online Crazy Egg Chain Chat thread

[CapricornFarm]

OMG , I got chewed by chiggers yesterday! I have tons of bites. Took a Benadryl , now I will be drowsy all day. That's what happens when I work in the outback !

 

[shellyga]

We just finished the new pen for the Coronation Sussex.. now they can move out of the chick grow out pen.. actually they have ALREADY moved..

It is our effort to try to rehabilitate some birds raised in cages.. they took their first dust bath in the chick pen.. waiting to see what they do with grass and tall weeds that are in their new coop.. they still have not roosted.. but maybe evenutally.. The rooster is a gem.. he always comes to try the new treats I put in the pen..then lets his ladies know they are good.. watermellon, bread.. cool cutup cucumber..etc

Hoping they will reward me with some nice eggs

Shelly

 

[emvickrey]

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Dab clear fingernail polish on the bites. It suffocates the mite and it dies. I'm chigger bait, they just love me. I have a couple pens on the back side of my coop which is very near the woods. I know thats where they're gettimg me at. Last year I think they thought I was a free meal. DH was counting the spots as he dabbed polish on them and he stopped counting at 154. This year isn't as bad. Probably about a dozen bites.

 

[emvickrey]

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My roos cluck and call their girls to get their fill, then they eat. They take a bite from time to time but let the ladies eat first. Real gentlemen.

 

[tazcat70]

Or you can also take a wash cloth with strong bleach water and wipe it over your bites. It also kills em. This saved my daughter a few years ago when she was COVERED with bites. I had never heard of it before that.

 

[itsiebitsiefarm]

Well, I can now add button quail, to my hatch list. Today, I hatched the cutest little tiny buttons, from Shelleyd2008. OMG so tiny!!

I opened up the bator, and they were trying to hide under the bantam cochin chicks, that had hatched today too. LOL So cute!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I am waiting on two sets of quail eggs to be shipped to me. On their way actually , I think. Be careful with those button quail, when they get startled, they fly straight up and can scalp themselves if the top of the cage is too low. ;-)

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I had one that got out of her cage once. She got in between two brooders (rubbermaid totes). She flew straight up, instantly breaking her neck. They are definitely flighty little boogers. But in my almost 3 years of having them, she was the first one I'd had get injured or killed from it.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I once had button quail and geese hatching at the same time in the same incubator. Obviously, I couldn't keep them together. Those poor button babies cried for days after I took them away from their 'mamas'

But if I hatch them with Serama, they just stay together. The Serama are so tiny that they don't really pay much attention to the buttons

 

[itsiebitsiefarm]

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I once had button quail and geese hatching at the same time in the same incubator. Obviously, I couldn't keep them together. Those poor button babies cried for days after I took them away from their 'mamas'

But if I hatch them with Serama, they just stay together. The Serama are so tiny that they don't really pay much attention to the buttons

http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/qq337/shelleyd2008/chickens/seramas/DSC00357.jpg

O, I have a few Serama eggs, you sent me. They will be hatching in a few days too.

Next, on my list to purchase from you.... will be some of your duck eggs.