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Post by darbyponygirl on May 21, 2007 16:47:31 GMT -5
lol yeah that would work if we weren't about 12 or more hours apart lol
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Post by twosuperstudponies on May 21, 2007 19:12:00 GMT -5
 I was just going to say the same thing!!! Here are 17 that hatched Saturday! I have three more hens brooding on huge clutches! But there's no such thing as too many chickens around this place. Last week I lost a chicken a night to either a fox, opossum, coon or coyote!! I'm down to 1 big rooster and 4 big pullets! I keep all my banties and brooding hens put up! 
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Post by bndranch on May 21, 2007 19:18:04 GMT -5
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Post by twosuperstudponies on May 21, 2007 19:27:06 GMT -5
Wow, what breed is that? I love their "fros"! My chickens are all mutts! I call them yard birds they're not really laying birdds and they're certainly not meat birds! But they eat the heck out of fleas and ticks!! That is the only reason we have chickens at all! I will not eat their eggs because they just run around and lay them all over the property so I never know if the one I'm about to crack open is good or not! SHOOOWEEEE! That's a stink I don't want in my kitchen!!!!!
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Post by darbyponygirl on May 21, 2007 19:58:53 GMT -5
lol yeah I am really far from both of you guys lol she knows what typ they are there are three different typs and only three have hatched when they were "due" on thursday none over the weekend and there has to be 10 before i get them and 18 eggs to hatch so pretty slim chance of getting them wwith only 6 1/2 days of school left
but i dk maybe all of a sudden we will have a chicken boom lol
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Post by bndranch on May 21, 2007 20:08:30 GMT -5
LOL Those black ones with the white "fros" are white crested polish's. I LOVE this breed, they are almost overly friendly but are as blind as bats. When their crests are totally done growing all you will see is their beaks.
As far as the eggs......You can always do the "Float" trick. You take the eggs and put them in cold water in your sink. If they sink they are good and if they float they are bad. If you get a partial floater its no good. We have had to rely on this method a few times as well!!
Now eggs incubation period is 21-28 days....SO with that if you had three hatched on Thursday (being the 17th) the rest SHOULD be hatched by the 24th. My kids get out of school June 8th (not sure about you), but that would give you PLENTY of time to get them. Another thing you can ask your teacher to give you a call when they hatch so you can get your chick! Do you know if they were all fertilized, as in did you candle them to make sure there was a chick inside?
Have fun!!
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Post by darbyponygirl on May 21, 2007 20:18:22 GMT -5
I don't have them and haven't been with them or anything she is doing everyhting with them so i don't know i get out the 1st adn then i guess that would be enough but we have memorila day next monday off so they shouldd all be hatched as long as fertillized in 3 days k kool well i have Science lab where they are held at wed. so maybe all then and i can get them!!!
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Post by darbyponygirl on May 23, 2007 16:44:17 GMT -5
I found out today no chicks from school only 3 out of the 18 so something may have happened to the other 15 I don't know though. SO tonight or tomorrow i am going to buy soem chicks i iwll buy four at the moment!!!! How do the age like by year like humans or how llong is it til they are real chickens like BIG and feathery lol
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Post by darbyponygirl on May 23, 2007 19:35:16 GMT -5
OK so am getting my chicks tomorrow at the feed store YAY i wil get 4-6 i don't know depends on how much money they are cause i have to buy with my money and food is out of my pocket too!!!!StudPOnies we called Tractor supply and they don't have the chicks anymore because of the chickens with teh disease that was killing people in asia? I am thinking abot getting bantie chicks if they have any Ok will update and take pics tomorrow when i get them they will be home at around 6:15-30 EST time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by bndranch on May 23, 2007 22:10:12 GMT -5
I LOVE our banties they are so cute and very friendly and have a HUGE personality!!! Normally they seem to feather in about 2 months or so and generally will start to lay at about 6-7 months (I can't remember LOL). We have one hen that is 5 this year and that is pretty darn old for a chicken but she is doing well! Banties have a bunch of fancy breeds. All mine are banties!
Let us know what you get!
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Post by darbyponygirl on May 24, 2007 5:44:31 GMT -5
Ok i will I am about to go to school and after school have a riding lesson casue i am gettign ready for teh show and after the lesson we are going to go to the feed store and buy them. It will be ok if i don't have a light for them for about 1-2 hours we are trying to find a light I don't know why we can't but my dad willl find one on his way home from work.
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Post by darbyponygirl on May 24, 2007 18:36:54 GMT -5
Hi I got them they are darling Banties two white and two like a dark color and one has more tan/orangey to it and the otehr has white on it more lik etips of feather face!I have pictures and am uploading them on compter now
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Post by bndranch on May 24, 2007 18:41:51 GMT -5
If you post pictures I might be able to tell what you what kind of banties they are!
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Post by darbyponygirl on May 24, 2007 18:43:40 GMT -5
OK that would be nice they didn't know i think that one may be a Mille Fluer
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Post by bndranch on May 24, 2007 18:58:54 GMT -5
I had a Mille Fluer once and I loved it to death!!!!!!! It was a little rooster and I called him Melvin, he was awesome but a puppy we had at the time got him. They stay REALLY tiny those and the porcelines stay super tiny!
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