North Carolina
- Thread starter ruachicken1
- Start date
Quote:
Quote:
& Congrats!!!
Was I really over the incubator window saying " here chic chic chic"? Incubation does weird things to me! Hope I'm not crazy.
- Apr 7, 2009
- 58
- 3
- 41
Quote:
Don't feel bad Story... I do a little whistle cheep to encourage mine to hatch when the eggs start rolling..
.or when one is particularly slow and needing a bit of encouragement...yea, im nuts...love to hatch....my new incubator should be here any day....
Don't feel bad Story... I do a little whistle cheep to encourage mine to hatch when the eggs start rolling..
Quote:
I cluck at mine like a mother hen. I also wistle at times.
Matt - who is trying to keep to the promise of no chicks till late March.
I cluck at mine like a mother hen. I also wistle at times.
Matt - who is trying to keep to the promise of no chicks till late March.
Quote:
Good to see more people from this neck of the woods. I have too many chicks in the house.
31 chicks and 5 duckling. I know.....I'm nuts but I can't put them out in this cold. I put out 19 EE and 7 Austrolorps just before Thanksgiving. That were fully feathered , almost 2 months old. I lost 4 EE pullets & 1 Austrolorp pullet even with a heatlamp (250w). They were smothered, I think. I have never felt so guilty. Never again. I have a real big house with plenty of corners to stick cages and I will leave them in till spring if necessary. Its a lot to clean up after but I have 3 kids that are hugh helpers, they love, love these birds. Some birds are in my laundry room, some in a formal living room, that we never use. When people come over they don't even know I have them in here unless I tell them. Then they don't believe me until I show them.
Did I mention the eggs in the incubators.....10 in 1 bator and 7 in another. *sigh* I am ready for Spring!!
Ok...out to the barn, my daughter just came in to tell me the water in running again. Thankfully...I hate carring out water.
Good to see more people from this neck of the woods. I have too many chicks in the house.
31 chicks and 5 duckling. I know.....I'm nuts but I can't put them out in this cold. I put out 19 EE and 7 Austrolorps just before Thanksgiving. That were fully feathered , almost 2 months old. I lost 4 EE pullets & 1 Austrolorp pullet even with a heatlamp (250w). They were smothered, I think. I have never felt so guilty. Never again. I have a real big house with plenty of corners to stick cages and I will leave them in till spring if necessary. Its a lot to clean up after but I have 3 kids that are hugh helpers, they love, love these birds. Some birds are in my laundry room, some in a formal living room, that we never use. When people come over they don't even know I have them in here unless I tell them. Then they don't believe me until I show them.
Did I mention the eggs in the incubators.....10 in 1 bator and 7 in another. *sigh* I am ready for Spring!!
Ok...out to the barn, my daughter just came in to tell me the water in running again. Thankfully...I hate carring out water.
Quote:
Good to see more people from this neck of the woods. I have too many chicks in the house.
31 chicks and 5 duckling. I know.....I'm nuts but I can't put them out in this cold. I put out 19 EE and 7 Austrolorps just before Thanksgiving. That were fully feathered , almost 2 months old. I lost 4 EE pullets & 1 Austrolorp pullet even with a heatlamp (250w). They were smothered, I think. I have never felt so guilty. Never again. I have a real big house with plenty of corners to stick cages and I will leave them in till spring if necessary. Its a lot to clean up after but I have 3 kids that are hugh helpers, they love, love these birds. Some birds are in my laundry room, some in a formal living room, that we never use. When people come over they don't even know I have them in here unless I tell them. Then they don't believe me until I show them.
Did I mention the eggs in the incubators.....10 in 1 bator and 7 in another. *sigh* I am ready for Spring!!
Ok...out to the barn, my daughter just came in to tell me the water in running again. Thankfully...I hate carring out water.
I am sorry to hear about the chicks you lost
I have not lost any chicks yet to the cold and hope that I don't. We have chickens in our house right now to LOL
Good to see more people from this neck of the woods. I have too many chicks in the house.
31 chicks and 5 duckling. I know.....I'm nuts but I can't put them out in this cold. I put out 19 EE and 7 Austrolorps just before Thanksgiving. That were fully feathered , almost 2 months old. I lost 4 EE pullets & 1 Austrolorp pullet even with a heatlamp (250w). They were smothered, I think. I have never felt so guilty. Never again. I have a real big house with plenty of corners to stick cages and I will leave them in till spring if necessary. Its a lot to clean up after but I have 3 kids that are hugh helpers, they love, love these birds. Some birds are in my laundry room, some in a formal living room, that we never use. When people come over they don't even know I have them in here unless I tell them. Then they don't believe me until I show them.
Did I mention the eggs in the incubators.....10 in 1 bator and 7 in another. *sigh* I am ready for Spring!!
Ok...out to the barn, my daughter just came in to tell me the water in running again. Thankfully...I hate carring out water.
I am sorry to hear about the chicks you lost
The posed group shot:
so cuddly
so cuddly
What a sweet picture, they do look cuddly!
is that 7 total?
Last edited:
Similar threads
New posts New threads Active threads
-
Latest threads
-
Regrets on sand in run?
- Started by M_Struna
- Replies: 0
-
-
-
-
-
-
Threads with more replies in the last 15 days
-
-
-
Question of the Day - Thursday, August 14th, 2025- Started by casportpony
- Replies: 75
-
-
-
