August Hatch-A-Long

[aliciaplus3]

Came home to 2 chicks and 2 turkey poults running around in the incubator... I am toying with the idea of giving my turkey hen a few more???? Mmmmmm I have to wonder out and see how she is doing before I get excited about the thought.

 

[Kris5902]

Well, I’ve got another cup situation going on... we are now at 24 hours pipped and I’ve had to brace an egg with a cup because it kept getting flipped by chicks and was gasping and bubbling at the beak, which was fully out! There’s still quite a few veins to recede though, and it’s a very liquidy egg. The other half of the cup is protecting another slow hatcher that pipped through a vein, and also keeps getting turned pip side under.

I’ve got one external pip in the wrong end that seems to be doing fine, another pip in the middle of an egg and also through a blood vessel. Heading off for dinner in 5 minutes, praying my cup babies will be ok until I get back around 6:45-7ish pacific time. I’m hoping to get all the pips hatched out so I can move some of the rolled eggs to better places in the incubator and check them for progress...

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Came home to 2 chicks and 2 turkey poults running around in the incubator... I am toying with the idea of giving my turkey hen a few more???? Mmmmmm I have to wonder out and see how she is doing before I get excited about the thought.

I have ZERO experience with this but a friend of mine said that in her experience it's way easier to give turkeys chicks. At least in her experience they seem to more readily accept them. Let us know how it goes!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Well, I’ve got another cup situation going on... we are now at 24 hours pipped and I’ve had to brace an egg with a cup because it kept getting flipped by chicks and was gasping and bubbling at the beak, which was fully out! There’s still quite a few veins to recede though, and it’s a very liquidy egg. The other half of the cup is protecting another slow hatcher that pipped through a vein, and also keeps getting turned pip side under.

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I’ve got one external pip in the wrong end that seems to be doing fine, another pip in the middle of an egg and also through a blood vessel. Heading off for dinner in 5 minutes, praying my cup babies will be ok until I get back around 6:45-7ish pacific time. I’m hoping to get all the pips hatched out so I can move some of the rolled eggs to better places in the incubator and check them for progress...

Did you have shipped eggs this time? We've had numerous discussions on and off through the hatch-a-longs about how the shipped eggs seem to retain more fluid causing sticky chicks. Fingers crossed for your chicks!

 

[Bookworm0124]

Put the bielefelder's in lock down. Due Tuesday. I'm itching to get more eggs..... Maybe if I let hubby order some hunting pants he'll let me... Hmm....

 

[aliciaplus3]

Checked on the turkey.... she had wondered off without the baby... sigh it is a color I dont have so into the brooder it goes.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I'm itching to get more eggs..... Maybe if I let hubby order some hunting pants he'll let me... Hmm....

Checked on the turkey.... she had wondered off without the baby... sigh it is a color I dont have so into the brooder it goes.

Well so much for my friend's theory that it's easier to give turkeys chicks. Lol!

 

[aliciaplus3]

Well so much for my friend's theory that it's easier to give turkeys chicks. Lol!

Probably just the young hen thing... silly girl was almost relieved when I wondered out with the poult.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Woohoo I my other two eggs hatched. They got out with some assistance as they ended up in a bad position.

Now I have four little Black East Indie ducklings. Two are nice and dry. Other two have only recently finished kicking out.

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Oh, those are CUTE ducklings!!!! Congratulations!!!!

 

[jolenesdad]

I can’t wait to have a turkey or two.

Y’all my welsummer is crowing today. She is a girl. She did this last year about this time right before she molted.

She laid 5 eggs last year as a pullet. FIVE. And then... not her fault... was in a hawk attack. No damage but stress. So she molted as a pullet and took a break from laying. FOR SEVEN MONTHS. Her eggs this year have broken every rule. Two back to back in a day, different sizes all the time, darker later in the season because they’re back to pullet egg size, no speckles for months then speckles for dayyyyyys, lots of white banded eggs and thin shells. I think it’s all stress related she is pretty high maintenance and I switched their coop.

She is a lot of work.