, eggs and chicks, and good luck

for everyone looking for some. It is break time so I'm taking advantage to post/read. I've been busy putting together new goat/animal pens but did have a hatch yesterday (38 of 40) and we entered some birds in the fair. We didn't have enough time to get them 'show' ready and found out when I got there that there were some requirements/disqualifications for them that were never mentioned and not in the book so we'll see how they do anyway.

I have had some of our birds separated into breeding pens for about 3 weeks now, so if anybody would like any pure hatching eggs then let me know. I have the Delawares, Rhode Island Whites, Welsummers, Marans (BC roo with BC, blue splash, cuckoo, and white hens with a black Penedesenca hen also), and Olive Eggers (BCM roo over blue & green egg EE's, and Welsummer roo over green egg EE's.) That is all that I have separate for now and on the Marans I do know which ones are the black copper eggs if you only want the one variety although they are all cool and some of the cuckoos are just as dark. I'll try and get some eggs pics maybe later.

I hope that everyone enjoys the day because it is supposed to be the least windy of the next several. Have a great weekend! Sorry that I'm not closer Penturner, you could have some of these chicks.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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I've never met a nevadan that could hold a candle to an okie when it comes to yakkin' it up!
Still she's right, we should say "HI!" more often.

So HI EVERYBODY!!! How was your easter weekend/spring break???

Hi ya'll! That is coming from an Okie that is even on the list of Okies in the BYC (out of state), but Sunny is right, they don't shut up and there is a lot of them. I can stay caught up on our thread here much easier.

Hi ke_ben! We were wondering where you'd gone off to! Congrats on all the babies!

Penturner Green's feed just got more chicks in yesterday. Some ameraucanas (actually EEs 'cause they're from a hatchery not a breeder, but I love the green eggs) and others. Yes your little guy needs a buddy or two. Glad he made it. Hope he thrives once he gets a mate. Single chicks usually fail to thrive.

Bring a box if you go to Green's. They are super low on boxes right now. Good Luck!!!

 

[Penturner]

Thanks Sunny, I am on my way. The urchin woke up from a long nap at about 12:00 and has non stopped cried. i realize this is bad in a big way. So not sure what I will do with them when I don't need Serama friends but will go see what they have.

 

[Flowers of Abba]

A friend asked me to babysit her orphaned lamb (mother died in birthing) for a few days (they're going on a backpacking trip)

Of course I said yes!!! I have a heated garage and they will provide whatever the baby needs. Did I mention I have never even seen a lamb much less fed one every six hours!!!!

I have just broke the news to my poor dh ! Ouch, he is convinced I'm out of my gourd...

I will be posting questions as I go through this new experience!