ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[elevan]

HOw' the babies today, Elevan?

We had 100% fertility with this hatch.

One didn't quite make it out of the shell fully before it ran out of energy and passed (I wasn't home at the time).

I had to help another out of the shell and it is resting comfortably in the incubator for now.

The other 10 have been positioned under Frizz who happily took them all So right now Frizz has 12 chicks and this time tomorrow will have 13 - ALL of them "adopted".

 

[elevan]

Here they are in the basket on the way out to their adoptive mama.

 

[Royd Wood]

Well done and good to know the rooster is firing on all four cylinders with no blanks unlike my Chantecler chap who managed to do the do with 8 out of 48 eggs
Ancona's incubating at the moment

 

[elevan]

I actually have 4 roosters in there for 40 hens. I need to swap some of them out though as 3 of them are Buff Brahma and I want a little more variety...too many chicks have that Buff Brahma look.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

So cute! I am in a dispute with my son and husband as to what to do with our accidental rooster...I want to roast him because he drives me crazy when I am trying to work in the barn but they want to let the hens take a crack at hatching. Wanna rooster? Nice black australorp?

 

[elevan]

So cute! I am in a dispute with my son and husband as to what to do with our accidental rooster...I want to roast him because he drives me crazy when I am trying to work in the barn but they want to let the hens take a crack at hatching. Wanna rooster? Nice black australorp?

How does he drive you crazy? If he's a nice boy and you want to hold him until Herdstock I could bring him home

 

[elevan]

So I have this little chick from Cinnamon's last hatch that I call "Brown Chic" that has made a new friend. Everyone in the coop picks on her and she's the sweetest little thing. Every day when she's let out of the coop she runs for the pig's pen. That's right I said the pig's pen. She spends the day in Spam's pen and when Spam gets her dinner Brown Chic eats right next to her in the feed bowl. I'll try to get a pic tonight of that. We have to go collect Brown Chic from the pig's pen every night because she doesn't want to go to the coop.

Yeah, I know...I have crazy critters

 

[Pearce Pastures]

He yells at me! I go in to do chores and he crows and gives me dirty looks the whole times...I'm about to tape his beak shut He has never attacked anyone and he is pretty so I guess he is nice in that way but pretty sure you don't want a screamer.

 

[elevan]

I crow back at them

 

[redtailgal]

Elevan....sometimes I just get goosebumps.

Whiskey (the old game rooster I had) and Charlie Brown (the seabright bantie roo that I had) BOTH use to crow everytime they saw me, because they knew I'd crow back. It used to aggrivate my FIL to no end when me and the two roos would have a crowing contest.