Cream Legbars

[BuffyBugSlayer]

I just moved the CLB's out of the incubator to the brooder.

Here is my count:

1 white sport (sex unknown)

3 girls
15 boys



Yep you read that right 15 boys and 3 girls!! I can sell girls, I need to eat boys!

I have a few eggs left, one is pipped but I doubt they will hatch.

That is a lot a boys! Sorry about that. Congrats on the hatch!

 

[IvanTsary]

Awww I want cream leg bars so bad. When I have more land someday...

 

[duluthralphie]

That's because you counted your chickens!

I had called 2 customers before the hatch started one wanted 2 hens and another wanted 5. I figured with 24 eggs I should get 7 hens at least......

I just got done making the call of shame and telling the guy I did not get 5 hens...


I wonder if he would notice if I painted chipmunk stripes on some of the boys....

 

[ChicKat]

I had called 2 customers before the hatch started one wanted 2 hens and another wanted 5. I figured with 24 eggs I should get 7 hens at least......

I just got done making the call of shame and telling the guy I did not get 5 hens...


I wonder if he would notice if I painted chipmunk stripes on some of the boys....

If only that were the solution to too many males. ;O)

 

[GaryDean26]

Awww I want cream leg bars so bad. When I have more land someday...

 

[terrip824]

I need some advice. My neighbor had a tree service out working on his trees. And you guessed it they cut a power line. The power was off for a little over 2 hours. I managed to keep my 3 day old chicks warm with a blanket. But I'm more concerned about the 32 in the incubator. They are 9 days in. I just candled them Sun. and all was well. Keep them? Or start over?

Sorry Duluthralphie, I got 5 girls and 2 boys.

 

[sol2go]

I need some advice. My neighbor had a tree service out working on his trees. And you guessed it they cut a power line. The power was off for a little over 2 hours. I managed to keep my 3 day old chicks warm with a blanket. But I'm more concerned about the 32 in the incubator. They are 9 days in. I just candled them Sun. and all was well. Keep them? Or start over?

Sorry Duluthralphie, I got 5 girls and 2 boys.

Nice odds.

In my experience the 2 hour break will not be a problem for the incubator chicks at that point.

I have found warm water bottles (the old fashioned fabric/rubber kind) in the bottom of a paper shopping bag keeps young chicks warm if needed. Just don't place the chicks directly on the water bottle; either double up the paper bag or cover with a towel.

The warm water bottles can also be set alongside some incubators and wrap everything with foil and cover with a towel, but it is difficult to control the temp. I think too hot is worse than cool temps.

I had to hold off hatching since February as the power company scheduled 2 full day power outages this month, one more to go. Atleast we had notice.

 

[duluthralphie]

I would not worry about the 2 hours, the most that would do is delay the hatch a few hours to a day. I doubt it killed any.

I had another egg hatch while I was out, Yeppers, another boy. 3/16 and the white one.

 

[GaryDean26]

I need some advice. My neighbor had a tree service out working on his trees. And you guessed it they cut a power line. The power was off for a little over 2 hours. I managed to keep my 3 day old chicks warm with a blanket. But I'm more concerned about the 32 in the incubator. They are 9 days in. I just candled them Sun. and all was well. Keep them? Or start over?

Sorry Duluthralphie, I got 5 girls and 2 boys.

Keep them...I have had successful hatches with the incubator off for over 12 hours. In nature the hen gets off the nest 2-3 times a day, sometime for more than an hour at a time yet those eggs still hatch. If your incubator is off for more than a day, then yes you can start to worry (but they are probablly fine too). Two hours is nothing. That is just a normal part of the hatch in nature. Some of the advanced incubators that I have seen actually are designed to cool the eggs for 30 minutes every day with the claim that giving the eggs a chance to cool during incubation like they do under a broody hen increases the hatch rate. Don't losing any sleep over it. They are 100% fine.

 

[GaryDean26]

... I think too hot is worse than cool temps...

I had an incubator die on day 10 once and so we finished the hatch in a food warmer (that was back in the days when we only had on incubator). The controls were pretty touch on the warming tray and we had temps up to 110 deg F. but still had chicks pip right on day 21 and hatch without any problems.

We also treated eggs with heat to kill Mycoplasm one year. The research said that if the eggs internal temperature reached 114 deg F that the Mycoplsm wouldn't survive. We put the eggs in 117 deg for half a day to get the internal tempurature up to 114. The research we read indicated that hatchrates would drop by 10% but we saw more like a 30% drop in hatchrate.

Yes, I fully agree that too hot is worse than cool temps.