Allotments 4 All
News:
Picture posting is enabled for all :)
Home
Forum
Help
Search
Calendar
Gallery
Chat
Login
Register
Allotments 4 All
»
Produce
»
Kept Animals
(Moderator:
Admin aka Dan
) »
Topic:
hatching eggs
« previous
next »
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Author
Topic: hatching eggs (Read 3876 times)
sunloving
Hectare
Posts: 1,340
Living on a small holding in Ireland
hatching eggs
«
on:
July 22, 2011, 18:52:07 »
Hi
Just wanted to share my excitement in a new venture. I have three sussex bantam ladies who are ace but have been hellishly broody since April taking it in turns to hog the nest box with a coincident decline in laying. So just before the season ends ive put six buff sussex bantam eggs under one of them and today is day one of the 1 day countdown.
I'm hopeful that half will hatch and i get a least one new lady and im really looking forward to young chicken rearing.
x sunloving
Logged
goodlife
Hectare
Posts: 8,649
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #1 on:
July 22, 2011, 18:56:02 »
Ohh...how exciting...you'll be counting the days like before christmas.. ;D
Logged
sunloving
Hectare
Posts: 1,340
Living on a small holding in Ireland
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #2 on:
July 24, 2011, 08:35:05 »
I know
when i woke up this morning my first thought was its days three :)
x sunloving
Logged
sunloving
Hectare
Posts: 1,340
Living on a small holding in Ireland
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #3 on:
August 11, 2011, 17:40:54 »
Its day 21 and i've got four peeping eggs!
Exciting and worrying to. Its turned a bit cold so ive got a heatlamp on order and the new coop all sparkling and mite free, for now
yipee :)
x sunloving
Logged
goodlife
Hectare
Posts: 8,649
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #4 on:
August 11, 2011, 18:22:14 »
Ohh...how time fly.. ;D Get your camera ready and get some photos of the new born ;) ;D 4 out of 6 so far..not bag at all!..hopefully you get couple of more..
Keep us posting..
Logged
sunloving
Hectare
Posts: 1,340
Living on a small holding in Ireland
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #5 on:
August 12, 2011, 18:56:15 »
Hope this works, they are adoreable!
x sunloving
Logged
goodlife
Hectare
Posts: 8,649
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #6 on:
August 12, 2011, 20:43:17 »
Awwww.... what else can I say...;D ;D So young and all life ahead... ;D
Logged
Anisemary
Quarter Acre
Posts: 98
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #7 on:
August 12, 2011, 23:53:34 »
I've just broken a late broody, makes me want to start all over again! There's no sight quite like a Mum and her new chicks, enjoy!!
Logged
sunloving
Hectare
Posts: 1,340
Living on a small holding in Ireland
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #8 on:
August 13, 2011, 16:40:32 »
Now have a chair next to the coop becuase i was spending ages just standing there watching mummy hen show them what to eat and how to drink.
Fingers crossed all four make it.
Its a shame about the other two, both were fully developed in the egg but never hatched out.
Its my first time and its been so rewarding already. I hope that they are not all cockerals and that i can despatch the unwanted males when the time comes.
x sunloving
Logged
David K
Quarter Acre
Posts: 70
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #9 on:
August 17, 2011, 21:22:37 »
Sunloving - this really has been a heart warming thread for me. I takes me back to my childhood when we kept chickens and always raised our own with broody hens......you never forget the experience! Those special 'call clucks' from mum hen that the baby chicks seem to recognise & respond to immediately.
A chair so you can watch them? I do understand. :)
I'm about to start keeping them again...this time 6 point of lay pullets to start with, hoping to have about 12 eventually.
Logged
sunloving
Hectare
Posts: 1,340
Living on a small holding in Ireland
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #10 on:
August 19, 2011, 20:13:01 »
Hi David
How exciting what kind are you getting?
They are adoreable.
I let them out on a small bit of grass in the sun today , jumping on mums back and scratching in the soil and all day cheep cheeping.
Its made me want to raise chicks next spring. Its only dispatching the cockerals that holds me back.
Good luck with yours
x sunloving
Logged
David K
Quarter Acre
Posts: 70
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #11 on:
August 20, 2011, 10:38:40 »
Still sounds as though you are totally engrossed with your babies, sunloving....enjoy it, they grow so quickly.
I agree about killing the cockerels.
Hope to get my POL pullets sometime next week, these will be hybrids.
Logged
darkbrowneggs
Half Acre
Posts: 133
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #12 on:
August 20, 2011, 11:45:04 »
The thrill of hatching and watching chicks (and chickens/hens as well) never tires. Food for the soul (an some for breakfast too ;D ;D )
All the best
Sue
Logged
I love my traditional English Cuckoo Marans and their lovely big brown eggs
Ragdoll Lady
Half Acre
Posts: 201
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #13 on:
August 21, 2011, 10:01:09 »
What a lovely thread and thanks for sharing your experience and pictures with us. Lets hope they are not cockerals. There are commercial chicken hatcheries that will take in cockerals. There is a small breeder/smallholder in essex that might take them in (message me for details)
Good luck with them all they are so cute.
Logged
betula
Hectare
Posts: 5,839
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #14 on:
August 21, 2011, 10:39:57 »
I have enjoyed this thread too ;D
Logged
sunloving
Hectare
Posts: 1,340
Living on a small holding in Ireland
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #15 on:
August 21, 2011, 18:37:30 »
Here are two of the chicks out in the sun today. I love thier orange legs!
x sunloving
Logged
David K
Quarter Acre
Posts: 70
Re: hatching eggs
«
Reply #16 on:
August 21, 2011, 21:08:04 »
Thanks for the update, sunloving.
They're looking good and healthy.....just the beginnings of wing feathers & tiny combs I see.
Marvelous! :)
Logged
Print
Pages: [
1
]
« previous
next »
Allotments 4 All
»
Produce
»
Kept Animals
(Moderator:
Admin aka Dan
) »
Topic:
hatching eggs
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal