Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[Alaskan]

Those chipmunk chicks were ordered live chicks..

 

[chickisoup]

Morning all.
Just sitting here with my pup stretching out and trying to push my legs off the foot of the recliner as both listen to the thunder rolling across the back forty and the rain hitting the steel roof porch, sigh.

Ok, so, I'm down to just throwing my broody out of the nest box in the morning so she eats and stretches. My neighbor could only find one egg from her Aussie hens in the last 3 days and that won't work.

Oh, and the fresh eggs she does get go immediately into the fridge

Her problem (just the high points here, there's a lot more) is she never taught her hens to lay in the boxes so she has eggs in the yard, in the woods, in the coop (only from the hens I gave her, sometimes) in the pole building, in the garage, under the deck, you get the picture. She called me this spring and asked if my hens were laying because hers weren't so asked if she had looked around well. She calls me back, she found a big stash in the pole barn buried in the top of the mound of hay for the goat that a duck was sitting on
Anyway, my broody has been broody for almost a week so I'm thinking it's probably too late to shove any eggs under her now, sigh. As crazy as she's been she would probably give up before they hatched.

Well DH is getting so bored because of the rain he's drug out the sales ads so that his signal there is probably going to be a roadtrip. I better go jump in the shower if i don't want to be left behind!

 

[chickisoup]

 

[perchie.girl]

Morning all.
Just sitting here with my pup stretching out and trying to push my legs off the foot of the recliner as both listen to the thunder rolling across the back forty and the rain hitting the steel roof porch, sigh.

Ok, so, I'm down to just throwing my broody out of the nest box in the morning so she eats and stretches. My neighbor could only find one egg from her Aussie hens in the last 3 days and that won't work.

Oh, and the fresh eggs she does get go immediately into the fridge

Her problem (just the high points here, there's a lot more) is she never taught her hens to lay in the boxes so she has eggs in the yard, in the woods, in the coop (only from the hens I gave her, sometimes) in the pole building, in the garage, under the deck, you get the picture. She called me this spring and asked if my hens were laying because hers weren't so asked if she had looked around well. She calls me back, she found a big stash in the pole barn buried in the top of the mound of hay for the goat that a duck was sitting on
Anyway, my broody has been broody for almost a week so I'm thinking it's probably too late to shove any eggs under her now, sigh. As crazy as she's been she would probably give up before they hatched.

Well DH is getting so bored because of the rain he's drug out the sales ads so that his signal there is probably going to be a roadtrip. I better go jump in the shower if i don't want to be left behind!

I was on the broody hatchalong thread for about a year. As long as they are eating drinking and pooping they have been known to be broody for more than 45 days... I betcha you could slip a couple of eggs under her no prob....

deb

 

[TeaChick]

Morgan Erp was the youngest... the family lived in the next town Colton thats where we lived when i was born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Earp

Grandpas make great dads... My son had two ... my dad and my grandpa...

deb

That's cool. =)
Yeah, they do (a lot of them do). I had four my parents' dads and my maternal great-grandfathers.

Those chipmunk chicks were ordered live chicks..

Oh, I see. They're cute!!! I prefer to order live chicks myself, but I know things can be very different in your neck of the woods.

 

[TeaChick]

Morning all.
Just sitting here with my pup stretching out and trying to push my legs off the foot of the recliner as both listen to the thunder rolling across the back forty and the rain hitting the steel roof porch, sigh.

Ok, so, I'm down to just throwing my broody out of the nest box in the morning so she eats and stretches. My neighbor could only find one egg from her Aussie hens in the last 3 days and that won't work.

Oh, and the fresh eggs she does get go immediately into the fridge

Her problem (just the high points here, there's a lot more) is she never taught her hens to lay in the boxes so she has eggs in the yard, in the woods, in the coop (only from the hens I gave her, sometimes) in the pole building, in the garage, under the deck, you get the picture. She called me this spring and asked if my hens were laying because hers weren't so asked if she had looked around well. She calls me back, she found a big stash in the pole barn buried in the top of the mound of hay for the goat that a duck was sitting on
Anyway, my broody has been broody for almost a week so I'm thinking it's probably too late to shove any eggs under her now, sigh. As crazy as she's been she would probably give up before they hatched.

Well DH is getting so bored because of the rain he's drug out the sales ads so that his signal there is probably going to be a roadtrip. I better go jump in the shower if i don't want to be left behind!

I'm sorry about your broody (and unhelpful neighbor). I wish I could send you eggs, but my girls aren't laying. They said it's too hot. I told them they're heat tolerant. They said that means we live through the heat, not necessarily that we lay through the heat. I told them a. it's a good thing I have a back log of eggs and b. you can be replaced! They said something about not having enough coops. That's okay, I said, we're building coops in the next month or two and then look out. They said they'd be back to laying by then. I told them they better lay through the winter or they're going to be stew. They didn't have much to say after that.
Anyway, the eggs I have are too old to set now, so I'm sorry I can't share! =( But I would if I could!!! =)

PS: I hope you enjoy(ed) your road trip! =)

Agreed! =D

 

[TeaChick]

So, my broody has been on her ever dwindling clutch for about 21 days, depending on when you count from (the first time she started setting on these eggs or the second time, after she tried out the other clutch...twice

). She got off the nest yesterday evening when I was feeding everyone into the coops, so I checked her eggs and one was light. I took it into the house and candled it; clear.

I took the flashlight outside and found a second clear.

But the other two (she lost four since the last time I checked and the nest smells like rotten egg

) at least had something (presumably a chick) inside them. DD and I set up a plastic brooder inside the wooden brooder (that needs to be cleaned out still

) and moved her and her two eggs into there. When I went to pick her up last night, I took the lid off the tote nest box and she just let me pick her up. When I put her in the brooder, DD had put her eggs in the hay end opposite the food and water, and I set Sky (the hen) in the middle facing the eggs. This morning, I went and looked in the brooder, and she's sitting in the middle of the brooder; she moved the eggs off the hay and is setting on them with her feathers in the food and water.

Whatever! Anyway, when I went to check on her this morning, she didn't seem to like it; I didn't open the brooder or anything, I just peeked in there and she gave me a genuine dirty look! Then I checked on her again later this morning and she bristled all her hackles at me and made a little bit of a growling type of noise at me.

When I checked on her about an hour ago, I didn't even get good and visible and she had all her hackles up and I just walked away and said, "yes, ma'am" after I got off the porch. (I said it with a little bit of attitude, so she doesn't think she's in charge now.) Anyway, hopefully she's being all ornery b/c the egg(s) are hatching or hatching soon!!!!!

 

[TeaChick]

Ugh. I hate logic class!!!

 

[perchie.girl]

Ugh. I hate logic class!!!

if then and or nor? I loved it so did my son Last time I took it was in the seventies my son took it recently

Mine was in conjunction with a Boolean Algebra...

whacha havin trouble with

 

[Chicken Ladies]

Hmmm, is that a compliment?
Oddly enough, my dad does. Go figure.

It's just the way he is. He was never going to get a cell phone. Mom got a go phone. She would make him take it when he traveled. One trip, I was with him We were coming back from Illinois, and were in Oklahoma). Mom calls me. "The car won't start." O.k. well we will be home in a couple of hours. Mom, "I can't wait here that long" Where are you Mom, "grocery store" Ok, stay put I'll see if Chris can come get you (chris is my brother) I call chris, he goes to get her. I call back and she has left the area. She did stay in the store. Chris got her home. I got them cell phones for christmas.. That was a fun time. But they did get the hang of it. Dad carries it everywhere. Mom never had it with her.