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[Chickielady]

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I will have alot of EE LF, no bantams, in a few weeks.

 

[Chickielady]

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If that dude doesn't lay a coop by this Friday, maybe the Rustler, the White Eggs Guy, and I will have to go on a re-con mission for you.

We might be for hire if necessary. (Say Chickens) Of course I'll have to talk the guys into it. Oh wait I was driving last time and after we left that corner like we did that last time, I think they were just a bit upset at my driving.

I still think it was that smoke they were blowing.

Tell that guy that the group is gettin peeved at him, and we might just have to break out the Weave, and then we just don't know what could happen. ( Maybe frozen capons at dawn)

If he doesn't come on Friday, I will definitely be looking into other possibilities. Thanks for the offer.

How far are you from us down here in SW WA....me and DH may join up and help too !

Speaking of construction, I ordered our barn palns today !!!!! From Barnplans.com and they have to be altered a wee bit to deal with Pacific County's new hurricane 120-mile-an-hour wind blast rules, but that will be done by or around the first of next month.
Then we hunt for a good contractor to do the foundation (crawlspace or cinderblock ?) and then we build, a little at a time.
This is a 24 X 30 or more there abouts, and it will be our house !!!
No more living in this storage shed !!!

And we will be having alot of barbies with oysters too (this is the oyster capital of the world, is it not ?) especially when we get to the roof trusses.
Supposibly a couple guys can get the trusses done 1 every 15 minutes once they get the rythum going...but to do ourselves, they will probably tip right over !
But I am way excited, and here is Zgoatlady's school bus

and the duck T-Hi may want

and both together

they also have several new ones: 2 lighthouses, a table with tea party on top, and a few others.
Still have the rooster with chick and egg inside....

 

[Chickaholic]

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I have Ameraucanas in the bator right now and next week I will have Blue Laced Red Wyandottes going in the bator, don't know if you would be interested in those at all, just a thought

 

[jjhere]

Does anybody have a hot tip for finding hardware cloth in the Snohomish County/N. King County area? Ideally it would be a 100-ft roll. I've tried Monroe, Bothell and Everett feed stores - nada. Home Depot and Lowe's carry 25-ft rolls, but they're pretty pricey.

Thanks!
Julie

 

[Jessica Rabbit]

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Dayville Hay & Grain on Springhetti in Snohomish has it. But seriously I have bought it at both places and Home Depot is the cheapest.

 

[monicas]

chickaholic, I'd love a couple blue laced red chicks. I have 3 boys and 4 girls right now and would like more girls : ) Let me know if you can spare a three or four.

This weekend we had the most exciting hatch. 5 Lavender Ameraucanas, 1 Lavender orp, 4 bbs orps (all from [email protected]). The chicks are beautiful and very very healthy and vigorous,
Also in this hatch one lovely tolbunt polish hatched from my box of scrambled eggs that the PO delivered. A second tolbunt of the two surviving eggs pipped but that one didn't make it out of the egg. Oh, and we got one chick from my test egg from my gorgeous BBS ameraucanas from my Cree hens and Pips and Peeps Roo.

The tolbunt is sooooo cute. I will post a pic tomorrow. the orps are so fat they're like fuzzy golf balls with eyes.

For all you western washingtonian hatchers: we're using a suro incubator and are getting about 20% chicks that get to full growth but never hatch. Not sure why. I'm incubating at 99.5degrees and 45 humidity until the last few days when I bump it to 60%. Does anyone have any tried and true humidity suggestions?

 

[Chickaholic]

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Sounds good, I am going to start out with quite a few so three or four shouldn't be a problem, but I don't want to count them before they hatch so I will let you know in a couple weeks what we should be having

 

[jjhere]

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Dayville Hay & Grain on Springhetti in Snohomish has it. But seriously I have bought it at both places and Home Depot is the cheapest.

Wow, really? Bummer. I was hoping for something cheaper.

They had a couple of 10-ft rolls at the Everett Co-op for half the price of HD, but I need WAY more than 20 feet. We want to get the chicklets in their new home this weekend.

 

[Greg Richardson]

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[Chickielady]

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Jess the chicks have alot of fluid and blood inside that they have to absorb before they can crack out (zip)
First they pip, and you can usually see the tiny beak, and after all the fluids are absorbed the chick will zip if it can.
The fogginess is more than likely those fluids.
Try to keep the humidity down about 60-70%
They have to have some humidity or they will shrinkwrap, that is the membrane drying up and getting too rubbery for them to get out.
Has the first pip zipped yet ?