Possible Guinea Eggs in "Quail" Batch?

[Granny Hatchet]

what is SOL ? school always comes first !! GOOD GIRL

speaking from someone that was an expert at slipping out the back door. had the principal chasing me once but he was fat and slow and i was lightning ! And, he didnt see my face. learned a lot that day and none of it was good. except for the fact that my mom could pick up the cheif of police by the neck coller and hold him in the air.

 

[Cheyen]

SOL is Standards of Learning. Certain classes require that you take an SOL test in order to graduate. I have english and history. They're my easiest subjects, so I'm not too worried about it. Luckily, math doesn't have an SOL this year. I'd fail it anyway! lol

 

[Starkasm]

Granny you crack me up!

Well I finally did it. I got off my duff and as of yesterday, I have eggs in the incubator!!!
Don't plan on doing a lot of hatching this year so it's a start...I will try not to get hatching fever!!!
Especially with having the call ducks, the screaming chick my sister gave my daughter and goslings coming next week......and I want to get a couple turkeys.....that's it! really......

 

[Starkasm]

Will you get the little chicken some friends?

I don't plan to. (if I see my sister coming with a box I will lock the door!!) It will do just fine on it's own. My sister brought over random hatching eggs in the past and our bantam rooster did just fine being raised by himself. He now has two hens but was by himself til full grown. They get a lot of attention being raised by a child! It also makes them super tame.

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

Well got most of the chicks. Like an idiot I should have sorted the chicks before dunking their heads/beaks in water as I now have no idea of how many of which breed I have. UFFDA!!! The hatchery did short me 15 of the dark Cornish (out of 25) that we were planning on butchering. SO should of had 8 easter eggers / 10 dark Cornish / 12 Silver laced wyandottes / 12 black australorps . There was a doa in the box (dark Cornish) so if one start with 55 ordered less the 15 shorted less 1 doa makes a total of 39 chicks. I unpacked and dipped 44 chicks. All are doing great !!! Had 4 cases of pasty butt out of the box but nothing since (good old cider vinegar) So here I am sitting on an up-turned bucket dipping chicks and all of the sudden I feel something poking me look over my belly toward my feet and I have a chick sitting on my shoe trying to eat my ankle then a few minutes latter they is this horrendous screeching coming from the other side of the waterer. I think same chick had latched on to another chicks toe and wouldn't let go. Picked her (the eater) up and the other chick came up off the floor with her toe still in the mouth. Then we had chick races where one would take off running pick up a couple of followers and run until they would trip or if not that until they ran into the wall. They can really get going over 12 feet had to put a piece of cardboard over the chick grit pan (old hotwater heater drip pan hold about 50 lbs of grit) as they wanted that instead of the crumbles. Turn around and have 3 doing laps around the gallon waterer inside the tray. Have one easter egger all yellow except for her tufts sticking out of her face which are black. Another easter egger either lavender/blue/steel gray very pretty.

 

[Starkasm]

Holy twisted!
You have your hands full, but sounds like fun!!

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

Yeppers

I can just sit and watch the little buggers for hours. And now I don't have to be in the brooder room to do so. (fat men and brooder room temps don't go together so well) Made the one wall (inside the coop) out of old screendoors so have lots of light and windows. Can also lift the windows up or down to control heat and air flow when they get bigger. This is version 2 of the brooder. The first one was just recycled cardboard appliance boxes and plastic So strange to look in and see numerous colors and marking on the chicks. The first 3 batches of 100 each were all the same breed. This time around the australorps look like they are wearing tuxedoes (black/grey backs with yellow/white bellys) dark Cornish (look like chimpmonks) Silver laced wyandots ( chimpmonks only in greay/black version) and then the easter eggers which have no set color. The brooder room is about 15 ft by 10 ft or so, have 3 gallon feeders and 3 gallon waterers in there. Used the old stainless feed shields (from the dairy milking parlor) to put in the corners so no mass sucides in the corners and nice and shinny for the chicks to admire themselves in (an australorp chick) keeps trying to peck or head butt her reflection. Probably the same one that tried to eat me and then another chicks toe/foot. Think I will name her Hannabella lector. or dinner if she continues down the path of Jeffery dahlmer. LOL

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

Just not amused by only getting 9 butcher roosters quite a production set up for just offing 9 birds. And don't want to off the old hens until their replacement as laying. 15 eggs on Monday out of 70-some hens. Not acceptable. And none of them are 2 years old yet.

 

[teradragon]

I thought I was gonna have to stick some eggs in the incubator when my quail roo got out. I managed to catch him in the end though thank the lord. He is missing a few tail feathers though...

 

[Classroom Quail]

My zebra finches seem to not be understanding something. The 1st finch commandment is "Thou shall build nests", right? Well, the second is "Thou shall lay eggs". They do that, too. The issue is they keep building nests literally every single place in the aviary! And then they incubate them for a few days and build a nest somewhere else and then try to incubate eggs in two nests at once... My little black cheek male (the smallest one in there) has something like three or four nests in all different places right now. And he keeps just making them bigger! Maybe I should put some societies in there to teach them what they should be doing...