The setting 8/12 raising thread

[dwegg]

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what!!! wow that is scary...I guess that's one good thing about living in the city. I have hard wired all under the coops as well as the sides .. oh and I'm a bit enveous about your spalsh BLRW...always have loved them...

 

[dwegg]

Ok so you know how I was worried about getting some silkie hatching eggs so soon (or at all) well I posted on our city chicken website about going to the farm to get the eggs ect and ask if anyone wanted anything...well I now have one person coming with me...one asked me to pick up some youngsters for her and one asked me to get double the amount of eggs and hatch them for her and she will buy the babies off me!!! How much fun is that!!! Getting to hatch lots of babies already knowing they are spoken for but getting the fun of hatching them first!

so excited...going on Thursday

 

[chickee]

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That will be fun!

I am going to incubate some eggs for a friend in the near future because I have an incubator that gives me better hatches and the eggs she is going to buy are BCM eggs that are $100 for 6 eggs!

 

[amacucumber]

here are my 3 day old mixed bag of babies

i have no idea what breed there parents were but came from 3 different hens... i cant wait to see them grow

 

[Contrastphoto]

Hello everyone! Really enjoying watching all the chicks grow! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. My son was in the hospital with viral meningitis. He is doing lots better now.

I can't stop thinking about hatching more chicks... shhh don't tell my DH.

Chickee, I am thinking about Ameraucanas. Do you selling eggs or who do you recommend?

Here are a few of mine chicks that I kept from our 8/12 hatch:
Not sure the color of this silkie? Buff maybe?

The lone Swedish Flower Hen chick:

Black? Silkie:

 

[chickee]

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Your chicks are SO cute! I have wanted a black silkie ever since I went to another BYC members house and saw hers!

All of my Ameraucanas are young and haven't started laying yet. Hoping that they will any day now! I would check out Pips & Peeps website. She offers all of the colors. I have a buff and a wheaten rooster from her, Buffs from Wayne Meredith, lavenders from Harry Shaffer and Blue Wheaten from Paul Smith. The lavenders are the friendliest but the wheaten/blue wheaten and blacks have the best egg color. Paul Smith does not sell hatching eggs, just chicks, but Jeremy sells Wheaten/Blue Wheaten eggs and you can find him on the BYC Ameraucana thread. The people I have mentioned, besides Jeremy, are well known and respected breeders. You can find them on the ABC breeders directory website. Good luck

 

[farmgirlforever18]

AWW everyones chicks are getting so big and oh so cute

i will post some pics of my little ones latter

 

[dwegg]

I just got 4 new silkies (3x white 6 week old) and (1x blue 2 week old) and I put them in the brooder with the ameraucanas and they are all sleeping and running around together like nothing was new...so sweet to see...silkies are awesome and so gentle and sweet...pics tomorrow as it is dark now....

 

[chickee]

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Awww

I'm envious!! Next I'll want to be buying some silkie eggs to hatch and add to my Polish pen

My four BLRW chicks went out to the chicken house brooder yesterday. I miss having them in the house where I can see them all the time

They are happy with the bigger space which makes me feel better

 

[discoveregg]

My dark Norwegian Jaerhon pullets at 2 weeks old. Starting to feather out nicely

ETA: I'm having a lot of difficulty uploading and saving pics. When I post, this is what I get. I sent an admin a PM and they wanted me to start a thread on this so the "fix" is available to everyone who has this problem. If you can help, here's the link
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=574125
I really want to show you my chicks!!!!