NY chicken lover!!!!

[vmdanielsen]

I do believe that the hatch is over. 1 egg with no pipping or cheeping in the egg. Left it in there till I get home from work. Looks like 19 healthy chicks! Will try to take pictures tomorrow and post, but don't get your hopes up. I am a neanderthal when it comes to technology.................

 

[Framac]

Vmdanielsen,

Congrats on the good hatch!!!

Chris

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Hey Ginny! Congrats on the new peepers! You arent the only one who is a dinosaur when it comes to technology.

Order is going out today for april. 15 straight run rhode island reds, 5 barred rock pullets and 5 red sexlink pullets. I am so excited. Babies should be here the first week of april. Now we really gotta work on that coop. I am still looking for blue silkie hatching eggs. No rush as I still have to build a coop but I finally found one that is simple and fits my needs. Now I am going to try and talk my dd's boyfriend into building it for me. Can you say browinie points? hehe

My cheeps are loving this weather but they are driving me crazy stalking the windows. The coop is in a spot where they can see anyone who passes by the sliders in the basement or the kitchen window upstairs. Stalkers go nuts when they see you! You would think that I never feed them or something. They hear everything as well. Sometimes I close the kitchen blind so I can eat in peace with 8 sets of beady eyes watching me. Cant block out the bawking though. Sigh. Too bad I love my girls!

 

[rancher hicks]

Glass - sorry about the chick. It's happened more than once here. I now just put the nest on the floor of my crate and leave it at that.
If you decide to give her fertile eggs sometime, I'm not far from the regional market and can meet you there with 3 or 4.

vndaniel - I'm glad you had a good hatch. Lockdown here was yesterday and I'm down to 25. Tossed two and I do think there is a CR egg that may have quit, but I left it just in case.

Can't wait to see pics of your peeps.

 

[happyhensny]

With 4 foot wide you will be able to reach the center and then some. I put a tape measure on the ground and 4ft worked fine for me(I'm 5'4") One great book is The Victory Garden. He lays it all out month by month. Can find this book used on Amazon. or I'm sure at the library.Seed types might be a little dated but one of the best Reference books out there.Tried the potatoes in a plastic tub last year; the yield was OK. Whats great is you just carry the tub over to the garden and dump it out.I can't say if it was the method or the potatoes since I got them from a friend.I even put salads in a tub and move them under a tree in the extreme heat.Start pots every two and have salad and have salad all summer.Even put Swiss chard in a huge metal trough every year.You have to remember I'm working on a very small scale. ~Carol

DD's and I are going to eat lunch then go the library to see what books they have. I have plenty of room but it's time I do not have. Also, my garden must be fenced or the little critters eat everything. I tried tomatoes in buckets and the bunnies ate them to the dirt. I am going to be lettuce blend in window boxes out the kitchen window! There is some fresh salad!

 

[Glasshen]

Thank you, Rancher. I went back to the coop to check yet again and another little one was down in the nest on the floor cheeping loudly. I grabbed the hen and other chick and put them down there, and food and water, but the other girls were way too interested in the whole process and wanted tastes of the chick starter...so I brought the broody bunch in to the basement.

I was raised nicely, and people used to say in distain "Were you raised in a barn..." those people would now be justified in their distain...chickens in the basement, dogs on the furniture, and going out in my pajamas. My Mother is probably looking down and shaking her head, or perhaps spinning...but I'm thinking some of you may understand.

Have to make a dog crate tiny chick proof.

 

[stonykill]

Thank you, Rancher. I went back to the coop to check yet again and another little one was down in the nest on the floor cheeping loudly. I grabbed the hen and other chick and put them down there, and food and water, but the other girls were way too interested in the whole process and wanted tastes of the chick starter...so I brought the broody bunch in to the basement.
I was raised nicely, and people used to say in distain "Were you raised in a barn..." those people would now be justified in their distain...chickens in the basement, dogs on the furniture, and going out in my pajamas. My Mother is probably looking down and shaking her head, or perhaps spinning...but I'm thinking some of you may understand.
Have to make a dog crate tiny chick proof.

I think you just described 99% of us. We get it!

 

[stonykill]

Incubator loaded. Already thinking of the next loading

 

[happyhensny]

Thank you, Rancher. I went back to the coop to check yet again and another little one was down in the nest on the floor cheeping loudly. I grabbed the hen and other chick and put them down there, and food and water, but the other girls were way too interested in the whole process and wanted tastes of the chick starter...so I brought the broody bunch in to the basement.
I was raised nicely, and people used to say in distain "Were you raised in a barn..." those people would now be justified in their distain...chickens in the basement, dogs on the furniture, and going out in my pajamas. My Mother is probably looking down and shaking her head, or perhaps spinning...but I'm thinking some of you may understand.
Have to make a dog crate tiny chick proof.

I cut up cereal boxes to line the inside of the crate if it a metal wire one. Cats on the couch, pj's outside, chicks will be in the kitchen soon enough (only for a week or so, kids like to play with them!)

It's all good.

 

[ktblue3]

Wow! What did you do? What was your humidity and temp? Did you rinse eggs before? Did you have to help any out?
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