Tuesday, June 24, 2008

16 more eggs yesterday!&The "oceans 11 crew) have moved!

33 EGGS TOTAL! OK...here is what happened...  I am hatching out some Sumatra's for a guy on one of the forums I visit.  I had given him some chicks a while ago.  SO he had some eggs given to him but did not have an incubator.  I'm hatching his Sumatra eggs (whatever he wants of them are his) and I also asked for a few Polish WCB & BCW...found out today they may be both in there so that's cool!  Well she sent me 16 eggs! :)  I'm sure to get a pretty good  hatch out from them!  I hope all the polish will make it.  I can't wait to see those sweet birds!  Here is a picture of a polish if your curious what they will look like...are they not the cutest things ever!? I have three of those chicken in my bator right now.

These are not my pics...they were found on photobucket but just wanted to show you what they look like. 

RachelsAnimals008.jpg Punky on her eggs. Punky is a Silver Laced Polish chicken and is owned by Rachel. image by sissyB

Here is a white crested black or (WCB) Polish

100_9614.jpg Ashley(12) w/polish chicken image by goatmarm

Now for the BIG news.  The girls have moved outside today.  It makes me sad that they are not in  here anymore...I don't hear their cute peeps anymore.  But they LOVE LOVE LOVE it out there in their new big house.  They run from one side to the other and FLY and roll and dust bathe and chest butt. And all the fun things that chickens do.  I have my chair out there and Nic has his chair out there and we just sit in there with them and watch them be goofs. OH now THAT is NONstressful!  I'm sure I will spend many hours out there today with them until they go to bed for the night.  It's all sealed up and ready for the night.  Right now they do have two windows open for the warm breezes. 

We also have our Serama coop done and it has the medium babies in it now.  I have a dozen in there.  I'm keeping 5-6 of that dozen.   And I can pic up 7-8 chicks to keep out of the incubated ones.  Then my flock will be "mine" I picked and chose enough and I think I got a good flock going on so far.  4 more big girls will have new homes on July 5th so that will bring my ocean's 11 crew down to oceans 7...I'm keeping the cochins I hatched out from Kelly I have decided...I think one is a male and one is a female.  One is feathering out a lot faster then the other. 

OH how I wish I had my camera :(  I have wanted to take SO many pics today!  So many changes for my girls lately.  I hope they all do ok with the change.  I did add pine shavings rather then straw. I want to see how that goes.  I do have to pick up a few more bags at Fleet Farm now tho. 

Ok better get going but can't wait to show you pics of the new Serama coop that will be staying IN the house.  And I want to take a few video of the girls in their new home.  You can tell ME if you think they like it. lol 



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are going crazy over chickens! LOL  Those white crested black are beautiful!
Missie

Anonymous said...

I will send you the pictures of the parents of your three Silver Laced Polish eggs so you can show them on here if you like. :) Kelly

Anonymous said...

It sounds like you are going to have an awesome flock.  I just love looking at your pics, as I tell Kelly all the time..my chickens are so plain compared to the ones you guys have.  (I still love them though!).
Lisa