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JaeG said:
Pinkie Pie is the mother of all my Bourkes so far. My other hen (who is a beautiful Rubino, but quite cranky) is yet to produce young. Which is unfortunate as I have another Rubino hen waiting for a mate from them so that they can give me Lutino and Rubino beauties. Patience is a virtue (that I don't possess in great quantities).

I felt that one of Pinkie's chicks was getting buried in the fine shavings I had in the nestbox. So I annoyed her greatly by taking them out and adding some chunkier stuff. They snuggled up to the hot water bottle I took out with me (SO cute). Another egg was unzipping so I was quick, but I kept the other eggs out to check them and they all look a couple of days off hatching. So guess where they ended up - yup, in my incubator (which has my last batch of Button quail eggs in it due to hatch in a couple of days, so it was all set up for hatching chicks). :oops: Yup, there's no hope for me! I'll be returning them to Miss Pink as it's warm enough now and there'll be enough bodies to keep each other warm, but I may have to take some and hand rear them from 2 weeks old to take the pressure off. I just couldn't bear the thought of those wriggly little bodies I could see when I candled not hatching just because their older siblings hatched first. I mean, they might have been alright but the odds weren't in their favour.

For all those who haven't had the pleasure of seeing a Bourkes chick here's a photo of one I completely hand reared that hatched in July (right around the time we were getting quite bad morning frosts - Pinkie Pie had been squeezing herself into finch sized nestboxes so I had to give her a bigger one - crazy!). It's siblings hatched first and it would've perished if I hadn't stuck it in my incubator. (Now do you understand how hopeless I am?!)
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I used to hand feed cockatiels and parakeets when necessary. Sometimes i took them with me in a shoe box if i had to go places. They get as much in them as on them at times. Sure make for nice tame babies.
 
Morning all!

@bruceha2000 congrats on the 1st egg from Casseopeia (sp?). You and @sunflour are both still waiting on the Wellies, right? :pop

J, the baby Bourkes are a cute little ball of fuzz. You might be a hopeless hatcher but I enjoy reading about your experiences doing it!

Have to go in to work today. It's time to start cleaning out the huge refrigerated walk-in, ugh. I don't enjoy cleaning out my home fridge and the walk-in is about 5 times bigger so you can imagine how I'm looking forward to that :sick

See you all later!
 
N F C said:
@bruceha2000 congrats on the 1st egg from Casseopeia (sp?). You and @sunflour are both still waiting on the Wellies, right? :pop
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Yeah but I'm gonna win! Veronica squatted today when I put my hand over her and let me pet her. Betty moved away when I tried it on her. Cassie squatted 2 days ago and laid yesterday. Of course I hadn't tried to touch her before yesterday. Some of my first batch in 2012 squatted a week or two before they laid so I'm not counting on seeing a new avatar for @sunflour just yet. :cool:

N F C said:
Have to go in to work today. It's time to start cleaning out the huge refrigerated walk-in, ugh. I don't enjoy cleaning out my home fridge and the walk-in is about 5 times bigger so you can imagine how I'm looking forward to that :sick
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At least you can SEE the stuff in the walk in! Too many small things hide in the back of the home refrigerator. Then we all know what happens :sick
 
I made my young chickens go out in the run and shut the pop door. They need to get used to going out before it gets freezing out there. 20171005_145214.jpg
 
Hey everyone!

First up, my sincere apologies for leaving everyone in the dark as to my whereabouts and may be wondering if all was OK. Since the move up to FNQ life has been beyond hectic with so much to do and so little time including nearly losing our 9 year old cat to kidney stones; after two weeks in veterinary care he is now home which would not have been the case if we had listened to the local Vet who wanted us to euthanize on day 2.

Chookens are doing great!

Anyways, things have settled a little and I will now hopefully have time to catch up with everyone and learn how the 'new site' works.

I missed you guys!
 
Teila said:
Hey everyone!

First up, my sincere apologies for leaving everyone in the dark as to my whereabouts and may be wondering if all was OK. Since the move up to FNQ life has been beyond hectic with so much to do and so little time including nearly losing our 9 year old cat to kidney stones; after two weeks in veterinary care he is now home which would not have been the case if we had listened to the local Vet who wanted us to euthanize on day 2.

Chookens are doing great!

Anyways, things have settled a little and I will now hopefully have time to catch up with everyone and learn how the 'new site' works.

I missed you guys!
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Great news on the Kitty!
 

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