North Carolina

[farmraised86]

Somebody's gonna have a hefty phone bill come teenage years lol sounds like you got a romeo on your hands haha my son is not even 2 and is already a little flirt, he was my christmas present we were in the news paper front page when he was born too (the son of a Carpenter born on Christmas)

Not chicken related, but I am probably in trouble when it comes to my son who is in elementary school. A few classes were doing a spanish program and during a free dance of the merengue, a young lady (classmate) grabbed him and pulled him on stage to dance with her. After their class presented the cumbia dance, in which he danced with two different young ladies, the first young lady came back to hold hands with him before they took their bow. So not looking forward to junior high or high school.

Good luck with your birds and have a great weekend everyone.

 

[jtbass2756]

Somebody's gonna have a hefty phone bill come teenage years lol sounds like you got a romeo on your hands haha my son is not even 2 and is already a little flirt, he was my christmas present we were in the news paper front page when he was born too (the son of a Carpenter born on Christmas)

 

[Regin]

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Shipping can be very hard on hatching eggs. I had 24 black ameraucanas that only had 4 hatch.

I've had others that hatched very well. It depends on the handling from the USPS.
FYI: USPS policy (package handling) is that a six foot toss is efficient.

I take the risk because it's the easiest way to get a variety or stock from particular breeders.

 

[farmraised86]

I'm dreading my daughter going to school because I know how little boys are and she was born on 6-9 at 6:09 and weight was 6.9 so I'm not looking forward to the dirty jokes when the boys catch on :/

 

[jtbass2756]

I'm dreading my daughter going to school because I know how little boys are and she was born on 6-9 at 6:09 and weight was 6.9 so I'm not looking forward to the dirty jokes when the boys catch on

I can laugh a little because I've gotten mine through all of that and they lived to tell about it !!!

Crying now that I have a granddaughter getting ready to enter middle school and another one already in and going to the 7th grade and a grandson going into the 9th.......

Those I have NO control over.!

 

[cwhittington]

Don't worry, moms of girls, I'm raising my boys to be real gentlemen. Now if the little girls would just stop trying to trap them and kiss them on the playground...

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

I am very glad my kids are grown! On the other hand, my daughter will give me my first grandchild this July! At least they live far enough away that I won't have to watch the day-to-day happenings!

Back to chickens...I've never had good hatch rates with shipped eggs. Even when the box shows no damage, I have had broken eggs and seriously detached cells. I no longer buy them unless they are close enough to drive to get them. I'll drive quite a few hours, but I must drive. Buying a half dozen eggs and having one hatch gives me nothing. I put a lot of money into eggs last year and have very little to show for it. Very, very, little.

 

[farmraised86]

Any cheap but effective recomendations for lice? I notice a pretty good size patch of eggs under my lavender sebright roo's chin/neck this morning

 

[dutchbunny83]

I am very glad my kids are grown! On the other hand, my daughter will give me my first grandchild this July! At least they live far enough away that I won't have to watch the day-to-day happenings!

Back to chickens...I've never had good hatch rates with shipped eggs. Even when the box shows no damage, I have had broken eggs and seriously detached cells. I no longer buy them unless they are close enough to drive to get them. I'll drive quite a few hours, but I must drive. Buying a half dozen eggs and having one hatch gives me nothing. I put a lot of money into eggs last year and have very little to show for it. Very, very, little.

Shipping can be very hard on hatching eggs. I had 24 black ameraucanas that only had 4 hatch.

I've had others that hatched very well. It depends on the handling from the USPS.
FYI: USPS policy (package handling) is that a six foot toss is efficient.

I take the risk because it's the easiest way to get a variety or stock from particular breeders.

I've been pretty lucky in the past guess it caught up to me!
I only have one Lavender Leghorn and one Jubilee Orpington looking good, I hope at least they hatch and they're girls! I was really hoping to keep a couple roo's long enough to get some good eggs from them before having to rehome.

Both chocolates were no good.
And only 2 out of 12 Exchequer Leghorns are still in there.

I tried to find eggs locally but no one had what I wanted, even in a driving distance.

 

[JayDubYa]

Back to chickens...I've never had good hatch rates with shipped eggs. Even when the box shows no damage, I have had broken eggs and seriously detached cells. I no longer buy them unless they are close enough to drive to get them. I'll drive quite a few hours, but I must drive. Buying a half dozen eggs and having one hatch gives me nothing. I put a lot of money into eggs last year and have very little to show for it. Very, very, little.

I had 33 eggs enroute when we had that cold snap in late March. Most were iffy on arrival, 7 made it to lock down (and I was being hopeful on many of them) and 2 hatched, and 1 made it. I also had my temp too high, I think. . .

So, the ONE beautiful partridge silkie is named. . .Money Honey...Because she is one expensive bird. (positive hope for a pullet)...But Em is cute...

JW