Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[ValerieJ]

I have a neighbor who does that, but i think it's just to keep track of which ones are the oldest for eating purposes. i just keep the cartons in the order the eggs come in. But for hatching purposes, I believe dates would be very useful.

 

[Smokerbill]

I have a neighbor who does that, but i think it's just to keep track of which ones are the oldest for eating purposes. i just keep the cartons in the order the eggs come in. But for hatching purposes, I believe dates would be very useful.

I'm satisfied with the 40% fertility rate of the five eggs, considering the circumstances. I watched the RIR pullet lay an egg today and it was just like the 5 I'm incubating, kind of long and skinny.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hey there computer died yesterday, had plug in Richards.
Did that this morning look like we may have new roommates moving here next month.

 

[Smokerbill]

I candled the eggs again and saw the three clears were still clear and the two that were developing had developed a little more. Even saw a little motion in one of them.

I hard boiled the clears and will feed them to the pullets when they've cooled down.

I'm going to attempt to get all my chicken rearranging done today... moving the two cockerels to freezer camp, moving the teenage chicks to the cockerels' old run and moving the young chicks outside to the teenagers' old quarters. The young chicks have been without heat in the shop for over a week so they're used to the cold now.

I also have leg bands to remove from two or three of the pullets if I can catch them.

 

[pennyJo1960]

If You have the hens I could buy them as of the 4 of the new month.
Only 3 or 4.

 

[silver wolf]

Minnesota

 

[pennyJo1960]

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[silver wolf]

Welcome

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[pennyJo1960]

We are getting new roommates next month.

 

[Smokerbill]

We are getting new roommates next month.

That'll be nice.

I'm keeping the 4 pullets and 6 cockerels from the teenager batch, but I'll have some available from the young batch that hatched on Dec. 22. It looks like out of the 9 chicks at least 6, and maybe 7 of them are pullets.

Only 2 or 3 are growing red combs and wattles now, but time will tell. Probably should wait until mid February just to make sure the pullets are actually pullets. LOL

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