South Carolina

[WestKnollAmy]

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No, I would not use them. If someone else has had this problem with hatching the chicks out, I would be very concerned. What a shame that you put all the time and money into a fun and exciting project just to have it go haywire. But it is a lesson learned of some sort. If the chicks get better, sell them. You have too much invested to have poor bloodlines added.

You are much more patient than I am. Newbies without the ability to eat and drink by themselves do not get special treatment here. I hate it but I would have a chicken hospital instead of a farm if I did that. I don't mean to sound cold hearted but it is usually a long time before they are better and most times they don't get good enough to be good layers or producers.
Poor little one eye is following his/her hatch mates around to find the food and water and that is okay with me. Otherwise I would have disposed of him/her. And it may happen in the next few weeks. I just have to keep an eye (no pun intended) on it.

And if you decide to have a get together down at your place just let me know what I can do to help. I am better at following directions for something like that rather than planning or hosting it.

 

[Moonchild]

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So far only one Polish has hatched. Oddly, with all the developed eggs in these shipped eggs not many are hatching. They are from 2 different people. The Silkies have not hatched at all and most of the Ameraucana eggs are not hatching but I am giving them plenty of time. Though I do have another 52 to move into the hatcher.
And this is my usual hatcher, not the still air one. I haven't put anything in the still air.

Opps just saw it! So what do their pom poms look like on the top of their heads...

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Wonder if that is Karen that Amy got hers from

 

[itsjustjen]

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Yes from the feed store. There legs are twice the size of the 3 other chicks so that's my biggest "roo factor" that I see so far. They don't have combs yet so that won't work. Thanks for your input!

My experience with EE is that the females are brownish and look like chipmunks when chicks. The boys have much different coloring (white, black, more vibrant). You should start to see the coloring come out soon. I have 45 EE hens and they are all light brown, brown or light grey. The roos I had were beautiful! But boys.

One looks like a tan chipmunk, the other is much darker with little to no striping.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Okay, I will go look and see what they look like.........one has a round cap and one has a back of the head "do" going on. The one with the round cap is bigger than the back of the head chick.

 

[Jetiki]

I gave Amy, her great Pyr Jolie. That Craigslist post is not mine. I do not have pups as I do not breed them.


Karen

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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One looks like a tan chipmunk, the other is much darker with little to no striping.

My EE's come all sorts of colors. I have white ones that hatch yellow and chipmunk ones that turn into boys and girls. I do notice any black feathering will be boys.
I usually always have tan, yellow, white, gray or blue girls with boys being those darker colors. Having said that, I have several dark brown girls from the hatchery, too. One dark girl lays a brown egg and I have a white girl that lays a brown egg. Feather color obviously doesn't apply here to egg color.

On my EE page I show how Easterman started out as a juvenile and what he looks like today on down the page. He was a mostly white little boy but developed black feathers and changed a lot to what he looks like now. With his recent attitude though, he is going to look naked!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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I texted the person and he wants $250 for them. The parents have been around chickens but not the pups.

I am looking for another one so Jolie can train it. Well, not that I want her to train it to tear out of the fence like she did last night. I know Pyrs like to wander but I did not realize they could tear down fences so easy.

There wasn't a storm last night but obviously Miss Jolie wanted to go walk about and since we fixed the gate from where she tore it down during storms she has decided the back fence is old enough she can tear it down. There was a huge hole there this morning and I could not find Jolie. I finished up chores and there she came wandering in looking all beat. I fixed the fence again.

It has gotten so the whole neighborhood knows to call me when they see a huge white dog out. We are all afraid she will get hit by a car or shot.

I knew the challenges of owning another dog, especially a Pyr. Now you all see why I fought it so long.
I love Jolie and would not trade her for the world. I just wish I knew the secrets of keeping them inside a fenced in farm.

 

[Jetiki]

Electricity is the key I think.



Karen

 

[gofasterstripe]

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Yeah he spoke to my neighbour today about advertising. She told him to print out a flyer and she would get them out and about for him. Hes now saying the 30th, but knowing Jonathan...it will be next month if he doesnt pull his finger out his butt.