Oh, love the pictures. Sasha, those babies are adorable.
Lisa, wouldn't it be awesome if Villain was a frizzle?
Today I cut carpet remnants into squares to put in my nest boxes. Silly birds keep kicking all the shavings out, laying eggs on the bare wood, which cracks the egg if they land wrong.
Shinx, that's what we do. Scott put that in our nest boxes..works like a charm. I kept getting cracked eggs too. Makes sense they would crack when they push so hard with that last push..standing up, then it hits that wood floor. They always have to make that nice little round spot to lay on/in when they lay their egg, but they expose the bottom.
Another hot day? Yesterday was a breaker in early heat. It's usually June 7th, so, we were close.
I go into lock down today with those eggs I was telling you about Jill. The Lavender Ameraucanca dad, with the white leghorn. These chicks are supposed to lay blue blue eggs. He was going for a lot of eggs, large eggs, which these are, and then of course, the blue. Guess I'll have to wait a long time before I see what color the chicks will lay.
Plus I got some real pretty olive egg colors from him, plus, lol..I have my catdance Silkies in with them. All, in my new bator. We shall see by Fri. how this bator does. I can say one thing for sure, this think holds the humidity like no other. I've done the dry incubation all the way, except when it got down to the low the high teens, and the air sacs started getting big enough. So, put a tiny piece of paper towel in, and that brought it up into the 30's. Now, I'm watching it, how much paper now?? lol I can open this bator "during" lock down and not worry about it according to others that have it. That's ok, I always opened my other bators to snatch a baby out once in a while when they were all taking a long time to hatch anyway. The pipped ones always made it. Probably loved the fresh oxygen in there.
Hope someone out there is doing something fun today. Where's Brad? Brad, speak up! We will let you get a word in, promise! What have you been up to? You always have a project you are working on. Did you get all of the trees/bushes pruned and cut back? Didn't you say you had water in the basement? Is that all dry now? There is always something to do with our homes. I am excited to be getting a new vinyl fence on the West side of our house! Can't pass up the deal this guy is giving us on the fence. He lives down the street from us, and is doing a lot of neighbors, including the fence on the East side of us. We won't worry about the back fence. We really need new linoleum in our upstairs bath. It will come. I know that stuff has had to be in there since the 80's, at least. Can't get into the little dents with anything to get it clean looking, so have to just mop and be ok. I've tried tooth brushes..of course a larger brush, but it is in there. Next thing I get in there will not have those little dimples in it. I know the ladies know what I'm talking about.
Book Done!! Later!
That one will be the spoiled brat because we love her even more now 
I hope the next one hatches out and looks like a girl. Feather sexing seems to work quite well on bcm, so in the next day or so, you should be able to tell for sure. I knew right away with my two marans that I had one of each. It's been really obvious with the differences. At this point, they're almost 2 months old, and the cockerel still looks a bit patchy and not feathered in.
