North Carolina

[BHep]

I only have 2 stuck up Serama mix roosters that are in cages. With some girls of course. They are father & son and just don't know when to quit and I have some REAL big roosters. Hmmmm... I will have to get some pics of them. I have 14 that I am sure of. Plus the babies. I will be weeding them out in the next month or two. All in all they get along. I have almost 9 acres, so they all break off into groups to freerange. That old ugly black Silkie is the boss! All he needs to do is growl and the rest run for their lives.

 

[Miss Lydia]

thats funny that a silkie would be the boss.

 

[BHep]

Here are the 2 Serama chicks I hatched .

 

[Miss Lydia]

Were they hatched this week? I must have missed that one. by look of the feet of the closet to the camera, I'd say rooster..

hows the chick with the problem legs doing?

 

[gavinandallison]

BHep, very pretty chicks!!

Our silkie chicks are officially outside from today. Only the 25 2-week old chicks and the 9 eggs in the incubator now!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Pretty avatar Gavin & Allison, what are ya'll hatching this time?

 

[BHep]

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They are proberly both rooster..

with my luck.

The little BLRW is not doing good at all. Legs are really messed up. I know what I need to do, but will wait until morning when everyone is still sleeping.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I am sorry BHep, I know it's gotta be a hard thing to do, thank goodness my DH takes care of that end of it.. All have a good night.

 

[HenThymes]

Hi all! What a gorgeous day today, we took full advantage of it. Trimmed back lots of trees, cleaned a few pens and even moved a few girls around.

My asparagus is coming up, does that mean spring is here!

Had 7 babies hatch between yesterday and today. 5 of my English orps, one being soo big I had to help as it had no air cell and took up the entire egg. Hatch two bantam orps one black and finally got a blue. Both are new blood for my flock so crossing fingers they do well.

Will get some pictures of them in a day or two when they fluff up a bit more.

 

[suburbanchickymama]

HT - I can't wait to see pictures! I bet they're gorgeous!

Bhep - Your flock is beautiful! And I loooovvvvveeee the baby Seramas!!! I'm sorry about your little BLRW. Maybe overnight nature will take its course or he/she'll make major improvements. Fingers crossed for ya!

I set my 1st eggs tonight! My house warmed up so quickly with this weather I got worried about the eggs "resting" at too warm of a temp so went ahead and put them in. So far temp and humidity have been great! Only issue was that right after I put the eggs in the temp rose quickly. I was expecting the temp to go down for a bit, not warm up quickly! Shows how much I know. Luckily the incubator is right in my kitchen so I pass it every couple of minutes and can check on things. And my homemade hatcher is coming along nicely. I got the aquarium out of the attic and all cleaned up, pulled out a bunch of my wildlife supplies and put a heating pad in the bottom covered by a rubber padding thingy and then a nice soft old baby blanket (which I have thousands of), and then put the humidifier in, threw in a thermometer and hygrometer, covered it with plexiglass and then a blanket and decided to see what happened while I got my kids fed and whatnot. I had the humidifier turned up WAY too high because the whole thing fogged up quickly and read 90something on the hygrometer so it took me a little fiddling to get it at 65%, but once I did it has stayed there! The temp is too low still - right at about 92, so I'm going to work on that tomorrow. But I really feel like once I insulate and add more heat I will be able to get it right!! I guess I have 18 days to get it perfect, huh!?!?

Hope tomorrow is as beautiful as today! Got lots of work to do on the coop!!!