➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Conan]

Ok I have a hatch going on. Very valuable ( too me) chicks. A long awaited restart for my Light Sussex flock. I have one out and several more pipping. How soon can I give them water and feed. I don't have a hatcher, they are going straight from incubator hatching tray to brooder when dry. This will be a long hatch as the eggs range from one to 9 days old. I read from scholastic source to add one hour to hatch length for every day the eggs are old. Know it is best if chicks are fed within 6 hours of hatch so they don't use yolk sac for energy ( scholastic source). So I need to get feed and water into the incubator for the first hatchlings. How do I do that?
They will be hatching one at a time so I need to keep the first hatchlings in the incubator. Until I get enough to make a crowd for the broodeer. Last hatch was all about the same time so not a problem.
Thanks,
Karen

I'm curious - why does it say to not have the chicks use the yolk sac?

 

[BantyChooks]

Ok I have a hatch going on. Very valuable ( too me) chicks. A long awaited restart for my Light Sussex flock. I have one out and several more pipping. How soon can I give them water and feed. I don't have a hatcher, they are going straight from incubator hatching tray to brooder when dry. This will be a long hatch as the eggs range from one to 9 days old. I read from scholastic source to add one hour to hatch length for every day the eggs are old. Know it is best if chicks are fed within 6 hours of hatch so they don't use yolk sac for energy ( scholastic source). So I need to get feed and water into the incubator for the first hatchlings. How do I do that?
They will be hatching one at a time so I need to keep the first hatchlings in the incubator. Until I get enough to make a crowd for the broodeer. Last hatch was all about the same time so not a problem.
Thanks,
Karen

I wouldn't add feed and water to the incubator. I would pull the chicks an hour or so after they hatch and put them in a brooder...each time one hatches.

X2. I do this with staggered hatches like that. Why don't you want to move them out one at a time?
I've never put feed or water in the incubator. I think putting water in would be a danger to very fresh hatchlings. They're so wobbly.

 

[Kiki]

Ohhh! Ballet boxes! Do they dance on their toes? Or corners? What is a stuffed ballet box? Is that a fat dancing box?

As opposed to ballot boxes?

 

[PirateGirl]

They were trendy years ago and kind of made a come back this year especially with the younger kids, but there are no rules that say moms can't get in on the action, right?

So if you get a few more mom's to get feather extensions I'm pretty sure it won't be trendy anymore.

My two dogs and one of the cats come lay on my yoga mat as soon as I unroll it. Very helpful. Also the cat loves to claw at it like a scratching post and wrestle the foam block.

 

[jwyles]

Oh and also one more chicken question... look at my chick please... it has a black comb... where might that have come from? also it has a little bump on its beak; does this look normal?View attachment 1473607

So I just read something along the lines of some chicks have a black comb until they reach puberty so I guess this will probably be the case here. Hope so. I'd just never seen a back comb before. OH & sorry everyone for the gross nail shot. I go through off & on stages of biting my nails (a habit I've fought since childhood). Usually when I've got too much time in my hands.

 

[Kiki]

I'm curious - why does it say to not have the chicks use the yolk sac?

Have you seen this one yet?
#20

 

[BantyChooks]

X2. I do this with staggered hatches like that. Why don't you want to move them out one at a time?
I've never put feed or water in the incubator. I think putting water in would be a danger to very fresh hatchlings. They're so wobbly.

@3riverschick
I'm tagging you in case you don't read back through our blabber.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

You are speaking in gibberish... I only got Firefly and yoga. I love Firefly and Serenity. I watch them both every year.

Best shows EVER

 

[jwyles]

So if you get a few more mom's to get feather extensions I'm pretty sure it won't be trendy anymore.

My two dogs and one of the cats come lay on my yoga mat as soon as I unroll it. Very helpful. Also the cat loves to claw at it like a scratching post and wrestle the foam block.

Excuse me Pirate... I'm a cool mom, okay???

 

[BantyChooks]

So I just read something along the lines of some chicks have a black comb until they reach puberty so I guess this will probably be the case here. Hope so. I'd just never seen a back comb before. OH & sorry everyone for the gross nail shot. I go through off & on stages of biting my nails (a habit I've fought since childhood). Usually when I've got too much time in my hands.

My australorps all had black combs as babies.