Population Explosion!!

[sagefox]

So all year I've had my little flock of 9 silkies...now I have my 11 mm chicks, 9 ducklings, 2 goslings and the 6 chicks I hatched on monday....AND now I have 24 eggs due to hatch tomorrow...27 more hatching monday....30 chicks from welp shipping next week...24 button quail, 8 Serama & more silkies hatching next Saturday....
And now I sit here wondering how in the world I got here??? ROTFL

 

[slyfoxpeeps]

I ask myself the same thing. I started last summer with 6 little silkies and my DH swears that I now have 200 with the chicks I just can't stop hatching!!!

 

[Must Be Losing It]

Quail!? How are they to raise, my husband was thinking of quail for next year.

 

[sagefox]

It's those darn silkies!! They sucked me right into the dark underworld of poultry! I never saw this coming... I don't think I ever looked twice at a chicken before I saw silkies...now I think every chicken is beautiful

And now that I started hatching eggs....I'm afraid I'm really doomed!

 

[sagefox]

I've never had quail before...so I'm not sure how it will go...I just think my daughter (ok..me too) will get a kick out of seeing those tiny buttons hatch..they say they're only the size of a bumblebee when they hatch!

 

[Must Be Losing It]

I'll be curious to see how it goes. I think my husband wants me to buy them from McMurray instead of hatching. I get a little nutty around hatching.

 

[silkiechicken]

But hatching is so fun!

Congrats on the new ones!

 

[Leslie In North Pole]

Quail are especially fun to incubate and hatch. I definetely enjoy hatching them (they live in my house, some of their mating calls are a little weird sounding, though I do enjoy the Bobwhites call.)