Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[mortie]

Lol

 

[savannahm0m]

My girls love playing in the leaves. We rake all of our leaves and use it for the run. Hopefully I didn't bury a chicken under the pile!

"Thanks! This is fun!"

Our yard isn't fenced so I tie the dog to the wagon. She can hang out in the yard with me and won't chase the neighbor's cat.

 

[cheeka]

Quote: first, thanks... I would love to publish calendars. might just someday... the green beaks are so neat, I have no idea what to expect, but they are looking like Silkie's as they are feathering in...

I agree, I had to share the picture of the horse with my husband. Cheeka
Cheeka,you have a gift!

thank you, truly

What kind of camera do you use?

it is a Panasonic DMC-FZ5, which is a reasonably priced (mid range) for the Leica lens it sports. that's the key to my photos. that lens. it only has a 12x zoom, which is not great for some of the scenery shots I want. I'm shooting at 8 miles for some and if I had an 18x I'd be able to get pine needles on the trees.... I lose some detail on wildlife I see at a distance, but I still get a good bunch of pics... this camera has a great macro. I dropped it recently and thought I knocked something out of whack, it wouldn't focus on macro. played with it today and it's perfect. must have been my eyes...

cheeka's pictures are...unbelieveable. She can take anything and make it into art. Amazing.

I've had a brilliant idea re my incubator problem. I can take virtually anything and make it into an incubator using my highly technical, expensive, and sophisticated aquarium controller. All I need is another temperature probe and I can have a high degree of control and continuous monitoring with alarms.

I don't know why I didn't think of that before.

those brilliant moments come when they come... sometimes they come when you are on that verge of deeper sleep where if you move you are suddenly lurched awake from fear of falling out of the bed or something weird... I've had some of my most amazing marketing ideas come then. like tie straps and string... I had a crazy problem at a job I worked before the PO. project dumped on me with a short deadline. I had a budget but couldn't freakin' figure it out! I had about 750 basketballs. display them, I was told. build a rack. do it. I had about 4 days left when the idea hit me on that verge of sleep thing... tie straps and string! inflate the balls, run tie straps (small cable ties, you know what I mean... right?) around one seam, before making snug, run a string under... pump it good and snug and take the string, hang it from the drop ceiling. boom done. 1 cent per ball to hang. I had a budget of $2.50 per ball. they gave me the $ I didn't spend as a bonus. you'll be up to your elbows in chicks if you build your own incubator! it'll work so well!!

 

[cheeka]

19 Eggs today plus 4 frozen broken cannibalized eggs that I missed from yesterday because I'm a knucklehead. Snow tomorrow

 

[HugHess]

1/7! The sad part is I am OK with that!
It's early though, so we'll see.
Better'n nuthin'...owh, owh...

Two! in one day!!!?!!! (And) there's still time!
AND two minutes later...

Grrrr.... :/

Brunch!

 

[Scrambles55]

FIVE!!!

 

[savannahm0m]

AND two minutes later...

Grrrr.... :/

Brunch!

I have a 9 yo, so that happens often! I never let it go to waste. I made Hollandaise sauce to go with our Eggs Benedict this weekend. The babies got their first scrambled egg whites. They devoured them! That's one thing that I would never make before chickens... it took 10 eggs for 3 people!

 

[lindz8504]

I hope you guys are getting to see the pictures on the FB page because I still can't get pictureson BYC!
Bitty's chicks are 9 days old and starting to get feathers on their wings. Bertie is still sitting tight. I candled her eggs over the weekend and pulled out 3 obvious clears. I left 11 that we either could definitely see development in or couldn't see into at all.

 

[cheeka]

Mama to be Cressa indulged on the nest. she still has 2 eggs, but I am pretty sure 1 is a dud

can't hardly see the bowl...

this was fun!

seriously fun!

look, sister doesn't have a tail!

Mama!

Mama says tails are overrated.

 

[cheeka]

...15 eggs today