Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[NestingHillsSC]

You all with chicks I am not seeing any pics so I know they don't really exist!
They are figments of your imagination from zombing out staring through the glass on your bators and lack of food and drink.

No there not!!

 

[EyesOnSunday]

After this hatch, not including the hatching eggs I have coming today, That;s what I'm doing too. Going to sell these first that are hatching today.

Have you done your chicken math lately? What's your count up to?

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Hey Sally, Everybody really loves the fermented food!!!! 2 Problems though. The 1 gallon pitches are not going to be enough. I will have to get 5 gallon buckets. Have 1 but will need another for the chicks and the ones in the growing pen. Which leaves me to another sort of problem. The chicks in the brooder. I will have around 50 in there until I start selling the ones I'm hatching today. How in the world do you do that. I guess I could take the top off the hanging feeders and put the feed in the bowl part. But they walk all over it. Which I really hate. Maybe that's just me!!

Because from what I see other let them walk and sleep and sit all in the feed.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Sparky~ you got it girl!!

Morning Coch

 

[sumi]

Quote: O.K. got you, sorry this thread is moving so fast, I miss things completely!

If she pipped 2 days ago she should've started zipping, or at least thinking about it by now. I think it's time to investigate and see if she needs help. Duckling assists are the same as chicks except they take 3x as long. Seriously, mine took about 4 days! So proceed as you will with a chick. Remove a bit of the shell and outer membrane, dampen the inner membrane and check for veins, etc. Also with ducklings you can check the yolk sac absorption progress if you candle them. (I must confess I didn't, I did it the chick way, my duck was malpositioned), but give it a try. Candle the egg and find the lowest point of the air cell, below that is where the yolk should be (unless the duckling is malpositioned). If the yolk has been absorbed you should be able to see a void, or clear space. Also look for blood vessels when you candle. Ducklings vessels show up very well, especially just below the air sac. If you do not see the yolk sac (it would appear as a dark mass) and you do not see blood vessels, chances are ducky is ready to hatch.
But don't rush, take it easy and go slow, as there may still be blood near the navel area, even if there was none visible when candling and the membrane was otherwise clear. I nearly messed up when this happened to me with a recent assist! Try and remove the shell to where you can see the navel area, without removing enough for the duckling to wiggle out. Hope that makes sense!
If she's ready to come out, meaning the yolk has been absorbed and there is no visible blood remove enough of the shell and membrane so the duckling can wiggle out by herself. Let her decide when she's ready.

Good luck!

 

[EyesOnSunday]

I babysit and some I have until late in the evenings, something I hope to stop soon! but right now I cant. I can tell by the autos they come in they have cash, and I judge them when I first get a chick out and hand it to them, chicken people take the chick immediately, some that just want them for kids and easter or something back away with a giggle, or look at their kids to get it instead. And they only want one or two chicks and to be honest isn't worth the hassle for 2 chicks, I am terrible I know, but at least I am honest!

That's not horrible, it's the truth! I had someone come purchase one of my hens the other day and I was SO relieved that I felt comfortable letting them take her. I thought for sure I would end up asking them to get off my property!

Have you ever decided not to sell to anyone once you met them?

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Have you done your chicken math lately? What's your count up to?

12 grown hens, 1 grown rooster, 8 11 week old Braham's, 10 8 week old heritage reds, 7 8 week old leghorns, 25 heritage dels coming, 6 2 week old GLW, 12 Golden Laced Brahma hatching eggs coming today, (so we will just count them as hatch for the sake of argument) Plus the 24 in the bator that r hatching now.

Grand total 105

My wife is right, I'm NUTS!!!!

 

[sumi]

Quote: I had 107 chickens at one stage. The more the merrier.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

I had 107 chickens at one stage. The more the merrier.

 

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