Pipd's Peeps!

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

One of the Crevecoeur eggs was cracked but they sent three extras. All the silkie eggs are good. They didn't mark them for color so it's going to be a surprise hatch on them.

Silkie chicks can be all over the darn place with chick down coloring, so that'll be interesting to figure them out. Just ask Tink

On another note the one silkie I thought was white from TSC has ended up being blue or splash. That makes me so happy.

Yay!! Silkied Blues and Splashes are so pretty! Not that I have any kind of bias there, either.

 

[NagemTX]

Ahhhhh! Didn't make it to the post office in time to pick up my eggs! Now they have to be in the post office till Monday after 4pm.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Oh no!! That stinks! At least they're just sitting there now, not being jostled around on a truck or something, so they should be well rested and ready for the incubator once you get them

 

[NagemTX]

I wouldn't have gotten there on time
I got the message at 11:56am and they close at 12 noon. It is good that they are now resting.

 

[2ndTink]

I wouldn't have gotten there on time
I got the message at 11:56am and they close at 12 noon. It is good that they are now resting.

Geez, that's no notice at all!

And yup, can do some funky colors for sure! That's cool you got a blue or splash, they are so pretty.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Yeah, that's pretty lousy to only give you 4 minutes' notice. Hopefully they do all right sitting at the post office through the weekend until you can get them

 

[NagemTX]

Yeah, that's pretty lousy to only give you 4 minutes' notice. Hopefully they do all right sitting at the post office through the weekend until you can get them

Yeah, they where the most expensive eggs yet. Still cheaper than the adult birds. It's my two dozen blue brassyback rosecombs. I'm so frustrated right now still. I've gotten me some icecream consolation at the moment.

 

[fluffycrow]

I've gotten me some icecream consolation at the moment.

That usually helps a lot

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Yeah, they where the most expensive eggs yet. Still cheaper than the adult birds. It's my two dozen blue brassyback rosecombs. I'm so frustrated right now still. I've gotten me some icecream consolation at the moment.

Darn, not the rosecombs! I know it definitely doesn't fix it, but I hope the ice cream at least made you feel a bit better

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

It's candling day. I've been peeking and I'm pretty sure I have quite a few clears in there, unfortunately. Not sure why all of the eggs from the girls I didn't want to hatch from developed, but now that I've got those girls split out I'm getting patchy fertility out of the girls I actually want chicks from.


It's also setting day for the next batch, this one from Buck's girls as mentioned before. I usually wait until the day 14 candling to remove clears, but I'm thinking it'll probably be better to go ahead and remove the clears in the current batch today and set as many as possible from Buck's group. I'd like to get my hatching done with the Cochins earlier this year, both because it took foreeever for them to grow out, and because I have a lot of things planned for this fall and I really don't want to be juggling peepers in the middle of all that.

The big thing is that I'm applying to go back to college, which I'll hopefully be accepted for and start classes in the fall. Not nervous at all about that...