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[room onthebroom]

yep! Finally done... got mom to stay at a hotel for the night (burial was 4 hours away from.her house).

Not sure what will happen tomorrow. .. my kids want me to go to my baby sister's so that they can play.....

My mom's best friend is here until Wednesday. .. so I might....

Oh I hope you went!

 

[room onthebroom]

All I really need is one, or two cockerels. Still in hopes that it's just bad lighting when I candle.

I've got a 10wk old in a no roo zone that I wish I could give you.

 

[room onthebroom]

I bumped into Misty & Micro at the store yesterday! What a shock! I had no idea you guys were in So Cal.

 

[room onthebroom]

 

[getaclue]

SOP Black Australorp Breeders are hard to find. I recently confirmed that all the male offspring from my original rooster, are infertile. I ordered eggs from a breeder here on BYC.

I used a better light to candle the eggs. They're doing something in there, but hard to tell exactly. I did find one that was cracked, that I missed the short hairline crack. I cracked it open. It had stopped developing, but it had actually started, so I'm still hopeful. The veining is very thin in the shell, hardly visible, but inside where there was development, there was decent veining. Like I said, I'm going to continue with this hatch, and see.

It's sooooo different in to what I'm used to seeing with my own eggs. I can tell that in at least 2 of the eggs, the air cells are still not attached, but are still semi-decent in size. On several threads, people mentioned that even with detached air cells, as long as it's a decent size to provide adequate air for the developed chick, they can hatch like that. I'm still keeping the humidity down to 35%, to deter moisture getting into the egg, and decreasing the size of the air sac. Fingers still crossed, and a prayer on my lips.

 

[ronott1]

I have been working on coop articles again today. Sumi found a bunch more that need to have cover images set

 

[microchick]

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I got a vacation? Did I have a good time?

 

[pennyJo1960]

where did you go @microchick

 

[CapricornFarm]

Her avatar was in CA, i think.

 

[microchick]

Well, I'm moving my broody inside tonight. The west end of our main house/shop has a nice sized enclosed porch on it that the previous owner used as his cabinet shop office. First time I saw it there were cabinet doors mounted on the wall stained with different finishes and chickens sitting on the makeshift desk along with chicken poop. The family dog, a beautiful smooth coat collie named Kip was trying to herd the chickens out of the shop. Feathers were flying everywhere and chickens were screaming their heads off.

I've turned the room into my feed room and library with two book cases and garbage cans filled with feed. Need a chair out there and it would be complete. But that is where I'm putting the hen. It's warm but much cooler than outside and I can turn a fan on her.

Plan is to detach the run from the coop and employ DH's help to carefully carry it down from the run tonight after dark. Betty is clamped down so hard on those eggs that I suspect she will think it's an earthquake and hopefully sleep through the move.