NY chicken lover!!!!

[Chicken girl 15]

I cant find my thread someone please post a link.. im lost here now.

 

[Peep This 6]

Can anyone tell me roughly how old my Leghorns are? I bought them as babies, but I am unsure how "baby" they were at the time. They grew like weeds!

 

[Purple Iris]

I cant find my thread someone please post a link.. im lost here now.

Sorry not sure how to do that, but if you go into your account, top right of screen, you can access posts you have written - that's how I backtracked to find the NY group yesterday...

 

[myfivegirls]

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Chick one is a darker grey but way better lacing and chick 2 is lighter grey but his lacing isn't as detailed. I hatched these from my own chickens. Moms were ordered from a BYCer in MI (deep red and dark lacing) and the cockerel was from a farmer here in NY outside of Albany (orange-red with lighter lacing). I will not be at chicken stock and i'm asking $10 each for these two. They are about 9 weeks old. I have more hatching this weekend and I'm sure I'll have a lot more cockerels.

Ok, thank you, but I'll pass. I just didn't know of one was the lighter blue. These look pretty similar to the one I'm getting, so don't need another that looks the same.

 

[featherz]

Finally found this thread again!!

Lost two chickens this week to hawks because my rooster is gone /sigh. They'll be locked up for at least a week now but I had to let them out due to the heat.. baaaaad mistake. And this time it was one of my younger naked necks =(

 

[myfivegirls]

Lost two chickens this week to hawks because my rooster is gone /sigh. They'll be locked up for at least a week now but I had to let them out due to the heat.. baaaaad mistake. And this time it was one of my younger naked necks =(

Sorry for your loss!

 

[AmberKnits]

yeah amber the marans can be really hard to hatch. Good luck to you in getting some blues.


I am trying the dry incubation method along with monitoring their weight loss based on the methods found at these two links:


DRY INCUBATION METHOD
http://www.darkbrowneggs.info/#/dry-incubation-method/4559648852

WEIGHT LOSS METHOD
https://poultrykeeper.com/incubating-and-hatching-eggs/weight-loss-method-forl-incubation/



IRIS: to answer your question of why this thread is not showing up: scroll to the bottom of Watched Threads>> See all watched threads

I'll look more into the dry hatching method next time. I didn't add any water to the incubator until lockdown. Humidity was around 30 until lock down (then 60-65 until the first hatch, after that around 70). I'm happy to have 14 chicks, but I lost 6 (2 died after hatch, one pipped and died, 3 didn't hatch).

 

[LavvyTaffy]

Anyone get hit by storms today? We didn't get hit too hard. Thank goodness!

 

[FishMtFarm]

We didn't get a single storm. A little disappointed cause some rain would have felt good.

 

[LavvyTaffy]

We got some rain and thunder. But it hit 90F here!