Putting eggs in the bator on July 25, does anyone wanna hatch along???

[cluckitall]

Mine are due the 18th, thejohnsie -- and the days are just crawling by!!!! Yay, farmerboy -- we need more pics!!!

 

[dandydoodle]

8 days till lockdown!!!!!!!!

 

[dandydoodle]

LOL! What's worse is I do that aloud all the time. I'll know exactly what I meant to say, but the word comes out of my mouth is something totally different

And yeah -- mine only go pretend broody every once in a while and even so can have a heck of an attitude! For the whole 45 minutes that they decide to stay on the nest...

LOL!!!! I do that word thing all the time too. Drives me crazy. I think its an age thing, I am 38 now and the older I get the more I do it. He he!!! The bad thing is most of the time I don't even notice I do it and my kids and husband laugh at me. I remember my mom use to do it all the time and I used to laugh at her and now its me doing it.

 

[dandydoodle]

Completely unrelated aside -- we've got a thunderstorm going here. And rain, FINALLY!!! I can practically hear my garden sighing in relief!

Thats sound great. I wish that was our situation but, deer came and wiped out almost our whole garden. We are just learning and that was a hard lesson. We definitely have to figure out how to keep the deer out.

 

[dandydoodle]

I sure hope so, 'cause I just added a NH cockerel and two silver-laced wyandotte hens to my Meyer hatchery order! (I'm only 20 miles from them; picking up on Mon 20th -- eggs here are due to hatch the 18th). So now that makes:

8 mutts in incubator, all still looking good!
2 australorps, 2 SLW, 2 Columbian wyandotte, 1 speckled sussex and one NH roo on order total 8
1 white rock, 3 barred rocks, 2 partridge rocks, 2 NH hens, 1 cuckoo marans roo in coop total 9
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25 chickens

ACK!!! What am I doing with 25 chickens???! I only eat three eggs a day.

The dreaded chicken math strike again!

It will be very pretty when you look out and see them free ranging.

 

[dandydoodle]

That must be why I'm a writer... hee! They are absolutely beautiful, though. While I was poking around the Meyer hatchery listings I looked for some, but they don't seem to carry them. Thank heavens! Bad enough they suddenly had Silver-laced wyandottes available -- which meant, of course, that I had to get two

(Not that I would expect hatchery birds to look anything like the lovelies you've got eggs from! One of these years I'd like to upgrade the quality of my stock -- not that the MH stock is bad; in fact, all my current birds came from there and they're pretty sturdy.)

NO! No, darn it! No more chickens! Not at least till I figure out what to do with the 25 I suddenly have pending

What is the difference in price buying from a hatchery and buying from a breeder. Well let me put it this way how much is a dozen fertile eggs plus shipping price from Meyer? Since you seem to want some eggs from a breeder I was just wondering if there is a big difference in price.

 

[cluckitall]

Deer aren't much of a problem right where I am, although a few miles further out they are. Here my main problem was... the chickens! Had to build them a run for growing season after they decimated my peppers. Next year, rather than fencing the chickens, I might fence the garden. They're all clipped and none of them seem very intent on trying to fly unless something (like me) is spooking them!

 

[dandydoodle]

Not yet. She's still sitting pretty right now. When are yours due? I'm like you, I'm so excited.

Going with a broody is so hard. I am to nosey it would drive me crazy not being able to peek.

 

[cluckitall]

It will be very pretty when you look out and see them free ranging.

It should be a fairly colorful bunch, that's for sure!

I'm eager to see what my little mutts come out looking like. Especially the cuckoo/white rock!

 

[dandydoodle]

i will get pics tomorrow of the other new chick

Yay, I can't wait. I keep getting back on here because, I am excited about seeing more of your babies.

Do you have any more babies yet? How many eggs did your broody have?