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[missy1971]

Quote: Good thing it was you and not me! I would probably be sitting in jail...lol but that is the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard...people are so incredibly stupid.
I do hope it all turns out good for you...
I am coming to the get together in May. I am usually not good around new people, as I suffer with PTSD and severe anxiety/social anxiety disorder. but I enjoy this site and the people so much, that I am coming, and looking forward to it! So ya'll bear with me in the beginning, lol, after that ya'll are gonna wish I would shut up!

 

[Mylied]

My chickens crossed the road 3 to be exact and I have to go to court again this Monday and I have a choice hearing by the judge, bench hearing or go to trial, a neighbor way down the country road got mad and called animal control, and the get together is May 20th at Gam and Robo's you will have to ask them for directions, when it gets closer we will be asking who is bringing what.  

Wow. I can't believe someone reported that or animal control cared. It's not like chickens are dangerous. We don't have animal control where I live, so you have to call the cops if you need something. I imagine they would have laughed their butts off. Chickens are always wandering around here.

 

[speckledhen]

These folks were Duffey & specialize in coturnix quail & do isbars, cream legbars, Bielefelders, Swedish anconas...etc. The lady was nice but gave me some side eye I suspect for telling her I've got 30 polish rockstars in the bator with her uber chickens lol.
I knew some Whatleys but they lived over to Roberta. I've only been in Macon for 17 years & you know it takes at least 30 to know what's going on in middle GA--haha!!

I'm fighting temptation to look at the eggs again & trying to let them be. Suspense is killing me with 12 days to go!

My Aunt Ethel Whatley was the kindest woman I ever knew. When she passed away, we were stationed away with the Air Force and I only heard about it afterward. That's the downside of being military that non-military never understand. Family dies off one by one and you can't go home for funerals or visits at the drop of a hat. My Uncle Euell would walk all over that area. Once a newspaper wrote an article about his infamous walks. I think he got lost a few times.

Ah, incubating. It is different with broodies. You can't just look at the eggs all the time and can't watch them hatch, but they have a better chance of hatching with a good broody, IMO.

 

[livhatcher]

My Aunt Ethel Whatley was the kindest woman I ever knew. When she passed away, we were stationed away with the Air Force and I only heard about it afterward. That's the downside of being military that non-military never understand. Family dies off one by one and you can't go home for funerals or visits at the drop of a hat. My Uncle Euell would walk all over that area. Once a newspaper wrote an article about his infamous walks. I think he got lost a few times.

Ah, incubating. It is different with broodies. You can't just look at the eggs all the time and can't watch them hatch, but they have a better chance of hatching with a good broody, IMO.

Bless them! I do appreciate your contributions & service--the sacrifices families in our military make are tremendous! Don't you see my last name??? I got that bator to finally meet my calling!!!

Maybe after my first hatch, and assuming I can find a quiet (haha) rooster to keep under the radar, I'll get hen hatches. But then will I still be a HATCHER?!?! These are the quandaries!!!

 

[lilwildrabbit]

My Aunt Ethel Whatley was the kindest woman I ever knew. When she passed away, we were stationed away with the Air Force and I only heard about it afterward. That's the downside of being military that non-military never understand. Family dies off one by one and you can't go home for funerals or visits at the drop of a hat. My Uncle Euell would walk all over that area. Once a newspaper wrote an article about his infamous walks. I think he got lost a few times.

Ah, incubating. It is different with broodies. You can't just look at the eggs all the time and can't watch them hatch, but they have a better chance of hatching with a good broody, IMO.

I spent 11 years in the Army I know how that is with relatives passing away and you not being here and as far as incubators are concerned I'll take a good sitting hen over an incubator any day!!

 

[brucifer]

My Aunt Ethel Whatley was the kindest woman I ever knew. When she passed away, we were stationed away with the Air Force and I only heard about it afterward. That's the downside of being military that non-military never understand. Family dies off one by one and you can't go home for funerals or visits at the drop of a hat. My Uncle Euell would walk all over that area. Once a newspaper wrote an article about his infamous walks. I think he got lost a few times.

Ah, incubating. It is different with broodies. You can't just look at the eggs all the time and can't watch them hatch, but they have a better chance of hatching with a good broody, IMO.

I grew up in a military family, so I know what you mean Cyn. The nice thing is that I got to see the world at a young age. Before I was 15, I had already lived on the west coast, on the east coast, in the south, in Hawaii, and in Italy. The tough thing was not establishing roots anywhere and having to make new friends every time we moved. Extended family often visited us since it was a good excuse to go to someplace new while keeping in touch. My daughter Evelyn is married to a USAF pilot, and they are stationed in Okinawa along with my three grandkids. I haven't seen them in two years, and I really miss them, but I understand and can relate to the situation.

As for my wife, she was born and raised in north-central Louisiana in the town of Natchitoches (pronounced Nack'-eh-tish). That town's claim to fame is that it's the oldest contiguous community in the Louisiana Purchase Territory - 1714, one year older than New Orleans. It seems that everyone originally from Natchitoches, my wife included, knows who is kin to whom. It's totally opposite of how I grew up, but I've always been impressed with the strong family/community ties and how she seems to know everybody. My grandmother on my dad's side was that way too; she was from a small town in Missouri and had that same knowledge of family and community. It seems to be a Southern thing. She's also the one who introduced me to chickens, livestock, and vegetable gardening. My grandparent raised and grew just about everything they ate.

Oh well, it's such a beautiful day, and I have some outdoors projects to work on, so I better get to them - no excuse to let this day get away. Have a great day!

 

[speckledhen]

I grew up in a military family, so I know what you mean Cyn. The nice thing is that I got to see the world at a young age. Before I was 15, I had already lived on the west coast, on the east coast, in the south, in Hawaii, and in Italy. The tough thing was not establishing roots anywhere and having to make new friends every time we moved. Extended family often visited us since it was a good excuse to go to someplace new while keeping in touch. My daughter Evelyn is married to a USAF pilot, and they are stationed in Okinawa along with my three grandkids. I haven't seen them in two years, and I really miss them, but I understand and can relate to the situation.

As for my wife, she was born and raised in north-central Louisiana in the town of Natchitoches (pronounced Nack'-eh-tish). That town's claim to fame is that it's the oldest contiguous community in the Louisiana Purchase Territory - 1714, one year older than New Orleans. It seems that everyone originally from Natchitoches, my wife included, knows who is kin to whom. It's totally opposite of how I grew up, but I've always been impressed with the strong family/community ties and how she seems to know everybody. My grandmother on my dad's side was that way too; she was from a small town in Missouri and had that same knowledge of family and community. It seems to be a Southern thing. She's also the one who introduced me to chickens, livestock, and vegetable gardening. My grandparent raised and grew just about everything they ate.

Oh well, it's such a beautiful day, and I have some outdoors projects to work on, so I better get to them - no excuse to let this day get away. Have a great day!

We never left the country, tech school at Lowry in Colorado where my older son was born and we left when he was three weeks old. Then, Hill AFB in Utah where our second son was born, on to Wright-Patterson in Ohio for 12 years, then again, Hill AFB and retired there, came back to GA. We turned down an assignment to Hawaii from Utah the first time, too expensive and that was our one turn-down.

Hey, I knew how to pronounce Natchitoches! Crazy name.

 

[brucifer]

We never left the country, tech school at Lowry in Colorado where my older son was born and we left when he was three weeks old. Then, Hill AFB in Utah where our second son was born, on to Wright-Patterson in Ohio for 12 years, then again, Hill AFB and retired there, came back to GA. We turned down an assignment to Hawaii from Utah the first time, too expensive and that was our one turn-down.

Hey, I knew how to pronounce Natchitoches! Crazy name.

Even back in the late 60s and early 70s, Hawaii was expensive. However, my dad was an officer, so we lived in nice housing, and my mom shopped at the military commissary and the PX. We lived there five years. During those years though, I rarely saw my dad. He was either stationed in Saigon or at sea in the Gulf of Tonkin. Every year he would visit us for a couple of weeks for R&R, and then it was back to the war. The funny thing about living in Hawaii was that just about everything there had to be shipped in by freighter, so often there were shortages of certain goods. I remember one year on the island they had a toilet-paper shortage. It was back to using the Sear catalog or the Honolulu Advertiser/States Item. Bad news.

Most folks have no idea how to pronounce Natchitoches when they read it, so kudos to you! Okay, now the wife is dragging me out the door. Gotta go...

 

[Flowerbh]

These folks were Duffey & specialize in coturnix quail & do isbars, cream legbars, Bielefelders, Swedish anconas...etc. The lady was nice but gave me some side eye I suspect for telling her I've got 30 polish rockstars in the bator with her uber chickens lol.
I knew some Whatleys but they lived over to Roberta. I've only been in Macon for 17 years & you know it takes at least 30 to know what's going on in middle GA--haha!!

I'm fighting temptation to look at the eggs again & trying to let them be. Suspense is killing me with 12 days to go!

The Duffeys are who I got my Swedish Flowers from at the Poultry show. All 3 were boys and I am trying to sell them. I also bought 6 SW hatching eggs and 6 Chocolate Orpington hAatching eggs. Only 3 of the SF were fertile and only 2 hatched. Of the CO, 3 were starters but developed blood rings. The other 3 hatched.....two of which ended up being Chocolate Cuckoos. So, she sent me 6 'replacement' eggs. 4 SW and 2 CO. They were packed fantastically! But, the 2 CO never developed and 3 of the SW never developed. So out of all the replacements, only 1 SF is still going.

I usually have a great hatch rate (85% or better) and so I suspect the shipped eggs where messed up in the mail.

Hope you have better success since you picked up the eggs yourself!

 

[livhatcher]

The Duffeys are who I got my Swedish Flowers from at the Poultry show. All 3 were boys and I am trying to sell them. I also bought 6 SW hatching eggs and 6 Chocolate Orpington hAatching eggs. Only 3 of the SF were fertile and only 2 hatched. Of the CO, 3 were starters but developed blood rings. The other 3 hatched.....two of which ended up being Chocolate Cuckoos. So, she sent me 6 'replacement' eggs. 4 SW and 2 CO. They were packed fantastically! But, the 2 CO never developed and 3 of the SW never developed. So out of all the replacements, only 1 SF is still going.

I usually have a great hatch rate (85% or better) and so I suspect the shipped eggs where messed up in the mail.

Hope you have better success since you picked up the eggs yourself!

I was just thinking about this as I got sick to my stomach candling day 10. I started with 3 Isbars, 1 suspect blood ring, giving it a day. Had 4 cream legbars, 1 definite blood ring (discarded) and 1 infertile. Had 4 Bielefelders--1 looks very porous but hard to see, and suspect one is infertile. 5 out of 11 from them look gone to me right out of the gate. It kind of bums me out considering I had 26 eggs shipped from California and Florida---in 2 separate shipments I've only lost 1 of the California bunch and 2 from the Florida bunch. The air cells are not ideal on the CA bunch but I think that probably has to do with the distance and handling. Do you think it's worth reaching out to the Duffeys or just let it go?