***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[NanaKat]

Walked the dogs, checked the chickens in the barn andhottub room.
Checked the hatchcam from Tennessee first...still some babies to hatch yet.
Now COFFEE brb

 

[NanaKat]

Thought I'd repost this so our little ones on the thread could find it easier. Babies are hatching.

For the kids to watch...a guy on the Middle Tennessee thread has this link set up on a live web cam on a batch of eggs due to hatch beginning Feb 7...says most will hatch by the 8th.

http://www.mycampage.com/batorcam

 

[artsyrobin]

morning guys, first cup drunk, so my eyes are open- deanna- those were the only ones to hatch, cute little buggers- one of them launched over Latte to land on the white hen's back- it was too funny!

coral- why do your ee's go broody??? Lacy is now broody...silly girl!

 

[SimplyMe_AngieD]

I've been watching the hatchings. Those are so cute!! my girls are cuddled on the couch watching it.

I don't get coffee. My coffee maker broke several months ago. I have been ok without coffee for a while, but these very cold mornings its horrible without coffee! So when the tax refund comes in, I am buying myself a really really nice coffee maker.

I'm going to look on CL to see if I can get two-four hatching eggs of a breed I want to set with this batch of eggs. I have to return the incubator the first week of march. If I get some eggs the next few days, it will be pushing it, but I should be able to hatch. I figure if I am already hatching the broilers, I also hatch something I really want all at once.

 

[Oakieridge]

I've been watching the hatchings. Those are so cute!! my girls are cuddled on the couch watching it.

I don't get coffee. My coffee maker broke several months ago. I have been ok without coffee for a while, but these very cold mornings its horrible without coffee! So when the tax refund comes in, I am buying myself a really really nice coffee maker.

I'm going to look on CL to see if I can get two-four hatching eggs of a breed I want to set with this batch of eggs. I have to return the incubator the first week of march. If I get some eggs the next few days, it will be pushing it, but I should be able to hatch. I figure if I am already hatching the broilers, I also hatch something I really want all at once.

What did you have to do to get the incubator? I am thinking of calling our OSU extention office today. We have 4 eggs ready to set (1 blue splash maran, 2 cuckoo maran and 1 golden salmon maran) I will probably get more in the next 2 days those are just from yesterday. I want to try it before we invest in an incubator of our own.

Cathie

 

[Poco Pollo]

Robin - None of my breeding stock (EEs) have ever gone broody. You are just lucky, I guess.

I watched the TN hatch for a bit. Really neat to watch the little guys pip. When I checked my hatcher this morning, I found 18 of 20 hatched and dry. This is a first. I've never had a whole group hatch on the same day. The stragglers are still in the hatcher, but I have a feeling they are not going to pip. This hatch is all EEs, mostly dark, but many that will have color as they grow. I have lots and lots of puffy little faces and rear ends in the brooder today. The chick on the left got a piece of wood shaving caught on his leg. He walked around in circles, like a puppy, trying to get it free. After he gave up, a curious hatchmate spotted the shaving and pulled it off. That's EE teamwork

 

[Oakieridge]

OMGosh I love having chickens but no one told me having itty bitty chicks were so much fun! They are so stinking cute! I could sit forever watching them play and then settle to sleep only to have one jump off into the huddle and wake everyone up. I even think my hubby enjoys the babies as much as I do! LOL he is building them a bigger brooder and a 2nd brooder for the older chicks to move to. I can now see how babies are addicting. I may be in trouble if we learn to hatch our own, haha.

Cathie

 

[artsyrobin]

awww... they are so cute coral!! i gave Lacy the other EE broody one of lea's later hatchings eggs, so she'll have one baby... i iam really scratching my head trying to set up broody pens!! at this rate i'll bring some hatclings to the get together in june!

 

[artsyrobin]

what breeds are you wanting? someone here may donate a few...

can't go without coffee... specially on cold mornings

I've been watching the hatchings. Those are so cute!! my girls are cuddled on the couch watching it.

I don't get coffee. My coffee maker broke several months ago. I have been ok without coffee for a while, but these very cold mornings its horrible without coffee! So when the tax refund comes in, I am buying myself a really really nice coffee maker.

I'm going to look on CL to see if I can get two-four hatching eggs of a breed I want to set with this batch of eggs. I have to return the incubator the first week of march. If I get some eggs the next few days, it will be pushing it, but I should be able to hatch. I figure if I am already hatching the broilers, I also hatch something I really want all at once.

 

[Sooner]

Good Morning everyone.

Babies are so cute & fun to watch. Thanks for the pic POCO, I love seeing babies.

DD went to the eye exam & her eye's are just fine so if the migrains continue we will have to go to the doc. Hopefully this doesn't continue & was only because she was overly tired.

Dreary morning here & already had to hike up the hill to try to find DD phone, she lost it when she got her jeep stuck in the pasture......we didn't find it

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