North Carolina

[Tiddbit74]

I really want to check out WCA. I will have to plan it out, it's about two hours away from me. I would like to add 2 more to my flock and I'm open to any breed as long as they are good layers.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Good Morning, Happy Chicken People!

Have fun at WCA! I'll be back in two weeks!

 

[NewHomesteader2010]

Good Morning!!

HAVE FUN AT WCA everyone!!

Hatch update: we have 2 English Orpingtons, 2 White Super Blues, 1 SFH, plus the one that didn't make it (thank you all for the advice, but by the time we got the little chick, rigor had already set in...HE was stiff

)...so far we're at 50% although almost at 100% for EO!! Talk about an impressive hatch!! Woot. Mama is doing a great job - DD1 LOVED seeing the chicks play "peek-a-boo" from under mama's wing too!! Here's hoping we find a hole lot MORE today!!

Have a wonderful Sunday everyone!!

 

[mtman1849]

well here we are another gray cloudy windy dreary day in NC imagine that. Will we every see the sun again? Good Morning Everyone.

 

[Chasity]

I think this Silkie hen is his all time fav. Cocoa-Puff comes to us when we call her name to go out to scratch and run the yard. I get a good laugh from it, because I don't think she can see me, but hears my voice when she does.

...and this is from an epasode of, "Chicks gone wild!" We love that little Cocoa-Puff

I look for ward to saying hello to any that make it out to the WCA today. I'll miss seeing you, Hollow. I have not gotten out there for a bit now. There is one California White in the mix that is going (good layer). I hate to say good-by to the Silkie boys, but, alas, they are batchelors. BTW.... Silkies look dreadful when wet!

Chris, DS-1,


gave them a bath because we let them range and scratch. They liked the warm blow dryer though. Off to WCA they go!




Jacob, DS-2, likes his silkie hens. They are not so big, and he can hold and love on them.
edit: Sorry, Jacob said to put her name... Hanna.

Everyone have a great day!!!!

 

[dutchbunny83]

WCA today CAN'T WAIT!!!!

This is our first time going and I don't know anyone so if you see me say HI!

I'll be the one with the well behaved 7 year old boy and the extremely loud 21 month old blonde girl!
But at least my husband's detail at Ft Bragg got pushed back a few hours so he'll be able to take her to the car if she decides to start screeching.

Hope to see some of you out there today!!!!
(and if you have Lavender Orpingtons PLEASE bring them!!!!)

 

[chicken dad]

Good Sunday morning to all. Hope you have safe day at WCA those that are going. I was thinking about maybe getting an incubator. What is a good one to get? Seen many different ones and hard diffrent pro and cons. Not looking to hatch a bunch of eggs, just thinking about trying to hatch some when i will need to replenish my girls in a little while.

 

[NewHomesteader2010]

Good Sunday morning to all. Hope you have safe day at WCA those that are going. I was thinking about maybe getting an incubator. What is a good one to get? Seen many different ones and hard diffrent pro and cons. Not looking to hatch a bunch of eggs, just thinking about trying to hatch some when i will need to replenish my girls in a little while.

OOhh...I'd like to know everyone's thoughts on this as well!!

Chicken Hatch latest update: Mama, I believe, is finished sitting. She was off the nest today sitting in the grass with her SIX new babies. There are (I believe...one is questionable) 2 English Orpingtons (technically 3, but one did not make it...), 2 SFH (one of these is questionable as it's not as brown as the other one, but has more yellow...so I am unsure if it's one or not, but I am saying it is...LOL) and 2 Super Blues (one of these is HUGE compared to the others...just big and fluffy and yellow!!). Not THAT bad of a hatch rate since this is a first time broody mama. 7/12 eggs hatched...DH said if we had an incubator, we could have thrown the other eggs in there to finish... LOL, I think he wants us to get an incubator...so yes, I'd like to know what SMALL (say max of 10 eggs, but able to do duck eggs too) incubator would you all recommend?!?

 

[greenchickenman]

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I haven't been on in a couple days, just noticed the babies. Awesome pics!! You have a nice set up!

 

[greenchickenman]

With outside hatching starting to happen, I just want to advise everyone that no chick is dead till it is WARM and dead. I found a chick pushed out 2 years ago. It was cold, lifeless, and stiff. I was about to go bury it when I saw a very tiny movement of its beak. I thought I was seeing things at first, but after a few more seconds the beak made another very small quiver.

I took it in and placed it in the incubator. 10 minutes later it was breathing. 20 minutes and it was holding up its head. It progressed and after about 2 hours it was up and prefectly normal. That was the last time we let that hen try to set. She rejected chicks as the hatched. She just wanted to set. We gave the chicks to Daisy, a Buff Orpington. She hadn't even been setting on eggs and had only been broody a few days. When presented with a chick she stood up and gently pushed it under her. Then she got really mad that we were still holding her other chicks. She was a great first time mother and was renamed 'Mama Daisy'. The little one was of course a Cockerel, but I did find the LF Blue Cochin a new home.

Sorry I got side tracked, but the point it that nothing is dead till it is WARM AND DEAD.

Matt

Awesome story! I have never heard of that, but good to know. Amazing you guys were able to breathe life back into the chicks. I will remember that little trick.