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[blujems]

Well I am jealous of everyone hatching...None of the button quail hatched. I checked and half were not fertile and the others never even pipped. Such cute tiny little things. I will have to try again in a few weeks, after I am done with all the baby goats due in the next week.

 

[the-bird-man]

Another baby, blue..splash?  I am wondering if the other one in there isn't splash too.  hmm, will have to wait until I see them all together in the brooder.   I think I will know better in a couple of days, and I'm sure I will have them, especially if I don't hear back from that guy by this afternoon.  They are starting to do the zip real quick once they get that pip bigger..I like that!

 Birdman the Brad..you just know you want a blue Ameraucana, or a splash.  Eenny meeny minie moe..or however you spell those things!   A pure Ameruacana.  Blue eggs.. 

nooooo i do not need another chicken right now. i am happy with my flock right now and as proof you will notice i did not even jump on that legbar donna (?) was selling lol

 

[Cynthia12]

nooooo i do not need another chicken right now. i am happy with my flock right now and as proof you will notice i did not even jump on that legbar donna (?) was selling lol

Oh, the self control! We should all have more of that. Actually, I was just talking with my DH, and said, I think I'm doing pretty good. I only have two egg layers right now, as I am waiting for my pullets to start. He couldn't believe I only have two egg laying hens right now. I am happy with the pullets I have that will be laying for me this coming next month, then the next, then the next. I like having them start at different times, then I know pretty much who is laying. Now watch, the black EE will beat the NH...no, the EE is only three months. The NH is going to be 5 months next month, I think. Along with the Speckled Sussex, but I can tell she will be a while..the NH is looking more and more like a hen every day. They really do mature quickly.
Lisa..you got a Wheaton? You should keep that one if it's a girl! Blue EGG!

 

[Cynthia12]

I have two more with beaks starting to poke out. One is a Wheaten egg! ---so it will be wheaten, blue wheaten or splash....one more Blue Orp.....no pips on the rest yet, and still no Marans pipped. This is fun we are hatching on the same day

There will be a chic pic overload by tomorrow lol watch out!

True that... Picture overload, everyone get ready! I hope your marnan's hatch! Give them time today. I want to see those cute little fuzzy feet. So, you can keep, the wheaton girl, blue egg, a maran girl, chocolate egg, then you have your brown egg layers now, do you have a white egg layer? I have three Exchequers that I am watching. I am thinking about keeping only one, but we will see. I love getting those eggs through the fall and winter.
As Whitney knows, I kept one of the red mixes. I am hoping it's a girl. She will be a great layer, mom being a sex link, and dad a RIR.

I now have 4 babies out..they are all blue..with yellow! Now where's that guy that wants blue chicks?

 

[RedIII]

Booo, Brad. If I have to suffer then so do you, lol (kidding) I think I've given up hope right now on having a sane amount of chickens. Hence, all the chicks. The last few months have been one continuous, evolving round of stress, and I need something to help take my mind off of less pleasant matters. Like Brad pointed out before, I could be into some addictions that are a lot worse

I'd rather have chickens, thank you.

Cynthia, your pullets are so sweet. It will be fun when they start laying for you! I will be excited when my teenagers get close to the age of POL. Still a little on edge about that gray EE, but I'm holding out that she's been a girl all along. I've got a few more months to go before I see any eggs from them, methinks. The oldest are 9 weeks old, now. It makes me wonder when that other EE and the Dellie I had would have started laying, had they been in better circumstances. They'd be a little over three months old now, I believe. I miss my girls.

Lisa, exciting progress on your hatching! I'm looking forward to being flooded with cute pictures

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

I am sooooo not getting anything productive done today. This little guy loves the camera. Keeps coming forward to peck it, so this took awhile to get pics!

Pretty fat and fluffy.








He is a movie star in the making

 

[RedIII]

Lisa, that baby makes me smile

Thanks for putting up pictures.

Hey, random question for y'all. How many of you actually go out and sit with your chickens for a little while, either just to watch them or socialize with them? I've been taking my teenagers out in the garden every day and it can be so relaxing. Made me wonder who else does that.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

I hear ya!! That is all I do it seems like man I cannot get anything done at my house at all. My house is in dire need of a good cleaning. I go out to get eggs, then I sit on the chair...and watch.....then I put the chair in the run, put a few on my leg.....then I go backup to the house and get treats because they are so cute they need a treat....then I sit in the chair some more....then I have to pick each teenager up and tell it I love it so it has one on one time and won't get jealous of the others.....then I have to go pet all my big girls...then I forgot what I came out for.....and after I go back in the house I remember I did not check for eggs and then I come back out and it starts all over. Sheesh. On days I have preschool kids here we are getting an awful lot of recess time :/ They always go through and ask me what each one's name is, one by one......then they ask again a few minutes later.... I am so addicted to these guys it is rubbing off on the kids. They are really getting a kick out of the whole thing. Red---you are so not alone in your bizarre chicken lovin' behaviour It sure does make me happy.

 

[RedIII]

Oh good! Thanks Lisa. I love hauling a chair around to different spots in the garden and then letting my teens loose. They know it's coming, so they all crowd at the door of the kennel and then burst out like popcorn. Some of them like being petted and talked to, like my little BO, and some just don't. I think one of my favorite things lately has been that my Welsummer is going to town on the bugs. First it was a worm (and an ensuing parade of chickens playing keepaway) then it was ants, then slugs, and yesterday she found a snail and got pretty excited. I'm 99% sure she pecked it apart and ate it, shell and all. I'm so proud of her. And then I got the fun thing where one chick pooped on my shoe, and another chick wiped her face on my other shoe..........silly girls.

Ok who else? Please? I love hearing about your birds!

Oh! Cynthia - how's that little Leghorn doing? Has that lump gone down at all?

 

[corvidae]

Okay Lisa, just got back from Duchesne and we have 22 eggs for you.

The broody up there hasn't hatched her eggs yet, but she is hissing at anything that comes near her. I put a feed container with chick feed in it right where she could reach and caught her stretching her neck to get at it some, so at least she can eat without having to get up off her nest. Hopefully hers will start hatching this weekend.

In the meantime, I have 2 pips in the incubator, over a day early (as usual for the BLRW's!). I think they will likely hatch tonight while I am at work, then the others will start popping out like popcorn. After that, my incubator will be EMPTY for the first time since I got it (my son just read that and made a shocked noise!) I have so many chicks and juveniles here that I have to wait until the new coop is finished and some of them moved up to Duchesne before I can hatch any more! Sad, but true. Look at me, being all practical--how did THAT happen??

We had to cull one of the BLRW chicks this afternoon. Pulled it out of the brooder last night because it appeared to have some kind of injury that threw it's balance off badly. Couldn't see anything on it, but it was definitely a neuro kind of injury. I believe it might have gotten stampeded by the other chicks.

In any case, by this morning, it had fought so hard trying to get back on it's feet that it had caught a talon in it's neck and ripped the neck open. No saving that, I'm afraid. Poor little critter. Blood all over it's brooder from the laceration. Very sad--it was a very pretty blue, too.

Everyone else looks healthy and happy and the boys cleaned the brooder room this afternoon. The Cream legbars are very perky and waiting for their ride home tomorrow night.