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Stake, when I met you I probably had 20-30 cartons sitting in the cabinet.

Chippy, some feed stores (not TSC) will have them. You can order them online too. I have yet to find a site that you don't pay per carton. So, you can get a few and not get ripped off.
 
MotorcycleChick said:
Stake, when I met you I probably had 20-30 cartons sitting in the cabinet.

Chippy, some feed stores (not TSC) will have them. You can order them online too. I have yet to find a site that you don't pay per carton. So, you can get a few and not get ripped off.
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I've been looking online, and need some blank ones and wanna get my own custom labels. The problem is they're $50 minimum. I'm not spending 50 dollars for 25 egg cartons. That's $2 per a piece of cardboard that holds 6 eggs. No.
 
Tonight was interesting. Most of the chickens put themselves to bed on their own but there were all a few that I had to put in. They were all confused since the nest box is now in place and the hardware cloth covering the open hole is gone. They were just piling up on the floor in front of it so I hauled my butt up into the coop and for the first time put each and every one of their butts up on the roost where they belong. They snuggled right in and went to sleep lol. Maybe they'll remember tomorrow and I won't have to help them. I still need to build a ladder to get up there though for the silkies. I don't want them feeling left out.
 
Auroradream26 said:
Tonight was interesting. Most of the chickens put themselves to bed on their own but there were all a few that I had to put in. They were all confused since the nest box is now in place and the hardware cloth covering the open hole is gone. They were just piling up on the floor in front of it so I hauled my butt up into the coop and for the first time put each and every one of their butts up on the roost where they belong. They snuggled right in and went to sleep lol. Maybe they'll remember tomorrow and I won't have to help them. I still need to build a ladder to get up there though for the silkies. I don't want them feeling left out.
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Hope your girl Maple is doing well...amazing how us backyard folk worry about our chooks...me thinks the more experienced folk think we are nuts...(and we are)
 
One of my guinea eggs is moving! It is only the 22nd day of incubation and it is time to turn the egg. When I candled it, it was completely full inside. Should I turn it or just let it go? Is it going to hatch 6 days early? First time trying to hatch some guineas so if I could get info from someone ASAP it would be great!
 
stake said:
Hope your girl Maple is doing well...amazing how us backyard folk worry about our chooks...me thinks the more experienced folk think we are nuts...(and we are)
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Thanks :) Maple is doing very well. I have to admit, I was afraid she wouldn't make it in with the others this morning (though I wasn't opposed to her becoming a house chicken lol). She actually turned her little break up at me and walked away the last time I went in and talked to her today lol. Though she did listen to me when i told her bedtime tonight. As for being nuts, well, let's just say that in my family, if you're not nuts you fell off the wrong tree lol. I may be the nuttiest of them all! I cried over killing a snake yesterday because I felt so bad for it. I have an unusually strong connection to animals so in my family I'm not only nuts but weird too lol.
 
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Can any of you tell whether this is Lavender colored chick down? This hen is just the broody, she is not the biological mother.
 
chippysmom327 said:
I've been looking online, and need some blank ones and wanna get my own custom labels. The problem is they're $50 minimum. I'm not spending 50 dollars for 25 egg cartons. That's $2 per a piece of cardboard that holds 6 eggs. No.
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the tsc near me sells them for about 50 cents each.................they are for a dozen eggs.

You could cut them in half if you like?
 
troyer said:
Can any of you tell whether this is Lavender colored chick down? This hen is just the broody, she is not the biological mother.
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Lavender (aka self-blue) is completely recessive, so unless your hen was carrying the gene (unlikely), none of the chicks will be lavender in this generation. They will all carry the lavender gene and will express it as a typical recessive in the next generation.

Your chicks are about 50% blue and 50% black, exactly what I would expect from a blue to black (lavender recessive) mating.
 

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