San Diego Chicken meetup and Chat thread

[Phage]

I have found that virtually all crooked necks fix themselves in a few days with electrolytes and being left in the warm hatcher

 

[dfdesigns]

What did Cari hatch out for you??? How exciting!

I lost a chicken this week.

I can't wait to get our new netted-top outdoor run finished (hopefully on Monday) so that everybody will be safe. I'm fairly sure a hawk swooped in to the barn's paddock and grabbed her; there were a lot of feathers. Sigh. She was so sweet, and one of my best layers.

My Ameraucana roo finally starting (pathetically) crowing this week - it is week 26! No eggs in sight yet from the girls.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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"Quitters" are eggs that started developing but for some reason died as embryos. An early quitter would be between days 1 and 9 or so, a medium quitter between days 10 and 17, and a late quitter would be a chicky that is almost fully developed but died for some reason before hatching.

Unfortunately, that is the risk with shipped eggs. I did everything identical (THEY WERE IN THE SAME BATOR!) as my EE's and had a decent hatch, there are just about a million and one variables. You can contact the lady an tell her only 2 hatched and see if she will send you some more; I will hatch more for you.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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Hmm I haven't found that to be true in my experience. If they have crooked necks or legs I almost always lose them. Even with splinting and leaving in the warm hatcher.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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They are Swedish Flower Chickens.

 

[dfdesigns]

I am going to have to look that breed up...

 

[dfdesigns]

http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/swedish-flower-hens/

In case anybody else is as lost as I was...

They are very pretty! The pattern reminds a bit of a speckled sussex.

 

[All-American-Chick]

check out the jubilee orpingtons
id need to morgage the house





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[dfdesigns]

I like the Cream Legbars, too - very cool! That place sure has a lot of neat chickens.

BTW - my son LOVED your goat milk! I think we'll have to become regular customers...

 

[Phage]

I plan to get cream legbars.

They are English after all!!