Silence Is Not Golden Here

[Cyprus]

They are! I didn't expect them to be so silvery, right out of the egg! I THINK the one on the left in the pictures is the one from the broken egg - it was broken when it got here, but I taped it up and set it anyway. By tomorrow, I anticipate there being no way to tell one from the other.

The chicks are happy. They were screaming loud, distressed, "WHERE ARE YOU MAMA!!!" cheeps in the incubator. Put them in their warm cave, and that immediately changed to quiet, happy trills before going quiet. Ever so often there's a little peep.

I really want that breed and variety

 

[Zinjifrah]

I really want that breed and variety

I was delighted to get some, and really, really disgusted by all the crap that decimated the number. I think I'll be contacting the breeder again, and seeing if I can get more eggs - next spring, when I don't have to worry so much about the heat. I just don't expect that I'm going to be getting enough to form a breeding population from what's left of these eggs. I'm pretty sure that there were only five that MAY have been viable when I went into lockdown, and didn't really expect to get any chicks.

 

[BlackHackle]

It does. At this point I'm willing to pay decent money to buy a mature hen who has successfully brooded before.

I would fly you over my old australorp hen if I still had her. She hatched 5 batches in a row with a 95% hatch rate

 

[Cyprus]

I would fly you over my old australorp hen if I still had her. She hatched 5 batches in a row with a 95% hatch rate

Now there's a good hen

 

[Cyprus]

Good morning all
What's everyone doing today?

 

[Redhead Rae]

Good morning all
What's everyone doing today?

I'm working and caring for a sick Milk Drinker. He popped a 103 fever last night and has been very sleepy and cuddly.

 

[Cyprus]

I'm working and caring for a sick Milk Drinker. He popped a 103 fever last night and has been very sleepy and cuddly.

Oof. I hope he gets better soon!

 

[Zinjifrah]

Still only the two hatched, but the pip from last night has enlarged a little, and there's another pip, I think.

 

[BlackHackle]

Good morning all
What's everyone doing today?

I'm finishing the fencing on my 40x60 grower pen and getting my birds ready for the long drive to the show tomorrow

 

[Cyprus]

I'm finishing the fencing on my 40x60 grower pen and getting my birds ready for the long drive to the show tomorrow

Good luck at the show!