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[Stumpfarmer]

Stumpfarmer:

is this one of your chicks? Hubby got them mixed up - I think this is one of yours. CL marked hers JG and the Marans are obvious. I know you gave me some Am/Aus, but can't remember if the BLRW were marked. Some are marked W (Wyandotte?) so are the others Hamburgs? Is this a Hamburg? (I hope they all hatch early - although it's only day 19)

No picture, but yes, Wyandottes are W; the Hamburgs are R (for Roches: Maggie and Terre and Suzzie. They don't give out their names or their phone numbers).

Early? YIPE! I am so very not early-ready, everything has been dragging me down all week and at the moment I've got a dead rooster and a sheep who's gotten loose on fifteen acres to deal with, besides the whole trying to finish the hatching cage for the d'Anvers and having everything I do go sideways on me.

Oh, yeah, and I need to spend at least three hours today getting family pictures copied and fixed for the wedding. Which is two weeks from tomorrow. For which I am also not ready. ARGH.

If you want to put them on CL and keep what you can get for them, go ahead. I am possibly not competent to deal with the complexity into which I have stumbled.


(Did it all go wrong when I dropped out of graduate school and fell in with the Episcopalians? I just don't know!)

 

[Totalcolour]

Quote: They are the cutest little things, even though so far only one is fully out. I can wait until Tuesday if you like (I will wait for all to hatch).

Sorry you are having so many issues lately. I reckon it's the Episcopalians as you thought.

Oh, on the other hand, perhaps someone here or BYC is looking for Hamburgs? . . . .

and just so everyone doesn't think I'm a total idiot, here's the pic

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Stumpfarmer: is this one of your chicks? Hubby got them mixed up - I think this is one of yours. CL marked hers JG and the Marans are obvious. I know you gave me some Am/Aus, but can't remember if the BLRW were marked. Some are marked W (Wyandotte?) so are the others Hamburgs? Is this a Hamburg? (I hope they all hatch early - although it's only day 19)

No picture, but yew, Wyandottes are W; the Hamburgs are R (for Roches: Maggie and Terre and Suzzie. They don't give out their names or their phone numbers). Early? YIPE! I am so very not early-ready, everything has been dragging me down all week and at the moment I've got a dead rooster and a sheep who's gotten loose on fifteen acres to deal with, besides the whole trying to finish the hatching cage for the d'Anvers and having everything I do go sideways on me. Oh, yeah, and I need to spend at least three hours today getting family pictures copied and fixed for the wedding. Which is two weeks from tomorrow. For which I am also not ready. ARGH. If you want to put them on CL and keep what you can get for them, go ahead. I am possibly not competent to deal with the complexity into which I have stumbled. (Did it all go wrong when I dropped out of graduate school and fell in with the Episcopalians? I just don't know!)

They are the cutest little things, even though so far only one is fully out. I can wait until Tuesday if you like (I will wait for all to hatch). Sorry you are having so many issues lately. I reckon it's the Episcopalians as you thought. Oh, on the other hand, perhaps someone here or BYC is looking for Hamburgs? . . . . and just so everyone doesn't think I'm a total idiot, here's the pic

I'd be a lot more entranced with how cute Hamburg chicks are if it weren't for the fact that I have ten of them in the hall bathroom, and one just crowed. I need to finish my cheese and crackers and go retrieve the cage-part I broke while putting it together (pilot holes are not optional) now that the glue has dried, and pick up eggs/check feed and water/pull grass for the rest of the chickens/ catch the roving sheep/ feed said sheep/turn off sprinklers/ take my underwear off the line/ et'c and so on and hope that nothing else has broken, escaped, gotten sick, or hatched early, since Cheery's kids are also due Tuesday. Them, I want: I'm hoping for at least one cockerel who can be bred to a Porcelain hen and come up with Porcelain chicks.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Quote: She won't come on this thread, and only checks PM's, Oregon thread and Faverolles thread. Now to the SFH, a breeder on NCK thread says 20-28 weeks.

 

[Elisha81]

not sure if it is allowed but i have a plymouth rock (white rooster) pretty boy and sweet that i need to rehome. hes been around our dog and car and fine with everybody. im in a subdivision so can only have the hens. I'm in yelm and if anyone is interested please shoot me a pm he is 4 months old and solid white. really pretty and been our pet

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well, except for not having a small enough machine screw to attach a bracket to the cage-wire, and needing to install ground anchors for the corners, I'm done with the hatching cage. I also figured out how to make a faster pen for the d'Anver's young 'uns, and the sheep came home when he was hungry and tired from bouncy bouncy bouncing all over the pasture.

I do believe I need to get something to eat now, assuming I can stand up again. I really need to remember the next time I sink a chunk o'change into cage wire that the 24" stuff may be much less expensive per 100 feet but the 36" is easier to work on because it's waist high

 

[mikeyb]

Well shoot. I wanted to post some pics of the 2 chicks that are now 6 weeks (?) old. They are very nice looking orps/rir and jg/rir. Can't figure out how to do it. Machine just says wait. grrrrrr

Anyway I have 8 hens and got tadata! 9 eggs today. Each and every one is extra large (which is normal size for these girls). Some days I get huge JUmbo eggs, they won't fit an extra large carton. Ok now I posted them (still don't know how) and if you click on the pic they will enlarge.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well shoot. I wanted to post some pics of the 2 chicks that are now 6 weeks (?) old. They are very nice looking orps/rir and jg/rir. Can't figure out how to do it. Machine just says wait. grrrrrr Anyway I have 8 hens and got tadata! 9 eggs today. Each and every one is extra large (which is normal size for these girls). Some days I get huge JUmbo eggs, they won't fit an extra large carton. Ok now I posted them (still don't know how) and if you click on the pic they will enlarge.

Oh, most excellent!

 

[CarolynF]

She won't come on this thread, and only checks PM's, Oregon thread and Faverolles thread. Now to the SFH, a breeder on NCK thread says 20-28 weeks.

Hmmm.... what is the NCK thread?

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Quote:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/729605/the-natural-chicken-keeping-thread-ots-welcome/

I sent her a PM, just waiting for reply