My Sussex bantams are very friendly, and talkative.
And they go broody. I've read that Silkies go broody repeatedly, so it's too bad that yours are not friendly.
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I think these are silkie leghorn or maybe silkie white polish cross. I love hatchery silkie hens. They always seem to be broody or giving a medium sized egg a day and they live forever. I'd enjoy a whole flock of them, but these chicks are very much not silkies other than the toe and the shank color.
Your Sussex are gorgeous-even your off colored cock. Maybe someday I'll try to track some down. Right now I'm kind of limited by bird flu and price of eggs induced chicken fever-bad timing!
I'm still enjoying sitting in my coop and letting the campines come over and check me out and eat while the bantams go bananas in the background.
Your Sussex are gorgeous-even your off colored cock. Maybe someday I'll try to track some down. Right now I'm kind of limited by bird flu and price of eggs induced chicken fever-bad timing!
I'm still enjoying sitting in my coop and letting the campines come over and check me out and eat while the bantams go bananas in the background.
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I emailed the hatchery of my chicks and they want pics. Maybe I'll get an id...or maybe I'll get someone busted. With what's going on with USPS and chick shipping IDK if they can afford to dish out refunds.
"Rescues" here are trying to "adopt out" chicks that USPS decided they weren't going to deliver now and have been giving them. Those chicks were bought and paid for and entrusted in the postal service's care. They were not unwanted (also what's going ot happen to all those extra "adopted" cockerels? Will they be allowed to butcher them?). I've got a sexed campine order coming next week to make up for the bantams I'm not keeping. I'd like them to make it.
"Rescues" here are trying to "adopt out" chicks that USPS decided they weren't going to deliver now and have been giving them. Those chicks were bought and paid for and entrusted in the postal service's care. They were not unwanted (also what's going ot happen to all those extra "adopted" cockerels? Will they be allowed to butcher them?). I've got a sexed campine order coming next week to make up for the bantams I'm not keeping. I'd like them to make it.
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...and it turns out they're mostly freedom ranger chicks, not allowed to be adopted for meat and no one wants them. Huh, figures. And the SPCA wants their $5/day/chick the state said they'd pay them but it's not coming. Oh well. They made their wallow, they can enjoy it.
Today I learned about this. Very interesting.
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Today I learned about this. Very interesting.
Parthenogenesis in birds: a review
Parthenogenesis or ‘virgin birth’ is embryonic development in unfertilized eggs. It is a routine means of reproduction in many invertebrates. However, even though parthenogenesis occurs naturally in even more advanced vertebrates, like birds, it is mostly abortive in nature. In fact, multiple...
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Maybe I can ship you some eggs. Right now I'm ready for a hen to go broody, so I may have pullets ready to lay this winter.
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That could be exciting. I'll watch your journal for your flock growing adventure.
If i get an incubator that works i'd be open to it...or a functional bantam.
(Wishing you a nest box full of magical white broody charming golf balls so you can have all the pullets you want.)
I have an incubator I used once. The turn feature stopped working halfway through. If Rahab goes broody I will use her again. Tamar and Martha brooded last year, but Martha has since died, and Tamar is a barely adequate broody, being the low hen in the pecking order.
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I have one with turn mechanism...working a loaded group now. One without & I must do the movement. I've hatched from both successfully. Nicer to just see it doing alone 
. They don't "turn" the eggs but gently wiggled them across an inch or so & back. It was a feature I didn't think was working first use. But I kept checking often over a couple days & could see from where edges were that it was, in fact, moving them over time. Perhaps yours works and you need to watch longer to verify. 
Mine is a flat piece, eggs in open slats. Some are more the egg in a cup that move back & forth.
. They don't "turn" the eggs but gently wiggled them across an inch or so & back. It was a feature I didn't think was working first use. But I kept checking often over a couple days & could see from where edges were that it was, in fact, moving them over time. Perhaps yours works and you need to watch longer to verify. Mine is a flat piece, eggs in open slats. Some are more the egg in a cup that move back & forth.
I have one with turn mechanism...working a loaded group now. One without & I must do the movement. I've hatched from both successfully. Nicer to just see it doing alone
Mine is a flat piece, eggs in open slats. Some are more the egg in a cup that move back & forth.
Mine's a small round incubator.
May 24, 2024
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You can still use just move the ring about an inch morn & night . To test make a mark on ring and spot under...turn on & next day, are they still aligned.
You've prob already done the mark test
. To test make a mark on ring and spot under...turn on & next day, are they still aligned. You've prob already done the mark test
