California - Northern

[CackleJoy]

Most of the issues I've had with them seem to be day 19+. I've had most with partial to full yolks absorbed, but many seem to be mal-positioned. The eggs are very big though. I'll weigh one in a little bit. At this point I have one that hatched last night (in one of the smaller Orp eggs), one is pipped, and one is rocking. -day 21 was at 9 this morning. The Orp that already hatched was the first egg to pip, and took close to a full 24 hours to hatch.

I set some giant eggs and I'm wondering about them. We shall see. I've had one pipped with the beak out for about 6 hours now. Where is the rope?

 

[CackleJoy]

Mine has just started the eye rolling stuff and I've set out to nip that in the bud! She will say that she is tired of the chickens but she is almost as excited as me when we hatch more. She always picks out one favorite chick and then wants to keep it. Chicken math starts young!

AMEN To the eye rolling and to the chicken addictions

 

[ronott1]

I set some giant eggs and I'm wondering about them. We shall see. I've had one pipped with the beak out for about 6 hours now. Where is the rope?

It will be fine!

Watch for the membrane turning brown. If so, it may be stuck.

 

[CackleJoy]

It will be fine!

Watch for the membrane turning brown. If so, it may be stuck.

Great, now I'll be hunched over the bator holding the flashlight on that egg for hours....

 

[EZFarms]

That's always a scary thing to see!  I would assume that the hurt one would have blood on her somewhere.  You might have to catch and check each one.  We had one of our girls miss the closing of the coop one night.  In the middle of the night, we heard her screaming outside our bedroom window.  I ran out and let her in the coop.  I did a quick visual but in the low light didn't see anything.  The next day, I saw a little blood on her back and upon closer examination saw that she had two deep slash marks on her back.  Vetericyn helped it heal and she is fine now & is never late into the coop.  One of my 5 week old chicks had blood all over one wing this week.  Scary!  One of his hatchmates had pulled out a tail feather and it bled like crazy.  Vetericyn with Pick no More on top of it and he is fine.  And the backyard chicken drama goes on...

could tye box of fallen on one of them? Or fell while someone was in there laying?

 

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[Audio51]

Quote: Me too! If anyone hears of any in mid-Northern CA please let us know....

 

[CackleJoy]

It will be fine!

Watch for the membrane turning brown. If so, it may be stuck.

aah!

One just pipped and it is so far down the egg that I can barely see it. It's in the carton. How long do I give it before I take it out of the carton so it can roll around? SITTING ON HANDS NOW

 

[PetRock]

Wow! That's pretty cool. I had no idea these even existed. I think I will order some in the next couple of weeks. Anything I can do to keep the neighbors happy is worth the money. Ans it would only be about $20/mo for my zip code.

Just make sure you place them where your chickens and ants can't get at them. The first month I had them, the ants carried almost all the larva away before I discovered it. Now I hang them on a shepherd's crook with sticky ant barrier stuff around the crook. I never got around to ordering them last year but the flies were not too bad here because the summer was cool. I have flies already this year so I'm definitely going to order them for this summer.

 

[Audio51]

These are the lice and mite infested birds. You can't tell until you go digging through the feathers. Yes, I am aware that I have a CLB in with the Swedes. He was a peanut packer from GF.

This one is very hard to take pictures of because she dogs my every step. She's in love with my boots.

Anyway, wanted to show that infestations don't always make themselves apparent. Plus showing off pretty birds is fun

You definitley would not know it to look at them.. Very nice looking birds!