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Post by gardendaddy on Sept 1, 2011 9:10:19 GMT -6
6-Mille Fleur d'Uccles Belgium Bantams 6-Black Sex Link 6-Rhode Island Red All arrived in good shape and the little Mille Fleur's are just too sweet and tiny...all running around in a new brooder I built that will later just house the bantys. Plus I have a broody Buff Orp that is setting on 8 of Gina's Cuckoo Marans eggs, I placed undre her 3-weeks ago tomorrow...not going to count them until they hatch either late tomorrow, Friday, or Saturday thru Sunday. Those chicks hatching are going back to Ms. Gina...she is loaning the eggs to get my little Mama hen over her "mood". She is a great Mother and still always very friendly to me. I can rub and pet her even while sitting on her clutch. I intend to handle these chicks that arrived today every day and make them VERY human-friendly and very used to me. The Mille Fleur chicks are "straight run" so other than Allie & JoJo, who MIGHT take one or two little roos, if I have any extra roos out of the 6, I will let you folks know. Chicks came from IDEAL POULTRY out of Texas. All seem healthy, thursty and eager to run all over the place...I'm a Daddy again...now where did I put that box of cigars? UPDATE FROM ORIGINAL EARLIER POSTING OF THIS NOTICE: I just went out to look at the hen on Gina's eggs and there are 4 babies under her as well...really a day or two early. 4 eggs remain, but the chicks are dry and going crazy as new chicks do. Mama is so happy now. Mike Attachments:
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Post by cks4me on Sept 1, 2011 10:27:00 GMT -6
Very cool...Congrats!! Nothing like healthy babys
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Post by gardendaddy on Sept 1, 2011 10:34:58 GMT -6
Look at that little sleepy Mille Fleur in the foreground...they were tired from the truck trip from Texas I guess and a few went to sleep after getting full of fresh water.
Thanks, Mike
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Post by allie on Sept 1, 2011 11:49:37 GMT -6
Mike they are sooo cute! I hope you get 5 hens and 1 roo on the Mille Fleur's. That way you can have more if you so desire. Makes me miss having little ones to play with, but it's nice not having to worry about them in this heat. Enjoy playing with your new little ones
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Post by rinksgi on Sept 1, 2011 15:26:20 GMT -6
cute, cute
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Sept 1, 2011 17:18:40 GMT -6
Just adorable. I love babies. Probably why my incubators are always running.
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Post by gardendaddy on Sept 1, 2011 19:58:24 GMT -6
Gina,
You have 4 good babies tonight...only one has some light grey on the wings that is a lighter body but the other 3 have darker bodies but all have a little yellow on the head, some more than others. One did not make it and was D.O.A. inside the membrane with the shell cracked around it...I tried to revive it but it was hatching during our 100-degree afternoon and I feel that affected the outcome. Just now here at about 8:45pm, I saw one of the 3 remaining eggs with a tiny pin hole in it, hoping it is the beginning of another hatch. If it is not, then you might just have 4 out of 8 babies...we will see tomorrow.
But the other new arrivals are a very cute bunch...full of life and running everywhere. Has anyone had to use much artificial heat brooding when it is as hot as it is outside? Please chime in as you can...
Mike
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Post by gardendaddy on Sept 2, 2011 11:45:37 GMT -6
As I know your Wyandottes are as they are lovely birds in their own!
Thanks, Mike
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Sept 2, 2011 15:12:21 GMT -6
I always keep new chicks inside with a regular 60 watt bulb in the heat lamp. This last bunch of quail I only kept the light on for a week. I put them in a cage and on the porch and they did fine last night. If I had my grow pen here thats where they would be. We plan to move it as soon as Bobby gets home from work today. All we have left to move are the rest of the chickens and ducks. The quail that where due to hatch on the 1st didn't. Only 1 made it out and it had leg issues. There where several pips but thats it. I suppose the place I moved the hatcher to is a bad spot.
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Post by gardendaddy on Sept 2, 2011 15:52:26 GMT -6
So sorry to hear of your hatching problems. It is tough to wait so long and then have a small outcome. But with the move and all you have been doing, I am surprised you got the one even. Hard to get it all done I know but good luck with the rest of the move.
Tim, I just used a 60W lamp last night after the temps got to 80 degrees then unplugged this am when it got above 80 again. Thanks!
Mike
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Post by allie on Oct 25, 2011 20:10:36 GMT -6
How are your babies doing, Mike? Are your banties old enough to tell if they are girls or boys? Seems like most everything we hatched and kept from the summer turned out to be a rooster
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Oct 25, 2011 20:37:02 GMT -6
My batch that are outside in the hatcher seem to be mostly boys. I can even see waddles on some of the silkies. And Oddball is just well............Odd. I still haven't figured out what happened there. Maybe Moe snuck over and visited Henry one day when the sizzles and partridge silkies where out the same day before the move. I haven't let different color pens out at the same time since the move but I still get 1 brown chipmunk stripped chick with every batch that hatches. I've got some partridge eggs from a breeder that has SQ stock so hopefully i'll get a little boy to replace the roo I have now.There is something not quite right about the partridge silkie roo I have now. I'm thinking his momma snuck off with another rooster.
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Post by gardendaddy on Oct 26, 2011 16:36:38 GMT -6
Hey Allie & ALL,
I THINK (!) I might have 3-little roos out of the bunch. They were 9-weeks old yesterday, Tuesday 10/25/11, and it appears that is the outcome of the 6 Mille Fleur d'Uccle Bearded-Booted little banties. Spamela was by here last Saturday and she and I were looking at and discussing a little pullet of that bunch that has developed somewhat of a "palsey" or nervous shake and stumble, but eats and drinks fine and she and I decided it is just her "thing" as she is otherwise healthy as are all the rest of all my birds. Also, one of the little roos had a really evident right foot that "turned in" but again, is otherwise fine. I am suspecting that the breeders they came from (IDEAL POULTRY) might be inbreeding too much or something, as these defects on otherwise healthy birds CAN BE a result of that sort of over-shadowing the gene pool and not going outside the stock to breed back.
It might be where I will have to "put down" the little pullet and I hate that, but again, she is well otherwise but would not ever try to breed her should I try to "hide" me a little rooster somewhere! I will see how she fairs on down the road but for now she is fine. And again, I might try to see how LOUD those little things are as they are sooooo small even now and the standard chicks that arrived the same day and same age are already HUGE! I have kept them separated and confined somewhat and all they do is eat and sleep and drink and are really growing well.
So I do not know what is going to happen yet. But have NOT FORGOTTEN you in case I need to move one or two out!
Hope everyone is doing well as this time! Seems like I am running out of time to get much done on our site and visit lately. Hopefully things will settle soon.
Chat soon with you guys, Mike
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Post by allie on Oct 27, 2011 8:18:56 GMT -6
Hmm...half and half, that's not too bad I hope your two "off" babies are okay. We have had chickens with foot problems when they were little that turned out to be fine later. We had a Sumatra whose feet were so curled up she walked on her knuckles. We made her little boots (her name ended up being Boots) that straightened out her feet, and she was fine. One of her toes was a little crooked, but we had her for a couple of years before we sold her. We have had to "put down" some of ours and it is so hard (I can't do it; Joey has to), but I know it was best for them. Good luck with everyone!
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