[The Shire] Our growing flock!

[Mother of Chaos]

Hello sweet Orpingtons! Welcome to the flock!
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Hi, little cheepies!

 

[newchickychick]

They're soooo sweet! We absolutely love our Orpingtons so much. Salsa (one of our buffs) ZOOMS out to greet us when we come to the run. All the Orpingtons!

Hi, little cherries!

 

[Mother of Chaos]

They're soooo sweet! We absolutely love our Orpingtons so much. Salsa (one of our buffs) ZOOMS out to greet us when we come to the run. All the Orpingtons!

Edited my reply to fix my phone’s auto-corrupt

 

[newchickychick]

Cherries works too! They're round little things.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Cherries works too! They're round little things.

iPhones need to have a setting for chicken-speak. I was once asking someone about their breedstock, and it came out “breadstick.”

 

[newchickychick]

Breadsticks, in the phone's defense, are necessary too.

Out of the 8 eggs that made it into lockdown (1 Ayam Cemani, 7 Orpingtons)... all 8 have hatched! It's day 21 NOW so I am going to set the temperatures back to 99.5 as they've been at 100, and always hatching day 19-20. I wonder if the govee was reading the 'low' fluctuations from the forced air, but we'll see.

Got our Deathlayers set up for lockdown! We've got Silvers, Golds, a Pavlovskaya (sadly the second one quit recently, argh. The first one we'd hatched had cross-beak and the second one of the first batch too'd quit late in development), a Bresse, and a couple more Buff Laced Polish (as we'd had a handful of non-developers/early early quitters from the batch that hatched the other day so I wanted to be sure we got... one. Now we'll be over-run with Buff Laceds ). 21 eggs, whoof! We'll see how it pans out.

 

[thistlewick]

My Brinsea kept reading low room temp, even though the room temp was 74 - because it was NEAR-ish an AC vent that was on the ceiling (10 foot ceilings at that) lol

They are just really good at their job!

I never changed it from 99.5 and had 14/16 hatch

can't wait to see how it goes - congrats on all the successful hatches!

 

[newchickychick]

My Brinsea kept reading low room temp, even though the room temp was 74 - because it was NEAR-ish an AC vent that was on the ceiling (10 foot ceilings at that) lol

They are just really good at their job!

I never changed it from 99.5 and had 14/16 hatch

can't wait to see how it goes - congrats on all the successful hatches!

Thanks so much! I was so anxious it was too cold but seeing them ALL hatch day 20… yeah, that extra 0.5 may be doing too much. Especially with some chickies having had issues. I was told shipped eggs can cause deformities, but if a little extra time in their shell helps at all, I want to go that way. They’re all SO sweet! We’re having just the best time with chickens. Even though the tough parts.