Quote: We are hatch buddies! Mine are also due Saturday night!!! I'm so excited! Please post pics and we can share hatch notes!
Yeah! Have you candled yours? I did mine last night and out of 25, one was clear so I took it out, so 24 into lockdown.
Hi Ron,
Thanks for the pictures, MD posted some overhead shots of his on the EO thread. They look pinched to me from the side shots but not in the overheads.
I'm waiting for an email from Skyline about availability, I would really like to have a broody hatch them since I'm only at a 50% hatch rate in the LG.
Redriver, those barnies are just to cute!
Petrock, hope you see continued improvement with treatments. I've been so lucky with my birds.
Bigdaddysmom, best of luck with the hatch timing! I'm trying the same thing here but on the 5th of April. At least the kids are young enough not to keep you up all night.
I'm sure there is alot more I missed, everyone stay warm and dry-wind is howling here.
The seven year old LOVES to stay up until midnight! Last time he was making a big deal saying he was going to stay up until midnight and I was telling him he was not....my 4 year granddaughter looks up at me with these big, worried eyes and asks "Mimi, what's a midnight?" These kids always make me have to think how to explain something.
My Heritage Rhode Island Red (HRIR) hatching eggs from Ron Fogel are Pipping! There were two pips this morning, right on schedule according to:
http://homesteadapps.com/app/free/hatchchart/hatchturnscheentry.php
It is always exciting when the eggs hatch.....
OK, so I downloaded this hatch chart this morning and it says my chicks should have gone into lockdown yesterday and they're due on Friday!
They better not all hatch before the grandkids get here for the hatching party on Saturday night!
Today is a wet chicken day. lol Bedraggled Orps are so funny. All my chicks are in the run, damp but otherwise ok.
Broody Question:
Betty seems so have just about finished up with her chicks (maybe they are 5 weeks old now?). They seem to be on their own for the most part. She is laying eggs again. They panic at night when she hops up on to the roost and the chicks are stuck down below. We grab her off and stuff her in the broody bin with them but I am thinking we should respect what she is doing and stuff them in their broody bin and let Betty rejoin the flock? During the day they occasionally rejoin her but she doesn't really seem to look after them much. She taught them all the best hiding places and they stick together in a 10 chick group and free range together and when they see birds- they run to all the hides mama taught them. Sound about right for a free ranging broody and babies?
Yep, mom knows when she's done her job. I was surprised how many little chicks could make it up on the roost! Most of the moms will even put their wings around the ones that are close. I just let my chicks follow mom back into the coop and integrate them if they didn't hatch in the coop to begin with.
Quote: What year did he graduate? I graduated from Paradise High in '79, my husband and one sister in '76, my younger sister '81 and my brother '86. Maybe we knew him.
