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[patyrdz]

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The are ringneck pheasants. I can't believe how many are hatching! So far 20 I think!! Some of them are not the same color, so I am going to do some research to see what kind the others are. I found out that ringnecks come in different colors too!! The ones I am not sure of are a darker brown with white in the tips of their wings.

Awww I bet the rabbits are cute! I only have one rabbit, and it is a lop! She is very cute and doesn't have a name either!LOL

 

[Opa]

Slight temperature variations can result in a hatch being earlier or later than you plan. I have BCMs and welsummers in an incubator right now that are due on Monday. It wouldn't break my heart if they show up early.

 

[patyrdz]

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I thought about that too! I was thinking that the guineas too 26-28 days, but they don't! It's more like 24-25 days. My hatches are still a day or two early, but thats ok. Just when they are too early, I don't raise the humidity and they can ger stuck in the turner. Which that is what happened this time. With my little bators I can get to them before they get stuck, but with the cabinet bator it is rough. The turner moves very fast when it turns back, and the chicks get stuck between the turner and the incubator wall. They can get crushed. I have caught them before they die so far!

The ringnecks are still hatching!! And my step-son just found 23 guinea eggs!! YAY!! We have to pick them up as soon as we find the nest, because if we don't get them, something else will!!

 

[ibpboo]

Found some eggs? Are they wild eggs?

 

[patyrdz]

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Oh no, my guineas LOVE to hide their nests!! So we have to find it before the coons, foxes or snakes do!! They will not lay in that spot anymore so we will have to find it again!! The only reason we found this one was because my step-son was using the weed eater around some trees on the edge of the property. He uncovered a whole pile of them!

Usually it is only about 5 or 6!!

 

[ibpboo]

I have a game hen that hides eggs. One time I couldn't find her for about two weeks. I thought maybe she had moved on, since she just came and started living with me on her own. But, yep one day when moving stuff out of the tall grass to weed eat, there she was!! Then she moved into the tack room, and it took me awhile to find her again. Now she has her nest way under the barn, where I can not get to her. Poor thing, I have no rooster so the eggs will never hatch. She has been here for 1 1/2 years now, and keeps going broody, then gives up after about 3 months, then starts all over again.

Will you put all those eggs in the bator?

 

[patyrdz]

Yep, going in the bator as soon as I have room!

I read your post as saying that she had been under the barn for 1.5 years!!

Had to re read it!!! I have issues!

 

[Punk-Rock_Chicken]

WOW! 1058 POSTS!!! COOL! Lets keep it going!

 

[patyrdz]

That's cause we rock!!

What can I say??? I'm a nerd!!

 

[Opa]

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and ya'll are nice to old guys too