North Carolina

[Miss Lydia]

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sorry you lost one of your chicks, locks come in handy.

 

[reneeandshane]

Anybody from Washington,NC?

 

[BookWorm243]

Congrats ML & Em

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Thanks allabout but for what I still don't see anything?

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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Thanks allabout but for what I still don't see anything?

It's supposed to be assigned here pretty soon.

I think it's those little badges under everyone's names.

 

[vfem]

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Welcome! I'm in Harnett Co and I'm not sure with Washington is?!

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Thanks allabout but for what I still don't see anything?

It's supposed to be assigned here pretty soon.

I think it's those little badges under everyone's names.

Oh okay, people just kept saying congrats and I finally went to the awards announced and looked on there.

 

[vfem]

Its been hot and nasty, but had to take care of some things in the garden anyways.

Check it out... curing onions today!

 

[Miss Lydia]

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yummy!!!

 

[BHep]

buttercup..... it"sounds" like it may have been to hot but it could just be failure to thrive. I have noticed that if it is too hot in the brooder the chicks lay out flat with their wings out panting. Also they are spread out instead of in a pile.

sorry for the loss

Vfem... NICE

Greeneacre.........

Wellllll

I guess I will be done after the eggs I won on auction are shipped & hatched.

oops 2 auctions... then I'm done !

And while I am confessing.... I just pulled 18 eggs out of the fridge to experiment with. Anywhere from 1 day to 7 days old. I will set tonight. I have an excuse....

I was asked to bring some chicks to Church on Sat the 25th. We are having a camp day for the younger kids, the bigger kids are going to sleep away camp. Anyway.. I am in charge of the chicks & ducklings.

So I need to set tonight, everything in the bator now is spoken for. We will have mini's there too. Should be fun. I set EEs they hatch out the cutest.

Also I took a zipping egg from one of my bantam broodies. On Tues. I saw one zipping so I left it, went back a few hours later and it was dead, shrink wrapped, I guess from this heat.

This time I took the chick/egg inside, but it in the hatcher and it is screaming in there now.

I have a Austrolorp hen trying to go broody but she is so rough, she keeps crushing the eggs. 3 days she keep sitting on the layers eggs, crushing eggs everyday and mean as a snake. I keep pulling her off , I don't know what to do. It is too hot to brood, she is sticky from egg junk and cranky. I suppose she will need a bath, she is starting to stink

One of my Cohin hens broody decided last night to leave her nest 1/2 way through, the kids locked up & counted heads. But did not check the nest box. She was locked up with the layers all night and no desire to go back to the nest.

I candled and see no movement, maybe they already cooked and she knew.

And one other Cohin hen is sitting on 6 eggs. She is doing good. She gets off regularly for food & water etc... She will be a good mama.