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[jbear]

Ogress-i LOVE your flamingos! lol!

I collect them and have a pair "Pinky and George" that go camping with us. I do it now to bug my DH..

lol! But all of our friends now help feed my habit. I have decorated our camp trailer with ALL kinds of pink flamingos. fun stuff..

nice eggs too btw, that spiral thingey is neat.

Grace--glad your day is going better today. So neat the babies are pipping.

Cloverleaf--you WILL have some Seramas by then

heehee! I have started your collection. eggciting.

illia--no thunder and lightening..just dark and ominous.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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My son and I "broke the news" to DH last night at dinner about the Seramas...he's NOT impressed...LOL Whatever.

 

[ReiMiraa]

Morning.... its been sprinkling here. i dislike biology class. the professor lacks in presentation skills

thinking of going skiing at schweitzer tomorrow... or possibly travel there tonight who knows....

in a few years i soo want to get an incubator... but i fear i would get kicked out of the house if i suddenly had tons of chicks hatching when i do not have the room.

how do you guys do it? constantly hatch a lot when it sounds like you also have limited capacity???

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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I hatch alot, but plan only keeping a few and I sell alot.

 

[DIYSeattle]

Im not sur eabout teh flour, but if you have dirt use a garden rake (like a short tater rake) or a leaf rake and rake the ground so that it is clean and void of leaflitter and haeavy rocks if possible. Its easier to make a clean track in clean soft dirt. Maybe just in a couple places youd think they would go to first, or around the gate wher eyou normally walk as they wont be as likely to chang etheir pattern if they suspect nothing is new. They arent as dumb an animal as you might think, they dont get old by being stupid.

 

[Chickielady]

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Oh I LOVE those pink birds you have !!

 

[Illia]

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I sell or eat half or more of what I hatch. Most of my breeds, if not all, are dual purpose, plus I like to do meat bird projects on the side, and I like eating my own chicken rather than Cornish X, so a lot gets raised, then eaten. The rest, such as Ameraucanas, Marans, Olive Eggers, and now Shamos - Get sold at anywhere from 1 day old to 8 months old.

We have a lot of room here though. 3 acres of pasture for the hens to mix and mingle on and a HUGE run for the roosters to be in, plus the rest of the yard is owned by the Shamos, and a huge run for the Polish. When I get enough Tolbunts though, I'll be introducing quite a few to the pasture. . . Get some color and crests in the flock.

 

[hallerlake]

I know Rainwolf sells a lot of chicks.

 

[hallerlake]

If one of your hens goes broody, and you want to get eggs for her, how long do you have to get those eggs? Do they have a preset time that they will brood? If it takes a week to get eggs, will she stop brooding before they're hatched or will she sit on them until they're hatched, however long that takes?

 

[Rainwolf]

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If you want to keep her broody give her a egg or 2... then when the ones you want her to brood arrive swap out.