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

[AK FLOCK SWAP]

Lockdown day 2 for me. I stood in front of the incubator and chirped then listened and no answers yet. My mom taught me this trick. When the babies are internally pipped they will answer back.

I do the same thing,,,heck i even do a little cluck ,cluck...It works,,It truly does,,,,

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I processed 4 roosters yesterday. I put it off till I ran out of light so couldn't do the 5th. It won't be above freezing again till NYD. So I have a couple days to decide who gets it.
That will let me move the rest out of the brooder house and get it cleaned up in time for chicks coming out of the hatcher.
It seems like I do everything right under the wire.
Why do I have less time for chores retired than when I worked 7 twelves a week?

 

[AK FLOCK SWAP]

they are at the egg farm in a breeding pen. They have not fired up yet--Lights did not get turned on for them soon enough. I will be hatching eggs from them soon I hope.

I need to get a report on them today.

I sure you have a list a mile long,,I would be interested in some eggs down the road,,Once you get rolling,, possible,,,?

 

[chickengirl1193]

[quot name="ChickenCanoe" url="/t/835798/5th-annual-byc-new-years-day-2014-hatch-a-long/5790#post_12551285"]here's some related info.
http://www.pasreform.com/academy/fr...the-effects-of-setting-eggs-small-end-up.html

True, I haven't had IB but I did have a hen that laid check eggs. Not all the time but perhaps a couple a month. It was like the egg was split in half and glued together. They break in the shell gland and reseal.
I have another that lays an egg  with the small end bent like one of those candle lamps. I never incubate those eggs.

Patience is a virtue. AND I WANT IT NOW>

I think that's inevitable with eggs from different sources and flocks.
If each setting is from the same flock and breed and stored comparably, the hatching window will be smaller.


As others have said, check for egg binding. The vent will pulse also.
If she's 6 months and you've had her 2 or 3 months and she's been on layer feed the whole time, that may be her problem.
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okay thanks! ill see what happens later and take it from.there

 

[ronott1]

right now, 62%......temp at 98.....put them in lockdown a bit earlier. now everything is just catching up because I had the lid off while placing the eggs.

Perfect!

 

[ronott1]

I sure you have a list a mile long,,I would be interested in some eggs down the road,,Once you get rolling,, possible,,,?

Yes, I do have a list!

I will add you to it.

 

[Whoops]

Lockdown day 2 for me. I stood in front of the incubator and chirped then listened and no answers yet. My mom taught me this trick. When the babies are internally pipped they will answer back.

He he - something else for me to obsessively do these eternal lockdown days! The cat seems very obsessed with the guest bedroom where the incubator is. She is hanging out by the door and even slept by the door. I thought it was a good sign, but then realized, she's a cat. It's verbotten. Of course she's obsessed.

Really hope I get some chickies. I found a nice big tote yesterday at Lowes (yay, managed to avoid the Evil Empire) set it up in the house and loaded it with sand. The bag of sand had been in the back of my pickup truck and the bag tore. I didn't want to use a bucket, because I use those for cleaning and I didn't want to get cleaning chemicals in the sand for the new chicks. All I found was a relatively small glass casserole dish. So, last night, I was trundling back and forth with a casserole dish, filling it with sand and carrying it inside. Some days, I wish I were one of my neighbors. It must be very entertaining speculating on what on earth I am doing.

C'mon chickies!

 

[AK FLOCK SWAP]

Yes, I do have a list!

I will add you to it.

Thank you sir,,,,

 

[insanity]

4 mutt eggs on lock-down with 2 more to follow in the next day or 2( late bloomers). I'm curios to see what I get from splash bantam x barred rock.

 

[Penny Hen]

im not sure if you guys will be able to help but one of my chickens is acting weird today. while the others are out foraging she just keeps walking in and out of the goat housemaking a lot of noise. and she also keeps going on top of the piles of hay I have out for the goats and making a nest between the corner and the hay but then she leaves right away looking at the ceiling making a bunch of noise. she seems okay other than the fact she's running around making so much noise. this chicken always seems a little morestressedthan the rest of them but today especially so.

I bet she wants to go broody. Wants a nest but wants a box up high away from the other animals. Put a box with some hay in it in a raised position somewhere in the shed and see if she doesn't settle in.