Hey VF, so were you an Echo or a Golf? The Army taught me Czech. And two weeks after I started the language, the wall came down in Prague. Heh heh. I was a Golf. Spent my first tour in God-awful Ft. Drum. Miserable place!
WOW. A bunch of military linguists hanging out on BYC, who'da thunk? LOL
I find it nerve wracking! I have hatched eggs with 2 broodys and now an incubator. My 11 year old loves it and the chicks are priceless. I end up with a lot of roosters that way and have had to put a chick down because its legs were deformed and it couldn't walk. I have the offspring of a pair that we hatched under a broody. The roosters name is Rupert and I have named his son Twopert but my daughter calls him Rupert the second. I almost feel like he is my grand child! The part I like about hatching chicks is that you can order some pretty amazing chicken eggs, rare breed and hatch the eggs. I have Marans from Kentucky and Bredas from California.
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Lookie who was waiting for me when I got home!
Miss Juno is such a good mama!
One more egg under there, here's hoping it hatches!
edited to add - that's the scratch & peck starter feed =)
I was hoping today that we aren't going to be doing all this building in the rain. Maybe we can do a lot of the constructing in the barn!No kidding! Look outside...it's officially November again.
I pour water over the dust to make a paste and they wolf it right up. You can mix it with yogurt too.
Is VF building you a coop in Arizona :yiipchick sounds like it by your weather forecast
No kidding! Look outside...it's officially November again.
Well hopefully next weekend is nice like they say. My youngest DS is playing in another(and final) Lacrosse tournament.
Candled eggs today and I am down to 23 eggs from 28. 12 Silkies, 7 LF Favs, and 4 bantam Favs(these are Tamara's).
Hoping for a good hatch from these eggs.
Especially the Silkies. I was looking at my one blue silkie and it is developing crossbeak. I am so bummed!
I was kind of hoping it was a boy and could use it for possible breeding.
If it doesn't get so bad that it can't eat or drink, I will probably keep it as a pet. We shall see.
I don't look forward to possibly having to cull it.
We've got lots of folks here that have homebred EEs (and OEs too, if you want a different color egg) and due to the crosses some of them are quite cool. Chickielady had one pullet that turned out to be an EE, she had Black Copper Marans coloring on an Ameraucana body, really pretty. And some were splash and so on. She currently has an Orloff roo over some of her hens and coming out with wild colors. Could be fun!Question: Next year I'm fairly certain I would like to acquire some different colors of EE/Ameraucana pullet chicks. How do I go about ordering/finding different color chicks? What is my type called? I really like SunBug4's EEs, and a few others. Would love white, blue, splash, whatever. I just think my girl here is kinda pretty, though boring
