Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[A Chicken Owner]

I don't know what happened there but it's the second comment.

 

[A Chicken Owner]

Well- bad news all round tonight.
Sorry for your loss.

My two pen Barred Rock breeding program has suffered a major set back.
I came home tonight and found my "B" Team rooster lying dead in the yard.

No sign of injury, and no symptoms of illness in the last few days.

Another victim of Chicken Sudden Death syndrome.

(or the appalling weather of the last week)


xxxx   M

 

[A Chicken Owner]

Sorry for your loss.

 

[A Chicken Owner]

I don't know what's happening… stupid computer.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Some much better news for me to report this morning.. I have just got up and went to check the babies in the bator and 2 of the 3 are back to normal and the third one is at about 80% I would guess. But even better and stranger news. 2 more of the remaining eggs have hatched. I could not believe that when I looked in there this morning. I had been doing everything not good for egg hatching yesterday. I must have opened the incubator 10 times in the afternoon when I was checking on the ones I put back in there. I was sure the eggs where a gonna after the 6 hours with no heat. Guess these 2 little ones really wanted to be here. Will update with pics later once these 2 new ones have dried out.

That is GREAT news Satay! So is that a 100% hatch rate!!

 

[IamSamSam]

Well- bad news all round tonight.

My two pen Barred Rock breeding program has suffered a major set back.
I came home tonight and found my "B" Team rooster lying dead in the yard.

No sign of injury, and no symptoms of illness in the last few days.

Another victim of Chicken Sudden Death syndrome.

(or the appalling weather of the last week)


xxxx   M

I'm sorry to hear that. It's never a nice thing to happen. Fingers crossed you have a few to choose from in Mondays hatch

 

[satay]

Put 8 eggs in the bator. 7 made it to lock down 6 have now hatched one not doing anything else but have left it in there for now and 1 chick died.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

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That is still good for what happened.
Sorry about the chick, was that the one who was still a bit sick.

 

[satay]

That is still good for what happened.
Sorry about the chick, was that the one who was still a bit sick.

No that one is still going ok. Yesterday morning when I first found them one had died and three were close to it. Those 3 have hung on and 2 are looking great and one is almost back to it's best but not quite yet. Looks like 2 girls and 3 boys.

 

[Colourful]

Oh no Ash, I sorry you lost your your rooster. This weather (the sudden freezing nights with lots of rain) is bringing up any hidden health problems, I think.

And to satay, I'm very glad it worked! And you are very welcome, you can repay me with Looots of pictures

I'm in for 3 weeks of many hatches! I have two incubators (luckily) so I can pull it off.

I have due:
22nd June (this Saturday): 33 cross-bred eggs hatched because I could (and they seem to sell rather well)
25th June: 25 Quail eggs (fertility check)
3rd July: 7 Cross bred (My 12 year old cousin is staying with us for a week and she really wants to see some hatch)
6th July: 25 quail eggs (because they were getting too old to sell or send)
11th July: 19 Eggs from the Egg swap. Pinky got me some lovely RIR and Australorp eggs and Rabbit-84 send me some too.

I'm making another brooder (a third one) to keep up with this lot.

And I'm on puppy duty for the next litter so busy, busy me.