i opened the eggs

[Nicos]

Ok...look at these..

http://www.killcravings.com/Photos/eggs1.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~kdoctor1/...s/mvc-010s.jpg

do you actually have a dark brown egg there Lynda??

[Nicos]

Here's a bit more on Marans...

Google Image Result for http://www.bevsmarans.com/Real%20Marans%20Eggs%20250pxwide.jpg

[BrideXIII]

how did i not guess what mischief you were up to ?

well heres hoping, we live and learn.

silkies???? no wonder i couldn't talk you in to it before, devious mare

[lynda66]

Ok...look at these..

http://www.killcravings.com/Photos/eggs1.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~kdoctor1/...s/mvc-010s.jpg

do you actually have a dark brown egg there Lynda??

no, the seller is posting them monday so they are fresh and not stuck in the sorting office all weekend

how did i not guess what mischief you were up to ?

well heres hoping, we live and learn.

silkies???? no wonder i couldn't talk you in to it before, devious mare

tee hee ..... well it woz going to be a surprise, i wasn't gonna tell anyone till they started hatching, cos i knew how disappointed everyone was, but i figured after the last lot it might cheer a few people up

[Bephlam]

I'm super interested in your silkies....I'm planning on attempting to hatch some silkies and lavender pekins next spring. In an ideal world one fo the girls will go broody, and she'll do it naturally...but, knowing my luck, it'll be an incu and panic for the entire term!!!

[lynda66]

it's been much better with the second lot, cos i'm hoping i caught them in time, and i had the others to worry over, and was keeping them secret....... but now i'm getting all excited again, cos both of them moved up and down in the egg when i candled it, to get away from the light

[SarzWix]

Oooh, you little monkey
Really pleased though, except for the cramps I'll get from crossing all me fingers again...

[lynda66]

well at least it's only 5 ish days now

[Gauckwin]

Lynda,
So glad to hear your having another go, everything crossed for a good result.

MG

[MaureenHall]

You norty girl!!! Fancy keeping that a secret from us all! I'm so glad you did though, it's really given me a boost. Promise not to nag at you this time, I'll be very very good and please can I still be Auntie Maureen?

[lynda66]

course you can still be auntie maureen, they'll need somewhere to come and stay during the skool holidays

[Hashette]

Woohoo, we're on again When I've got a bit more experience I know I'm going to have to have a go at this, but meanwhile this is almost as much fun as doing it myself.

If I started with just a couple, then it wouldn't actually matter if one of them turned out to be a boy as we haven't got a cockrel. The neighbours would just have to get some ear-plugs

[Glutton4...]

... it wouldn't actually matter if one of them turned out to be a boy as we haven't got a cockrel. The neighbours would just have to get some ear-plugs

Nah - if you get fellas, feed 'em growers and eat 'em - you're on your way to self sufficiency!

[Johnny Appleseed]

Good luck with the cockerel Hashette

If I started with just a copule, then it wouldn't actually matter if one of them turned out to be a boy as we haven't got a cockrel. The neighbours would just have to get some ear-plugs

I kept hens and had a cockerel for many years. We backed onto a private 15 acre woodland. The land was sold and a supermarket, school, pub, shops and 1500 houses took its place.

Then the complaints about my and my neighbours cockerel started to come in.

Bl**dy townies move into the countryside and then moan about countryside noises. Where do they think eggs come from????

Why the joyous sound of a happy cockerel is any more annoying than drunks leaving the pub late at night and screaming and fighting each other in the street; listening to families shout and hurl obscenities at each other; listening to other peoples booming music at ear splitting volumes in the early hours of the morning and morons setting off fireworks at 3am when they get back from a drunken night out on the town and parents allowing their kids to scream and bounce on a trampoline at 11pm - I'd choose a cockerel every time.

Perhaps I just need to drive around their houses at 4am with the car windows down playing loud cockerel crowing sounds to make a point?

Sorry - rant over !!!

Good luck with your cockerel - they are magnificent to watch and listen to - unless your are a clubbing, drunk only just going to bed as the cock crows.

[Hashette]

(((Johnny))) that's such a shame and so unfair on you. We've got a field behind us that the farmer keeps threatening to sell to developers. I just daren't think about it.