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[artsyrobin]

does anyone have a broody i can borrow?? i have 3 weak guinea chicks sleeping under my arm- they can't seem to walk well, am trying to get them to drink water w/crumble in it and they are too weak to be with mama


edited to add:

of the 4 Mama has the strong one,Enter Maisy, silkie, never brooded, those babies dove under her, an she kind of froze, then relaxed, seems she is cut out for this and is now in the dog bed with 3 weak keets and is

a new mama

 

[Loriemarler]

does anyone have a broody i can borrow?? i have 3 weak guinea chicks sleeping under my arm- they can't seem to walk well, am trying to get them to drink water w/crumble in it and they are too weak to be with mama edited to add: of the 4 Mama has the strong one,Enter Maisy, silkie, never brooded, those babies dove under her, an she kind of froze, then relaxed, seems she is cut out for this and is now in the dog bed with 3 weak keets and is a new mama

Awe so sweet!! You go Maisy!!

 

[Kyzmette]

does anyone have a broody i can borrow?? i have 3 weak guinea chicks sleeping under my arm- they can't seem to walk well, am trying to get them to drink water w/crumble in it and they are too weak to be with mama edited to add: of the 4 Mama has the strong one,Enter Maisy, silkie, never brooded, those babies dove under her, an she kind of froze, then relaxed, seems she is cut out for this and is now in the dog bed with 3 weak keets and is a new mama

How precious is that???

 

[cathiesue]

So, whoever put up that link to the Cutler website. I don't know whether to strangle you or praise you. I'm getting a catalog and will probably be like a kid with the Toys R Us holiday catalog.

Weed identification is so helpful. I'm glad to know what many of mine are. I have only one that wasn't in the pictures. Apparently I have ragweed everywhere. I'm one of the lucky ones that have zero allergies. Otherwise i think I might be dead by now.

@ashtree I'm setting your eggs tonight. Mark your calendar.

Rain tomorrow they say.

Went by the plant lady's place. Scored some sturdy Sedum, a bunch of flowering ground cover, ice plant I think. Another batch of iris and a couple of climbing vines. Bean something.

And an aloe vera for the house.

Got my stuff for the capon clinic from Kelly.
Tired now.

g'nite

 

[mjgigax]

I'm always the one in the corner mumbling to myself trying to figure out the joke long after everyone else has moved onto other things:/

glad to know I am not the only one

 

[ashtree]

Build another run

My husbands gonna ban me from this site! (As if)
But really, I was doing the chicken dance (what we call rounding them up at night) and realized there's not a single one I could part with! I really love my girls. I'm having a hard enough time knowing the fate of my roosters.

 

[ashtree]

So, whoever put up that link to the Cutler website. I don't know whether to strangle you or praise you. I'm getting a catalog and will probably be like a kid with  the Toys R Us holiday catalog.

Weed identification is so helpful. I'm glad to know what many of mine are. I have only one that wasn't in the pictures. Apparently I have ragweed everywhere. I'm one of the lucky ones that have zero allergies. Otherwise i think I might be dead by now.

@ashtree
 I'm setting your eggs tonight.  Mark your calendar.

Rain tomorrow they say.

Went by the plant lady's place. Scored some sturdy Sedum, a bunch of flowering ground cover, ice plant I think. Another batch of iris and a couple of climbing vines. Bean something.

And an aloe vera for the house.

Got my stuff for the capon clinic from Kelly.
Tired now.

:/  g'nite

Yea! I'm so excited! Not sure how many you set, but if 4 babies hatch I'll take em all! I know I said 3 originally, so no big deal. Just hoping for 2 pullets! Also weekdays are very hard for me, will you be into meeting the weekend after hatch?

 

[Kyzmette]

My splash Marans has been broody for about two months now. She had a bunch of eggs close to hatch and one of my mom's dogs got in the pen and ate them out from underneath her. I have wasted a number of good eggs since then beaning her every time I see her. She hasn't gone near the pen again, and the last time I left an egg within her reach, she wouldn't touch it. I think she's gotten the message.

I went out the other night to gather eggs and one of them had been opened, the chick inside was a gorgeous blue and fully formed, but dead. I'm not sure what happened, but I have a good guess... Einstein, my Legbar roo, has found out that if he mounts the hens in the nest boxes, Orlando won't know and won't chase him around like a Keystone cop. It's possible his weight and claws on a pipping egg may have been too much.

So I put the nesting box in a closed pen. But Queenie has been flying over the fence and is in another nesting box when I come home from work. Tonight I gathered the eggs (all blue), brought them in and candled them, expecting dead embryos. Not only are they alive, one of them is internally pipping as I write this!

Once the chicks hatch, if I put them in the closed pen with Queenie, will she get over the fence and abandon them?

How do I stop Einstein from getting in the nesting noxes? Little twerp.

 

[Kyzmette]

Yea! I'm so excited! Not sure how many you set, but if 4 babies hatch I'll take em all! I know I said 3 originally, so no big deal. Just hoping for 2 pullets! Also weekdays are very hard for me, will you be into meeting the weekend after hatch?

OMG are you getting Cathie Sue babies?! Lucky girl. She has some super beautiful birds!

 

[ashtree]

OMG are you getting Cathie Sue babies?! Lucky girl. She has some super beautiful birds!

Oh I know! I feel like I won the chicken lottery fingers crossed for a grey pullet! But I love all the colors. Poor dh has had to sit next to me google-ing swedish flower hens for a week now. I got it bad! - chicken fever that is