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April Hatch Results: These chicks were removed at the end of Day 20, they are the early hatchers. Out of my total hatch of 95 chicks, two had to be culled for leg deformities and two did not survive the first night. Everybody else is doing really well outside in my brooder pen under the...

April 19, 2024 Lockdown day. Today I removed the automatic turners from my three incubators and increased the humidity and did one last candling. I saw movement in all of the eggs that made it to lockdown. April 1 - Set Day LF Cochin - 53 eggs SLW - 49 eggs Orpington - 21 eggs Marans - 18...

Here are a few pictures of the new coop. It is not occupied yet, I will probably move a flock into it on Thursday.

XPO (formerly Con-Way Freight) delivered another Tractor Supply Coop to me today. Here it is still all wrapped up on the bolt on pallet forks on my tractor. After putting it together tomorrow I will move the Black Jersey Giant flock out of the grow out coop and into this new coop. After...

April 1, 2024 @ 1730. I just set 148 eggs across three Genesis 1588 Hova-Bators. These chicks will be due to hatch on April 22, 2024, the day before the next full moon. Here is the rundown of what breeds are in the incubators: Incubator 1 BBS Orpington, 21 eggs. Marans, 18 eggs...

I’m collecting eggs now for my next hatch. I’m planning on setting them on April 1 for an April 22 hatch. I will be hatching eggs from all four of my breeding coops this time. Blue (BBS) Orpington Marans Cochins Silver Laced Wyandotte These eggs are from my five Cochin Hens over the past seven...

Today I got the first egg from my Black Jersey Giant flock! This flock is 21 weeks old today. First she removed all of the pine shavings from the nest box, and then she must have been standing up when she laid the egg because it cracked when it hit the plywood bottom. I had been checking the...

I set 83 eggs today from my Wyandotte coop. These eggs were collected over the past seven days 2024-054 to 2024-060. This is my test hatch to verify fertility and test the genetics of my cockerels. Sixteen to twenty females from this hatch will be my sex-linked flock under my GLW cockerel. I...

Now I've got my Marans separated also.

Yesterday I finished the new cochin coop and got them moved into it. I'm guessing that in about three weeks it will be safe to start collecting eggs from them for the incubator. I'll be putting together the second new coop today to move the Marans into. It was about 10 years ago when I...

Today I started setting up another coop so that I can separate my orpington flock and my cochin flock that are currently together. I wasn't able to finish assembling it though because the state board of animal health testing agent came out today to test my flock for NPIP. She did a blood test...

Yesterday I processed some of my birds. I started with the three 8 month old Marans cockerels from the bachelor coop. Here is a picture of the first two. These long legged skinny chickens kept getting hung up in the plucker and I ended up having to put them in one at a time to get them to...

Thanks for reading! I do try my best to keep my wife, @SherriMC, happy. You know what they say, "Happy wife, happy life." The chickens however, especially the cockerels/cocks, do NOT help with keeping her happy. I'm the chicken person in this family, definitely not Sherri. I don't use...

In December I set up two more coops and moved some cockerels around. I still don't have things just the way I want them, but hopefully by March I'll have everything situated. Coop One: 11 months old: Hatch Date 2/21/2023 1 blue orpington cockerel 2 blue orpington pullets 1 partridge...

Here are four brief (30 second) videos captured by the Blink camera that I put inside the incubator during my November 30, 2023 hatch. Enjoy! These eggs were collected from: Coop One: 1 blue orpington cockerel 2 blue orpington pullets 1 partridge cochin cockerel 1 partridge cochin pullet 1...

Wow, I forgot about starting this thread. I was going through my old posts looking for some information and I came across it so I decided to continue with it. So, the chicks from Meyer Hatchery that I mentioned in the first post arrived and of course I procrastinated on the building of my new...

The current iteration of my chicken keeping journey began on March 29 of this year (2019) when I pulled into Tractor Supply to get a wheelbarrow and they had there "Chick Days" in full swing. I took home six RIR chicks (female) and two bantams (straight run). I brooded these chicks in an old...