North Carolina

[crazyhen]

glad to meet all of you. Welcome to NC. I am in Franklin,NC The mtns. Anyone near me???

 

[6275Smith]

glad to meet all of you. Welcome to NC. I am in Franklin,NC The mtns. Anyone near me???

I'm down the mountains a ways near Hickory.

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Good morning folks

It's almost spring........what is everyone hatching
this year?

hope everyone has a good day

 

[6275Smith]

Spring is coming...we just need to get through another 5 weeks or so. I wouldn't mind getting one good snow before then (I say as I duck

)

I've been out of chickens for a couple of years but have a "test hatch" in the incubator with mostly Marans and Orpingtons along with a few others. I'm looking forward to having a flock again!

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Actually I wouldn't mind having one good snow, either. It would help kill off parasites overwintering in the pastures. Plus, it's pretty.

The only thing in my incubator right now are quail eggs, due this coming weekend. I've only recently separated flocks, and started a worming rotation. As each flock gets wormed, their eggs will go to incubation rather than just get tossed or be dog food. Right now the POL pullets are being wormed. By the time they are done, I'll do the Welsummers, which will have been separated plenty long to guarantee who sired them. From there it'll be the BBS English Orpingtons, followed by the general layer pen, which has my Buff Orpingtons, Ameraucanas and Easter Eggers. The Golden Cuckoo Marans will be getting test crossed, one-on-one, to pin-point who is carrying vulture hocks and who is free of it. I'll worm them as they rotate through the breeding pens. I'm waiting on a new Buff Orpington cockerel to take over those girls, but while they wait they just get to be layers.

I'm not sure where my chicken direction is going. I'll need to sort it out soon. Hubby's contract job will likely be ending later this year, which will change our financial picture rather dramatically. I had planned on selling the English Orps, then decided to keep them...but they may have to go anyway. Ugh. I hate making choices like that. We'll see as we go along.

Enjoy the day. It's my long day at work. But I brought baby bunnies for my students to ooooh and aaahhh over, so it should be a fun day, anyway.

 

[rainbowchick]

[COLOR=008000]Good morning folks  [/COLOR]


[COLOR=008000]It's almost spring........what is everyone hatching[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008000]this year?   [/COLOR]

[COLOR=008000]hope everyone has a good day [/COLOR]

Just hatched my "test hatch" last night! Seven eggs set, five went to lockdown, one pipped internally on the wrong end and died, one pipped and then died, and THREE hatched! Thought my odds with local eggs would be a bit better.... But I learned a LOT about my incubator and I'm ready for my shipped Lav Am and Silkie eggs to come next week!

 

[rainbowchick]

Enjoy the day.  It's my long day at work.  But I brought baby bunnies for my students to ooooh and aaahhh over, so it should be a fun day, anyway.

I just brought my incubator (with a converter) in my car to my Gardening Club at the elementary school yesterday. Even though the eggs had only externally pipped at that point, the kids LOVED it! They kept freaking out any time one of them peeped!

 

[Tikkijane]

No, Hickory in Catawba County.

I figured, but thought I'd ask.

 

[StarMeKritten]

Good morning folks

It's almost spring........what is everyone hatching
this year?

hope everyone has a good day

I have to wait until after a friend's mid-march wedding to start up the incubator. I'll be hatching blue laced red wyandottes, australorps, black sex links, and working on a silver duckwing easter egger project. I'll probably hatch some eggs from my silkie rooster over silkie x cochin hen to add some more good broody hens to the flock too.

 

[ramirezframing]

Good morning folks

It's almost spring........what is everyone hatching
this year?

hope everyone has a good day

Working on a few projects and two of my main breeds. I think that's enough for now LOL.