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[Kyzmette]

Welcome Sagetown. That sounds like a heck of a chicken history!

 

[cathiesue]

Note to self.
When feeding chickens take egg basket.
Do not put eggs in coat pocket .

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It's hard to know when to take a basket these days. One day to the next there could be none to 9 eggs. I've washed my barn coat more this winter than I ever have before. lol.

 

[Sagetown]

I defiantly am!!

Welcome Sagetown. That sounds like a heck of a chicken history!

Thank Y'All for the Welcome. You know, from all the searching about those lil Jap Bantams, most folk say they're not good layers. Well; right now between the three of them I'm averaging 2 tiny Eggs a day since they turned 21 weeks old. Not bad considering the below freezing weather. I'm having to keep a brooder lamp on above the hanging waterer. However, the 4 Buff Orp Bantams are now 24 weeks old and they're holding out on me.

 

[aShMaNv]

Thank Y'All for the Welcome.  You know, from all the searching about those lil Jap Bantams, most folk say they're not good layers.  Well; right now between the three of them I'm averaging 2 tiny Eggs a day since they turned 21 weeks old.  Not bad considering the below freezing weather.  I'm having to keep a brooder lamp on above the hanging waterer.   However, the 4 Buff Orp Bantams are now 24 weeks old and they're holding out on me.

Welcome sagetown. Sometimes waiting on pullets to lay reminds me of waiting for Christmas morning as a kid lol.

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

Note to self.
When feeding chickens take egg basket.
Do not put eggs in coat pocket .

:

I have SO been there......

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

Thank Y'All for the Welcome. You know, from all the searching about those lil Jap Bantams, most folk say they're not good layers. Well; right now between the three of them I'm averaging 2 tiny Eggs a day since they turned 21 weeks old. Not bad considering the below freezing weather. I'm having to keep a brooder lamp on above the hanging waterer. However, the 4 Buff Orp Bantams are now 24 weeks old and they're holding out on me.

The egg waiting game!!! I'm not sure on the Bantam Orps but my Standard Buff Orp was one of the last to start, around 28 weeks or so. It was worth the wait, she gives me 4 to 5 round Peachy-pink eggs a week. (Her egg is in my Profile pic and that is her looking up!)

Okay; I'm from SE Oklahoma, near Ft. Smith, Arkansas. Back in the 70's after I returned from Vietnam, I moved my young family back here to the old ranch house after Mom and Dad built a new home closer to civilization.

I raised a garden, chickens, geese, ducks, pheasants, rabbits, turkeys, barn cats, stray dogs, cattle, bottle fed orphan calves, hogs, sheep, horses and their foals, goats, kept a milk cow that I milked twice a day (hint ~ the barn cats. They love fresh milk, and my daughter loved kittens). Wheeu; No wonder I'm tired.
So, now, the kids have married, and gone. Don't have a need for much, other than a few longhorn cows, a couple of old ewes, and some old range hens. I've always wanted Rhode Island Red Bantam chickens for some reason. So, after varmits caught most of my range hens, I ordered those RI's, but got a call, and the hatchery was out of them , it being late August of 2013, so I ended up with 10 Japanese White Blacktails, and 15 Buff Orpingtons. Of all of those, most were Cockerels, which has left me with a mere 4 Buffs, and 4 Japs, and one of them is a Roo. Being retired , I have plenty of time on my hands to spend with them and chat about chickens, the country and the farm in general, so here I am.

Welcome! You managed to find one of the best threads I've found on BYC!

 

[hotcurltr]

Okay; I'm from SE Oklahoma, near Ft. Smith, Arkansas. Back in the 70's after I returned from Vietnam, I moved my young family back here to the old ranch house after Mom and Dad built a new home closer to civilization.

I raised a garden, chickens, geese, ducks, pheasants, rabbits, turkeys, barn cats, stray dogs, cattle, bottle fed orphan calves, hogs, sheep, horses and their foals, goats, kept a milk cow that I milked twice a day (hint ~ the barn cats. They love fresh milk, and my daughter loved kittens). Wheeu; No wonder I'm tired.
So, now, the kids have married, and gone. Don't have a need for much, other than a few longhorn cows, a couple of old ewes, and some old range hens. I've always wanted Rhode Island Red Bantam chickens for some reason. So, after varmits caught most of my range hens, I ordered those RI's, but got a call, and the hatchery was out of them , it being late August of 2013, so I ended up with 10 Japanese White Blacktails, and 15 Buff Orpingtons. Of all of those, most were Cockerels, which has left me with a mere 4 Buffs, and 4 Japs, and one of them is a Roo. Being retired , I have plenty of time on my hands to spend with them and chat about chickens, the country and the farm in general, so here I am.

Okay; I'm from SE Oklahoma, near Ft. Smith, Arkansas. Back in the 70's after I returned from Vietnam, I moved my young family back here to the old ranch house after Mom and Dad built a new home closer to civilization.

I raised a garden, chickens, geese, ducks, pheasants, rabbits, turkeys, barn cats, stray dogs, cattle, bottle fed orphan calves, hogs, sheep, horses and their foals, goats, kept a milk cow that I milked twice a day (hint ~ the barn cats. They love fresh milk, and my daughter loved kittens). Wheeu; No wonder I'm tired.
So, now, the kids have married, and gone. Don't have a need for much, other than a few longhorn cows, a couple of old ewes, and some old range hens. I've always wanted Rhode Island Red Bantam chickens for some reason. So, after varmits caught most of my range hens, I ordered those RI's, but got a call, and the hatchery was out of them , it being late August of 2013, so I ended up with 10 Japanese White Blacktails, and 15 Buff Orpingtons. Of all of those, most were Cockerels, which has left me with a mere 4 Buffs, and 4 Japs, and one of them is a Roo. Being retired , I have plenty of time on my hands to spend with them and chat about chickens, the country and the farm in general, so here I am.

There are are a lot of enablers on this thread but ll good people

 

[Kyzmette]

Do you guys know if there's different rules to incubating bantam eggs from LF eggs? I haven't been able to get any of my Buff Brahma Bantams to hatch yet, even though they seem active all the way up to lockdown.

 

[Sagetown]

Hi Kyzmette: I don't know much about the Bantam breeds, but their incubation period is the same as the standard breeds. Temp, and length of days.
I have heard that certain strains of bantam eggs aren't as fertile as most eggs are. If your chickens are young, the rooster, and, or pullets, at this point may be too immature to produce fertile eggs. Keep trying. You know, you can light test the eggs as they incubate to see if they are fertile and if the embryo is growing inside.

 

[muesky]

Okay; I'm from SE Oklahoma, near Ft. Smith, Arkansas. Back in the 70's after I returned from Vietnam, I moved my young family back here to the old ranch house after Mom and Dad built a new home closer to civilization.

I raised a garden, chickens, geese, ducks, pheasants, rabbits, turkeys, barn cats, stray dogs, cattle, bottle fed orphan calves, hogs, sheep, horses and their foals, goats, kept a milk cow that I milked twice a day (hint ~ the barn cats. They love fresh milk, and my daughter loved kittens). Wheeu; No wonder I'm tired.
So, now, the kids have married, and gone. Don't have a need for much, other than a few longhorn cows, a couple of old ewes, and some old range hens. I've always wanted Rhode Island Red Bantam chickens for some reason. So, after varmits caught most of my range hens, I ordered those RI's, but got a call, and the hatchery was out of them , it being late August of 2013, so I ended up with 10 Japanese White Blacktails, and 15 Buff Orpingtons. Of all of those, most were Cockerels, which has left me with a mere 4 Buffs, and 4 Japs, and one of them is a Roo. Being retired , I have plenty of time on my hands to spend with them and chat about chickens, the country and the farm in general, so here I am.

First off welcome home and thank you for your service..

Okie style!!!

Do you guys know if there's different rules to incubating bantam eggs from LF eggs? I haven't been able to get any of my Buff Brahma Bantams to hatch yet, even though they seem active all the way up to lockdown.

I don't know about other breeds but I know my LF cochins sometimes a day or two longer then the bantam cochin eggs did..