Specail Agent of the CID reporting in. Also late...Also having had to take senior mother-in-law to sick bay. She has contracted pnemonia. No on oxygen, and quarentined to sister-in-laws house (having refused to stay in hospital). So I understand the grouchy with pain Major Williams!
Very sorry about the black module.
Request made: for further photographic evidence to aid in final inspection report ma'am.
Need to collect further data concerning the suspicious activity reported on black tailed buff.
Over and out!
Mission Dutch Underway!
So very sorry about little blackie. Unfortunate that it must be expected. But at least now we have a little module to help us from the other side.
grownut, I accuse no one. BUT I SUSPECT EEEEEVERYONE!!!
Have been informed the RIR hat is wending its way to me. Will line with tinfoil and model for your enjoyment.
OOrah. Sir, yes, sir.
Thanks whom-so-ever hit me with the wad of frozen grits.
That lighter colored module is tricky. I will not look into it's eye again.
CGO Jenks over.
Claire so sorry to hear about your chick bantams are very tender little things. I hope the rest of your hatch goes smoothly. I will keep you in my thoughts and i will take a moment for your little one as all life no matter how small is precious.
How many pods are left? Are blacks typically more difficult?
Thank you all for condolences on black module. CGO Jenks - I do not believe them to be typically more difficult. This one seemed to take a very long time with pipping and then didn't make it. It never peeped much like the others though, so I suspect something was wrong.
Now, all pods complete. No further hatching until Ameraucana eggs next wednesday, which will be its own thread.
Top secret photographic evidence herein provided for Special Agent Sewincircle of the CID. All encouraged to report their suspicions. The egg was labeled "BTB" which, so the seller advised, was "black tailed buff."
Although pretending to look sleepy and helpless in the above photo, the life form perked up when I asked it what its name was and that I must speak to its leader.
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Quickly, as if to avoid its faux-pas of looking perky, it turned around and pretended to be sleepy again. It was then that I was able to see a distinct lack of any sort of black tail feathers or fluff or anything at all. HIGHLY suspect...
I don't have any grits so it wasn't me. Sometimes I'm not sure if I have any wits either.
Gritless and witless here. I am prime suspect if there is any blue matter involved though.
Perhaps, collectively, we are both...
Do I spy black at the corner of a cute little eye and a cute little wing?
Smarty!
I suspect shadow is to blame...
Jenks: Blacks aren't any more difficult than any others. Hatching really takes alot out of a tiny chick and you will see them sleeping a great deal once they hatch. It's important and i know Claire does this for them to allow them to get this rest. It takes a chick many hundreds of pecks to penetrate the shell then they rest. They then will peck around the shell some here call it zipping. They will rest a little then push, rest push, Until they break off the top then rest and then push one last hard time and out of the shell they come. They are exhausted and rest, wiggle and rest some more then they will get up and stumble around. I don't remove my chicks but some here move them to a brooder to dry and rest.
It takes a tremendous amount of strength for these little ones to hatch i'm allways amazed at how strong they are to be so tiny.
Immature Nankin invaders also showed similar lack of black in rear appendage. This resolved itself over time as they began to show their true colors.....Being primarily buff with a jaunty little black tipped tail. The latter being, I believe, their operational uniforms.
I would be a nervous wreck and have a breakdown if I had to be in the birthing room in a hatching. I would want to be helping and fluffering which of course you can't do at first. Do you have inspirational music like 'We are the Champions' for the pecking part and then 'Brahms Lullaby' for the resting part? I wonder if waissailing would make them feel better?
Are their baby feathers like false leaves? They drop off and then the true plumage emerges?
Grits did not come from down south- we eat our grits. Of course we are also know for boiled wits because of the sun.
They are extremely deceptive. They start out with fuzzy innocent down, not unlike Commander Moxon's footed PJs--then they they put out juvenile feathers designed to make you think you know them--then suddenly at 4 months, they molt, scaring you into thinking you are about to be investigated for inhumane treatment and breaking the Geneva Convention. Then they assume their proper regimental gear. It is all quite traumatic.
Gud gawd. I tawt I layft werk. I got me a biznez wry-ter fer dis at werk. Iz dere a gramer fO rum?
I cud tel ya wat ya cud say, but thayt wud be RUDE.
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Yes I truly would be a bushel case (I'm already a basket case) with all their disguises and wardrobe changes.
Photographic evidence reinforces suspicions.
I believe it to be enough to hold them under the Poultry act.
Recommend holding them under the light for the third degree to see if they crack.
Oh ya, the eggs may have cracked but we will not give up until we have answers.
Like, what came first...The chicken or the egg?
There is so much intelligence to be gained her. Be alert! Be diligent! Be prepared! (That’s the girls scout motto) hehehe
Dahlianut - I haven't played any music for them. Occasionally I sing when I am candling the eggs. This is a fact not to be disclosed elsewhere. Sometimes I sing "Hush little baby" when I am getting them out of the brooder. I know, I'm soft in the head.
Jenks - I see wot yer sayin' but i gots ta keep on kerecting da speling cuz dats mah job
Sewincircle....I am afraid....they are in my HOUSE!!
Keep them close! You know the saying! 'bout and keepin the enemy closer...
Act casual avoid direct eye contact. That is how they suck you in, perhaps stealing brain cells...Gasp!
eye did not syn up fer gramir chek. If datz it, den, I kant b hear 2 woyree. Iget nuff woyree and watching my back at work. THanks.
Jenks, you're crackin' me up! LOL!
Sewincircle, I've got my night vision goggles on....do you suppose that will help protect me? I can't afford to have brain cells stolen, they pay me for using my brain cells at work. I have to pay for chicken feed somehow!
I believe the goggles will work. They are young but learning our tactics everyday. We cant afford to loose you now. It would take to long to get someone else on the inside. Hang in there! I have faith in you.
Ok, I'm getting worried that Jenks is gonna shoot me with whatever chicken based ammo is lying around...
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When CAN we afford to lose the Commander? Because I would be willing to have a little side bet on the date and time:0).
Sorry Moxon, but I really need the money. These chickens are hard to keep in scratch.
You betcha.
Message encoded for security reasons. ROFLOL!
Oooh...that was cold, Commander Catscan. So very cold. Betting over the loss of a beloved member of the chicken crew just for a few handfuls of scratch feed. I am truly disappointed in you.... ;-P
Grownut - better duck - Jenks is on the warpath!! LOL!!! Jenks, is that a wet feather you have in hand?! Not lashings with a wet feather???!!! Noooooooo!!!!!!!
You are very clever Commander Moxon. I will retire with your humorous deflection :)
But I will be waiting with the wet feather.
Cruel and unusual!!!!! Be strong team.
We never leave a man behind!
But sewincircle, it was YOU who suggested the time was not yet right to lose Moxon. It would never have occured to me that there was a right time, if not for you:0
Commander Moxon goes to hide under a large rock (and after Thanksgiving meal, it has to be a larger rock than usual....).
I will not get lashed with a wet feather.
I will not get lashed with a wet feather.
I will not.....
(k, you get the picture).
Catscan, woe betide you if you come near my rock, because I have a wet feather with your name on it! Harrrumph!
Sewincircle - get it right. We will never leave a CHICKEN behind. Geesh...men can get left behind if they misbehave. They always do....
Duly noted Commander! Will lash self with wet feather!
Chicken behind... chicken behind....ewwww!
I must be emitting subliminal messages again! Oh no. They have gotten to me!
Now that's called 'pasty b***'.... Nevermind.lol.
You two are makin' me laugh out loud and Kelly looks over at me and says "What" and I say to him "You wouldn't understand..."
Sewincircle - it's a government program, called "No chicken left behind" and it means that we all have to take good care of our chickens and teach them how to lay eggs. It has nothing to do with their actual behinds, although indirectly, since that is where eggs come from.