2014 breeding season begins, post your results

[casportpony]

Quote: Congrats on the pips and sorry about the rain, I'm sure do know how hard it is to muck out stalls and pens!

-Kathy

 

[KsKingBee]

I'm still trying to figure out why I ever got guineas! Other than occasional comic relief they do not seem to serve any purpose here, and they are biters. I would rather catch my wildest male pea barehanded than have to grab one of those guineas. One of them was attacked by something 3 years ago and it tore all the feathers out of his back, I had to catch him to assess the damage. There were no major punctures or lacerations and I applied Triple antibiotic and let him go, but I had blood blisters on both hands as my reward for good pet stewardship. Halfway thru the wound care I wanted to twist his little pinhead off myself!

Guinea and noodles isn't too bad if you like dark meat.

 

[margaret8]

Guinea and noodles isn't too bad if you like dark meat. 

They do an excelant

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I love dark meat!

-Kathy

 

[margaret8]

They do an excelant

Let's try this again, they do an excellent job of getting rid of bugs!

 

[DylansMom]

Guinea and noodles huh? There's a purpose I never really considered.

Seriously though, my son and I just had Pea Dippy eggs for dinner, we had 2 that got away from us and were a bit too old for hatching. Still haven't been able to convince my DH that it's okay to eat them, and he's the one that grew up on a farm. Well I am beat from mucking out my flooded barn pens, but I wanted to post pics for anyone who would like to vicariously hatch along with us.

Day 26 and I think we have 7 internal pips now and 2 external ones, the spalding is on the left and the big pip on the right is a Pied/Silver Pied egg, so a surprise chick

. Another one has been hollering since this morning, but hasn't broken thru yet.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Got a phone call at 4:35 a.m. Sunday from our Rural Electric cooperative tellling me my power had been restored and to verify. I confirmed it was indeed on but then asked if it had been down,operator said since about 10:45 p.m. Saturday eve we had been without power. I quickly went to the garage,noticed everything was running but the temp inside the hatcher was down to 64 degrees and the incubator was down to 86 degrees. I had 6-7 peachicks that hatched on Saturday,they was still inside the hatcher. The ones that had hatched early and was fluffed off was doing fine but I had 2 eggs that was zipped with little movement. Also several eggs that had not done anything. This hatch was rough. I was so tempted last night to shut the hatcher off until this coming weekend for the next batch due but looked at my fogger water level and decided to leave it on last night,mainly because there was still about 15 eggs that I was hoping might do anything-something. This morning I checked before work and an IB chick had zipped but was not yet out. Tonight I came home to find that chick flluffy and a bssp chick was out and looking fine. Today is day 30 now on some that just hatched. Undoubtedly the cold temp Sunday morning set some back,and now I have several curled toes to deal with as well as one IB chick that has extended forward legs.
Both eggs that was good from my 2yr old "who's your daddy" pen hatched and one has crooked toes,got one pretty straight now but will need to work on the other one. I guess you should give them extra time in cases such as temp drop,ect like this and it does still result in some hatches. I have little hope now of any of the last 15 or so that are left will hatch but I'm very suprised the fight some of these made from being so cold. I might take a picture of the worst IB chick,and then show the end results for those who don't know what taping and wrapping can do.

 

[zazouse]

Got a phone call at 4:35 a.m. Sunday from our Rural Electric cooperative tellling me my power had been restored and to verify. I confirmed it was indeed on but then asked if it had been down,operator said since about 10:45 p.m. Saturday eve we had been without power. I quickly went to the garage,noticed everything was running but the temp inside the hatcher was down to 64 degrees and the incubator was down to 86 degrees. I had 6-7 peachicks that hatched on Saturday,they was still inside the hatcher. The ones that had hatched early and was fluffed off was doing fine but I had 2 eggs that was zipped with little movement. Also several eggs that had not done anything. This hatch was rough. I was so tempted last night to shut the hatcher off until this coming weekend for the next batch due but looked at my fogger water level and decided to leave it on last night,mainly because there was still about 15 eggs that I was hoping might do anything-something. This morning I checked before work and an IB chick had zipped but was not yet out. Tonight I came home to find that chick flluffy and a bssp chick was out and looking fine. Today is day 30 now on some that just hatched. Undoubtedly the cold temp Sunday morning set some back,and now I have several curled toes to deal with as well as one IB chick that has extended forward legs.
Both eggs that was good from my 2yr old "who's your daddy" pen hatched and one has crooked toes,got one pretty straight now but will need to work on the other one. I guess you should give them extra time in cases such as temp drop,ect like this and it does still result in some hatches. I have little hope now of any of the last 15 or so that are left will hatch but I'm very suprised the fight some of these made from being so cold. I might take a picture of the worst IB chick,and then show the end results for those who don't know what taping and wrapping can do.

It gets that cold over there still? our nighs have been a cool 85 they stay in the high nineties around August , i hate the heat, love all the other season even winter, course it don't get realo cold and stay that way unless we have a freak ice storm which can last a week or more when they stall.

Sending prayers and hatching vibes your way

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Zaz, we were in a cool spell here over the weekend,actually today it didn't reach 70,,rainy and gloomy all day. In July-August we have hot nights here but now it gets down in the 60's at night easily. I'm hoping it didn't ruin my next 3 weeks of hatches inside the incubator. Had 3 bssp hatch this batch outta 5 eggs. 4 were viable and moving when I moved to the hatcher,one looked not promising. Two of these bssp chicks looks yellow,one once again looks IB sorta,maybe outta the peach hen again.

 

[casportpony]

Got a phone call at 4:35 a.m. Sunday from our Rural Electric cooperative tellling me my power had been restored and to verify. I confirmed it was indeed on but then asked if it had been down,operator said since about 10:45 p.m. Saturday eve we had been without power. I quickly went to the garage,noticed everything was running but the temp inside the hatcher was down to 64 degrees and the incubator was down to 86 degrees. I had 6-7 peachicks that hatched on Saturday,they was still inside the hatcher. The ones that had hatched early and was fluffed off was doing fine but I had 2 eggs that was zipped with little movement. Also several eggs that had not done anything. This hatch was rough. I was so tempted last night to shut the hatcher off until this coming weekend for the next batch due but looked at my fogger water level and decided to leave it on last night,mainly because there was still about 15 eggs that I was hoping might do anything-something. This morning I checked before work and an IB chick had zipped but was not yet out. Tonight I came home to find that chick flluffy and a bssp chick was out and looking fine. Today is day 30 now on some that just hatched. Undoubtedly the cold temp Sunday morning set some back,and now I have several curled toes to deal with as well as one IB chick that has extended forward legs.
Both eggs that was good from my 2yr old "who's your daddy" pen hatched and one has crooked toes,got one pretty straight now but will need to work on the other one. I guess you should give them extra time in cases such as temp drop,ect like this and it does still result in some hatches. I have little hope now of any of the last 15 or so that are left will hatch but I'm very suprised the fight some of these made from being so cold. I might take a picture of the worst IB chick,and then show the end results for those who don't know what taping and wrapping can do.

Sorry you're having such a tuff hatch! As for pictures, please do take some... I know how beneficial it is, but haven't seen too many pictures of peachicks taped and hobbled. Before, during and after shots would be great!

-Kathy