The Old Folks Home

[Cynthia12]

Beautiful chick -- keet, Wisher. I hope it's a boy

I just had to share my good news.

We have recently struck up a friendship with a new neighbor who is doing some work for us. When he came by today, he said he'd like to have Henry (the rooster I need to get rid of) and asked if I would try to find him some grown hens so he could start having eggs again. He is going to build a coop/pen right away. I don't know if I can find grown hens, but perhaps I could raise some chicks for him....

Yaay Stumpy! It's always nice to have neighbors that want some chicks..I have had a few of them. I like seeing them go where I can watch them grow up.

 

[Wisher1000]

SCG- I have just started to get some white eggs myself, and I don't have anything that is supposed to lay white eggs! The closest I have are some Campine crosses but the other half is brown egg layer and all those girls should lay light brown eggs. My only other option is a group of POL EEs and I think it is a very, very light blue that I am getting. That's okay with me, I like a few white thrown into the egg basket for contrast! Could they be Ancona or Andalusion? A quick search and I found that Appenzeller Spitzhaubens also lay white eggs.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

SCG- I have just started to get some white eggs myself, and I don't have anything that is supposed to lay white eggs! The closest I have are some Campine crosses but the other half is brown egg layer and all those girls should lay light brown eggs. My only other option is a group of POL EEs and I think it is a very, very light blue that I am getting. That's okay with me, I like a few white thrown into the egg basket for contrast! Could they be Ancona or Andalusion? A quick search and I found that Appenzeller Spitzhaubens also lay white eggs.

The girl I am hatching for wanted them for type, so I'm hoping she's going to be pleased. They are supposed to be show quality houdans, faverolles and ameracanas but I don't think she should hold her breath. I know you don't always get what you pay for but I think she only paid 20$ for 30 eggs including the shipping. I'm not proud to say I've paid upwards of 50$ for 6 eggs PLUS additional shipping costs for some eggs I really wanted (got 2 birds from it and love one of them - totally worth it). Maybe it's supply/demand. I don't know. I do know I love a colorful egg basket and the whites really do set the rest of the colors off. For the most part I don't really care who or what lays it - I'm fond of all birds, mutts or pure. Back to my friend - I don't think she feels the same way. Hope she didn't get a bad deal.

Here's my 50$ chicken a number of months ago... She's really filled out featherwise since, but is pretty much the same size. I love her sweet disposition, the fact that she yells at me when I'm late bringing her to bed (since she's so little she can barely get into the coop and can't get onto a roost, she will scream at the run gate for me to come out, will back up onto my hand, has to be walked to the coop on my hand and to her special roost spot, needs a special friend on the roost next to her (speckled sussex that she hatched with), and she insists on being put onto the roost butt first. The last time I went to visit my parents I forgot to tell BF about this chicken [no really... it did slip my mind, it was totally innocent and you should have read the scathing texts I got the first night - he couldn't figure out what she wanted/needed from him]):





I love this stupid bird.

 

[Arielle]

I love this stupid bird.

Soooooo cute!

 

[Wisher1000]

I love this stupid bird.

How could anyone NOT love that face? And with a sassy personality, she is something special!

I went to the farm where the woman has the broody on the turkey eggs. I candled all eight turkey eggs and the six chicken eggs. Five of the chicken eggs were developing and I saw movement in three for sure. One of the chicken eggs was a stinker, and all eight of the turkey eggs were clear. DRAT! Arielle, I guess I'm going to be in that hatch along after all. When does it start?

 

[dsqard]

SCG if your friend got those Ameraucana eggs for type (I am assuming you mean breed standard by this) I think she is going to be disappointed. I don't even see a tinge of blue or green to them (maybe it is the picture?) Mine are definitely not show quality but they all lay bluish/greenish eggs, not white at all. If she is happy with mutts that might look somewhat like an Ameraucana (muffs and pea comb) then she might not be disappointed. What she paid for the eggs is probably fair for EE's though.

ETA - Just re-read your post on the eggs. Actually, a true AM breeder does go for egg color as well as physical standard. If she got them from a "breeder" they should be blue/green unless the breeder is working on a project which they should have told her about.

 

[Arielle]

This is the big fall hatch for world egg day. You will need to calc set day for those turkey eggs.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/newestpost/666878


You might need to cut and paste--still figuring out which copy function to use! LOL

 

[Stumpy]

Here's my 50$ chicken a number of months ago... She's really filled out featherwise since, but is pretty much the same size. I love her sweet disposition, the fact that she yells at me when I'm late bringing her to bed (since she's so little she can barely get into the coop and can't get onto a roost, she will scream at the run gate for me to come out, will back up onto my hand, has to be walked to the coop on my hand and to her special roost spot, needs a special friend on the roost next to her (speckled sussex that she hatched with), and she insists on being put onto the roost butt first. The last time I went to visit my parents I forgot to tell BF about this chicken [no really... it did slip my mind, it was totally innocent and you should have read the scathing texts I got the first night - he couldn't figure out what she wanted/needed from him]):


I love this stupid bird.

I think I'd love her, too!

 

[Cynthia12]

I just had my one and only little chick hatch day before yesterday. I had a lot of the olive eggs, but so many were not showing any signs of being viable. A couple started, then quit..except this little one. I am crossing fingers for a girl..I want an olive egg laying hen so bad. Everyone is talking blue, I have one of those, had a girl hatch out of sonews eggs, she is black and gorgeous! I love her color of egg..now, if I can just get that olive egg. Not everyone likes that color, but I do. Here's my "girl." She is more blue looking today next to those little bantams...birchen cochin bantams. Put them in with her so she wouldn't be lonely. They are already a week old, and she is as big as they are. They were tiny when they hatched.

She is up in the left hand corner.

She is up front..

Have to say, the size of the nasal area worries me a bit,
but, EE's and Ameraucanas can have some pretty wide ones.
Will be better able to "guess" the sex when the feathers pop
out on those wings. Very quiet and calm little chick.

 

[Arielle]

Cynthia, she is adorable . . . they all are.

I was thinking about setting up an OE pen for this fall. To sell the eggs as hatching eggs. THe olive-green color is lovely. Not blue, and not brown. And a WIDE range of hues.

First turkey poult is out--day 28. I did wonder if the incubator was running a tad low --it is.