yeye5
Songster
I wanted to drop in here for a moment. I've been lurking, ready and enjoying.
I had said (with the accuracy of a non-feathered being--) that "I was going to take a break from hatching" in April...So guess what has happened?
I have 3 clutches under 5 broodies that are set to hatch 5-2, 5-4 and 5-9. Right, that's not April, but the ladies are cutting it pretty close.
Jokes on me really.
This is the first time I've ever had broodies use "the buddy system" and sit on one clutch together!
I'm frantically planning and preparing to move nests bs ALL of them are in precarious places that just invites rolling out, falling out. So, I'm trying to decide when the best time would be to make the moves. From my past experience I know that once the eggs have hatched but before the chicks are mobile is ideal. That gives me 1/2 day window of opportunity. I'm too worried about upsetting the broodies at this late stage to move their nests now. (Although I had one broody, Antonia, move her own nest last week!).
I guess I should technically wait for the May hatch-along to start up...hoping someone takes that one on. (I would but I lack the needed experience to moderate and help with many complex issues. My time will come though.)
Just for the record...in case anyone wants to cheer along from home:
In The Silkie House are
The sisters: Peaches (yellow buff silkie) and Chula (blue w/ partridge hackle silkie) are sitting on ? # of eggs. Seems like lots but their beaks come in between me and counting.
And, Antonia (I don't knoiw what her color would be called. She has a jett black head and a light body with streaks of blues and blacks) is brooding in the drawer of a cabinet I re-purposed for this. These girls mom, Mima, I discovered yesterday has been adding eggs into Antonia's nest, lots of them. Nothing to do now but wait. I'm hoping Toni either stays on them to hatch them or that I have another broody to take them over.
Next door in The Condo:
Zuza (a tiny silkie) and Story (a huge buff Orpington) are brooding together. They started with a ton of eggs also but have selected down to 8. (I am hoping they are selecting the viable ones). In their clutch are silkieX silie eggs, PolishXpolish, and eggs from Polish Or blue silkie over buff orp, flowery hen, black australorp and black EE looking pullet!
Yup, that's me taking a break from hatching in April.
I had said (with the accuracy of a non-feathered being--) that "I was going to take a break from hatching" in April...So guess what has happened?
I have 3 clutches under 5 broodies that are set to hatch 5-2, 5-4 and 5-9. Right, that's not April, but the ladies are cutting it pretty close.
Jokes on me really.
This is the first time I've ever had broodies use "the buddy system" and sit on one clutch together!
I'm frantically planning and preparing to move nests bs ALL of them are in precarious places that just invites rolling out, falling out. So, I'm trying to decide when the best time would be to make the moves. From my past experience I know that once the eggs have hatched but before the chicks are mobile is ideal. That gives me 1/2 day window of opportunity. I'm too worried about upsetting the broodies at this late stage to move their nests now. (Although I had one broody, Antonia, move her own nest last week!).
I guess I should technically wait for the May hatch-along to start up...hoping someone takes that one on. (I would but I lack the needed experience to moderate and help with many complex issues. My time will come though.)
Just for the record...in case anyone wants to cheer along from home:
In The Silkie House are
The sisters: Peaches (yellow buff silkie) and Chula (blue w/ partridge hackle silkie) are sitting on ? # of eggs. Seems like lots but their beaks come in between me and counting.
And, Antonia (I don't knoiw what her color would be called. She has a jett black head and a light body with streaks of blues and blacks) is brooding in the drawer of a cabinet I re-purposed for this. These girls mom, Mima, I discovered yesterday has been adding eggs into Antonia's nest, lots of them. Nothing to do now but wait. I'm hoping Toni either stays on them to hatch them or that I have another broody to take them over.
Next door in The Condo:
Zuza (a tiny silkie) and Story (a huge buff Orpington) are brooding together. They started with a ton of eggs also but have selected down to 8. (I am hoping they are selecting the viable ones). In their clutch are silkieX silie eggs, PolishXpolish, and eggs from Polish Or blue silkie over buff orp, flowery hen, black australorp and black EE looking pullet!
Yup, that's me taking a break from hatching in April.
Very cute bird!
There would be no stopping me!
