Quail_Antwerp: Words from the Barnyard...

[Wifezilla]

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

I started out with 5 eggs from Jett and Gypsy - 4 made it to lock down!

AND NOW THEY'RE PIPPING AND CHEEPING!!

Sumatras are hatching! Sumatras are hatching!

 

[keljonma]

congratulations!

 

[justusnak]

Woohoo!!! Sumatras hatching!!
( runs off to look up Sumatra chickens. )
eta: Cool looking chickens!!!!!!

 

[Wifezilla]

And the picture is WHERE?

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

And the picture is WHERE?

Can't upload pics from home yet - lost my camera cord in the move and dummy me bought a computer with an SD drive

Pictures to come later this week

 

[BeccaOH]

Well, I'm hatching Naked Necks, and they make the cutest babies.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Well, I'm hatching Naked Necks, and they make the cutest babies.

That's true -






..........................but then they grow up

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

My chicks that are feathering in haven't been needing their heat lamp during the day because it's been getting so hot.

This morning I forgot to turn their light off, and by this afternoon my Wheaten Maran Cockerel had keeled over from what I'm guessing was heat stroke.

That dang coop is sooo hot this afternoon! I told E I think I need another window in it, for summer time, so we're looking at the opposite wall from my door for air flow.

Lucky for me I have a friend who is just as much an enabler as I am - so I've sent BeccaOh and email to see if she still had the Wheaten Maran Cockerels that hadn't sold at Mt. Hope

I really don't have luck keeping male chickens. Everyone else I know wants to sell off or give away their extras - I'm ready to build a chicken bachelor coop where I just house extra males of each breed I'm working with!


On the up side, 3 out of the 4 Sumatras have hatched!

I don't think the last one made it.

 

[keljonma]

Sorry to hear about the cockerel chick. Can you change out the bulb to a low wattage so they have some light but not heat? The extra window sounds like a good plan.