The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

[Sueg4332]

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Have to agree. If the temps and humidity were good during incubation then the ones struggling to hatch are the weaker and abnormal ones.


Phage I notice your peacock . A female move into my yard. She is so friendly she even tried to follow me in to the house. 3 foot into the house Is this normal? My son in law which is a animal rehabiter said it was very unusual. She was afraid of him either.
I am baby sitting a newly split Bee hive. So they will stay in the new hive. Miss Peahen followed us a watch what we were doing.
I am empressed with these Bees they are quiet interesting to watch. Busy cleaning the dead bees out of the newly split hive and by noon hey were flying out to the fields.
I was afraid my chickens would eat them but they left them a lone.

Sounds like your peahen is a hand raised pet. These are wild animals unless imprinted at hatch. Enjoy having her around! Hopefully she will go home as whoever raised her is likley pining her loss.




she belongs to the neighbor. Someone gave her to him. He is not worried about her.....

 

[Phage]

 

 

 

 

 


My wife and I had a discussion yesterday, and we've decided that we're pretty much done with hatchling rescues. During hatched we're pretty much going to do our best to maintain proper incubation temperatures and humidity, but during the hatching process, we're going to let nature take it's course. For example, if a chick can only pip and not zip, we're not going to assist.



From our experience, most of the hatchlings that need assistance have some kind of issue and need post-hatch treatment and/or therapy. Quite often they die anyway or have to get a long in life with a serious challenge. For example, we had three pre-hatch rescues for this last hatch. Two of the chicks have since died, and the remaining one has seriously curled feet and a distended navel.



We have some rescues in the past that have made it and are perfectly healthy, but they tend to be the exceptions. Anyway, it wasn't an easy decision, but after going through this ritual so many times, it seemed the best decision for us.

I totally agree.  I helped 1 chick out this time   It tried to live but died.   I see this way to often they die.   I like hatch 1 day before or after due date.    I just get red of the rest od the eggs.   I was going to get rid of the last of the eggs (headed toward the trash can)when this last egg peeped at me.   Soft heart I have I helped it out of shell.   It didn't make it... It was weak ....   Shame on me I just belonged the chicks death....   I alwaays say I won't do that again   BUT I probably will.

Have to agree. If the temps and humidity were good during incubation then the ones struggling to hatch are the weaker and abnormal ones.

Phage  I notice your peacock .  A female move into my yard.   She is so friendly she even tried to follow me in to the house. 3 foot into the house   Is this normal?  My son in law which is a animal rehabiter said it was very unusual.  She was afraid of him either.

I am baby sitting a newly split Bee hive. So they will stay in the new hive.  Miss Peahen followed us a watch what we were doing.

I am empressed with these Bees they are quiet interesting to watch.  Busy cleaning the dead bees out of the newly split hive and by noon hey were flying out to the fields.

I was afraid my chickens would eat them but they left them a lone.

Sounds like your peahen is a hand raised pet. These are wild animals unless imprinted at hatch. Enjoy having her around! Hopefully she will go home as whoever raised her is likley pining her loss.




she belongs to the neighbor.  Someone gave her to him.   He is not worried about her.....

That is awesome. Then you can enjoy her too.

 

[Glaseria]

My chickens don't bother my bees, and the bees drink out of the chicken waterers. I give them their own waterer, and they still drink out of the chicken waterers. I love sitting by my hives and watching the bees come and go. When the yellow jackets come out, they will steal your bees. This was my swarm last summer. It was fascinating to watch. This was a small handful of them. And them going into the bait hive.

 

[Happy Chooks]

That's a small handful!?

Yup. Summer population gets really high. I couldn't even tell which hive they swarmed from. You think chickens are hard to photograph, try bees! My avatar is one of my pictures too.

 

[brucifer]

Raising bees is awesome. My wife wants us to start doing that, but my favorite honey is what is produced an hour or so north of where we live, and that's the kind I like. There is nothing else that matches the taste of sourwood honey. We take the trip once a year to the Blue Ridge Mountains to get sourwood honey. It usually sells out early, and last year we missed the harvest.

Speaking of honeybees, a couple of years ago I was also surprised because I saw what looked like a blue honeybee. The bee was smaller than a normal honeybee, and it had a blue and black striped abdomen instead of one that is yellow and black striped. Come to find out, that bee is being used as a pollinator and not for honey production.

 

[Happy Chooks]

And my favorite picture I took of my bees. It only took about 50 attempts to get this ONE picture:

 

[Happy Chooks]

Raising bees is awesome. My wife wants us to start doing that, but my favorite honey is what is produced an hour or so north of where we live, and that's the kind I like. There is nothing else that matches the taste of sourwood honey. We take the trip once a year to the Blue Ridge Mountains to get sourwood honey. It usually sells out early, and last year we missed the harvest.

Speaking of honeybees, a couple of years ago I was also surprised because I saw what looked like a blue honeybee. The bee was smaller than a normal honeybee, and it had a blue and black striped abdomen instead of one that is yellow and black striped. Come to find out, that bee is being used as a pollinator and not for honey production.

I know Australia has blue bees.

I've never had sourwood honey, but oh my gosh, the honey is the best! Ours is mostly blackberry honey, but other plants contribute too, so it's "wildflower" honey. California is not the best for honey production, but I did get 2 harvests last year, totaling about 5 lbs of honey.



See, now y'all got me talkin' bees!

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

And my favorite picture I took of my bees. It only took about 50 attempts to get this ONE picture:

Well worth the 50 attempts! That's a fab pic

 

[brucifer]

I took this photo a month or so ago when our pear trees were in bloom. Alas, the insect in the photo is not a skinny honeybee, but a hoverfly that mimics a honeybee:

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

I know Australia has blue bees. I've never had sourwood honey, but oh my gosh, the honey is the best! Ours is mostly blackberry honey, but other plants contribute too, so it's "wildflower" honey. California is not the best for honey production, but I did get 2 harvests last year, totaling about 5 lbs of honey. See, now y'all got me talkin' bees!

It's that off topic thing creeping in again, gotta laugh