California - Northern

[caychris]

I just went to look at the eggs in my bator, knowing that they wouldn't have hatched yet because they're not due until the 11th...forgetting bantams often hatch early....you can imagine my surprise when I saw a newly hatched little baby in there!!! EEP!! My first ever hatch! It looks great, it's just tired and still wet so it must have JUST hatched. My first ever baby to hatch is a little Black Tail White Japanese Bantam.

 

[debs_flock]

My first ever hatch! It looks great, it's just tired and still wet so it must have JUST hatched. My first ever baby to hatch is a little Black Tail White Japanese Bantam.

Congratulations............but you missed it! I have to stand with my nose pressed to the glass from first pip until their head pops out of the shell. (I get nothing done on hatch days).

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I lock them down around 50% humidity and they will naturally spike up to around 60-70% when something hatches.

 

[ronott1]

With the Ova 190 I had my best results with 53% & that was with the BCMs

Good to know!

I am more am more and more convinced that stable temperatures during the first 18 days is the most important thing to do.

Brinseas are very good at keeping temperatures Stable

 

[ronott1]

I just went to look at the eggs in my bator, knowing that they wouldn't have hatched yet because they're not due until the 11th...forgetting bantams often hatch early....you can imagine my surprise when I saw a newly hatched little baby in there!!! EEP!! My first ever hatch! It looks great, it's just tired and still wet so it must have JUST hatched. My first ever baby to hatch is a little Black Tail White Japanese Bantam.

Congratulations!

The rest should be out soon!

 

[PetRock]

Heat today was brutal for the birds. I threw a couple of ice bags on the ground and a couple of them stood and lay down on them. You know its hot when the ice bag melts and the ground is dry

Supposed to be hotter tomorrow. Im thinking I may try my bucket air conditioner inside the coop tomorrow. The extra protection from the sun and the cool air may help them.
Ill be sure to put water in the coop.
Watermelon has been a saving grace for them. But now Im out.
Early morning run to the store I think.

It was 104 here in Antioch yesterday. Today it is only supposed to be 96 but I'm preparing myself for higher than that. I've already watered down areas in the pens and will water down under the bushes where the girls like to sit. I have a big seeded watermelon for them that I'm going to cut and chill this morning. Food Max has big seeded ones right now, Chris.

 

[caychris]

It was 104 here in Antioch yesterday. Today it is only supposed to be 96 but I'm preparing myself for higher than that. I've already watered down areas in the pens and will water down under the bushes where the girls like to sit. I have a big seeded watermelon for them that I'm going to cut and chill this morning. Food Max has big seeded ones right now, Chris.

I grabbed some Ice bags and a seedless one at winco this morning my daughter is going to run that bucket AC inside the coop today so hopefully that will give them a cool place to go. (I need a better fan for it to put it outside (and the liner which is supposed to come sometime next week)

This is only the beginning of the summer here so since my flock is smaller I may just get a couple temp pens and bring them into the garage during the worst of the day if the temps are to climb over 100. I may wall off the under coop area a little later this summer to give another cool trap place for the bucket AC.

 

[tommysgirl]

I just went to look at the eggs in my bator, knowing that they wouldn't have hatched yet because they're not due until the 11th...forgetting bantams often hatch early....you can imagine my surprise when I saw a newly hatched little baby in there!!! EEP!! My first ever hatch! It looks great, it's just tired and still wet so it must have JUST hatched. My first ever baby to hatch is a little Black Tail White Japanese Bantam.

Congrats! It does not get old! My first ever to pop out of the shell is my girl Norma. She is a whack job but she will always have a special place here with us.

Did someone say they wanted pictures? Here are a few of my 3 that hatched on Saturday with mama.
This^ is the third one it is an Amelia covered by a NH. It is more red then it looks here and Its markings are more prominent and distinct.

This ^^ is another Amelia X NH it is red with smudgy markings less distinct than the other

Same baby VV it was the first to hatch. Yellow baby behind


And this is the yellow mystery chick I think Del over Dorking...Definitely Dorking mama but it doesn't look like the NH over Dorking babies Norma hatched earlier this year. It has distinct Chipmunk stripes down its back. And I know it's mama is a Dorking but it has 4 toes on each foot.





In other news I have no idea re the sex of my 4 Del babies....They are so similar in their development. They are now 4+ weeks old and to be honest I have a hard time telling them apart. There is this one who is still almost entirely white who hangs with mama and the little red girl and there is another who is the boldest who has a lot of black developing on his neck and I am pretty sure that one is a cockerel but honestly their combs and feathering rate and even their legs are all so similar I am at a loss. I waver between thinking I have i/3 pullets /cockerels to thinking I got 4 of the same sex I know...Patience young Padawan...I will give it a couple more weeks.
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Del on the left well camouflaged little red girl in the middle mama on the right




Del Baby who I am pretty sure is a cockerel at 4 weeks with Silkie X D'Uccle pullet 7 weeks.

Stay cool peeps!

 

[caychris]

I grabbed some Ice bags and a seedless one at winco this morning my daughter is going to run that bucket AC inside the coop today so hopefully that will give them a cool place to go. (I need a better fan for it to put it outside (and the liner which is supposed to come sometime next week)

This is only the beginning of the summer here so since my flock is smaller I may just get a couple temp pens and bring them into the garage during the worst of the day if the temps are to climb over 100. I may wall off the under coop area a little later this summer to give another cool trap place for the bucket AC.

New problem with my buffs. In yesterdays heat it looks like they injured their beaks a little. It looks a little bloody at the "bridge of their nose" you know above nostrils below comb. It looks dried and I cant figure out how or why this happened. My only thought is that they hurt themselves trying to stick beaks through the hardware cloth. I dont remember is it ok to put neosporin (non pain reliever)
on them?

 

[tommysgirl]

I grabbed some Ice bags and a seedless one at winco this morning my daughter is going to run that bucket AC inside the coop today so hopefully that will give them a cool place to go. (I need a better fan for it to put it outside (and the liner which is supposed to come sometime next week)

This is only the beginning of the summer here so since my flock is smaller I may just get a couple temp pens and bring them into the garage during the worst of the day if the temps are to climb over 100. I may wall off the under coop area a little later this summer to give another cool trap place for the bucket AC.

as long as they have shade, water, and a cooler place to go they will be fine.

 

[sewandgrow]

Good to know!

I am more am more and more convinced that stable temperatures during the first 18 days is the most important thing to do.

Brinseas are very good at keeping temperatures Stable

Both of the Brinseas have been right on target for temps no problems there at all. It was figuring out the humidity that worked best for each I had the problem with but seemed to have settled on a satisfactory method that has been working. Except for the high cost I have no complaints about this brand.