Do you think they're going to get here around then? Maybe we can do Easter baskets a week late, if we're going to have ducklings around that time.
Sunny, keep us updated!!!
yay! what an exciting day!Hahaha! I'm up. Just finished chores. Well, chores are never finished but the animals are taken care of anyway.
We have 1 little black Polish out (he woke me up this morning with his loud peeping so I'm assuming boy) and 4 more eggs pipped!!! 2 of those are Polish as well. The frst little one is running around and cheeping at all the other eggs to hurry up, so now I just need to sit on my hands so I don't stick my mitts in there and mess up the humidity at this crucial time.
OH! I just heard more peeping! Sounds like another has at least broken the membrane!!! Gotta go!
Based on this article:
http://dailysparkstribune.com/pages...eply=7458348&id=7457700#comment_reply_7458348
and my reading of the city code that it mentions here:
http://cityofsparks.us/municode/Title_20/29/040
that I am indeed out of luck - that most of Sparks it is illegal to have chickens, except maybe as a "pet" but then they must be kept inside - and that's not really doable for me.
Next step: writing my city council person and the mayor to get this revised.
What a shame...
Sunny, are the brown eggs that have pipped, the regular dark brown or the lighter brown/pink from my EE's?
OK, let's just know I'm going to be a PEST! I got nothin' better to do and I'm eggsited! I apologize to everyone right up front!
Based on this article:
http://dailysparkstribune.com/pages...eply=7458348&id=7457700#comment_reply_7458348
and my reading of the city code that it mentions here:
http://cityofsparks.us/municode/Title_20/29/040
that I am indeed out of luck - that most of Sparks it is illegal to have chickens, except maybe as a "pet" but then they must be kept inside - and that's not really doable for me.
Next step: writing my city council person and the mayor to get this revised.
What a shame...
Sunny, are the brown eggs that have pipped, the regular dark brown or the lighter brown/pink from my EE's?
OK, let's just know I'm going to be a PEST! I got nothin' better to do and I'm eggsited! I apologize to everyone right up front!
I agree...the more posts the better. It keeps my day flowing by with little breaks for BYC. I'm sure many other people (not on here, of course,) would be thinking "get a life!" oh well, I enjoy the chicken talk, garden talk etc.
Can't wait until you can take some photos of those little fluffy butts, Sunny!
LOL I understand completely! The one dark brown egg is out and it is a little yellow chick... I take that back it is one huge yellow chick!!! Another Polish is out and it is yellow, another one is zipped and it will be out in a short while. Can't find the other brown egg that was pipped but the other chickies are climbing on them right now. The brown eggs and the Polish are in together. They are easy enough to tell apart so I didn't separate them.
More Polish have pipped. These guys are definitely the "hurry up and get out" types. The bator is sounding very alive right now with all the chicks that are out and zipped/pipped. hahaha I'm lovin it!
So much fun!!! So the yellow one should be a Splash I guess. With 3 WCB Polish roos in there, I can't imagine the one Black roo's getting all the action! Come on WC'ed anything!
Hmm, yellow chick, possible moms are red sexlink, rhode island red or barred rock???? All covered by my Silver roo.
Just an FYI for everyone on the colors that the Polish eggs came from and maybe someone can help with what colors they'll be. So, in hens, I have a black, a white splash, and 2 silver laced. In roo's I have 3 White Crested Blacks and one all Black.
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Huh! With those dark roos I'm surprised I get a yellow chick! Ooooh a splash would be sooooo cool! Another little black Polish is out!
