The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[pickitfarm]

Mimddh, Punkin was one of two hatchery chicks too young ( a bit over a year ago) to go outside when fully feathered during a cold, wet spell. Yeah, that's the story and I'm sticking to it. Anyway, by the time I put them outside, Sparkle the House Silkie (another story behind her) was going out into the fenced garden every day but coming back into the house at night and any other time of day.

Sparkle was a "rescue" who had been in two other flocks but bullied and beaten up in them, so her last owner looked for somebody who would take her and let her be a house chicken. I picked her up about sixty miles away from my house, halfway between it and her last owner's property. She has hatched and raised four small broods of flock chicks in the house, since she came home with me. She takes her charges outside into the garden for their chicken lessons.

Beth and Punkin figured out Sparkle was coming in and out through the door onto the deck and they decided they would come inside too, to lay their eggs in the laundry hamper. Beth joined the coop crew like a normal chicken, but Punkin spent nights inside the house. As she still does.

She goes outside every morning - voluntarily - to spend the day with the flock, then comes back inside to roost at night on the audio bar on the TV set table.

Hence "Part-time" House Chicken.

So you are telling us that your roost with Sparkle and others in the really BIG coop. LOL

 

[pickitfarm]

Post office destroyed my mom's Am eggs :'(



So sad.

That stinks!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Post office destroyed my mom's Am eggs :'(



So sad.

brutal. If you are ever in Placerville I have silver ameraucana x crele penedesenca olive eggers

 

[pickitfarm]

aww, very nice looking family!

X2

 

[Gardeningmama]

My Call Duck, that I've been stalking made a nest today!!! I am so excited to go out there tomorrow and look. That egg is a long time in coming!!

 

[pickitfarm]

I was willing - but not able - to temporarily change my avatar; apparently I am not smart enough to figger out how to do it from a mobile device.

So, here's the "selfie" I took yesterday with Punkin the part-time House Chicken.



As y'all can see, vanity is not one of my stronger character faults.....at least not with regard to personal appearance.

Nothing like a picture of a woman and her chicken. Love it!

 

[ronott1]

Post office destroyed my mom's Am eggs :'(



So sad.

Those were not packed correctly.

Check out wishers packing method

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/738943/the-great-egg-shipping-experiment/1230#post_11427581

That box would not stand a 6 foot drop into a bin

Read the packing thread, contact the breeder and have them pack the way you want them packed!

 

[Gardeningmama]

Post office destroyed my mom's Am eggs :'(



So sad.

Oh no!

That is the worst I've seen yet. Turn it in for the insurance! (Not to be mean to anyone, but they should never have been packaged that way, if that's what they were wrapped in. )

 

[bantambury]

Post office destroyed my mom's Am eggs :'(



So sad.

OH MY GOD! where were the eggs from? they were so pretty! shame!

My Call Duck, that I've been stalking made a nest today!!! I am so excited to go out there tomorrow and look. That egg is a long time in coming!!

that's great!

Those were not packed correctly.

Check out wishers packing method

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/738943/the-great-egg-shipping-experiment/1230#post_11427581

That box would not stand a 6 foot drop into a bin

Read the packing thread, contact the breeder and have them pack the way you want them packed!

I agree! but, I do need to learn to pack my eggs to send off to hatch participants....if I pack wisher's way will I have a good chance on all arriving nicely?

 

[ronott1]

OH MY GOD! where were the eggs from? they were so pretty! shame!



that's great!

I agree! but, I do need to learn to pack my eggs to send off to hatch participants....if I pack wisher's way will I have a good chance on all arriving nicely?

Yes, we have been experimenting.

There is no way to guarantee it but packing correctly really helps.