Peeps in Europe!

[Spudsnsalsa]

@abpatchy, Party at our house! I came home from work this afternoon and both of my daughters were all excited....out FIRST EGG! Perfect shape and white as snow! Laid by our girl Bella. View attachment 1872412

Awww such a perfect moment caught on camera for her memories!! Congratulations! Still waiting to get my first hens

 

[Spudsnsalsa]

So been kind of crazy here. When the weather was great we landed with unexpected visitors from the States and used to sun to show them the sights. Got 3 of the four walls framed before the rains moved in ....

There it sits awaiting the return of the sun!! Meanwhile a friend was looking to rehome a pine wardrobe for free so I raised my hand real quick and now am working on an idea I've had for a while.

Just a standard two door wardrobe. This side will face into my 'work room' and hopefully will make it easier for chicken sitters to collect the eggs because....

The side that will face into their space will have a 'hospital wing' below communal roll away nest box. [Hubby sill not wrapping his brain about the different needs for broodies versus broody breaking so just started calling it the hospital wing so he knew what part of the wardrobe I was referencing LOL]Still have plenty to do like build door frames for the hospital wing both front and back plus build the vertical partition to separate the nest box from the egg collection side....then there is the caulking and painting too! But at least creeping closer to getting my first girls

 

[abpatchy]

So been kind of crazy here. When the weather was great we landed with unexpected visitors from the States and used to sun to show them the sights. Got 3 of the four walls framed before the rains moved in ....
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There it sits awaiting the return of the sun!! Meanwhile a friend was looking to rehome a pine wardrobe for free so I raised my hand real quick and now am working on an idea I've had for a while.View attachment 1872683
Just a standard two door wardrobe. This side will face into my 'work room' and hopefully will make it easier for chicken sitters to collect the eggs because....View attachment 1872685
The side that will face into their space will have a 'hospital wing' below communal roll away nest box. [Hubby sill not wrapping his brain about the different needs for broodies versus broody breaking so just started calling it the hospital wing so he knew what part of the wardrobe I was referencing LOL]Still have plenty to do like build door frames for the hospital wing both front and back plus build the vertical partition to separate the nest box from the egg collection side....then there is the caulking and painting too! But at least creeping closer to getting my first girls

really nice job!!!

 

[Papa John59]

@Erba, So you come from the Great White North, ey? Truth be told, I'm not from Germany either! Hence, the reason we have an Amrock! The breeder whom we bought our pullets from had a flock of Sussex. Your Roo looks like a champ BTW.

 

[Papa John59]

@Spudsnsalsa, what a great ideal to refurbish the wardrobe!

 

[Erba]

@Erba, So you come from the Great White North, ey? Truth be told, I'm not from Germany either! Hence, the reason we have an Amrock! The breeder whom we bought our pullets from had a flock of Sussex. Your Roo looks like a champ BTW.

I was raised in Vancouver, maybe not the great white north, but as a kid we got lots of snow on the north shore. I actually lived a while in Beaverton, Oregon, where I got my first taste of chickens. The neighbour had some and I was friends with his daughter. I even got to see him chop off their heads on a block...good times we had.

Wow Amrocks, I'm impressed! Bet you don't find many of them in German land ey?

 

[abpatchy]

I was raised in Vancouver, maybe not the great white north, but as a kid we got lots of snow on the north shore. I actually lived a while in Beaverton, Oregon, where I got my first taste of chickens. The neighbour had some and I was friends with his daughter. I even got to see him chop off their heads on a block...good times we had.

Wow Amrocks, I'm impressed! Bet you don't find many of them in German land ey?

Vancouver, my daugher lives there! And I have a friend in Delta. Known her since I was 15. Not going to tell you how long ago that was.

 

[Papa John59]

Vancouver! Beaverton! I know them both! I live down near Tocoma, before I retired and moved back over here! As for Amrocks, they can be found all over Germany. You looking for some?

 

[Erba]

Oh I didn't know Amrocks were popular in Germany. I'll pass on the Amrocks at the moment, because I've got 14 eggs in my incubator and these two from the first hatch. Mom is obviously a Light Sussex cross, cause that chick looks speckled to me...lol

 

[Erba]

I candled the eleven eggs in incubator #1, last night. It's was the 10th day and all seem good except one. It has a lot of calcium spots, the only one that does and doesn't seem to be developing at all. I left it in anyway.

Anyone of you know if these calcium spots could be the reason it just didn't develop. It's looking like a yolk with a black bit in the middle.
Pretty new to incubating, and probably should have candled the eggs before I put them in, but ain't nobody got time for that!!...lol

It was laid on the 1st August, went in on the second, like another of its kind, that is developing very well.