California - Northern

[sewandgrow]

What? A show ! Is it radio or can you stream it?
Yes - and I'm due that weekend:-( and . If the baby is early maybe I'll scram down there lol!

And we would love to have you too.

 

[sewandgrow]

Well........I think all the chicks that are going to hatch have done so. I still have the 4 Marans eggs, 3 Mottled AM and 2 OE in there. I candled them and they all look like they developed pretty far and then stopped for some reason. Some I can even see where the look like they filled the egg and pushed up a bit on the aircell, but none have internally pipped and none are moving or making any sound. I will leave them a couple of days more and remove them just to be sure, but I think my final count will be 12 of 33 eggs. Not a very good rate but all were shipped eggs. Now that I have the Brinsea hopefully the rate will go up in the next clutch. I have some from a friends hens in there now on day 8.

Even with the Brinsea & humidity module I found that shipped eggs were a disappointment. I never got the hatch I had hoped for but for the sake of getting some nice birds from good stock I hatched shipped eggs a lot in the beginning. I am not sorry to have done that but hand delivered eggs from my own chicken lovin' friends or my own chickens do so much better, I do hope some of you coming to the party in May will bring hatching eggs though. I have a mental list going......LOL

 

[sewandgrow]

hello!

my mystery of the day was finding a brand-new-to-laying pullet egg in one of the nest boxes, a nice medium-brown one -- but none of the girls in that pen should be laying medium-brown eggs. the pullet that's the oldest of the bunch (5.5 months) is a splash isbar, so ought to lay a minty-green egg (she hatched from one) -- the others are probably too young to lay yet anyway (4 months old), and are another isbar, a black marans, and two cream legbars (green, dark brown, and blue eggs respectively).

it's a mystery.

It seems early for a Marans, but maybe.................... If so maybe her ink jets aren't in full gear yet. Lucky you my Marans took forever to lay compared to other breeds.

 

[sewandgrow]

More ducklings!


-Kathy

How exciting for you Kathy..............Way to go.!!!!!!

 

[Audio51]

Quote: It is sometimes the only way to get some breeds so worth the risk sometimes. As long as I get some out of them it is not a total loss. We don't have a lot of breeders in my area that I know of either so I don't have a lot of resources for hatching eggs. I did bring some of the chicks back inside though. It has rained so much an has been so cold the broodies were not rally taking them out for food/water. I have checked them several times today and found some looking weak and one rolled over on it's back, not under the hens. It was not worth risking losing them so I moved 7 of the 12 back inside into a brooder with food/water. Most of them were drinking like they have not had any water since hatch, so I think it was a wise move. I may bring more in later depending on how they are doing in an hour or so. I would like to NOT have to bring them all in since I don't want to risk the broodie's not taking them back, but I won't risk their lives. If I have to brood them inside, then so be it.

 

[Audio51]

Quote: My 4 Marans didn't start laying until they were about 8 months old, but the last few months before they started were winter, so I wasn't sure if that was a factor.

 

[sewandgrow]

here is a few pictures of the crele olive egger project I think I may have 2 and 2 but may be incorrect. they need to fluff up a bit more

Darn............I hate it when I can't tell who's who???.......LOL

 

[Audio51]

Quote: I haven't tried the salt thing yet...I meant to but it said it took like 7 hours. I was in lockdown at that point so didn't want to have nothing in the 'bator that long. I tried putting out on the back porch and comparing it to weather web site Ron suggested and it was waaaay low compared to that...like 40 degrees. Then I tried it in the brinsea and it was only about 20 degrees different. So I don't know what to think with it. The unhatched eggs all look like they developed but died pretty far along. Would that happen if it was shipping issues?

 

[chrissyr]

Ok, Almost 5 out. Helped 3 cause they were turned around. 1 wrong end, 2 wrong side of cell.

I think they were turned around so bad because i quit turning on day 3 and not 4. Got that mixed up.

The last one didn't even externally pip until today, now he's half unzipped.

I'm tired, up all night. And I look about as well as I feel.

Oh @ronott1 - do ducks do well under the EcoGlow Brooder? Looks tricky to raise up from the first level. I'd think they'd need the second one.

 

[ronott1]

Ok, Almost 5 out. Helped 3 cause they were turned around. 1 wrong end, 2 wrong side of cell.

I think they were turned around so bad because i quit turning on day 3 and not 4. Got that mixed up.

The last one didn't even externally pip until today, now he's half unzipped.

I'm tired, up all night. And I look about as well as I feel.

Oh @ronott1 - do ducks do well under the EcoGlow Brooder? Looks tricky to raise up from the first level. I'd think they'd need the second one.

I did not keep them that long--about a week but they did fine under the eco glow.