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post #281 of 286
3/26/12 at 2:08am
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For those with problems with the chicks that died a few days after hatching, I had the same problem a couple of years ago, I had used hay in the brooder as bedding, they were eating it, I did not have any grit in the brooder for them and had gotten some bad feed. i no longer use that brand of medicated chick feed and use grit if I use hay as bedding, they will also eat pine shavings, so recommened or not, I generaly use newspaper with paper towel on top of the newspaper for the 1st week.

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post #282 of 286
3/26/12 at 11:29am
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For those with problems with the chicks that died a few days after hatching, I had the same problem a couple of years ago, I had used hay in the brooder as bedding, they were eating it, I did not have any grit in the brooder for them and had gotten some bad feed. i no longer use that brand of medicated chick feed and use grit if I use hay as bedding, they will also eat pine shavings, so recommened or not, I generaly use newspaper with paper towel on top of the newspaper for the 1st week.



mine was called hubby had gas on his hands and stuck them in there..luckily they didn't all die.(he didn't tell me til I panicked and was like wth did you have on you when you came home from work) I use shredded paper with papertowel on top.

Loving wife to a crazy hubby and mother of 3 insane kiddos, 2 d'uccles (rip Iris and twin), 2 white rocks, a barred rock, an australorp, 2 nigerian dwarf goat babies, a pygmy goat, an angora rabbit, an american eskimo spitz and a lhasa apso/boston terrier and some fish.

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Loving wife to a crazy hubby and mother of 3 insane kiddos, 2 d'uccles (rip Iris and twin), 2 white rocks, a barred rock, an australorp, 2 nigerian dwarf goat babies, a pygmy goat, an angora rabbit, an american eskimo spitz and a lhasa apso/boston terrier and some fish.

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post #283 of 286
3/26/12 at 5:15pm

Hi, I'm joining super late. Set my 42 eggs on the 7th. Had a  failed attempt at candling on the 14th (shells dark, poor light). Lockdown yesterday. Lots'o peeping and 1 pip today. Maybe hatching a day early tomorrow. 

 

Are early hatchers more likely to have external yolks? What do you do about it if it happens? 

 

 

Hens: 3 Golden Comets "the light aunties", 1 New Hampshire Red "dark auntie", 2 Barred Rocks "Berry & Rocky", 1 BO? "Pecky", 1 EE "Coco", 1 Rhode Island Red "Zelda",  7 EE mutts: "Brownie, Duck, Stripey, Coppertop, Spots, Peanutbutter, & Cheeks", BS Maran "Snowbell",  2 black stars "Laverne & Shirley" a red star "Toffee" and a silver pheonix "Mitsy."
Rooster: Blue Copper Maran "Smokey."
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Hens: 3 Golden Comets "the light aunties", 1 New Hampshire Red "dark auntie", 2 Barred Rocks "Berry & Rocky", 1 BO? "Pecky", 1 EE "Coco", 1 Rhode Island Red "Zelda",  7 EE mutts: "Brownie, Duck, Stripey, Coppertop, Spots, Peanutbutter, & Cheeks", BS Maran "Snowbell",  2 black stars "Laverne & Shirley" a red star "Toffee" and a silver pheonix "Mitsy."
Rooster: Blue Copper Maran "Smokey."
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post #284 of 286
3/27/12 at 2:09am
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So far with early hatchers I have only had 2 or 3, sometimes the yolk goes ahead and asorbs, sometimes not, there is not a lot you can do either way, some have looked like they have scrambled egg stuck on theur belly, kind of gross looking though.

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post #285 of 286
3/28/12 at 9:09am

Here is my consolation prize, on day 22 of my failed hatch, lady gwen was born at 2pm!! So I'm happy. Also, I found out that the 24 eggs of my flock that went down the road, 18 are rockers and today is hatch day and I will get to see those babies soo and tell how my flock's chicks will look like. Also, here is a link for troubleshooting incubation problems: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/Avian/pfs33.htm

 

Lady Gwen, alpaca newborn:

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Welsummers from 7 lines/breeders (15 hens 23 roos) Avatar is Cassidy my first Wellie hatched who passed this winter. Member Welsummer Club of NA and HPBAA.I will have hatching eggs of Welsummers, just starting out but all from true Wellies, I can hatch chicks for local pickup in Northwest Ohio. And yes, I have a herd of Alpacas over at www.imaginaryalpaca.com

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Welsummers from 7 lines/breeders (15 hens 23 roos) Avatar is Cassidy my first Wellie hatched who passed this winter. Member Welsummer Club of NA and HPBAA.I will have hatching eggs of Welsummers, just starting out but all from true Wellies, I can hatch chicks for local pickup in Northwest Ohio. And yes, I have a herd of Alpacas over at www.imaginaryalpaca.com

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post #286 of 286
3/29/12 at 7:56am

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You should enter that pic in thebirdguy's Cutest Baby Picture Contest; you don't have to be in the hatch-a-long to enter.  PM the pic to thebirdguy and post it on Mahonri's 3rd Annual Easter Hatch-A-Long thread, saying which contest it is for.  Keep us updated on how the baby is doing.  She's so cute!  

 

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Mom to: 4 dogs, 15 cats, and... Chickens! 11 purchased Silkie chicks; 3 assorted bantam chicks;  2 Silkie Roos (buff & partridge); 17 Silkie O (formerly known as Silkie-X); 4 Black Rosecombs; 3 EEs; and one gorgeous Ameraucana rooster named Flame!  More chicks every day!  Go, chickies, go!  

 

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The Cat is in the henhouse!!

Mom to: 4 dogs, 15 cats, and... Chickens! 11 purchased Silkie chicks; 3 assorted bantam chicks;  2 Silkie Roos (buff & partridge); 17 Silkie O (formerly known as Silkie-X); 4 Black Rosecombs; 3 EEs; and one gorgeous Ameraucana rooster named Flame!  More chicks every day!  Go, chickies, go!  

 

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