5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[ESofVA]

Threw out all but one of mine yesterday I always open the ones I toss to see if there was any development at all and there was absolutely none! Oh well....
I was trying to collect the eggs for incubating that did not belong to the red sex-links or cherry eggers and 2 of the sex-linked hens are his favorite. I can generally tell which eggs belong to 3 of my hens by color. Guess those hens got left out!

My hubby knew that I loved chickens and when we built a house and moved he put a small pen and coop kit together for me. Not that he liked chickens, but for me. Then there was a larger pen, another small coop and a small open front shed. For Christmas, but built a month earlier, he added another smaller pen for my bantams! He doesn't particularly like having chicks in the guest bathroom or in the garage (of course it is too full of tools and things to hold a car, even though we put in 3 outbuildings for those things!) but he doesn't grumble too much. The only thing he really says is "when is this going to stop??!!!"
He has been thawing the waterers lately in the ams and this am he even fed the outdoor chickens!!!!! He does the horses in the am and does it all at the same time.
He is for sure a keeper!

 

[SilkieSensation]

For some reason my phone only gave me 1/2 the photo, but here are 7 of the bakers dozen! :yiipchick e They took a break for awhile, but we have 3 more zipping and a few others pipped. One is a BCM (shipped) with a detached and saddle cell...and it externally pipped 1/2 way down the shell, an inch from the line we drew. We put it with the pip up so it can breath (it was bubbling with each breath with big end up). Clearly it is in the wrong position. Should we just moisten the membrane every few hours and see what happens?

I typically assist wrong end pippers after a few hours. Once the membrane begins to turn clear from the blood leaving the veins I take my fingernail & gently zip the egg ariynd from the pip. I give them a couple hours to push out then assist further if needed. Often they are so fat they can't tuurn but occasionally they have a deformity that prevents them from hatching.

 

[ESofVA]

Questions:

One of my hens laid these eggs. What is the cause of the lines and wrinkles? They are not cracked.


Egg One...



Egg Two...

Hens that have had Infectious Bronchitis lay eggs with wrinkles. It permanently damages their reproductive organs. Have any of your hens ever had it?

 

[Gardeningmama]

Happy Lockdown Day!!!

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[msladyhawke]

Good morning everyone! What is today?! LOCKDOWN DAY!!!
:yiipchick

 

[GAGE]

I plan to lock mine down at 9:00 tonight. I have been up making last minute changes on the brooder, and should have it ready to go shortly. It has been almost two years since my last hatch, so I am a little nervous, but the genesis has been running good, so nothing more that I can do, but hope for the best. Good luck everyone!

 

[ESofVA]

LOL, I have washed cloth diapers for NINE years and counting, as the youngest is still not out of diapers, and it does appear that I'm miraculously 9 weeks pregnant again, after four miscarriages and some weird hormonal issues that made the doctors and my midwife say I would never have another baby, so if this one makes it, I have at least 2 more years of cloth diapers.....

This OT, but I lost my 1st and 3rd due to hormonal problems. After the 1st loss, my Dr gave me injections of progesterone once a week and I carried my son to term. Then the 2nd loss after Dr hoping I would be able to carry it since I had now had one baby. I started having problems at 2 months, started the injections, and after a month of total bed rest, I lost it too. Then my Dr. told me I would never be able to carry a baby w/o the additional progesterone as my body just didn't produce enough to keep the placenta attached. After that, no more losses and 2 more healthy children, but I did have to start the progesterone in the 1st month. Of course this was in the late 70's and early 80's....just a thought and it might be worth asking your Dr. about. Of course I don't know what your hormonal issues were. I now have 3 healthy adult children and 4 grandchildren thanks to my Dr. He is/was? a very good one and after being one of his very 1st patients and continuing for ~35 years until we moved, we were more like friends. I would make my appts the last of the day and we would sit in his office and chat about our families or whatever. His nurse told me once that they were so glad when I came because my joking with him always picked him up. Don't get me wrong, it was always patient/Dr, but we would have liked to go to lunch sometime just as friends but everyone in town would have made something more out of it. I still count him as a VIP in my life...after all, he gave me my 3 children and 4 grandchildren!!!

 

[chickengirl1193]

eta: my lock down. gonna let it run today to see if humidity needs adjusting. then it's hands off...

 

[BoereMeisie]

Out of 12 eggs set, 4 were infertile and only 1 developed a blood ring throughout the first 18 days.

Going into lockdown are 4 RIR eggs (might be pure RIR babies or RIR x Silkie) and 3 Red Sex Link eggs with a Silkie Roo daddy

I made 2 separate chicken wire baskets for the 2 separate types of eggs to hatch in so I can distinguish between the chick breeds

I am very egg-cited for New Years Day to come along!!!

 

[LemonMeringue]

Out of 12 eggs set, 4 were infertile and only 1 developed a blood ring throughout the first 18 days.

Going into lockdown are 4 RIR eggs (might be pure RIR babies or RIR x Silkie) and 3 Red Sex Link eggs with a Silkie Roo daddy

I made 2 separate chicken wire baskets for the 2 separate types of eggs to hatch in so I can distinguish between the chick breeds

I am very egg-cited for New Years Day to come along!!!

It will be neat to see what the RSL with the Silkie roo turns out to be like. Just for kicks I stuck a RSLxSilkie roo egg into our incubator too. It looks to be fertile so.......hope its a cutie!