NY chicken lover!!!!

[horsekeeper]

Awww

Nothing cuter than chicks except ducklings.

Here are a few of mine that hatched last weekend and this weekend:

 

[Lynzi777]

Awww Nothing cuter than chicks except ducklings. Here are a few of mine that hatched last weekend and this weekend:

I don't even have my ducklings yet and I think you're right! I'm forwarding all calls to my cell phone this weekend since I'll be in CT visiting family. I don't want to miss my phone call of when my ducklings arrive!

 

[vmdanielsen]

Get some cornmeal and put some of that and the mealworms in a tupperware or disposable rubbermaid container with air holes...you can leave them on the counter for a REALLY LONG time as long as they have the cornmeal, and they will get bigger too...my daughter has mealwroms leftover from a science project a couple months ago that she feeds and we plan to feed them to our chicks when they get a bit bigger.

I use oatmeal. If you ut in some potato peel for moisture you can safely leave them for a very long time.


Everybody's chicks look great! I have 25 eggs going into lockdown tomorrow then 25, 2 days after that!!!! YYiippee!! The first batch are the shipped buckeyes (plus 5 of my own) that took 5 days to get here.

 

[blzzrdqueen]

I use oatmeal. If you ut in some potato peel for moisture you can safely leave them for a very long time.

Yup, we have put all sorts of fruit and veggies in there and they love it! Our meal worms are huge! and we have some that are now beetles...that my daughter is hoping to get new mealworms from.

 

[rancher hicks]

got home around 8 or so. Had to collect eggs and nearly forgot about the hatch I'm so tired.

There was the one BM still trying to get out of the egg. I opened the darn incu and took it out and finished the job. It was just hanging there over the edge of the shell.

Then there was an EE still working and I in frustration just took the darn thing out and crush the shell some do it could get out.

So it stands so far at 1/8 on the BM's, 6/11 on the EE's, 5/8 on the Dels, 4/5 on the CRs. 16/32 eggs.

I am really disgusted with the BM's. I can't figure out why they don't hatch. I ran the humidity low like suggested. Only two pipped. The one just made a hole and gave up.

I have had much better hatches. I may buy another thermometer/hygrometer and put them both in and see if there is a discrepancy.

Anyhow I'll have to wait til tomorrow to move everyone to a brooder.

nite all,

Rancher

 

[vmdanielsen]

Yup, we have put all sorts of fruit and veggies in there and they love it! Our meal worms are huge! and we have some that are now beetles...that my daughter is hoping to get new mealworms from.

Since beetles lay the eggs to start the whole cycle again, I put them in a fresh container, so when I finish the mealworms in that particular container, I can toss the frass into a houseplant w/o fear of the plant sprouting mealworms from the eggs that were layed.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Quote: The you tube mix does make it hard to figure out...Noah Hunt is a good singer & player too. They seem to work well together & be having fun which is good
I dont know if you like Guns & Roses ? Together they were dynamite ..apart / alone not so great ..now

 

[Gramma Chick]

Awww

Nothing cuter than chicks except ducklings.

Here are a few of mine that hatched last weekend and this weekend:

These are all Chicks Right ? Not duckys ...What kind are these ? Cute Markings..

Quote: Cute Babies ALL !
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unless you mean to post all those pics again ..

 

[horsekeeper]

The first pictures are of marans and marans crosses from our own chickens. My rooster is a double barred golden cuckoo marans and my daughter has a regular golden marans rooster. The eggs were from cuckoo marans, golden cuckoo, blue marans, white easter egger, olive egger, buff orp, white rock, and black australorp. All the babies have fuzzy legs. Got 22 out of 26 first try and all were fertile.

This is my rooster and a couple of his hens:



The second batch was mixed mutt from a flock of 100 mixed with everything that I got as part of the deal in a duck trade. I offered 5 muscovies for a trio of pekins. We set 55 and got about 15. Still not sure if the late ones will survive. Poor chickens were living on scratch feed, so most quit after the second week or needed help.

 

[Henicillin]

The first pictures are of marans and marans crosses from our own chickens. My rooster is a double barred golden cuckoo marans and my daughter has a regular golden marans rooster. The eggs were from cuckoo marans, golden cuckoo, blue marans, white easter egger, olive egger, buff orp, white rock, and black australorp. All the babies have fuzzy legs. Got 22 out of 26 first try and all were fertile. This is my rooster and a couple of his hens: The second batch was mixed mutt from a flock of 100 mixed with everything that I got as part of the deal in a duck trade. I offered 5 muscovies for a trio of pekins. We set 55 and got about 15. Still not sure if the late ones will survive. Poor chickens were living on scratch feed, so most quit after the second week or needed help.

Your roo is gorgeous!