The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

[CuzChickens]

I want an LGD so bad, but I'm not ready to spend $600-$1,000 dollars on a dog and then lose dozens of chickens in training...

 

[Beer can]

I want an LGD so bad, but I'm not ready to spend $600-$1,000 dollars on a dog and then lose dozens of chickens in training...

Check out rescues online, you'd be surprised at what some people think they want and than realize they can't handle/keep. A lot of abandoned $1,000 dogs out there.
We got a, yeah not $$ but a typical rescue breed, Tennessee Mountain Cur, as a pup luckily from a rescue. He's not very big, not very smart, but quick as a greyhound and and nose of a bloodhound.
I get fox, coyotes, fisher, etc on my trail cam out back on the hill, but nothing seems to visit us for some reason

 

[CuzChickens]

That is a good idea! We'd need underground electric fence around our property, I hear they wander.

 

[Razadia]

Quote:

Quote: This is exactly what I did before I got my second bator. I don't think I was the one that set that many, but I do know I've gotten close. It works for me since I can't add water during the first 18 days. I've had some pretty great hatches like this.

 

[I Love Layers]

Check out rescues online, you'd be surprised at what some people think they want and than realize they can't handle/keep. A lot of abandoned $1,000 dogs out there.
We got a, yeah not $$ but a typical rescue breed, Tennessee Mountain Cur, as a pup luckily from a rescue. He's not very big, not very smart, but quick as a greyhound and and nose of a bloodhound.
I get fox, coyotes, fisher, etc on my trail cam out back on the hill, but nothing seems to visit us for some reason  

We gor a free dog. 1/2 great Pyrenees, 1/4 border collie, 1/4 Australian Shepard. Never had to do any chicken training with her. She tore her ACL s few weeks back though so now shes in the house and I am on the hunt for a full blooded LGD.

 

[FreedomFarm13]

Whoo! Took me a while to catch up, and I've only been gone a week. Had a long week at work, so too tired to get on. I guess I forgot to mention that only one of my 6 babies made it out last week, and it was the one I assisted. She had slight scissor beak and a messed up/swollen eye, but she is very healthy and active and sweet (not to mention PRETTY!!) and is now living with my best friend who fell in love with her when I sent her pics. I let her have her for free in addition to the 5 older chicks I sold to her. Nice little bonus if you ask me, and I'll be getting update pics!!
So now I've got 17 more eggs in the bator that went into lockdown today with my new hygrometer to ensure temps and humidity are steady so I can hopefully prevent another massive hatch failure. They are due to hatch Saturday and I see lots of rockin and rollin goin on in there! There's 6 more of the SLW X Wheaten Am eggs that I tried to hatch last time, and 11 Blue Am eggs that are either sired by my Wheaten Am boy or my Blue Am boy, not sure which, as these eggs were collected shortly after I separated my birds for breeding. I hope my SLW X babies turn out looking like the others that didn't hatch...they were beautiful little silvery white babies with patches of black on their heads, backs, and tips of their wings. I'm really hopeful that I get more like that because I will definitely be keeping at least one of those for myself

Anyway, wish me luck on these new babies, and I'm setting more (BBS Ams, Am X Maran OEs, and BLRWs) as soon as these babies make it out, since I got a new bator for the HAL, so there will be babies EVERYWHERE here, lol. I think I'll end up with over a hundred chicks if everything goes according to plan. Hopefully I'll be able to sell most of them. Fingers crossed for lots of babies!!!

 

[maddysmamaw]

Duck Duck is so cute!

We actually found two ducklings. We were told that we could foster them but not to keep them confined after they were grown. They were raised with a hatch of chicks. Since we couldn't tell them apart we called them Duck and Duck. When they were about a year old one left. The other became Duck Duck. She thinks that she's a chicken. She even has a crush on my big rooster, Lemondrop (Australorp/Leghorn cross), and follows him everywhere. The other still comes to visit every month or so. Free meal and all. We renamed her Sister. In fact, Sister was here last weekend with her mate. They had lunch together and then flew off to spend the day at a nearby creek. Of course Duck Duck was back in time to go to roost with the rest of the flock.

Family visit

Duck Duck is on the right. She's a little butterball.

Sister's boyfriend

Lemondrop

 

[ShrekDawg]

I didn't really want anymore ducks, either. I love Duck Duck, our little adopted wood duck but she makes a mess of the flock's water dish. She has her own pool, and my garden pond but somehow that's not enough. I think she does it on purpose, just to irk her chicken sisters. Then last month a friend texted to ask if I wanted some duck eggs to hatch. A dozen are on day 17 in the incubator. oO(sigh)

Duck Duck

We actually found two ducklings. We were told that we could foster them but not to keep them confined after they were grown. They were raised with a hatch of chicks. Since we couldn't tell them apart we called them Duck and Duck. When they were about a year old one left. The other became Duck Duck. She thinks that she's a chicken. She even has a crush on my big rooster, Lemondrop (Australorp/Leghorn cross), and follows him everywhere. The other still comes to visit every month or so. Free meal and all. We renamed her Sister. In fact, Sister was here last weekend with her mate. They had lunch together and then flew off to spend the day at a nearby creek. Of course Duck Duck was back in time to go to roost with the rest of the flock.

Family visit

Duck Duck is on the right. She's a little butterball.

Sister's boyfriend

Lemondrop

What an adorable story!

 

[Cynthia12]

I will say it aloud...
THEY ARE WORTH IT

Let me Help you resist....





And check out @dotknott 's ducklings: http://herouxpotager.com/incubator-cam/

I used that top photo a while back for a welcome. Can't remember how far back though. Turned out cute.

 

[Cynthia12]

Oh I should do this.. I just set 8 in the bator, but I should have room in another 10 days