the Will They Hatch? thread

[SteveH]

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and to the WTH thread!

I've read from the veterans that they make mistakes; guess we newbies shouldn't feel bad about doing the same.
Best wishes for the peeper and a bunch of healthy hatchlings with it!

 

[NotAFarm]

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Was it this wit that got you that platinum??? methinks so

Pretty sure the administration isn't following my posts; it was probably random picks from us more gabby members. I've been trying to figure out how to tell them thanks since I noticed the change under my avatar last night!

Steve, Click on the Index and look at the very top....there is a forum for Golden Feather Members and Platinum Members that others don't see. You can post there to thank the Mods for your "upgrade".

 

[SteveH]

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I've had hens and geese in the past go broody and stop laying with no males around, some were very stubborn about hiding and sitting on eggs with no chance of fertility no matter how many times I took their eggs and tore up the hidden nest. I'm getting soft hearted in my old age, and would probably just find them some fertile eggs today.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Was it this wit that got you that platinum??? methinks so

Pretty sure the administration isn't following my posts; it was probably random picks from us more gabby members. I've been trying to figure out how to tell them thanks since I noticed the change under my avatar last night!

This explains it ....
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=459175

 

[SteveH]

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Pretty sure the administration isn't following my posts; it was probably random picks from us more gabby members. I've been trying to figure out how to tell them thanks since I noticed the change under my avatar last night!

Steve, Click on the Index and look at the very top....there is a forum for Golden Feather Members and Platinum Members that others don't see. You can post there to thank the Mods for your "upgrade".

Wow; thanks for the info!

 

[SteveH]

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It was always harder waiting for them to "hatch".

I miss having horses, though not the feed bill; was riding and training literally before school age. I sold my last horses when I was around 40; it was the first time in my life I was without something to throw a saddle on and it was kinda hard to deal with it at the time. I know better than to want one today; my back and neck are history and no way can I ride anymore.

 

[SteveH]

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Waxed them? I hope it works!

 

[SteveH]

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[Tokajein]

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Waxed them? I hope it works!

yup! I will check them on Wednesday to see if it worked

 

[laughingdog]

so i in thinking my rosecomb show egg, was dead (upon candling it for a hoot, think its started growing spontaneously again. do/can they do that?), borrowed a rosecomb rooster, to try to mate my mystery bantam hen (anyone got ideas of or pics of black with iridescent green and purple feathers, dark red fleshy face, leg scales same color as feathers, small white ear lobes with same green and purple???). curious as she is broody, and having her out around others again today, they suddenly all decided to start to go broody also (to owner's delight), so i erded and helped build up coop and pen, and here i am with the roo for now. so she is infectiously broody (loves and doesnt want to leave my back back at all. lol), but no evidence of eggs yet, just giant all at once sized poops, which seemed to signal laying of other hens ive had. will a roo help her start laying faster, as not layer breed that will just lay by self, or doesnt matter still if roo around or not to lay? if i do get fertile eggs, what would one assume theyd look like, more mother or father, and will the sex of chick determine the traits they get or dont from each parent?












signed: The still apparently clueless chicken keeper...