Show Off Your Games!

[prariechiken]

For the most part when artificial incubating eggs, the ones I waited for more than 22 days were "duds" anyway even if they did hatch. Culling starts early and often here.

 

[Nodaksnakelover]

myself personally, I have an egg candler that lights up those eggs like a light bulb and so you can quickly see who is developing, and who is not. But I must add one has to know what they are doing. In the last batch of eggs I did, I got up one morning to find my wife saying the last egg must be no good...this said as she had the candler up against the egg. I could see right away the outline of a beak in the air cell and told her...put that back!

And to add to that, a friend of mine says he's tried to candle eggs, and ones he thought were no good after a week, hatched anyway! So there certainly is some truth to the idea to just set em, and let them all go through the incubation process.

Yet for me, it helps to know ahead of time I guess an idea of how many to expect in the end. Really though, for the eggs I just did, being shipped, and seeing such oddly shaped air cells at one week, I had my doubts any would hatch! They seem so much more lively than the other chicks I've ever hatched and more skittish in my mind in the brooder. Reacting wildly to us appearing overhead or putting a hand down toward them. But I gather that to be normal for a bird that does so well free ranging. It keeps them alive...!!!

And thanks for the comment that yes, baby Greys can vary in down color like these did. I look forward to sharing pics of them later as they grow up.

 

[sdm111]

newest addition to the yard C.C. Kelso. Always fun to add a cock to get the blood boiling

 

[sdm111]

new breeder quarters going up

 

[sdm111]

just a lil further after work

 

[centrarchid]

new breeder quarters going up

Are those upright set into ground? If not for me around here, then that really nice set pens would be rolling in the wind. The do look nice. What will you be putting between pens down low to break line of sight?

 

[sdm111]

4x4's 24" in ground cemented in ( hurricane proof )and plywood dividers 24" high also going to wrap the bottom with deck boards 2 high and 2 electric wires to deter predators

 

[centrarchid]

Well looks like they could double as fly pens. How much $ in materials?

 

[sdm111]

So far around 700.00 or so ( most for the roof trusts and roofing ) good part is my birds paid for it all, they treat me well so I believe they deserve the favor in return. They will have removal able roosts with trapezes in as well for conditioning fly pens if need be. And roll down sun block material cause around august the sun is terrible.

 

[JShubin]

So far around 700.00 or so ( most for the roof trusts and roofing ) good part is my birds paid for it all, they treat me well so I believe they deserve the favor in return. They will have removal able roosts with trapezes in as well for conditioning fly pens if need be. And roll down sun block material cause around august the sun is terrible.

Nice pens... I am just finishing up my new avairy as well.. I put in some trapezes too but they didnt ever use them... they'd rather stand on the ground then perch on them... so I removed them..