GrandMOM to be....

[Nicos]

Here's todays picture..
( look how the wing feathers are developing!!!!)

[lynda66]

at about 5 days old she'll start getting tail feathers too, then in a couple of weeks she'll look like something the cat dragged through the hedge backwards when all the feathers start growing

[di]

All these piccies are really not helping me stick to the decision of not hatching our own!!!:roleyes:....I know the school are soon getting theirs to hatch....I asked last year about buying any of the girlie babies but the farmer apparently was concerned having in the past sold them on & the RSPCA had to get involved as the buyer wasn't looking after them too well....hopefully/maybe this year as we have evidence of being great chook peeps they may say yes!

[Flummery]

Our local schools hatch eggs every year - they get them and the equipment from a local agricultural collage. Trouble is, they get the ones meant for eating. Poor little mites grow like the blazes for just a few weeks and then get too heavy to hold themselves up. They have to be slaughtered at about 12 weeks or they're cripples. I hate the idea.

[di]

That's horrid Flummery!!(not you....the eggs/chooks)....I'm pretty sure the eggs the kiddies school use are from a F.R egg farm,i think one of the teachers is friends with the farmer,last year they had a trip & went to his farm(& I'm presuming they got to see the chicks all grown up?)....gonna have to check now!

[frias]

My real softie husband says that when he retires he fancies getting some day olds - of a type where they can be sexed at birth. He'd like some chicks to grow up with us but also hates the idea of dispatching the chaps.

That sounds like a brilliant idea. I would love to raise some chicks but know I would not be able to deal with dispatching the boys.

[Nicos]

And today...look - the tail has suddenly appeared at 10 days!!

[HayleyB]

Aaawww, I'm getting broody, nope stop it, everyone's gone chick crazy, Nicos, Snadge, Mo.......

Lynda it's all your fault aaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhh

[lynda66]

Aaawww, I'm getting broody, nope stop it, everyone's gone chick crazy, Nicos, Snadge, Mo.......

Lynda it's all your fault aaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhh

nowt new there then ........ everythings always my fault

[Nicos]

Just checked on the eggs with a cross on them....and one of them has a little hole with a baby pecking its way out!!!!!!

Camera on charge- and I can't believe I've got to go out this morning!!!!

Will take a couple now- and let you know how we get on!!!


YEY!!!!!!!!!!

[Flummery]

Whooo- nail-biting time again on the Grapevine!

[Nicos]

Yup...here's a piccie...
( can't believe I've got to go out now!!!!- will post as soon as I'm back this afternoon!)

In the mean time- what colour do you think the chick will be???? I'm guessing on dark rather than yellow this time!!)

[lynda66]

ooooooooo how exciting, is this one of bettys? or whoever the mum was of the other one?

[MaureenHall]

Oh wow! eggsiting again Yours is just coming out as mine are going in (into the incubator that is)

[Nicos]

Yup- that was one of Betty's I think- I gave the two with x n to Bertha to sit on with her two cos 2 didn't seem many, and Betty wasn't really wanting to sit on them...and then a few days later Betty got broody!
I just wonder if the other one with the X will hatch now???

Here are todays photos- the little yellow one's tail is certainly growing!!!
And look at the lovely colours on the new one!

Think we'll need to sort out names soon- although I'd sort of rather sex them first!