WHAT YA GOT SWAP Chat Thread

[reesepoultry]

Don't jinx it. It's a girl......

I don't need anymore roo's.

 

[UncleTommy]

I just got home...and i have a pip! I'm a little worried, the little guy didn't make it all the way through the shell, but its a high pip where the air cell should be (some of the eggs had lackluster air cells). Good thing i duck taped the incubator shut (it helped with the humidity), give me time to calm myself down before flinging the door open.

 

[BHep]

a pip !!! Now STAY OUT! Chicks have been hatching since the time of dinosaurs.... they know what to do. (most of the time)

 

[emvickrey]

I had 4 hatch yesterday. 3 partridge silkies and 1 black. They're a day early and one egg left. One of the partridge was a gold color when it dried but now has faint stripes. It's sooo pretty

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

If my silkies would just lay two or three days in a row, I would be happy! Only getting four eggs a WEEK.

 

[BHep]

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The eggs I got from you go into lock down tonight.

I "think" there may be 1 quitter. 9/9 will go into the hatcher.

 

[UncleTommy]

this guy is a day early too, but i was expecting that, i was always running a little hot, about 101-101.5, but still no change. I'm going out all day, so no chance of opening it up...unless i do it now, which i won't.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Gosh, I have those 5 hens in with Flash the Splash (roo from you) and 2 hens are raising 5 chicks but I still get 3 eggs a day, most days from the others. Plus Gabriel's 2 hens that are not broody (the other 3 are) are giving me eggs about every day. I have a 'bator full of Silkie eggs! And what I have hatched are so blooming adorable! Flash is a handsome dude and good daddy!

I hope yours kick it in gear soon.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Gosh, I have those 5 hens in with Flash the Splash (roo from you) and 2 hens are raising 5 chicks but I still get 3 eggs a day, most days from the others. Plus Gabriel's 2 hens that are not broody (the other 3 are) are giving me eggs about every day. I have a 'bator full of Silkie eggs! And what I have hatched are so blooming adorable! Flash is a handsome dude and good daddy!

I hope yours kick it in gear soon.

TY. Me too or I may kick them to your house.

Molting time is starting. At least for some of them.

If it is not one thing with those birds, it is another. Too hot, too cold, molting, broody....etc etc

But I love them!

I am so in love with Forrest (the mottled cochin pullet)!

- She is gorgeous! Beautiful type! I have to pick her up and hold her and scratch under her wings every day. If I just go in her pen and ignore her, she runs up and pecks me until I pick her up.

We lost all chicks but one cochin last time we had this much rain

 

[reesepoultry]

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Gosh, I have those 5 hens in with Flash the Splash (roo from you) and 2 hens are raising 5 chicks but I still get 3 eggs a day, most days from the others. Plus Gabriel's 2 hens that are not broody (the other 3 are) are giving me eggs about every day. I have a 'bator full of Silkie eggs! And what I have hatched are so blooming adorable! Flash is a handsome dude and good daddy!

I hope yours kick it in gear soon.

TY. Me too or I may kick them to your house.

Molting time is starting. At least for some of them.

If it is not one thing with those birds, it is another. Too hot, too cold, molting, broody....etc etc

But I love them!

I am so in love with Forrest (the mottled cochin pullet)!

- She is gorgeous! Beautiful type! I have to pick her up and hold her and scratch under her wings every day. If I just go in her pen and ignore her, she runs up and pecks me until I pick her up.

We lost all chicks but one cochin last time we had this much rain

I feel you on the silkies I have 3 pens of silkies and am only getting 1-2 eggs a week.

As for the rain. We are getting downpoured on every week that my runs are flooding into there coops. I lost a bunch of peachicks that had there own barn/Coop away from chickens and any water due to the wet/rainy cold days. It is getting in the 30's-50's at night here already. I have 1 peachick left and I am not sure it is gonna survive the weather we are having. No sign of sickness either by the way. They just can't handle the weather we are having here. I have a heat light on them too. Now I remember why I sold them all off in the first place. They don't seem to handle our weather very good.