California - Northern

[CackleJoy]

I didn't get a chance to boast about my $50 find

WOW! Good for you!

 

[CackleJoy]

Had 2 extremely stuck chicks that I helped last night. One was even stuck to the cardboard of the flat. I had to tear out the section (thank goodness it was an edge) and soak the cardboard off.

Both of those are running around doing fabulous right now!

That brought me up to 18

healthy chicks! One died (so I've had 19 hatch).

This morning I can see that 3 died last night, they pipped and partially zipped then stuck and died.

I've helped 2 this morning. One was upside down in the shell. Both had completely absorbed the yolk. They are both in the incubator right now.

There are 3 maybe 4 more in the same situation, pipped for 24+ hours and couldn't zip. Just as stuck as anything. All I'm doing in peeling the shell off the membrane and (CAREFULLY!) breaking the membrane around the stuck portion and then trying to let the chick hatch itself after that. It's a chore. If the ones I help end up healthy I will be glad I did it.

This has been a most INTERESTING hatch.

 

[ronott1]

Had 2 extremely stuck chicks that I helped last night. One was even stuck to the cardboard of the flat. I had to tear out the section (thank goodness it was an edge) and soak the cardboard off.

Both of those are running around doing fabulous right now!

That brought me up to 18

healthy chicks! One died (so I've had 19 hatch).

This morning I can see that 3 died last night, they pipped and partially zipped then stuck and died.

I've helped 2 this morning. One was upside down in the shell. Both had completely absorbed the yolk. They are both in the incubator right now.

There are 3 maybe 4 more in the same situation, pipped for 24+ hours and couldn't zip. Just as stuck as anything. All I'm doing in peeling the shell off the membrane and (CAREFULLY!) breaking the membrane around the stuck portion and then trying to let the chick hatch itself after that. It's a chore. If the ones I help end up healthy I will be glad I did it.

This has been a most INTERESTING hatch.

Interesting hatches are frustrating but we learn so much from them!

I have my first pip!

Time to get the Brooder ready

 

[PetRock]

Interesting hatches are frustrating but we learn so much from them!

I have my first pip!

Time to get the Brooder ready

What are you hatching and how many? I have my first pip out of 25 eggs (10 black Langshans and 15 Pita Pinta/Pita Pinta mixes). It's a race to see if mine will hatch first or yours!

 

[ronott1]

What are you hatching and how many? I have my first pip out of 25 eggs (10 black Langshans and 15 Pita Pinta/Pita Pinta mixes). It's a race to see if mine will hatch first or yours!

I have 44 eggs in the Genesis set for hatching.

Six are OEs(olive egg layers: UofA Blue x Crele Penedesenca)

38 UofA blues

 

[member 142084]

Quote: Yeah I have one that I used in the last incubator. This girls slowed down again since we are having such odd weather shifts. SO I am waiting for them to lay enough to hatch. And gathering is fun since it's muddy. We have to catch them before they get them filthy.

 

[Audio51]

So much for co-brooding. Now I am down to only one of the Mottled AM chick.

The Cochin Banty has had only darker colored chicks under her most of the time and the experienced Wyandotte has had the mottled chicks. I went out this morning to feed and check on the chicks around 7 this morning. There should have been 10 and I was only counting 8. I moved the cat little box they have been in and looked thru the bedding. I found one dead mottled chick in there and the another dead one near the from and just outside the box. I thought maybe they had just gotten chilled so I rearranged the area and brought the bodies in. I went back out to collect eggs about noon and found another mottled chick in it's death throws on the floor of the broody coop. I couldn't save it.

The Cochin broody has been pretty aggressive with me, but only to protect the dark chicks. I had seen her peck a bit at the mottled ones but not in a super aggressive way. I know the Wyandotte is fine with mixed colors because she has raised them before. I decided I will not chance the Cochin harming the last mottled chick. She is now out of the broody coop and the Wyandotte will raise the chicks alone. The Cochin was, needless to say, not a happy camper and was squawking up a storm. She got a dunked a couple of times and has calmed down. The eggs have all bee laid for the day so she will not be allowed into the pen until bed time and then the lower door to the coop will be closed for the night so she can't get close to the broody coop/chicks.

I am so frustrated I wanted to wring her little neck! Naturally it would be only the mottled chicks that would die. I now have 1 OE, 1 Mottled and 5 Marans chicks.

 

[PetRock]

I have 44 eggs in the Genesis set for hatching.

Six are OEs(olive egg layers: UofA Blue x Crele Penedesenca)

38 UofA blues

Exciting!!! Pip 2!!!

 

[ronott1]

So much for co-brooding. Now I am down to only one of the Mottled AM chick.

The Cochin Banty has had only darker colored chicks under her most of the time and the experienced Wyandotte has had the mottled chicks. I went out this morning to feed and check on the chicks around 7 this morning. There should have been 10 and I was only counting 8. I moved the cat little box they have been in and looked thru the bedding. I found one dead mottled chick in there and the another dead one near the from and just outside the box. I thought maybe they had just gotten chilled so I rearranged the area and brought the bodies in. I went back out to collect eggs about noon and found another mottled chick in it's death throws on the floor of the broody coop. I couldn't save it.

The Cochin broody has been pretty aggressive with me, but only to protect the dark chicks. I had seen her peck a bit at the mottled ones but not in a super aggressive way. I know the Wyandotte is fine with mixed colors because she has raised them before. I decided I will not chance the Cochin harming the last mottled chick. She is now out of the broody coop and the Wyandotte will raise the chicks alone. The Cochin was, needless to say, not a happy camper and was squawking up a storm. She got a dunked a couple of times and has calmed down. The eggs have all bee laid for the day so she will not be allowed into the pen until bed time and then the lower door to the coop will be closed for the night so she can't get close to the broody coop/chicks.

I am so frustrated I wanted to wring her little neck! Naturally it would be only the mottled chicks that would die. I now have 1 OE, 1 Mottled and 5 Marans chicks.

Poor chicks!

I hope the new arrangement works better.

 

[tommysgirl]

So much for co-brooding. Now I am down to only one of the Mottled AM chick.

The Cochin Banty has had only darker colored chicks under her most of the time and the experienced Wyandotte has had the mottled chicks. I went out this morning to feed and check on the chicks around 7 this morning. There should have been 10 and I was only counting 8. I moved the cat little box they have been in and looked thru the bedding. I found one dead mottled chick in there and the another dead one near the from and just outside the box. I thought maybe they had just gotten chilled so I rearranged the area and brought the bodies in. I went back out to collect eggs about noon and found another mottled chick in it's death throws on the floor of the broody coop. I couldn't save it.

The Cochin broody has been pretty aggressive with me, but only to protect the dark chicks. I had seen her peck a bit at the mottled ones but not in a super aggressive way. I know the Wyandotte is fine with mixed colors because she has raised them before. I decided I will not chance the Cochin harming the last mottled chick. She is now out of the broody coop and the Wyandotte will raise the chicks alone. The Cochin was, needless to say, not a happy camper and was squawking up a storm. She got a dunked a couple of times and has calmed down. The eggs have all bee laid for the day so she will not be allowed into the pen until bed time and then the lower door to the coop will be closed for the night so she can't get close to the broody coop/chicks.

I am so frustrated I wanted to wring her little neck! Naturally it would be only the mottled chicks that would die. I now have 1 OE, 1 Mottled and 5 Marans chicks.

I am so so sorry. I know how disappointing that must be.