The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[stonykill]

Maybe we should have a raffle and auction him off.

but I don't think stonys wife would want to share.

 

[stonykill]

She could come too. I'll build a little cottage at the back of the property. They could even bring all their animals. (There is 12 acres here and the back of the property is behind woods so we wouldn't even see each other's living quarters.

Okay... enough of this digression.....

Back to predators, chickens, and eggs that didn't hatch!

we have 30 acres and my parents are my neighbors with 7. More room here.....

 

[Miss Lydia]

Only 7 may goodness you need to start slipping some over there .

 

[Leahs Mom]

Sounds like an invitation for us all to go to stony's place!

Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies (hens and chicks that is)....and everyone goes.....

 

[delisha]

Quote:
I was sent 8 hrir and one blue egg. His show stock

 

[memechick]

I found this, http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/04/answers-from-chicken-vet-on-impacted.html

Thanks Miss Lydia ........ this was very informative!

 

[delisha]

I am going to check the eggs later today..since I had a hatch out sometime in the wee hours this morning...I assume I can hatch out more. One is simply not enough. I will not accept one hrir. Even just three sucks. So I had better get at least two more today darn it. I sure can tell the difference in color between herotage and my strain, of course mine are also crossed with cornish so they are almost double size.

 

[Leahs Mom]

I was sent 8 hrir and one blue egg. His show stock

I'm guessing you've hatched shipped eggs before? Did you have any probs. w/the incubator in the past?

 

[stonykill]

Only 7 may goodness you need to start slipping some over there .

lol. I bought my grandparents house and property in 1990. In 83 my parents bought the 7 acres to be next to my grandparents. My grandmother now lives with my parents.

 

[Mumsy]

I am going to check the eggs later today..since I had a hatch out sometime in the wee hours this morning...I assume I can hatch out more. One is simply not enough. I will not accept one hrir. Even just three sucks. So I had better get at least two more today darn it. I sure can tell the difference in color between herotage and my strain, of course mine are also crossed with cornish so they are almost double size.

My BRIR eggs were shipped all the way from Arkansas to Whidbey Island Washington. Out of ten candled on the fourth day six were viable. Eggtopsies showed they were fertile but the air cell was scrambled. On the forteenth day one of those remaining six was a quitter. Four hatched and one never ate or drank and died when it was three days old. I still blame my temp being too low and humidity too high.
Did you need to help hatch out any chicks? Did they all hatch out on their own steam?

I hope you get more. I'm certainly dissapointed in spending the $ and time and only getting three BRIR babies for it.