4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[gabrielle1976]

Southland organics cutest chick contest : Entry

Baby poof

 

[crazypetlady]

Okay everyone, I know I should ask this in the Emergency thread, but it takes forever to get answer. When I went out this morning to let everyone out of the coop and feed. I noticed a lot of blood on the ground. (don't know if it was there last night, old man locked up birds and he just isn't observant, I checked every hen out there, especially the ones right over it, no one had blood on them. I thought well maybe they killed a mouse, well while feeding I noticed blood again on the ground. NO ONE acts like they could have lost that much blood without dying. So what could it be and how can I find out who it is, if all are acting normal and upon physical inspection of all birds no blood was seen. What could it be?

Do chickens have "blood feathers" like parrots do? When one of those break there is so much blood around it looks like something died.

 

[PerfectPoultry]

Yea, my amaraucana bleeds like someone cut her head off if she breaks one of her stomach feathers

 

[Countrypunk92]

I cannot for the life of me keep up. Lol

 

[Selah]

Oh my goodness, I am so excited!!! Managed at the last minute to find some local silkie eggs to add to my homebred BO/Production Red sex-link eggs for the Hatch-a-thon! Thanks to BYC and WVstruttin

 

[janelle18]

These are pictures of my eggs to show what i mean by porous, maybe no one knows

It is most evident in my dorking eggs (poster) and my icelandic's which have the lightest coloured shells. My bator will be full by tomo but I don't want to put in bad eggs. Should i put them im anyways.

 

[cluck-cluck]

I am so frustrated, between my husband turning on the heater for the house last night and my thermometer being weird... I have way to much fluctuation in temperature to make me happy. I need to get this down by Tuesday because after the eggs are in, the most I want to "interfere" is with a blanket on top if it should suddenly get really cold. Ugh!

I missed something, what's with the egg pictures, Janelle? You do have a lovely blue there, pretty!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Yikes!! I had to read 20++ pages to catch up with all the chatting!

Cold weather has struck here. Today's high is 40 something F, tonight there is a 30% chance of snow, and the temperature is supposed to be 21 degrees!!! Buurrrr!! My ducks usually sleep in a run at night time, as we haven't started on their coop(s) yet. Hmmmmm...trying to figure out where on earth I'm going to put them all! Ack!

~ Aspen

 

[janelle18]

I am so frustrated, between my husband turning on the heater for the house last night and my thermometer being weird... I have way to much fluctuation in temperature to make me happy. I need to get this down by Tuesday because after the eggs are in, the most I want to "interfere" is with a blanket on top if it should suddenly get really cold. Ugh!

I missed something, what's with the egg pictures, Janelle? You do have a lovely blue there, pretty!

I asked a couple pages earlier about how some of my eggs appeared porous after sitting for a day or two and wondered what people had to say about their hatch-a-bility. Blarneyeggs, posted a page back also asking but no one has said anything. So i was providing pictures to help people understand what I was saying.

And yes my lovely EE eggs, but since i only have ONE laying since they take FOREVER to start i only have 3 EE eggs to set!

 

[gabrielle1976]

These are pictures of my eggs to show what i mean by porous, maybe no one knows
It is most evident in my dorking eggs (poster) and my icelandic's which have the lightest coloured shells. My bator will be full by tomo but I don't want to put in bad eggs. Should i put them im anyways.

Why do your eggs look upside down , its sapose to be Fat end up right ?

You can try to hatch pourous eggs , especally if you dont have the luxery of hens laying all the time so you can pick and choose perfect eggs to set, they are more vunberble to bactiria , humidity and temp issues but I have had some hatch ok . If they are from your hens I suggest getting them some calcium to eat like clean dried and crushed egg shells ect so they can pick and choose how much to eat. Im sure anothr expert wll have an idea.