Our chickens are slowly recovering from what we now diagnosis as enteritis. These three eggs are little jewels, because we've gotten literally nothing from our chickens lately! I collected them yesterday evening, and actually plan on trying to hatch them. The white ones are from our lovely little game-hen, the Mama Bird, who roams our backyard, and the brown I retrieved from the Bantam Coop, so there's no telling what it is.
Mom says we probably shouldn't eat them because of the medication I've been giving the chickens, so I decided to give a shot at incubating them...later today after school I'm going to Google some of the effects of their medication. I'm concerned about how these chicks may turn out if they do hatch.
Nevertheless, I'm excited! I love hatching chicken eggs, and wish my purebred chickens that I've gotten over the year would grow up and lay me some eggs. I'd be happy with some eggs from my game-mutt chickens! But actually I've lost about half my chickens to disease, and hawks. I only have two hulseys---and two game chicks like them---left, and two lavender ameraucana bantams! I still have my two remaining McMurray silkies, and my two McMurray black frizzles, but I'm down to only one mottled cochin bantam! And it's a scrawny little rooster, who is one of our poorest representatives of health at the moment.
Rico and Muffin-Face are still hanging in there, thank goodness! But my two BBS orpingtons are pretty puny, especially the black one. On top of that, I'm beginning to suspect that they are both roosters! The little varmints.
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This morning I set up my incubator to fluctuate, and by this afternoon should have them little eggs all set up!
The desk that I normally use for my bator is being used elsewhere, so I'm going to be looking for an alternate way to get it up off the ground. I'd like to deter curious little brothers and dogs!
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