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[mommahen10]

ChicknBaron, I'm learning too. I just wanted to add a pic of an unabsorbed yolk since I had it handy. This little chick is doing fine now, apparently this isn't a bad case. It seemed to absorb in, the balloon part shrunk and was like an empty sack and then it dried up. I didn't even notice it falling off but it's gone. I had another one that had it worse and it ruptured and it bled terribly and he lost a lot of strength instantly. He lived for another day and a half and passed this afternoon.


Right now I have 2 pipped in the incubator. One has been pipped for very close to 24 hours, but it isn't supposed to hatch until Wednesday. I think I'm going to wait longer because I'm afraid of the unabsorbed yolk because it's early. If I open it to help one it will hurt the other who has only been pipped since this afternoon.

I guess this is all a learning thing, learning as we go.

 

[ChicknBaron]

Alrighty, Thanks Mommahen. Looks live you've got a full Incubator! how do you keep track of it all, with the turning and different hatching times and all! And GOOD LUCK with the rest of the hatch!

 

[ChicknBaron]

I just noticed that "Trish44" is from Winfield KS and my high school football team played there just about a week ago

perdy cool...

 

[JosieChick]

Just got dont candling the eggs and that was the COOLEST thing ever!!!!

I saw and eye in every one, but the Australorp because it was two thick shelled to see anything but one of them, Blue laced red wyandotte, i think, was SUPERIOR for viewing, I could see Veins and A head and an eye and it was moving!!! ooohhhhh it was AWEsome!!!

It is pretty cool isn't it? I love it when they are small enough to see them swimming around still in the shell!

I don't have any pens or room right now for RP's or I would be interested. I hope Heather will take them!


ha! When it is dinner time, my horses start calling me from the pasture. They put up a ruckus out there yelling at me until I come out and feed them. They know exactly what time of day I feed them and if I'm late, they let me know about it! I was getting silkies put up tonight and they knew it was THEIR dinner time, and they all were up at the fence yelling at me. It's times like that, my place really does sound like a zoo. I'll bet their voices carry a mile over! Funny that yours are going to take your gate down! hehehe Mine will bang their hoof on the gate too to get my attention. They are SMART.

Hahaha! Such naughty ponies. Jackson, my walker, uses his hoof to bang the gate because he knows it makes me mad and I go out and yell at him and then he gives me that big, doofy I am starving face so I have to feed them. I could set a watch by those horses. I don't seem them all afternoon until dinner time around 7 and then they won't leave!

You are BAD!!! At the most I can take one more hen since originally I was planning on a trio. Trish and Josie are scaring me a bit though. My "pair" both have snoods about the same size. I've heard the male gobble twice but now Lindsey is saying the girls will gobble too so now I'm worried I don't have a pair after all....

Hahaha! My midget white makes a "noise" when she displays but it isn't a gobble. She does display but she has an attitude the size of Texas and nobody messes with her! Her name is Flo and she is broody right now. Let me tell you, a broody turkey hen is a force to be reckoned with!!! No pressure to buy more turkeys, I just thought I would offer here in case someone was looking for something. I hate it when I have been hunting for something and someone tells me they just sold all there _____fill in the blank with desired bird!

HEChicken, the female turkeys don't "gobble" they make a gulp gulp sound usually, not gobble gobble. Josie said the female will display, but mine never have. You have seen my male display & he is all male when he does. He gobbles & displays & it's funny because he really likes girls & women best, that is who he likes to show off for. I know that the turkey you got from me is a hen, I had 3 hens left & a tom. Your young male is smaller & younger than your hen, so give him a couple of months & you should see a difference. He should start filling out & get bigger than the hen. When he gets bigger you will see what I mean about the snood. I will try to get some pics of mine tomorrow so I can show you what I mean. The male's head & neck are just a lot bumpier than the female's & eventually when they're mature the male's head will turn blue, it's really strange looking. Mine hasn't gotten old enough for that yet.

I have a mature bronze tom and they are super easy to tell apart but these RPs are all at the age where they all look the same. Their heads and necks are all the same amount of bumpy, their snoods all look about the same. I have seen two display and spar with each other but my bronze hens I lost to the dog would do that to each other so I don't want to tell someone its a hen or jake and be wrong.

ChicknBaron, I'm learning too. I just wanted to add a pic of an unabsorbed yolk since I had it handy. This little chick is doing fine now, apparently this isn't a bad case. It seemed to absorb in, the balloon part shrunk and was like an empty sack and then it dried up. I didn't even notice it falling off but it's gone. I had another one that had it worse and it ruptured and it bled terribly and he lost a lot of strength instantly. He lived for another day and a half and passed this afternoon.


Right now I have 2 pipped in the incubator. One has been pipped for very close to 24 hours, but it isn't supposed to hatch until Wednesday. I think I'm going to wait longer because I'm afraid of the unabsorbed yolk because it's early. If I open it to help one it will hurt the other who has only been pipped since this afternoon.

I guess this is all a learning thing, learning as we go.

Don't know if anyone hit on this yet but sometimes unabsorbed yolks has to do with incubator temps being either too low or high. There are some good charts on trouble shooting hatching on BYC and can help you diagnose what went wrong. Hatching in a styro bator was going to be the death of me so I bought a Brinsea Eco and I have a redwood bator that DH is going to refurbish for me that will hopefully be running next spring!

 

[sunflowerparrot]

I just noticed that "Trish44" is from Winfield KS and my high school football team played there just about a week ago

perdy cool...

Hi ChicknBaron - I'm in Winfield too There are several of us that live fairly close to each other.

 

[ChicknBaron]

Hi ChicknBaron - I'm in Winfield too There are several of us that live fairly close to each other.

Yah, I just noticed you too!

Thats pretty neat how close you all are together!

 

[ChicknBaron]

What do you usually feed your chicks once they hatch. When i bought chicks from Orsheln's last year I just bought a little (probably about) 1 gallon sized bag of chick crumbles. I assume thats fine for them because they turned out fine but... if there is something better for chicks that just hatched...

 

[ChicknBaron]

Well i just looked it up on another thread and they said something about if you feed them other things beside there feed, to give them grit. i have a bag of crushed calcium or something but that looks like the pieces would be too big for them. Is this true?

 

[HEChicken]

What do you usually feed your chicks once they hatch. When i bought chicks from Orsheln's last year I just bought a little (probably about) 1 gallon sized bag of chick crumbles. I assume thats fine for them because they turned out fine but... if there is something better for chicks that just hatched...

I feed the chick starter to them and you might find it is more cost effective to buy a larger bag. I buy all my feed in the 40-50lb bags because I will always use it (even my first batch of 7 chicks went through a 50lb bag faster than I would have believed possible). They can eat it at all life stages so don't feel it will be wasted if they haven't eaten it all in the first 8 weeks. I just keep feeding it until its gone and then switch to the next feed.

Well i just looked it up on another thread and they said something about if you feed them other things beside there feed, to give them grit. i have a bag of crushed calcium or something but that looks like the pieces would be too big for them. Is this true?

They won't need grit if they are just eating chick starter. Also for things like yogurt, you won't need grit. But if they are eating bugs, or grass or anything that needs to be "chewed" they will need grit. Since they don't have teeth, they swallow everything whole and it goes to their crop to be digested. In order for the crop to work effectively, they need something in it to grind it up and for this purpose, they swallow small stones that work to grind up the food. Chickens that are free-ranging can typically find whatever they need so don't need to be offered additional grit. However if kept in a pen where they can't find their own, it is a good idea to offer a bowl of grit and let them take it if they need it.

Calcium is NOT the same thing as grit. Calcium is fed to laying hens so they can produce hard shells on their eggs. Too much calcium given to a chick can actually cause damage to internal organs.

Next time you are at the feed store, look for grit in the section of poultry supplies. Alternately, if you have construction sand you can offer them a small bowl of that. For my chicks I take a shallow bowl and put a handful of dirt in it to keep them busy while they're in the brooder. They love to dig through it and find little morsels to eat. I assume they get some necessary minerals from it because they really go nuts over it. (That is not the same as offering grit - mine are able to find enough once they get outside that they don't really need supplemental grit.)

 

[lizzyGSR]

I'm sorry about that. I sure hope you find one. But maybe your best bet is to hatch another one and raise it yourself so it will stay friendly.

Thank you. Yeah, I have decided that that is probably my best shot at getting what I want. However, my DH's grandma (where I got my current goose from) isn't planning on hatching any more (and hadn't planned on hatching any this year except that her geese did it for her), so I might have to ask her for an egg, an incubator, and all the supplies and do it myself. After hearing all kinds of stories about hatching, I'm not sure I want to do it myself...

Anyone know of anywhere I could get some white or brown chinese hatching eggs this time of year? My DH's grandma said her birds only lay once a year.