South Carolina

[gvilledh]

Don't you have a Birthday coming up????

Yes, I do! I have the fun of having an April Fool's Day birthday. Happy belated Birthday to you, Amy. Like you, I am just wanting a quiet day for mine. We have been so busy the last three weekends, it will be great to have some downtime. Meghan will wait and come home for Easter. I am looking forward to going to Biltmore Friday and seeing the gardens in the Spring. I am buying my season pass while I am there. It should be an awesome day.

 

[huckleberryfarm]

I'm so sorry! We bought 20 WCB chicks from someone and they are all dying. He sent two "packing peanuts" with them that I think are cochins. They're fine. We got these last Saturday and 12 have died. The packing peanuts seem fine. I keep thinking they are done dying because they all seem perky but a few hours later, I'll find another dead one. Poor Colin is so upset. Are Polish harder to raise? They're worse than Silkies so far! I hope you find one.

My day started out sad...I awoke to find my 2 1/2 week old WCB Polish chick dead in the brooder?!?! No sign of any trouble up to now?

Fed and watered everyone then off to work...came home and my beautiful 1 yr old WCB hen was just dead in the coop!?!?!?! I had just spent a little extra time there this morning looking and talking to them because of finding the chick...all seemed just normal and fine with them! Now the roo is freaking out looking everywhere for her since I got her out! I only had the pair and have been trying to hatch what few she would lay but only have a cockerel so far...I was sad over the chick but I am really heartbroken over the hen.

If anyone knows anyone that has some nice WCB Polish I sure would love to get Heckle a replacement Jeckle! I was just bragging on them the other night...maybe I jynxed them

 

[huckleberryfarm]

Congratulations!

sophia is here weighting in at 7 lb.14oz. and sophia and mom and papa is loving it.

 

[huckleberryfarm]

I surely have been MIA! They started the foundation on the house last week and three pieces are here already. Our master bath comes today! They hope to put it all together next Tuesday. It's been a whirlwind of picking out lighting and other stuff that I hadn't done. Plus I'm launching a redo on my website today so I've been working on that. Plus the lambs, one of which won't eat and I'm not sure is going to make it. My little lamb is doing great though. Had my first guineas hatch yesterday! I was told they take 28 days so I went to take them out yesterday on day 25 and five were hatched in my Dickey. Three had fallen from the top rack all the way down to behind the hatcher which is a long way! They seem fine though. Next time I'll know it's not quite that long. Now if I could just find where they are laying. Every time I find a nest, they stop laying in it even if I leave a few eggs in there. That's on my list for today! I lost another hen yesterday. That makes 5 since last week. Not sure what's going on with them. And one of my lav ameraucana roos apparently has a broken leg or has a bad injury. He can't stand. I put him in with some chicks, hoping it will mend.

That's about it here! I'm going to go back on the thread and try to get caught up!

 

[jfaith51]

I'm so sorry! We bought 20 WCB chicks from someone and they are all dying. He sent two "packing peanuts" with them that I think are cochins. They're fine. We got these last Saturday and 12 have died. The packing peanuts seem fine. I keep thinking they are done dying because they all seem perky but a few hours later, I'll find another dead one. Poor Colin is so upset. Are Polish harder to raise? They're worse than Silkies so far! I hope you find one.

That is heartbreaking. I am so very sorry.

 

[Lroach711]

Susanne: So sorry about all the troubles your having with your birds but congrats on the house coming together so quickly!

I'm totally heartbroken today. Went out to the barn to check on my call duck pair and all three eggs she had laid are GONE. Apparently a lovely field rat dug in and had a meal. I'm so upset. She was just standing there staring at her empty nest like "what happened???" It isn't all bad news though...the d'Anver roo looked awful last night. I thought for sure I'd be burying him this morning. Well..he continues to suprise me and was standing up this morning. He even drank some water. My other exciting news is that my olive egger hatching eggs are arriving today from Mississippi! Now if my new incubator would hurry up and ship. (it was on backorder..supposed to ship this week or next week) Guess I'll just have to put these eggs in my old LG with whats in there now and hope the new bator comes before I have to put my BB red and Blue Orp eggs on lockdown.

Anyone interested in BB red OEGB chicks? I put 8 in the bator with 2 blue orpington eggs to test fertility and guess what?? They are all developing! Yay!

 

[huckleberryfarm]

Glad your boy survived! Hope he continues to thrive. I saw a rat/mouse actually walking up the ramp into one of my coops yesterday! Seriously.... get lost. Let me know if those trap things work.

Susanne: So sorry about all the troubles your having with your birds but congrats on the house coming together so quickly!

I'm totally heartbroken today. Went out to the barn to check on my call duck pair and all three eggs she had laid are GONE. Apparently a lovely field rat dug in and had a meal. I'm so upset. She was just standing there staring at her empty nest like "what happened???" It isn't all bad news though...the d'Anver roo looked awful last night. I thought for sure I'd be burying him this morning. Well..he continues to suprise me and was standing up this morning. He even drank some water. My other exciting news is that my olive egger hatching eggs are arriving today from Mississippi! Now if my new incubator would hurry up and ship. (it was on backorder..supposed to ship this week or next week) Guess I'll just have to put these eggs in my old LG with whats in there now and hope the new bator comes before I have to put my BB red and Blue Orp eggs on lockdown.

Anyone interested in BB red OEGB chicks? I put 8 in the bator with 2 blue orpington eggs to test fertility and guess what?? They are all developing! Yay!

 

[Lroach711]

I'll let you know!! I put cement stepping stones in the places where they've been digging in...and put those sticky traps all around the outside of the barn. Hoping I'll catch me a few rats today! LOL NEVER thought I'd say that !!

Glad your boy survived! Hope he continues to thrive. I saw a rat/mouse actually walking up the ramp into one of my coops yesterday! Seriously.... get lost. Let me know if those trap things work.

 

[Joycats]

I'm so excited! I just received an email from a customer who bought some bantam frizzle cochin eggs from me. They have been up all night long watching the eggs hatch and they have TWINS!! I have never had twin chicks hatch, so I'm very excited (and jealous that I sold that egg). These were shipped eggs too. So far, both chicks are doing fine.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

BION I tried mealworms and they were looking at the babies like they were fools. I had chicks on my shoulders and arms trying to get the worms. I threw a few their way.

Amy, I need to get some from you. How much are they?

I have a BIN going on............

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/644398/bin-meal-worms-live-fat-and-healthy