California - Northern

[TheKeeper]

Serama cuteness!!!

- melted into puddle by itty bitty banties -

 

[TheKeeper]

I finally looked because of you! Lol. I want them!

Mwa-ha-ha! Chicken enabler strikes again!

 

[kmollyhughes]

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The pullets are a joy. The Boys are amazing so far too. they are big! and mine is good with the Girls. Their Dad is too and his Brother that @PetRock
has is a very good flock manager.

I hope we can get some for you this year.

Ha! Uh oh! Do you have pictures of yours? Better start planning ahead or my incubators going to run all summer. Lol!

 

[kmollyhughes]

Mwa-ha-ha! Chicken enabler strikes again! 

I'm usually the enabler...ask Chickee. But you got me this time! Lol I shouldn't have looked!

 

[liz9910]

- melted into puddle by itty bitty banties -

They are so cute seriously it's hard to stop looking at their cuteness.

 

[TheKeeper]

I'm usually the enabler...ask Chickee. But you got me this time! Lol I shouldn't have looked!

I know! Me too.

 

[lizanne]

Tell me more about the Orp hatch?

It could be poor genetics and if so the best thing to do is to find a new Rooster. The new genetics may well fix it all.

So other breeds hatch fine for you?

I can be very stubborn. It took me a lot of hatches to get Penedesencas.

I had both Silkies and Orps that made it past 19 days, then didn't pip and died. I'm starting to think it might be the fan I installed on my Hovabator (1602-N). I didn't have these hatching issues before I put the fan in. I'm wondering if it might be to strong. It is a computer cooling fan, that I got to build a cooler-bator. All of the late-death ones had at least some absorbed yolk, and most were mal-positioned. I turned them using the book under the bator method, instead of fully hand rolling. I think they are getting enough oxygen because the fan is positioned right under the air vents on top. Maybe I'll take the fan out, and just try still-air next time.

 

[ronott1]

Ha! Uh oh! Do you have pictures of yours? Better start planning ahead or my incubators going to run all summer. Lol!

one of the pullets is my Avatar picture.

The Parent flock:





Just Hatched:



A bit older



Older still



Juvenal cockerel



Day she laid her first egg

 

[ronott1]

I had both Silkies and Orps that made it past 19 days, then didn't pip and died. I'm starting to think it might be the fan I installed on my Hovabator (1602-N). I didn't have these hatching issues before I put the fan in. I'm wondering if it might be to strong. It is a computer cooling fan, that I got to build a cooler-bator. All of the late-death ones had at least some absorbed yolk, and most were mal-positioned. I turned them using the book under the bator method, instead of fully hand rolling. I think they are getting enough oxygen because the fan is positioned right under the air vents on top. Maybe I'll take the fan out, and just try still-air next time.

It is a bit different using a fan incubator. It takes a different technique.

It the1602 a wafer incubator?

The symptoms are consistent with temps too low.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

My second hatch, that is in my old style Genesis 1588, is starting to pip.

This is the evening of day 20. I have 7 golden cuckoo Marans, 9 W/BW Ameraucana and 11 d'Anver eggs in it.

Ooooo, can't wait for pictures!