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[LluviaChic77]

I hope uour still coming on Thursday. That Arucana rooster is crowing away. Calling you

Hahaha

I am still planning on coming but it is Friday when I will be in there...do you still have the hen too?If u have any pics u cand send me, u should PM me...I'd really like to get the pair. How old are they? *I want babies!!!! lol! Also wondering how what time you will be around it would be later afternoon to evening...let me know you can PM me

 

[LluviaChic77]

Welcome to the newcomers..that may not be as new as I thought! I just may not have seen you yet...and yaaay, we have another Lisa egg counter/picture taker..I thought I had everyone beat on pictures though. I have to say, I haven't taken too many pictures of my hens and their own eggs laid. I have taken a sequence of pictures of a hen laying...Lisa..? Lluv...? See if you have any like this and share..I thought it would be cool to have.

All nestled in ~



Just waiting ~ and pushing



Ha! I bet you thought that was going to be a blue egg! Wait, that isn't hers..lol..she's
pushing!


It's not blue, but it's a mint green. Just plopped ~

She had to move it over by the other egg..you can see the color is lighter as it dried.
I wonder if she is comparing size?

I use these pictures every now and again when folks are building their first coop, and
wonder how big the nest boxes should be. I show them how the chicken prefers to stand
up as she is close. Lisa, that wheaten A. is up for quite a while during her last part of
laying. She makes little squeaky noises too..cute.

Well, I am not surprised, that I have a pip this morning even though they aren't due to hatch
until tomorrow, but what surprises me is that it's one of the large eggs. I mean large. I have
a few silkie eggs in there, and when I heard chirping last night, I just figured it was one of
those. Maybe, but the one pipped is...a NN dad, and a RIR. Hmm, wonder what it will be.
And, get this. These eggs are for a friend, btw..but she says she saw that NN get hold of
her Silkies! I think it would be fun to have a bantam NN. Maybe those wouldn't go
broody so much! ? Would be cute, especially if it's a white one. She also has one
of my white showgirls..that is a girl. She isn't sure which egg is which! She has blue splash
silkies too. This should be fun to see if they all hatch. She does have a buff silkie roo, but she
says she didn't think that he had "it" down yet. We'll see. He was trying. These babies are
going back to her..unless I see one that I just have to have

I love these pictures....now I really want to install a web cam or some sort of trail cam...I told my husband yesterday I wanted to do a live feed from my coop to my computer, so I could just randomly watch them, he said "oh wow, now that sounds like some real interesting viewing"...told me I was like chicken stalker.

You have to post more pics of the new babies....I want a blue splash silkie and a show girls sooo bad. Good luck happy hatching! Please, please share pics!

 

[cyndiloowho]

Birdman- we were up at Wheeler today actually. My son was helping divide pens, his goat and Scottish Highlanders are there now. All of the animals there are either owned by Wheeler or by the Granite Mtn FFA kids.
I wil ask him to ask around for ideas though. A lot of these kids keep horses on their own property or on someone else's. I'll let you know if he hears of anything. How many does she have?

 

[LluviaChic77]

The NN---I ordered 5 and only two arrived. Appears 3 escaped the box. I called McMurray and they said it happens, and refunded me...but it was a bummer. I only kept one of the two because they were both orange. I might look in IFA when we come down to SLC, i really want a white or black one too.

Lisa if you are still looking for a few NN's-the IFA on 2100 in SLC had a really good selection...I picked up the cutest black one!

 

[LluviaChic77]

Hey Lisa, I just went to my friends fb, and she has this picture up for her profile. Look how pretty that showgirl is. A sister to your boy.

Also, that polish is from me.


I'm hoping one of those eggs in there is hers.

Oh they are both beautiful!!!

 

[the-bird-man]

Birdman- we were up at Wheeler today actually. My son was helping divide pens, his goat and Scottish Highlanders are there now. All of the animals there are either owned by Wheeler or by the Granite Mtn FFA kids. 
I wil ask him to ask around for ideas though. A lot of these kids keep horses on their own property or on someone else's. I'll let you know if he hears of anything. How many does she have?

ah i knew someone here had a kid with livestock at wheeler. thanks for the info! i am sure my sister will find a place so dont worry about asking him but thanks

 

[Rykel]

i got some of my chicks from a place called sunny Brooke farms in sandy, she boards horses too, not sure if that helps, Birdman.

 

[Sphinx]

Birdguy, Love those babies, especially the one with the white crown. My husband ate goat quite a bit when he lived in the Dominican Republic. He's mentioned a time or two that it'd be fun to raise them for meat, but I think goats, while cute, are more trouble than I want to take on. They could so easily escape my pasture.

Welcome RideRed93! I'm very close to you, but none of my chickens are broody. I haven't had a broody in a couple years. I have awesome luck that way because I think I'd HAVE to give her babies if one did go broody.

Corvidae, cool, I can easily arrange to be there around 2. Do you still have my number to text me when you get back? Just in case, I'll PM it to you.

I think I'm going to start my first school hatch tomorrow, but I only have three eggs. Cross your fingers that I get 4 today so I have a full batch. One is a legbar and I think one is from my polish. If it's not my polish, it's my new penciled hamburg. Either way, very fun.

 

[PressOn]

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I wish my Wyandotte was broody. I have my Wyandotte and my Cuckoo Marans in a cool dark brooding coop that I made last summer. These two hens are get along well, and my most likely to brood. I have the two of them in with one nest with eggs in it. Once one of them goes broody I will switch the eggs out for fertile eggs and take the other hen back with the other hens.

No signs of broodiness in either of them yet. Hope one of them gets in the brooding mood soon.

 

[Lilwanis]

I hope so too! I kept two of them, and bought them as sexed females, if the hatchery messes this up and this is a boy I will be soooo sad. That would be my luck though. She is short and fat and my little buddy Don't ya just want to squeeze her?

So Gary, I think I read this....when the dad is the BR, and the mom is the RIR, the girl chicks will be black sex links, and be black but not barred, then they get the red around the neck as they get older.....so would the opposite be true, if the mom was barred, then the boy offspring would be black, the girls would be red? I might have this all wrong, but I was thinking using the barred in a sex link cross created Black babies not barred...Daloorashens, where are you, you know this stuff....you gotta help us figure this one out. I can't keep it all straight

For BSL's you need a barred or cuckoo hen and almost any rooster (non barred and not white). The female barred hens only have one copy of the barring gene and only pass it to the male offspring (makes have two copies, and pass one to each gender). So as I understand it, Gary's cross of a RIR roo over a Dominique, the female chicks will be black and the males will have white in some form that indicates barring. So pure black chicks should be female.

Here is the sexlinks thread (so helpful!!)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information