Utah!

[Cynthia12]

Sundance, once she is completely dry, if she's still not fluffed up, use a soft bristled toothbrush and very gently brush her. That will fluff her right up.

Aww, it's another mini Wendy! Too cute..wish she and I were best buds, lived closer, so I could sign her cast! That's always fun. Tell her..pretty color and design!

 

[auntie hattie]

Yay! We have another person from southern Utah!!! I'm not feeling so lonely anymore. Welcome Mamma Hen!

Sphinx your little one is so cute with her new cast. How long will she have to have it on? I hope not the whole summer. Oh and congrats on the new egg layer. It never gets old. It is always fun getting those eggs!
Cynthia I have two in your incubator. I think you are much better at incubating eggs than I am.

I do finally have a good temp and humidity gauge in there now so I'm hoping for these two to hatch with the other seven in my other incubator. I thought they went into lockdown tonight but I recalculated and it is tomorrow night. I'm getting so excited to have chicks again. I will keep the humidity at 55 to 60. Thanks for your help.

 

[Cynthia12]

So Sundance, you decided on that one. Will be watching to see how it works out for you. Looks, and sounds like a good one.

I have put one bator down stairs for storage, have the other two ready to go down stairs tomorrow. I will just have the cabinet bator going until these showgirls hatch, then it will go down stairs until fall.

Welcome to mamahen!!

Lot of hoppin good old fashion fun going on in this thread!

Guess what? Maggie is checking out the nest boxes! That would be my New Hampshire. And, my S~Sussex is going in and out of the coop a lot..boy is she red. No squatting as of yet though.
And, it's strange, but my first Exchequer is really getting red. She could lay though, by mid next month. The leghorns usually lay early, like 16 weeks. She is very small, but then I look at my Miss Piggy and go, oh yeah, leghorn. Chloe, my beautiful black Ameraucanca, is getting red. Not sure on her, they always keep us guessing at how close they are to laying. Brad, you say your girl is getting red, my pencil is still more pink than red. Her neck feathering is coming in, oh my goodness, it's beautiful!

Ok, red, my little Exchequer is still here, and I am more than certain it's a girl. And she is puttering around in the grow out pen, doing really well. She's one of the little toughy's out there. If the little Icelandic didn't make it, pm me, I will be more than happy to place this girl with you. I will hold her for you until you can make it down this way again. Just let me know. I feel bad that you went through that. I am ready to place all the ones that I don't want now. I did get the other Wheaton sold. I'm so glad, she is going to someone that loves chickens as much as I do. A cute little friend of mine.

 

[ducklover700]

How cute is that??!

Thank you! she's my little gold phase welsh harlequin. I'm using a milk jug with a hole cut into the side as their water container, so that they don't soak their brooder as quickly but Aurora just climbs in and swims in it instead...

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

So Sundance, you decided on that one.  Will be watching to see how it works out for you.  Looks, and sounds like a good one.

  I have put one bator down stairs for storage, have the other two ready to go down stairs tomorrow.  I will just have the cabinet bator going until these showgirls hatch, then it will go down stairs until fall.

Sure, sure, I will believe this when I see it LOL

 

[RedIII]

Yay! We have another person from southern Utah!!! I'm not feeling so lonely anymore. Welcome Mamma Hen!

I love it when that happens. When I saw that Sundance was from T-ville, I went

And welcome to Mamma Hen! (Sorry I missed it before - I'm spacy)

Guess what? Maggie is checking out the nest boxes! That would be my New Hampshire. And, my S~Sussex is going in and out of the coop a lot..boy is she red. No squatting as of yet though.
And, it's strange, but my first Exchequer is really getting red. She could lay though, by mid next month. The leghorns usually lay early, like 16 weeks. She is very small, but then I look at my Miss Piggy and go, oh yeah, leghorn. Chloe, my beautiful black Ameraucanca, is getting red. Not sure on her, they always keep us guessing at how close they are to laying. Brad, you say your girl is getting red, my pencil is still more pink than red. Her neck feathering is coming in, oh my goodness, it's beautiful!

Ok, red, my little Exchequer is still here, and I am more than certain it's a girl. And she is puttering around in the grow out pen, doing really well. She's one of the little toughy's out there. If the little Icelandic didn't make it, pm me, I will be more than happy to place this girl with you. I will hold her for you until you can make it down this way again. Just let me know. I feel bad that you went through that. I am ready to place all the ones that I don't want now. I did get the other Wheaton sold. I'm so glad, she is going to someone that loves chickens as much as I do. A cute little friend of mine.

Woohoo! Go Maggie! My GLW is really starting to concern me. Her face is getting awfully red, and I don't have a nest box set up yet........eep! Better git busy!

Also, Cynthia, thank you for the offer. It's very sweet of you. I would love that little Exchequer if you're re-homing her (I've got -3 chickens, remember? Ha!

) I do think that I need to cut down on my griping here, though. I'm sure plenty of other people go through their share of hard stuff, too, and just never say anything about it.

Thank you! she's my little gold phase welsh harlequin. I'm using a milk jug with a hole cut into the side as their water container, so that they don't soak their brooder as quickly but Aurora just climbs in and swims in it instead...

Awww!

Sure, sure, I will believe this when I see it LOL

See, this is why I told my family I never want an incubator.

 

[MoriahQuilts]

http://chickenwarehouse.com/494/auto-egg-incubator-jn8-48/ Link to incubator I just got. I'm leaving for 10 days on Monday to go to Alaska. I've ordered some eggs to put in it. some sizzles, some Frizzled Americanas, some Duncle mille fleurs, some olive eggs. and some more Auracanas If you want me to hatch some of your EE's let me know. I've fought the temperature and humidity with the styrofoam one. this looks really nice and my hope is that this one will do better. I want to set the eggs then go on vacation. When I get back I should only have a week or so until I get babies. I felt like if I had a better bator I would get better hatches. Time will tell.

It looks good! I was just asking because my first few attempts in styro bators were dismal, and I had wished I'd not purchased eggs for "practice". Sounds like you're getting very comfortable with it. Best of luck! And have a great time!

 

[MoriahQuilts]

Cynthia - This is the color of the blue eggs from the black hen. All six are from same hen. The blue roo came from the same breeding line, so I'm hoping for blue egg genes. See how the bottom corner one is darker on the end? That's the spot of the good coloring I was telling you about, the spot of robin egg blue, but not ever the whole egg.

Same eggs in direct sunlight: Or not - its not gonna let me post that shot. Its on my member page if you want to compare. This is my last batch, unless I can bear to part with a bunch of babies and find a great deal on a line of larger built/orpy maybe looking blues. I've seen larger Lavs - what happens if you cross Lav and Blue?

 

[wgidir]

I have a question about the nesting boxes. I know about the curtains that people put up on their nesting boxes but do I train the girls to use the boxes first without the curtains and then add them or put the curtains up first? Silly question I know, but these girls are my first!

 

[kidasoto]

What do you guys mean by getting red? My girls arent laying yet and im not sure when they will. They keep on sleeping in and pooping in the nesting boxes. Ive put up a curtain but they just keep on going in. Any ideas to get them not to sleep in them?