YO GEORGIANS! :)

[GAMarans]

Yes, he does.

 

[RoboDuck]

Probably. I was just being silly (hard as that may be to believe) after Cliff said it was already taken. We're getting rid of all of our Pekins.... I like lots of colorful ducks.

 

[savannahm0m]

Has anyone had a chicken lay 2 eggs in one day? Checked for eggs last night when they went to roost and collected what was there. Tonight when I went out, there were 3 green eggs. The thing is though that I have only 2 Easter eggers! So unless one of the other girls switched breeds midstream, someone did double duty today.

 

[valleychicks]

I ain't never met no chicken with teeth so I just reach in and get eggs. I get pecked and bitten all the time and I ain't no werechicken yet.

Game hens have teeth! I just know they do! I have been bitten more than once and have scars to prove it. Got smart finally and now put thick leather gloves on to remove eggs from broody game hens.

 

[RoboDuck]

HA! Wait til you get bitten by a turkey! I almost said ouch when I was transferring ours to the big pen and she bit me.

 

[valleychicks]

IT'S HATCH DAY!!! I came back from the hospital visiting my grandbaby to find 8 chicks had hatched, now there are more. So far I have 3 NN chicks from the 4 Turken/NN eggs I got at the first TSC McD Swap. Two of the NNs have dark colored feathers and one has yellow. I have one chick in an egg that I got from Flower that may be trying to get shrink wrapped. I don't know if I should try and help because I have others hatching. So far I have not opened the incubator since lock down. I'm trying to be good but...should I help the chick or not?

 

[sarnold1]

I'll just let my duck hatch some eggs. You can have one, roboduck! They will be pekin mallard cross!

 

[valleychicks]

HA! Wait til you get bitten by a turkey! I almost said ouch when I was transferring ours to the big pen and she bit me.

I think I will pass! I don't want to lose an arm or leg.

 

[GAMarans]

Got my poultry dealer/broker license today. In fact, I got it twice. Two separate envelopes to send me two copies of the license at the same address.

 

[pdx2phx]

Hi all -

I mostly just lurk around here & smile at the shenanigans (usually involving Robo) but actually have several real live questions for folks -

My husband built an incubator, and then promptly lost his mind with the incubating. We have baby chicks UP THE WAZOO now and then he started ordering hatching eggs.... including Rouen duck eggs and Sebastapol goose eggs (!). He probably has other eggs coming that I don't know about. Is there a hatching interventionist?

(1) is anyone in the Glynn Co/SE Coastal GA area interested in serama and mixed serama/bantam chicks? We have a ton of cute, friendly little roos...and some pullets. somehow so many more roos...how is this statistically possible??

(2) do folks have brooder advice for ducks/geese like these? I think his plan is to raise them and give them to our neighbors (who have ducks/geese and a large pond) but they'd need to be old enough to keep up/join the flock. I know there will be lots of poop...lots and lots of it, and a desire for water. We've never raised water fowl...

(3) is anyone maybe interested in Rouen or Sebastopol chicks in a month or two?

(4) in the group of serama/bantam chicks, there are 3 6-week old 'special needs' who were in the first batch (before incubator settings were fixed). 1 is a (former) wry chick cockerel that still peeps a lot and does the stevie wonder thing with his head constantly. 2 others had really bad spraddle that we tried to correct and while they walk and get around fine, are still pretty screwy in the leg department. Is there any longer term advice for chicks like these? Is the wry cockerel probably doomed to a short life? We treated him with poly-vi-sol as a new chick but the head swinging never went away. Do folks ever want to give pet-type homes to chicks like these?

My chickens are my babies, and so I'm accustomed to spending lots of quality time with each of them. With so many chicks I'm having a hard time keeping this level of involvement going...they are happy, healthy and friendly, but SO MANY....