San Diego Chicken meetup and Chat thread

[All-American-Chick]

posted both at the photo contest on a dozen girls labels
geez there are ones with 40 likes already.
http://www.facebook.com/Egg.Carton.Labels.by.ADozenGirlz/app_490100194338485

Renee, I hope you have submitted those photos somewhere... BYC? Backyard Poultry? People?

Those are some seriously cute photos!

 

[igotchickens]

I have a bunch of 1 1/2 week old coturnix quail for sale if anyone's interested (got about a 90% hatch rate! I like my new method!) . They're not sexable yet but should be in about another week or so when they feather out more. They're $3 each, $5 when I can sex them. Any takers? P.S. The pic is from a different hatch at 2 days old, and I only have jumbo browns this time!

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

I have a bunch of 1 1/2 week old coturnix quail for sale if anyone's interested (got about a 90% hatch rate! I like my new method!) . They're not sexable yet but should be in about another week or so when they feather out more. They're $3 each, $5 when I can sex them. Any takers? P.S. The pic is from a different hatch at 2 days old, and I only have jumbo browns this time!

Cool!!! What's your new method?

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Cari, I hope your move goes exceptionally well. We have full slate this weekend and I am a bit compromised from falling in the barn last week. (Long story that involved chasing a chicken and keeping a strange dog out of the aisle... I'm too old to busting a move on concrete!) My knee and elbow have seen better days, and I'm still fairly ouchy.

Aww thanks Dana, no worries, hope you feel better soon!!!!

 

[igotchickens]

Cool!!! What's your new method?

Not very technical - dry incubation method and using 4 thermometers and 3 hygrometers to ENSURE accuracy

 

[RyeRanch]

Cute chicks, Nikki! And what a beautiful EE egg... aren't they fun to find in the nestboxes?

Cari, I hope your move goes exceptionally well. We have full slate this weekend and I am a bit compromised from falling in the barn last week. (Long story that involved chasing a chicken and keeping a strange dog out of the aisle... I'm too old to busting a move on concrete!) My knee and elbow have seen better days, and I'm still fairly ouchy.

I hope you are feeling better soon.

 

[hemet dennis]

I have a bunch of 1 1/2 week old coturnix quail for sale if anyone's interested (got about a 90% hatch rate! I like my new method!) . They're not sexable yet but should be in about another week or so when they feather out more. They're $3 each, $5 when I can sex them. Any takers? P.S. The pic is from a different hatch at 2 days old, and I only have jumbo browns this time!

Where are you ?

 

[Compost Girl]

Hello everyone!

I've been catching up from last week, so I haven't been up here much. To the new peeps:

My latest adventure in Chickenworld: a broody hen (I think). Winkle wouldn't get out of the box on Sunday, and I thought she was just having trouble getting the egg to cooperate. She is my RLBW hen with the hernia, and sometimes she needs a little extra time on the nest. After four hours I started thinking she might be egg bound, and the next morning I was entertaining thoughts that her legs might be broken and she couldn't get out. She hissed a little bit (but no pecking yet) when we tried to gently prod her for food, and I have now decided that she is probably going broody, which sounds like it might be a little more logical. I have again decided to go to the oracle (BYC) for advice.

This is my first broody chicken, and I have no rooster (sounds like a personal problem, or the theme for a children's book). Do we set a pattern of behavior for the future here, if I don't take her off the nest? Should I take her off the nest, before she fades to skin, bone and feathers? Should I leave her there until she gets bored? Should I buy fertilized eggs from someone and stick them under her, and see what happens? Should I buy a rooster and tick off my neighbors and lose my house, but experience one of the joys of life? Should I forget the broody concept, and check to see if her legs are broken?

These questions and more, on the next episode of How the Egg Turns.

Any advice from the collective would be appreciated. If you could please also tell me the secret to world peace, that would be great.

E

 

[Aumlet]

For me is has boiled down to: who is more stubborn, the broody or me?

So far I've had 3 chickens go broody. One I was able to break, the other refused. She didn't care if she sat on nothing at all, so I eventually got her some fertilized eggs. She kicked the babies out at 7 weeks and went broody again.

And now my Buff Orpington, who I was convinced was the world's only non-broody BO, has decided to get on the baby train too. I put some eggs under them two days ago.

You can always try taking her off the nest and see what she does. If she lies there in a pile of sad chicken, you might want to follow up on the broken leg theory. If she sits in a fluffed up stoner trance, she's broody. If she shakes off the trance and goes off to do her normal thing, that's a good sign she'll be easy to break. If she gets up and clucks herself back to the nest ... she might just be serious.

Give in now, and get the gal some fertilized eggs.

 

[Compost Girl]

Give in now, and get the gal some fertilized eggs.

I tried that. The husband said we might be a go, conceptually, but from past experience they MUST have homes BEFORE we buy the eggs. I don't understand why he's saying that.