Sunday, January 25, 2009
Got my Incubator & getting more chickens!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Chicks are here with more on the way AND more eggs
Friday, January 16, 2009
My Coturnix Hen Henny Penny started laying eggs
I have soo much news coming in the way of chickens it's exciting. :) My buddy Brian is going to supply me with my first future flock (via hatching eggs) of Wyandottes from his dads new flock. They are Blue Laced Reds!! Talk about beautiful! It's thanks to HIM that im addicted to the darn things they're gorgeous! Darn you Brian! ;)
Tomorrow I'm getting the birds from my BYCer friend SamG. Seven beautiful hens! :) I cannot wait! :D Then tomorrow as well, eggs should start hatching for me....I HOPE!
THEN the weekend after my INCUBATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just a lot of good things coming my way! wee :)
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Getting a 70 y/o incubator that still works!
Friday, January 9, 2009
New Birds Coming!
Look at one of the BEAUTIES I will be getting next weekend as long as the weather is nice (if not the weekend after)! This gorgeous hen is a standard blue Ameraucana! I'm also getting a Wyandotte hen, a Light Brahama hen, 3 EEs and a Road Island Red hen! They're coming from a pal of mine who I got my second stock of Coturnix hatching eggs from! I didn't realize how close we were to eachother, and he offered them to me so I just HAD to say yes! $25 for them all thats' a great deal! They will be apart of my "mixed-mutt-flock" that I'll hatch eggs from for fun and eating eggs. Also next weekend my first batch of chicks should start hatching (or atleast pipping), AND i'll be picking up somewhere around a dozen hatching white silkie eggs from another breeder!
The guy I was going to swap coturnix for bobwhites called me today. Instead of bobwhites it's going to be a trio of standard game chickens (he should be sending me pictures of them soon), annnd some mixed barred rock hatching eggs!!! WEEE!!!!
The golden comet and road island red hatching eggs I've been selling, the first two shipments got to their new "owners" by the second day! Only one egg was cracked in only the one package! WOOT! I send out my third one on monday to another Ny'er! :D
The snow is supposed to DUMP on us tonight starting around midnight...if it's pretty I'll snap some pics to add on here. :)
It's so nice having a lot of positive things coming my way this time of year being so cold and boring. :)
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Incy back to good
I don't know if I mentioned but the lady I'm getting my Ameraucanas off of is waiting until the weather is better for me to get my eggs, I could get them next week, or the week after depending on the weather that is. I cannot wait! I'm so happy she's willing to wait, she offered to wait herself I didnt even have to ask. I appreciate that so much. :)
I can't wait to see those pretty blue eggies! :) OH! And I haven't heard back from a guy near me but I may be getting a doz silkie eggs sooner than I thought I might!!!!
As for the guy I was going to trade some coturnix for for bobwhites, I emailed him back. I decided I'm going to pass. Theres too much to raising bobwhites correctly, and they're not great for putting with other birds without risking fights. So I'd rather not even attempt to raise them. :)
Well I really dont have much more to say here tonight....just cold and bored. :D
Niki
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Blah....
That was all trashed (well mostly) this morning. I was sick all night long, tossing and turning, gasping for breath, and feeling like I was having a heartattack (I know I wasnt but it hurt). I FINNALLY passed out to sleep at around 5 am but before it I checked my incubator temp....it was fine, I think it read 100.7 which is fine. I woke up at noon, and the first thing I always do is check the incubator.... 108!!!!!! AND the fan had fallen on an egg, thankfully didn't break it. SEVERAL chick embryos were killed because of this. I cried. Lol. I also opened up the eggs that were gone to just make sure I was right.....5 were dead, but 2-3 I opened up were still alive and I was so mad at myself.
Luckily I had eggs in the fridge that are fertile (we were eating them) and now they're in the bator as well! LOL! And my good ole hen outside gave me an egg as well, it's a mutt baby in the egg if it develops but I don't care at this point. :) Like one BYC told me, it's still VERY early in the season, so he told me to keep trying. :) Everyone was so supportive on there to me, if I wouldnt have that support system I would have just given up.
I just want to hatch some chicken chicks! *takes a tantrum* LOL! I hatch quails pretty easily but I always have some sort of bad luck with chicken chicks. I have YET to sucessfully hatch a chicken chick. Jan 17th my first are due to hatch.
I might be getting some silkie eggs again too it looks like :) I'm not going to get excited yet about it though, we'll see what happens. Even if I get them, no guarrentees they'll hatch with my darn ole luck! :)
I'm feeling better since I took another pill, but I'm sure I'll feel horrible again tonight....I'll be paranoid the whole time about the eggs in the incubator now too...on top of feeling like crapola.
I was just outside, its' freezing cold again so my incubator temperature is going down again which means i need to turn it up again AHH i hate that! LOL! I wish the weather would make up it's mind! It's gotten so bad that some of the male coturnix outside are crowing! IN JANUARY!!! Theres beena lot of sun and enough warmth obvoiusly they feel content lol!
They wont be tonight though *burr* It's snowing lil ice balls.
well off to monitor the 'bator and watch John Edwards :)
Monday, January 5, 2009
Now Bobwhites!?!
He's driving the whole way from Bradford! *jaw drops*! He's supposed to come down this weekend, weather permitting. Either way our deal has been made I'm willing to hold them for him ofcourse. :) I wont get big on bobwhites at all, they'll just be here so I can enjoy hearing the male call. It is after all, my cell phones text ring-tone! :)
I just stopped typing for a bit to candle some eggs early....looks like a bunch aren't developing, but a few are! Hoping the golden comet egg that's a doubleyolker is fertile, it's 3 days incubated here in just a few hours....so it's almost impossible to tell. *keeping fingers crossed* I know they aren't developing because of their treatment, hatched in the dead of winter first off. LOL! However, what I mean by "a bunch aren't developing" is 3 didnt look fertile. Ha ha! I want them all to hatch so I'm allowed to exaggerate in my complaining....right!? Right!
I sent out a money order (well actually it's money wrapped in a peice of paper to hide it ha ha) to a breeder on the other side of PA for Bantam Black Ameraucana eggs! The TRUE blue/green egg layers! They are purebreds where as Easter Eggers (aka EEs) are "mongrels". I've had EEs and they're a joy as well but its' fun/exciting to have the true color-makers coming! I hope hope hope that the weather stays nice to them in transit!
I cannot wait, soon I'm going to send out mula for Black Jersey Giants from a fellow BYCer/Blog Spotter! EEk!!! Always wanted JGs! Then from my buddy in Ohio, I'm getting Buff Orphs THEN from another BYCer Buff/Splash orphs! Oh joy!!!
I shipped out two boxes of eggs today....1 going to Ny, the other going to Oh. First time I've ever shipped in the dead of winter so I hope that they get atleast some to develop! They are supposed to keep in contact with me on how the eggs come to them, as well as how they develop! :)
This isn't the end of my happiness...no. :) I wake up this morning to my bob-white call on my cell phone informing me I have a text message. I roll over and open up my cell phone to see a text from hubby. I click "view" and it says something along the lines of "as of today I am a relief driller, 16.75 an hour" GEEEE! He wasn't supposed to get that until next month! :) So you betcha I cannot wait to see that paycheck! Then we can start saving up for our first house! We've already been approved by our bank, and by ColdWell Banker. So now we just need to save up. I want to save up atleast $5,000 before we start the process of SERIOUSLY looking for a house..Iwant to do it right. Then we'll have to either save up more for furnature and applicances, OR open up a new credit card..blah. I want a place where I can have atleast one coop (perferably more) for my birds. If we get aplace with MORE land than I expect then ofcourse I'll get a horse too and a meat pig or something along those lines. I'd love to live "off the land" as much as I can. It would be possible here where we live/rent now but my mom has a problem with a ton of animals so!
I will be really sad to leave my mom alone though. So I hope to live as close to home as humanly possible. Which can be hard...can't force someone close ot sell their house ha ha! Theres a few for sale around here but will they still be when we have the $? Maybe. Maybe not. One day at a time... :)
My coturnix quails in the house are starting to mate....so I hope HOPE that means eggs very soon. They are 6 weeks old today. :D When I get eggies I'll post the lil pretties here. :D
Well, I will end this here...between typing about ramblings and watching "why I ran" I'm not paying too much attention he he!
Niki
Sunday, January 4, 2009
About Me & My Life and My Animals
*Beautiful Medium-Brown Speckled eggs*