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[Hangtown Farms]

just found a dead jubillee orp chick in my brooder at two and a half weeks old. I'm really surprised. so sudden, hadn't noticed anything with any of them in the last week or so. gonna take preventative measures anyway...

ouch sorry about that. they are so pricy too

 

[MonsterClucker]

Just wanted to update on the hatch. Well 6 of the 14 eggs have completed their hatch. No other eggs have pips in them. The first one hatched last night somewhere around 11pm and the last hatched about 5pm today. They look nothing like Rhode Island Reds. I guess they look Like their daddy (Dorking/Americuana) Here some pics before the last egg hatched. Sorry the pics are Soo blurry the window on the incubator was a little foggy. I'll get better ones when they come out of the bator. Hey Jeff, sorry to hear about the little jubilee chickie. I pulled a stomped out chick from the brooder this morning. One of my buff brahmas. It was a chick who was fighting pasty butt and was a little slower than the rest. I'm building a separate "medical" brooder for any weaker chicks I might notice. But anytime you need my help, I'm right down the road. Anytime! Hey Ron, you said the chicks from Drae' should be green? I might want to keep a few of them and grow them out if they will.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Thanks Ron - Sunnydawn, want to weigh in here?! (I'll also check the Brinsea site)

Yep I do staggered hatches all the time in my Brinsea. I did need to add the auto pump to keep the RH levels up for hatching but have had many successful hatches that were staggered in it. My Brinsea is the same model as yours. 3 days of higher humidity will not hurt the other eggs especially if you keep your RH levels around 30% (called dry hatching) the rest of the time.

PM me if you have more questions. My internet connection at the new house is very weak so I am not on that often, so I am limiting the threads I check in on these days.

Good luck!

 

[ronott1]

Just wanted to update on the hatch. Well 6 of the 14 eggs have completed their hatch. No other eggs have pips in them. The first one hatched last night somewhere around 11pm and the last hatched about 5pm today.

They look nothing like Rhode Island Reds. I guess they look Like their daddy (Dorking/Americuana)
Here some pics before the last egg hatched.











Sorry the pics are Soo blurry the window on the incubator was a little foggy. I'll get better ones when they come out of the bator.

Hey Jeff, sorry to hear about the little jubilee chickie. I pulled a stomped out chick from the brooder this morning. One of my buff brahmas. It was a chick who was fighting pasty butt and was a little slower than the rest. I'm building a separate "medical" brooder for any weaker chicks I might notice.
But anytime you need my help, I'm right down the road. Anytime!

Hey Ron, you said the chicks from Drae' should be green? I might want to keep a few of them and grow them out if they will.

Hi Mike and congratulations on the hatch!

The chicks will look like a mix of things. Colors would be from light brown to black and grey. They should have muffs like EEs and some of them should have five toes like a Dorkng. They should be a very hardy group of EEs. One of them I see looks a bit like a new Hampshire. One of the others has the EE stripes. You will have a mix of leg colors too.

They should lay green eggs because the blue shell gene is dominant and then the RRs have a brown over coat. The eggs should be anywhere from a light green to a mossy color. Some might be brown and some might be pink. You never know, you might even get some of those plum to purple ones.

Drae's sister should lay her first egg any day now and I am really anxious to see what color it is!

Bye,

Ron

 

[ronott1]

I got a pullet egg from one of my young silkies today Pretty! its sooo small. She has been sitting in one of the baby broody coops for days and all the other hens decided she must have a great idea and have been kicking her out. and finally this convinced her to lay! If she starts to sit on all those eggs instead of laying I may have to do something drastic, lol.

Pretty got her name because everyone who came to buy chicks from me tried to buy her instead "OOOHH SHE IS SOO PRETTYYY!" She was supposed to be sachis girl, rip little sachi.

Lot one more tiny showgirl today but everyone else seems to be fine, think we beat it. Yay for drugs!

Sorry the show girl did not make it.

Congratulations on the new egg layer!

Good and bad but better since the others are recovering!

just found a dead jubillee orp chick in my brooder at two and a half weeks old. I'm really surprised. so sudden, hadn't noticed anything with any of them in the last week or so. gonna take preventative measures anyway...

Sorry about the dead one. Was it Cocci?

Are you guys sending them in for a necropsy? It make me feel like I am a good citizen when I send one in. It also helps me to know what the general health of my flock is.

Ron

 

[Hangtown Farms]

looks like so far most of my eggs are developing. on day 10 and 11

 

[debs_flock]

I'm not really sure. Eating off the heads and leaving the rest of the bird is pretty consistent with a skunk, but you'd think there would be some residual odor with that much activity. Two birds killed. The head chewed off one and left lying there by the body in the middle of the pen. The second, the head removed and eaten, the comb lying there by the body. The body was pulled up to the wire, one wing pulled through the fence, but obviously they couldn't get the bird through, so they gave up and left. A third bird had a few injuries around the head and neck, but otherwise unhurt. Although I felt bad, when I went into the pen that bird came and stood next to me. The fourth bird was untouched. All four birds had been moved into that pen the day it all happened.

I had a trap ordered within hours of finding them. It should be here before Friday, last night everyone was okay.

Quote: The pen is made of cyclone panels, 8 x 22 feet. There is 2 x 2 wire 4 feet up all around the bottom. The pen is 6 feet tall. The top is totally covered by 2 x 2 inch wire. The only place they could have entered is around the upper corner where the panels come together. There's at most a 4 x 4 gap because the panels are rounded in the corners.

 

[Meg2000000]

I've done fertility testing on most of my hens and I do make it a point to see how well the roos perform too.
There is a facility here in town where you can bring your eggs for fertility testing, not sure about how the test is performed exactly. I just know somebody who's had it done is all. I usually do what Ron said and throw some in the incubator. I have such a varied flock I can usually tell who's laying what egg, or in the case of the sexlinks and FBCM's either one of the two laid an egg.

Wow that's pretty cool to have that available! If I can't do it the way Ron said I may need that places info!

Thank you!!

I couldn't resist... show n' tell time.

Awwww so cute!

We are Number 5 for today and for the last 7 days. We are number 6 for the last 30 days:

Awesome! I'm glad you guys are my main thread!

It has moved south towards Manton. My Mom's place is at the northern edge so is safe unless the fire heads back north. The report I read said they will know where it is headed in the next 24 hours(They do not know I guess). There is a big push right now to get more containment before midnight. The houses that have burnt down are by Manton.

Whew...

Ron

Phew. Hopefully it stays away!

The look so good!

I might have some hatching this weekend. It's a test hatch and the eggs are very small. Three were developing at last candling. They go into lockdown tomorrow.

Ron

Congrats Ron!! Can't wait to see new baby pics!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I'm not really sure. Eating off the heads and leaving the rest of the bird is pretty consistent with a skunk, but you'd think there would be some residual odor with that much activity. Two birds killed. The head chewed off one and left lying there by the body in the middle of the pen. The second, the head removed and eaten, the comb lying there by the body. The body was pulled up to the wire, one wing pulled through the fence, but obviously they couldn't get the bird through, so they gave up and left. A third bird had a few injuries around the head and neck, but otherwise unhurt. Although I felt bad, when I went into the pen that bird came and stood next to me. The fourth bird was untouched. All four birds had been moved into that pen the day it all happened.
I had a trap ordered within hours of finding them. It should be here before Friday, last night everyone was okay.
The pen is made of cyclone panels, 8 x 22 feet. There is 2 x 2 wire 4 feet up all around the bottom. The pen is 6 feet tall. The top is totally covered by 2 x 2 inch wire. The only place they could have entered is around the upper corner where the panels come together. There's at most a 4 x 4 gap because the panels are rounded in the corners.

I think Ron is correct. probably a Raccoon. Foxes and Bobcats usually will take the bird. I did know a guy that said he caught a bobcat taking the heads but made a huge mess of the bodies as well.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

wow, just scanned the last two days. I've been busy getting more pens separated as I have layers that need a place!! Super smokey and tons of fire engines and police crusing past my house on the 44. i heard there was a fire in palo cedro and millville. Amy, you ok? is it close to you at all? one is actually on my street but many miles away as my street stretches from redding to palo cedro.

i'm excited that my silver spangled hamburgs are laying, my blue copper marans started laying again after being relocated. my salmon faverolle is thinking about laying again after being relocated. my cream legbars are on strike as I merged two pens because I needed the space. hope they kick it into gear again tomorrow. bad girls! i just added a few pullets. come on!

mike, good to have you and your bro, i may need to take you up on your offer as I keep trying to put everyone in a place and I am just short space. Gotta keep building! i'm with you deb... when in doubt, build another pen. Jason, I'm gonna make the next batch open coops with just three sides covered and see how it goes. I also figured i could fit one more double pen in my 10 pen row to make it a 12 pen row...so another trip to depot. i'm bleeding money...someday these chickens are gonna earn their keep.

glad to see such an active thread. i know there's always help on here and i like that a lot. gonna candle tonight. getting excited about the upcoming hatch!

prayers for the firefighters. haven't heard any sirens in a while so hope that's good.

My daughter went to see my SIL on his break from the fire, he's been gone for over a week and they have two young kids. She said he's exhausted. He said with this fire, in the 24 hour shift they can barely grab their water bottle and a snack the fires so crazy. We buy wine from on of the wineries in Manton. I sure hope they're safe. You should wear a mask out working on all those pens! Stay safe everyone and if someone near the fires needs help, I'm willing to help move animals. Congratulations on all the chicks! I'm at 16 best I can tell! These two broodies are determined to hatch out every last egg! They started Wednesday and are still sitting!