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[seminolewind]

Yes, Gypsy is the daughter of Scout & Charlotte.

WooHoo!!! Valerie is the only chicken I've ever had that has feathers that always have looked stunning. She's never had a bad feather day. She does not like to be touched, but she's still one of my favorites. There's just something about her.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, Gypsy has many bad feather days! She seems to molt three times a year...and she does it badly. She's usually bald and looks like a vulture, poor thing. She's a doll, though-insists on being picked up constantly and carried around like a purse. I love that girl. In full feather, she is beautiful.

 

[Cetawin]

Poor Gypsy I swear I am going to get out my Barbie Customizing stuff and make that girl a cute Black long wig that will cover her head and neck for the 7 months per year she is bald!

I am surprised she still has feathers on her head now! But Zane loves her bald or not and that is all that matters.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

I am trying my hand at incubating for the first time. I have 18 Delaware eggs and 24 Icelandic eggs set. And someone that wants any and all that hatch

 

[kathyinmo]

I am excited for you, Laura! I hope you have a great hatch!

Cyn, I candled eggs tonight. I had 8 clears to toss. But, I still have 7 in there! These are the ones that were clear:

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks for the report! Kathy, I'm betting the P.O. is at fault, considering it isn't just one girl's eggs, but some of each. If it was just one girl's, like say Dottie's, I'd think either Rex wasn't mating her properly or their chemistry was bad together, like it was with Suede and Miranda, especially since one mating can keep a hen fertile for two weeks or more.

A local guy, a BYC member who gave Ranger a home, also bought 10 BR eggs from me and he said fertility was perfect, though he lost a couple in late incubation and one while trying to help it out of the egg. As you know, just mishandling by the P.O. can stop development before it even starts by compromising the yolk itself, even if the air cell is intact. I'm thinking that's what happened and it frustrates the heck out of me!

Same thing happened with halo's eggs sent to Florida. She has six babies hatched right now and is waiting on a seventh to pip and today is Day 22. They didn't even begin pipping till sometime midday on Day 21. I sent 17 eggs in that batch and she has the second batch in the bator now, 16 eggs. I'm hoping that one does better.

ETA: I'm hoping that the same thing happens with the ones you have left that happened with Rex's bunch, that they're pullet-heavy. From that batch, I got Rex and 4 pullets. I sold one to lockedhearts and kept my three girls.

 

[Cetawin]

How are my alien babies as Cyn calls them....aka my silkies Kathy? Are they still adorable fuzzybutts? Me needs pics.

 

[kathyinmo]

How are my alien babies as Cyn calls them....aka my silkies Kathy? Are they still adorable fuzzybutts? Me needs pics.

You mean these little heathens?

9 days old now, these are the chicks hatched from Paint eggs....

 

[kathyinmo]

Some of the others:








And some more:

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

Well....at least they are "cute little aliens"