August Egg Swap ~ Emails have been sent

[renegaderidgefarm]

The best way to get a hen to go broody is to leave eggs in her nest. Just seeing those eggs pile up will drive some to set. I wouldn't leave them too long. Normally, I don't let mine brood but if I do I write dates on my eggs and remove the older eggs every couple of days - always leaving about 5 eggs in her nest.

On another note . . . a friend gave me a turner full of guinea eggs!! His guinea had been setting on the eggs so I had no idea when they would hatch. He doesn't like to leave eggs in a guinea nest because his guineas will set the eggs out to hatch and once the eggs hatch the mommas run off and leave the keets. Anyway, I put the eggs in the bottom turner and just left them!! They started hatching this week . . .I have been watching them and moving them to the hatching tray when I notice them pipped. About half of them have hatched in the turner and those little stinkers love to ride the turners. Wish I had gotten a picture!! They hatch, jump out of their egg and into an open slot in the turner and then just sit there riding until I take them out. Too funny!! I look in thru the glass door and see guinea heads popping up instead of eggs!!

 

[shellz131]

chick #3 is here..this one is one of yours emvickrey!! more to come
off to find my camera

 

[emvickrey]

O goodie. Was it a brown or a green egg? The one I had that was brown didn't make it. It was my fault in the end but it wouldn't have made it because it's insides was on it's outside. I would have had to cull it anyway if it did hatch. But I pt osme more in the bator to see what they turnout to look like before I switch roos. I may want to put them together in a pen alone. Lucky Duch always has pretty babies no matter who the daddy is. She is all the roos favorite. She must be a real hottie in the chicien world.

I'll be sending updated pics of mine sometime today. I have chores to do right now and hopefully a ride to the vet to get my dog checked out.

 

[shellz131]

it was a brown egg..I am having the kids looking for the camera because it is no where to be found

a green one hatched and it was a very pretty blue color with slate legs but it did not make it..it insides were on the outside..hopefully the second egg hatches well it is a green one as well

more are expected to hatch between today and tomorrow

checked a couple of the eggs and one I saw did not develop at all ..oh well

 

[emvickrey]

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The inside out thing happened to one I hatched out too. I wonder what makes that happen. It's a first for me, well no it's not. It happened to one last year about it was different birds.

I'm working on getting some updated pics of my chicks I got. I have to use my phone's camera cause I don't have one. then send each one to my email then each one to imageshack then get the code for each one and copy and paste each one. It's a real pain. I wish we could just get them of our computers. It would same alot of time.

 

[emvickrey]

Ok, here's an update on my chicks in the order of hatch.

By emvickrey at 2010-09-10

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By emvickrey at 2010-09-10

And all of them in their cleaned house.

By emvickrey at 2010-09-10

 

[shellz131]

got 2 more piping this morning

I love my broody she is such a trooper

one more has hatched

 

[shellz131]

The second one from yesterday hatched sometime this morning when I was sleeping...I went down this morning to check and two more have pipped ...this time it is both yours emvickory and this time the big brown one is hatching..I am wondering what this one could be? hint

tragedy hit when I was in the house cleaning..just went down again and both hatched but she was no longer on the nest

one baby was cold so I brought him up it looks like a buff and the other got attacked by the other chickens so it was outside in the rain dead

I dismantled the nest and hoping the broody gets the message that her job is done

 

[emvickrey]

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Oh wow. thats too bad. So none made it? What color was the one from the brown egg? It was a production red and silkie mix.

 

[shellz131]

it is alive and doing well ..I put it in the incubator to warm it up and fluff it up..right now it is wobbling around cheeping its head off..

it is a buff yellowish color the one who did not make it was a dark color not sure what the color was to be blunt it was too wet and bloody to tell...I feel bad about it but what can you do...I think what happened was when one of the hens went up to lay an egg she knocked it out of the nest and the other chickens got it..oh well