setting eggs on Thurs. Hatch date Feb 4th-who's with me??

[blessedchickenmama7]

Okay, I just checked out the auction. I'm glad you showed me because I would have been looking in the regular auctions.

I saw your post, about the polish and others. I had two polish last year and I don't know if it's just me or what, but those are the only chickens I've ever had that I did not like. Got them as day olds. No matter what I did, they were WILD. They just acted st-pid! Maybe it was just my two?? Yours sure are pretty!

 

[Chicky Tocks]

Me me me me!!! Your eggies are coming, the eggies are coming!!! I've been watching the USPS site everyday to see where they're at. Today it posted them in Massachusetts. Probably I won't be able to set them until Friday due to the rest period. I'm hoping they come tomorrow or Friday. Friday actually would be ideal because I locked my three eggs down today. They're due to hatch Saturday.

 

[sonew123]

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yes they are dumb as a box of rocks! My Dh gets such a kick out of them and how stupid they really are!!!

 

[sonew123]

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yeah baby! your in too? thats sweet!

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

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yes they are dumb as a box of rocks! My Dh gets such a kick out of them and how stupid they really are!!!

Well, that makes me feel better. After I felt like they were old enough, we let them out to roam a little. The others actually got out all the time, but they always came back at night. Since they were a bit younger this was the first time I let the Polish ones out. They ran off. I looked for them but we never found them. Literally, everytime I opened the coop door they would zip past me and fly at my head. Even as tiny babies, in the pet carrier in the house, they'd run right out and past my hands before I could pick them up and right off the table where I had it sitting. I figured after so many falls, they must have been brain damaged. Then they'd run around the house and we had to catch them. Finally get them in the pen with the others and everything sorted out among the flock and they run off.

 

[sonew123]

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yes they are dumb as a box of rocks! My Dh gets such a kick out of them and how stupid they really are!!!

Well, that makes me feel better. After I felt like they were old enough, we let them out to roam a little. The others actually got out all the time, but they always came back at night. Since they were a bit younger this was the first time I let the Polish ones out. They ran off. I looked for them but we never found them. Literally, everytime I opened the coop door they would zip past me and fly at my head. Even as tiny babies, in the pet carrier in the house, they'd run right out and past my hands before I could pick them up and right off the table where I had it sitting. I figured after so many falls, they must have been brain damaged. Then they'd run around the house and we had to catch them. Finally get them in the pen with the others and everything sorted out among the flock and they run off.

yes we have to go on a hunt almost every night to find them and its so funny because they could be 10 feet away from there eyes and low and behold they cant see!

 

[seminolewind]

I have 6 Polish, all but one are sweet, and can be picked up and held anytime. One used to jump on my head or on my shoulder and pick my teeth. I remembered not to smile when she was on my shoulder. Her pics are on my BYC page, pg 2 show her as an adult.

I had another roo who was sweet, but he died this summer. His brother, Ivan the Dogkiller is one in a million. He does everything for the hens except pour them a glass of wine. Even fluffs the nests.

Anyhoo, I was just chuckling because I am warming up my bator and have a thermometer in there, and a receiver on my coffee table, so I know what the temp is even as I watch tv. It's kinda neat.

 

[AmyJ]

Set my eggs this morning

Only 5 eggs. 3 mille fluer d uccle eggs, and 2 red sex link eggs. The dads are either my ee roo or my d uccle roo. I just wanted to do a small batch of mine, then I am planning on getting different eggs to put in later.

 

[dovecanyon]

My son's Buff Orpington eggs arrived today! Yay! He will be setting them in the incubator tonight just before bed, so tomorrow will be Day 1. That makes him a little behind everyone else, but not by much. He will be doing this hatch by himself, and the chickens that hatch will be his own flock, penned seperately with their own coop/run. He is excited about this, and can't wait to start posting his reports. I may jump in from time to time with my 2 cents though... can't let him have all the fun! I imagine he will make his first post tonight. BTW, for those of you who don't know, my son (Alex) just turned 11 years old, and he is the reason I got started in the wonderful world of chickens to begin with. I hope he gets a lot of replies and encouragement from everyone.

 

[AmyJ]

Thats great Dovecanyon !