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Does corsair post on any of those? Yeah, didn't think so. Next.
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This just showed up in the GIF thread: Australian with an Australorp 
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DarkHorse posted:Australian with an Australorp And this is why one must use proper chicken-holding techniques. Or you end up being swatted or clawed in the face. 
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Chido posted:Get a big fat cock, you know you want to At this point I'm on the lookout for a Polish or Cochin rooster locally. You know, cause they're so extraordinary looking. 
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I just watched a chicken documentary and there was this lady who made a diaper like thing for her chicken that lived in her house. Thoughts? I might want to do this.
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Apr 17, 2013 17:39
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I saw that one. That lady's f'ing batty. If you really want to keep a chicken indoors, you can do it pretty easily with a pair of Seramas or Mille Fleur d'Uccles. I would still do as big an enclosure as possible - I think 5' x 3' x 3', minimally.
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I love how the guy in the GIF runs away with his hands in the air. The roo bided his time and bitch slapped him perfectly. Link to the original vid?Tricky Twisty posted:I just watched a chicken documentary and there was this lady who made a diaper like thing for her chicken that lived in her house. Thoughts? I might want to do this. 'The Natural History of the Chicken' from PBS. Good show that shows all kinds of viewpoints. But yeah, the lady with the all-red house with the Silkie roo she dotes on is WEIRD. The end of that video is the best, with the guy reading the story he wrote about his Silkie broody hen and how she taught him a life lesson. Very sweet and he reads it well.  I've had to diaper chickens short-term that were confined to the house in order to recover from injuries or illness, but I'd never have a bird wear one for an extended period on a regular basis if I didn't have to. When it was too cold to put the young chicks outside last year I confined them to one room and covered the floor, and that was a hellish mess. That's the big reason I've delayed Chickam for almost a month this time, I don't want to have to DO that again! But lots of people do have house chickens. Mine just kind of wander in the back door if I leave it open and poop everywhere.  Edit: BTW, I've offered the kindergarteners in Georgia the opportunity to name another chick this year.
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One of the 1st batch eggs, #24 (a d'Uccle egg) peeped at 12_String when he talked to them this morning. I got an excited wiggle out of the same egg when I talked to them this morning. I have a horrid suspicion that the d'Uccles may hold true to form and hatch early, little buggers.
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I passed the Chickam link to my oldest daughter's teacher, she's in kindergarten. So, you may have another class watching this year. Her teacher seemed very interested - they ran an incubator in their classroom, but the chicks hatched over the weekend and they didn't get to see it happen.  The kids are REALLY into the chicks and the whole process, it's great.
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Frilled Lizard posted:I passed the Chickam link to my oldest daughter's teacher, she's in kindergarten. So, you may have another class watching this year. VS usually records a few videos of hatching chicks and posts them on the streaming web site. If I can, I plan to record video clips as well and post them to Youtube. Yay! Chickam! 
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We're ready!    The mini-frig on the right is the ReptiPro incubator, the old styro incubator beside it will be used to allow the chicks to dry & get strong after they hatch, if needed. I figured it would be wise to have the styro one ready since this is the first time we've used the ReptiPro. After everyone hatches, at night we'll bring in a broody hen, turn the lights off so it's dark, stuff the chicks under her and by morning, if all goes well, she'll have accepted them as hers. These are the first group due Saturday. The eggs on the racks above are due in two weeks if all goes well. The weird concentric rings are the marks I made tracking the air cell progress, it helps you to tell if the eggs are on track during the incubation period.  #24 & 25 (all the numbers ended up upside-down, sorry. Turn your monitor over and they look great!) are Belgian d'Uccle eggs from our flock, they are the most active so far. The shot glass holds water to keep the humidity at the right level, a small hygrometer is on the left. The upper racks have their own thermometer & hygrometer. The ReptiPro is pretty damned good about naturally holding humidity on the bottom a bit higher than in the upper area, so staggered hatches like this are possible. #1 and #14, both on the left, I suspect have quit but I've leaving them in just in case. The cam will be mounted to the front of the glass door in such a way that we can open and close the incubator door and it won't fall off or some damned thing. We will be testing the cam today/tonight/tomorrow to make sure everything works in all levels of light.
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Velvet Sparrow posted:We're ready!
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A new crop of Kindergarteners are ready for Chickam. The first graders still talk about Rose.
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I hate to ask, but what is the url for the cam? The Cosmo kittens are going to their new homes on the 20th, so I need a new cam.
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SpannerX posted:I hate to ask, but what is the url for the cam? The Cosmo kittens are going to their new homes on the 20th, so I need a new cam. https://www.ustream.tv/channel/chickam2008 for the Chick stream, wont be up until VS notices the chicks hatching
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JimBobDole posted:A new crop of Kindergarteners are ready for Chickam. The first graders still talk about Rose. The new kinder kids will have to vote on a name, they get to name one of the chicks. There will be a pop-out screen that will show just the picture, no chat--it should be great for kids since chat can get more than it's fair share of language, plus idiots sometimes come in and post innappropriate BS before we can ban them. Here is the link for the kids:http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chickam2008/pop-out We tested the cam last night in nighttime lighting conditions, we'll be doing the same today for daylight. Had some audio bugs last night that 12_String ironed out, and the stream worked fine while I played Halo 4, so our Internet connection can handle it. I got a plaintive, bored-sounding 'PEEP!' out of egg #25 about half an hour ago.  Edit: Frilled Lizard, awesome! Great to have more schools watching, I know hatching chicks is very big in Kindergartens!
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Velvet Sparrow posted:The new kinder kids will have to vote on a name, they get to name one of the chicks. I'm so excited to meet the new kids. Do you think some might make their debut early?
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WE HAVE A PIP! #25, one of our Belgain d'Uccle eggs--the same one that has been peeping at us--has a small pip! None of the others is doing anything yet, and this little guy is early, so I'm hoping it waits at least till tomorrow to hatch if it insists on being early. Actual due date of hatch is Saturday around 7AM, which would be 21 days exactly. I'm not going to start the Chickam thread in GBS just yet since this chick may well not do a damned thing for another day or so. If other eggs start to pip and look active enough to be interesting, I'll go ahead and start the thread & cam. So NO CAM YET, guys! But yeah, chickinzzzz!  Fake edit: luloo123, you hexed us! 
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Velvet Sparrow posted:WE HAVE A PIP! #25, one of our Belgain d'Uccle eggs--the same one that has been peeping at us--has a small pip! HOORAY!! Thank you for the update VS!
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Peep-peep hooray!
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You guys are the first to know. A sneak-peep, as it were.
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Well after being in pain all god drat day, that's great news! Just the peep-me-up I needed! Also I don't know why I never thought of it, but the idea of a chick peeping from inside the egg blew my god damned mind. Now that I think about it it makes perfect sense, but for some reason I just always thought they were silent until they hatched for some reason. 
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Velvet Sparrow posted:You guys are the first to know. Wow, I am extremely excited for Chickam. Watching the little chicks roll around and stomp each other got me through law school, so I'm very grateful!
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Bash Ironfist posted:Well after being in pain all god drat day, that's great news! Just the peep-me-up I needed! A lot of birds talk to their egg babies and the egg babies talk back Some of them even give each other unique "names". So cute~I have given the link to my mother so her class can look at chicken babies too. They're not learning about life cycles at the moment but they were last term so it should still be fresh in their tiny brains. They got to raise mealworms! Yay, outsourcing.
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 Yayyy. How are you doing name submissions this year? Names in a hat again?
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OK, Chickam thread in GBS started, even though not much is going on yet, holy Christ the world is going batshit and I think we need it: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3544925 Sorry I hijacked the chicken thread.
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Velvet Sparrow posted:
Oops. I do tend to do that, don't I. I'm glad the little chickie is doing well. I hope it isn't too long until she has company.
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If the other chicks don't hatch until tomorrow, will that much of a lead time make a big difference in their development? Like will #25 be way ahead of the others for a while?
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I turn on the camera and it's all hmm, eggs. I don't see anything going on...then in the very back middle a litle chick pops up from the pile of eggs.
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Greycious posted:I turn on the camera and it's all hmm, eggs. I don't see anything going on...then in the very back middle a litle chick pops up from the pile of eggs. Yep, hatched about eight hours ago, and promptly wriggled to the back by the fan. I've been checking in throughout the day (night there, of course) and nobody else seems to be doing much, so maybe #25 will be our only early bird this year. Edit: My husband just got back from the Friday Market in downtown Kuwait City, and he took a bunch of pictures of chickens they had for sale there. A bunch of the chicks were dyed bright colors, like you see around Easter back home sometimes. Once he gets them off his camera I'll try to upload some - he got a picture of a really interesting rooster, among others. RazorBunny fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Apr 19, 2013 |
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Greycious posted:I turn on the camera and it's all hmm, eggs. I don't see anything going on...then in the very back middle a litle chick pops up from the pile of eggs.
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wow! He has really fluffed out since I last looked 2 hours ago!
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Here, have some Friday Market pics! Multicolored chickies:    I hope the dye isn't bad for them  There were also ducklings:  And this little dinosaur: 
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RazorBunny posted:I hope the dye isn't bad for them It's injected into the egg when they're developing. It kills a lot of them. Most countries don't dye live chicks. I saw them all over the place at the festivals in Japan and a lot of animal rights groups are really outspoken about not supporting it. But if the chick still hatches, nah, it shouldn't bother them. Are they just slinging chicks in those paper bags?
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Yeah, apparently they were selling them in paper sacks, or you could pay a little extra to take one home in a birdcage 
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#27 on Chickam is beginning to bust out!
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Where do you live? Those are some drat bright chicks! Love the long-legged chicken-dino. I bet this one is impossible to catch!
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One of my eggs just pipped under my broody! An olive egg. This is my first time hatching chicks so I'm super excited. It's peeping in the egg! Too bad it's really late, I'm going to sleep and when I wake up (hopefully) chicks and chick pics.
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Inveigle posted:Where do you live? Those are some drat bright chicks! I live in Virginia, but I'm in Kuwait right now for work. My husband said all the chicks and adults were in pens and cages except that rooster, who was very angrily stalking around the market. I wonder if he escaped at some point and is just too mean for anyone to want to mess with him...
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VS, Have you had any problems with your Reptipro getting 1 degree hotter than your set temperature? The heating fan cuts off at the target temp, but then the darn thing warms up one degree more shortly after. This is frustrating because the Reptipro doesn't start warming up till it's 3 degrees cooler than the target temp. With this problem of getting one degree hotter, I now have a variation of 4 degrees! I haven't yet measured this with an add-on thermometer though, just with the digital display. The fluctuation might not be that bad once measured with another thermometer, but I just wanted to know if you had this same problem.
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