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[Alaskan]

My first bantam wheaten ameraucana (my eggs) hatchling has now been joined by a very wet white bantam leghorn (shipped eggs). I see one more pip in another bantam leghorn egg, all the rest of my the eggs still look solid. about a dozen of my eggs in there, with no excuse, wish they would start.

 

[drumstick diva]

don't give up Alaskan

 

[chickadoodles]

Hang in there Alaskan and sit on your hands.

 

[1kluckychik]

Wisher: we are headed to Mexico Beach again this weekend. Will you be anywhere near there?

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

My first bantam wheaten ameraucana (my eggs) hatchling has now been joined by a very wet white bantam leghorn (shipped eggs). I see one more pip in another bantam leghorn egg, all the rest of my the eggs still look solid.

about a dozen of my eggs in there, with no excuse, wish they would start.

I hope the rest of them get with the program and start working their way out!

Only got 2 hours sleep last night. instead of mowing, I spent the day dozing in my recliner and sweating. Just celebrated all the work I didn't get done today with a vanilla milkshake

I need to work this hard more often

Well done! If you ever find yourself in need of an assistant for all that hard work you do I'm sure there are plenty of us here who could be persuaded to join you, lol.

 

[Wisher1000]

Wisher: we are headed to Mexico Beach again this weekend. Will you be anywhere near there?

I Wish (there I go again!) this is my busiest time at work and I don't have a Saturday off for over a month. Our next beach trip will be in July.

 

[chickisoup]

For your eggs Alaskan!!!
Silly me. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a bantam leghorn!

Last hatch for the season. Famous last words

 

[Alaskan]

Well... The eggs are now at work!

I have 5 bantam white leghorns out. Cutest little bright yellow chicks. 5 is almost 1/4 of the eggs that were shipped, and that is a just fine number.

Most of my standard black Ameraucanas are out, 6. Such super fat chicks, giant poofy things compared to leghorn chicks.

Two of the standard rose comb dark brown Leghorn (shipped eggs from fancy breeder) are out, and one is a super chunky fellow. None of the standard rose comb white leghorns (same fancy breeder) are out yet, but there are lots of pips.

Of my homegrown bantam wheaten ameraucana only 3 are out so far, the rest of those eggs were being very thoroughly sat on... I am hopping they weren't goobered too much that they won't hatch. I did a quick removal of egg shells to help out with the space issue.

Dang cute little things... Newly hatched chicks.

 

[Latestarter]

After sweating all afternoon yesterday while reclining, I decided it would be a good thing to hook up the swamp cooler, since we're due mid 80s again today. Would rather not run up the electric and water bill, but hate being hot and sweaty even more. And it's substantially cheaper than central AC. It's on low right now and doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing, assisted by fans to move the air around

I'm guessing TX wouldn't work out so well for me after all... KY will be much cooler.

 

[Alaskan]

Dude... Cool shmool, all you need is a fan and a bucket of iced tea.