My chickens are being born right now

[LadyArowana]

Crikey, the jokes are truly eggscruciating now!

If you had said the yolks are truly eggscruciating I would have had to agree with you......

 

[LadyArowana]

are chickens born?

If so, does this happen when the egg is laid or when they emerge from the shell?

And so the thread diverts onto eggsistential philosophy. :roll:

We should probably debate the works of Roger Bacon, the philosopher and friar.

 

[Feltwell]

We should probably debate the works of Roger Bacon, the philosopher and friar.

Sounds like you're hatching a plan....

 

[LadyArowana]

Sounds like you're hatching a plan....

I might chicken out at the last moment as this thread has scrambled my brain.

 

[Feltwell]

Anyone would think we were trying to establish a pecking order of who can come up with the most bad puns........

 

[LadyArowana]

Anyone would think we were trying to establish a pecking order of who can come up with the most bad puns........

I can't stay cooped up in front of the screen all afternoon playing this game!

 

[Penners]

Anyone would think we were trying to establish a pecking order of who can come up with the most bad puns........

I'd say that you're definitely cock of the roost.

 

[JoceAndChris]

I see you've all been having fun whilst I've been away. Penners gets the prize. Thankyou for all being excited for me. xxxxxxxx

Two out of twenty have been born so far (doesn't "hatched" seem rather too coldly biological?): Queen Hippolyta and Queen Boadicea (we'll have the Tennyson spelling)

They're so tired they keep resting their heads on the other eggs and falling asleep.

I can't really get good pics as you have to keep the lid closed for 65% humidity for the remaining hatch.

 

[Moo]

That second picture is particularly eggciting - one of the eggs has got an encouraging crack in it! Will you please focus your photographic attention on that one, so that we can follow its progress?

But what a pity about the graffiti on some of them.

 

[Flyfisher]

But what a pity about the graffiti on some of them.

Yeah - kids today eh? And only a few hours old some of them. I blame their guardians.

 

[JoceAndChris]

:lol: :lol: :lol:
LMS ="Lemon Millefleur Sablepoot" Breeder's ID -he must have several kinds. Here's a link to a page of grown-ups: http://chirpychicks.com/lemon_sablepoots.htm

That cracked one now, that's no good, in all probability. The yolk isn't meant to ooze out like that. If nothing's happened to that by tomorrow midday I'll discard it, it looks like a potential health hazard.

I wish I could just sit and photograph them but I've 9 people arriving for the whole weekend, including 4 children! xxx

 

[Feltwell]

Here's a link to a page of grown-ups: http://chirpychicks.com/lemon_sablepoots.htm

And very handsome they are too!

 

[FamilyWiggs]

I wish I could just sit and photograph them but I've 9 people arriving for the whole weekend, including 4 children! xxx

I'm not sure even if they all hatch in time, that they're going to feed 9 Joce - even if 4 are only children. I'd order some loaves and fishes too from Ocadao PDQ.

 

[LadyArowana]

I wish I could just sit and photograph them but I've 9 people arriving for the whole weekend, including 4 children! xxx

I'm not sure even if they all hatch in time, that they're going to feed 9 Joce - even if 4 are only children. I'd order some loaves and fishes too from Ocadao PDQ.

I thought you had already been given an official warning about these sort of inappropriate comments :lol:

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Craving your indulgence, m'Lady, but I think that might have been in another place? I've not yet been yellow-carded for that carnivorous offence round these 'ere parts!

 

[LadyArowana]

Craving your indulgence, m'Lady, but I think that might have been in another place? I've not yet been yellow-carded for that carnivorous offence round these 'ere parts!

If she catches you it will be a second yellow and you know what that means, and those fluffy little chicks can get really mean when provoked....

 

[Gareth Hughes]

I imagine Joce will be very excited that after days of waiting, her boys have got their peckers out and started banging away...

 

[jocelyn plummer]

Congrats Joce!!

 

[Penners]

I imagine Joce will be very excited that after days of waiting, her boys have got their peckers out and started banging away...

Excuse me - I thought smutty innuendo was my brief.

You're supposed to be sophistication and professional expertise.

 

[worms]

you have to keep the lid closed for 65% humidity for the remaining hatch.

Just don't do as I once did and leave the unhatched eggs a "while longer" just to see if they would hatch eventually. The pressure of rotting egg builds up within the shell to the point where the slightest touch to lift them out makes them explode with dramatic and unpleasant effect!