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[MarineCorpFarmr]

WOW and double WOW. How many did you keep?

between what i sold and what i culled about 40. not counting the batch that just hatched out. think thats another 18. ill have to double check when i move them

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

DEb and all locking down and hatching ..good lock!.....I mean ...Good LUCK..

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Hey i have eggs on the way.... will be setting tomorrow or WED more likely? Anybody in for Jan hatch??

i set 6 eggs tonight. So yeah. I"m up for a Jan hatch

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

vid from a while back

 

[Roxannemc]

My girls arn't yet old enough to lay. Can't wait till they are (not breeding them, just for eggs)They are 2 motnhs old and already huge! They are buff orpingtons. I can't wait untill the 20th wich is the day I check my shipped bantam cochin eggs for life . My Rhode Island Red eggs go on lockdown on the 20th as well. They are growing nicely!!

GOOD luck on your cochins and RIRs !
!Yeah me too.....my Lavender Orps are 17 weeks old and i cant wait.... SOO excited .... until they lay so i can hatch the eggs!!!
Hope my roo Sterling does a good job so far he isnt doing much at all but to be fair they were in with an Alpha Roo Midnight who was literally cock of the walk.Moved Midnight out yesterday(and he aint happy)
Hope Sterling gets more "cocky" now.
I dont know A THING about breeding my own chickens. Will be all new to me.
Well i know they need to be laying and have a roo!

 

[Roxannemc]

between what i sold and what i culled about 40. not counting the batch that just hatched out. think thats another 18. ill have to double check when i move them

Thats not bad for so many eggs. Are you doing projects with some?

 

[TherryChicken]

GOOD luck on your cochins and RIRs !
!Yeah me too.....my Lavender Orps are 17 weeks old and i cant wait.... SOO excited .... until they lay so i can hatch the eggs!!!
Hope my roo Sterling does a good job so far he isnt doing much at all but to be fair they were in with an Alpha Roo Midnight who was literally cock of the walk.Moved Midnight out yesterday(and he aint happy)
Hope Sterling gets more "cocky" now.
I dont know A THING about breeding my own chickens. Will be all new to me.
Well i know they need to be laying and have a roo!

Thanks me too and my girls are only 2 months.. I don't know much about breeding either, good luck on that

 

[Runawaylobster]

Well the tiny ones looked a bit stronger this morning. I have been giving them quick chick and sugar water. The stronger ones have
doubled in size already!!! hoping that most of them are girls.

 

[Roxannemc]

Thanks me too and my girls are only 2 months.. I don't know much about breeding either, good luck on that

Guess i should post this someplace else but I am so ignorant when it comes to birds...Dogs cats im fine but birds?...hummm...
So when a roo mates a hen does it just take a second ?.Sort of fly up and get on her and off that quick ? Or do they stay for a minute or so to mate?
Anybody know?
2 of my roos have been jumping on the hens but only for seconds ...like 2 seconds or 1 no longer almost like they are running over them. or are they just practicing?
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[Roxannemc]

vid from a while back

TOO CUTE~~

 

[Little Wing]

Guess i should post this someplace else but I am so ignorant when it comes to birds...Dogs cats im fine but birds?...hummm...
So when a roo mates a hen does it just take a second ?.Sort of fly up and get on her and off that quick ? Or do they stay for a minute or so to mate?
Anybody know?
2 of my roos have been jumping on the hens but only for seconds ...like 2 seconds or 1 no longer almost like they are running over them. or are they just practicing?
.

It only takes 2 or 3 seconds for mine to do his thing.