California - Northern

[Audio51]

I hope Jason had some hatch. I have all but two eggs out. They are very cute!

I hope I see a Duck picture from Chrissy soon.

I did get a video of one of the Dels hatching last night.

Nice! Love your videos!

 

[PetRock]

Im in Santa Cruz which I usually refer to as "Central California"…

and the best thread on BYC!!! We live in the East SF Bay area but my hubby works for UC Santa Cruz. He lives in a very tiny studio apartment close to campus during the week and comes home to us on the weekends. We thought that we would move down there within a year of him starting the job but it has now been 6 years of this with no end in sight.

 

[Happy Chooks]

The bantam chick is moving like no tomorrow the other is moving but not as much. and the EE i jist lookked is all black inside like fully black other thrn the air cell is that good or bad?

All black is good, that's a fully formed chick.

I have 1 External Pip !!!! Come on duckies!!!

Someday I want to hatch and keep ducks.

They did fine with the fan when I hatched them.

Two did not hatch. One was dead in the shell and the other is still alive and going. I have 17 hatched out of 19

Good hatch Ron!

For me the hardest part is culling the weak ones.
I have had too cull 2 from my last hatch.
still makes me sad.

Yeah, I hate doing that too.

 

[PetRock]

I want to issue a warning to those of you who use pine shavings. I just opened a brand new extra large package that my DH picked up for me from Scott's Valley Feed and it has mold in it.

George brought it home a couple of weeks ago when it wasn't raining and immediately brought it into the house so it had to have gotten wet at the feed store or before they got it. It is such a pain to return things to that feed store when we live 2 hours away from it. DH is not into returning things to stores so will just eat the cost. The short of it is to be sure to check your pine shavings carefully at this time of year especially if using them in brooders with chicks.

 

[Audio51]

Dilemma......Last night when I went to bed there were 2 Marans chicks that had hatched. One has feathered legs...the other doesn't. There were 2 pipped egg with just a very small pip. One was an OE and the other a Mottled AM. This morning the OE is also fully out and all three look pretty fluffed. The problem is...they all look pretty much alike to me and I can;t tell the OE from the Marans. These are not great shots but I am hoping someone can tell me which is which. The one with the pin legband I am confident is a Marans...the other 2 I can't tell!

 

[chrissyr]

Dilemma......Last night when I went to bed there were 2 Marans chicks that had hatched. One has feathered legs...the other doesn't. There were 2 pipped egg with just a very small pip. One was an OE and the other a Mottled AM. This morning the OE is also fully out and all three look pretty fluffed. The problem is...they all look pretty much alike to me and I can;t tell the OE from the Marans. These are not great shots but I am hoping someone can tell me which is which. The one with the pin legband I am confident is a Marans...the other 2 I can't tell!

what kind of OE were they? my AM/Marans looked alike, but they had the AM muffs and comb. that's the only way i could tell.
Edited to add ***And the leg feathering was much more sparse.

 

[Audio51]

Quote: I just PM'd @Chickengirl1304 to ask that question. I don't see anything on any of the 3 that looks like muff. I'm gonna go look close at the combs.

 

[EZFarms]

Maybe the dying is finally over. none are weak right now and none look like they are wanting to die. we lost a total of 12 so when my mom calls cackle she may just get credit and.get another order when it gets warmer

 

[EZFarms]

Thank you audio51 and ive alwats counted anything below chico as central cali and southern cali

 

[Audio51]

Maybe the dying is finally over. none are weak right now and none look like they are wanting to die. we lost a total of 12 so when my mom calls cackle she may just get credit and.get another order when it gets warmer

That is great to hear! I hope you are right. Does that leave you any of the ones you wanted to show?