Utah!

[blujems]

Well the early pipper has hatched, it was in a hurry...No other pips yet, but it is a day early.

In other news, Our Monster got a delivery today and is the proud owner of a silky hen and rooster.

 

[Cynthia12]

Well the early pipper has hatched, it was in a hurry...No other pips yet, but it is a day early.

In other news, Our Monster got a delivery today and is the proud owner of a silky hen and rooster.

Beautiful! And, who is your monster?? ey?

 

[blujems]

that is what we call Jessi, our 7 yr. old. She sold her Old English trio and got the silkies and now is waiting on some showgirls.

 

[slvrphoenix]

Quote: The monster

 

[agreger]

Well the early pipper has hatched, it was in a hurry...No other pips yet, but it is a day early.

In other news, Our Monster got a delivery today and is the proud owner of a silky hen and rooster.

Ohhh so cute!!!!!

 

[sundancenbare]

The monster

That monster is darling and she can come visit Grandma Diana anytime. I hope to have some sizzle eggs soon

 

[blujems]

That monster is darling and she can come visit Grandma Diana anytime. I hope to have some sizzle eggs soon

She has not seen those yet, But Casa brought over a showgirl to show her and that was all it took, She sold her chickens and is excited to start hatching.


I have another pip...I am so surprised to get chicks this early. The first was almost 36 hours early. She is almost dry already.

 

[corvidae]

Gah, we had to clean 2 of the 4 chicken pens up at the land today. What a serious job that is! My poor back aches from shoveling all the bedding out. I'm sure the chickens appropriately appreciate the hard work and all the fresh bedding. The poor kids are wiped from dragging big buckets of old bedding to the compost are. I think we will all sleep very well tonight.

Came back with a dozen BLRW eggs, 4 Isbar eggs, and 3 Cream Legbar eggs. I have to put them in the incubator, right? Can't possibly let them go to waste! I also brought down all my black BLRW hens. I realized all my Roos are Blacks, so I took the Splash hens back up there and brought down the 7 Black hens. I've put 5 of them up on KSL, but decided to keep the other 2 for table eggs down here. One of the ones I'm keeping has something wrong with her eye--looks like another chicken likely pecked at it. Not sure if her eye is actually left in there or if it's entirely gone. It swollen enough to shut the lid and she's none too inclined to let me peek at it.

Got 5 Welsummer eggs going into lockdown tonight. I don't have much hope for them--these are the ones the post office delayed for a week, so they haven't done to well. I'll candle them again before I lock them down, but I've already warned Joel not to get his hopes up on these ones.

 

[agreger]

Gah, we had to clean 2 of the 4 chicken pens up at the land today. What a serious job that is! My poor back aches from shoveling all the bedding out. I'm sure the chickens appropriately appreciate the hard work and all the fresh bedding. The poor kids are wiped from dragging big buckets of old bedding to the compost are. I think we will all sleep very well tonight.

Came back with a dozen BLRW eggs, 4 Isbar eggs, and 3 Cream Legbar eggs. I have to put them in the incubator, right? Can't possibly let them go to waste! I also brought down all my black BLRW hens. I realized all my Roos are Blacks, so I took the Splash hens back up there and brought down the 7 Black hens. I've put 5 of them up on KSL, but decided to keep the other 2 for table eggs down here. One of the ones I'm keeping has something wrong with her eye--looks like another chicken likely pecked at it. Not sure if her eye is actually left in there or if it's entirely gone. It swollen enough to shut the lid and she's none too inclined to let me peek at it.

Got 5 Welsummer eggs going into lockdown tonight. I don't have much hope for them--these are the ones the post office delayed for a week, so they haven't done to well. I'll candle them again before I lock them down, but I've already warned Joel not to get his hopes up on these ones.

What a chore, Donna. I am sure the chickens will be happy campers

Of course you have to put the eggs int he incubator!!!! You did quite the moving around with your chickens. I hope the hurt one will make a speedy recovery and that the eye is still intact. Good luck on the Welsummers!!! I hope they will be okay!

 

[sundancenbare]

I am hoping to go get my sizzle Rooster tomorrow. I am going to breed him to my Easter egger and Americana hens and my silkie hens. Then I am hoping to take him to Oklahoma to get decrowed. My vet friend decided she needs to go to Oklahoma and have that other vet teach her to decrow. I am going with her. I am hoping to get things going, I can't take him on the plane with me so I am going to ship him through the post office or send him by car with a friend. Hopefully Carolyn will learn how and we can start offering decrowed roosters before summer. Wallace the rooster that we tried to decrow a couple of times is happily crowing on my friends ranch in oklahoma. We did not have the heart to try to decrow him again. I can only keep my rooster for a few days because of the crowing then he'll be on his way to Oklahoma. I will have frizzle Americana Easter eggers and sizzle eggs out of him.