Dixie Chicks

[Beer can]

How's your taxes on that 3/4 acre jem? I bet they ain't cheap with your ocean view.

 

[Amberjem]

haha @Sharps Big 50 has warmed up to the idea of chickens he hasnt lost his mind he'd not go for the shop turning into a coop lol

 

[Amberjem]

that sucks!

(but it does make me feel better that other breeders are equally incompetent)


Talking of.... update:

my shipped egg leghorn hatch:

first, the wry neck chick... I found a vitamin E liquid capsule thing that I had (but it had no selenium which is supposedly needed to help absorb vitamin E), and I cut it open, and forced the chick to drink some, twice last night before I went to bed. It could walk and drink on its own, but the neck was still way bent to the side.

This morning the chick looks perfect... you can't tell anything odd about the neck at all!!!! I am thinking I will give it two more doses of the Vitamin E pill today, and then call it good, and we shall all pretend that the issue was NOT genetic.

So, grand total of alive chicks: (SC = single comb, RC = rose comb)

2 SC white
2 RC white (one of those was/is the wry neck)

4 SC brown
4 RC brown

2 SC black

1 SC Exchequer, but it might grown up to look more "penguin" than spotted, and he has a nasty big belly button scab... so he looks OK, but I won't be surprised if he suddenly dies

2 SC Exchequer, one just hatched, not yet fluffed and "I will clearly live" and one still in egg, one large pip, not unzipped.


What is interesting... is I popped open the rest of the eggs... and there were:

4 that died after pip FOR NO CLEAR REASON! (1 black and 3 yellow)
2 died before pip FOR NO CLEAR REASON (both yellow)
1 hatched with yolk outside (I know some people save those, but

we chopped its head right off) - yellow
1 dead at pip, hit a blood vessel, so pretty bloody. (yellow)

I didn't check combs on those, but that is 6 that were yellow... no more brown... makes me think that most of the clears were from the RC brown pen.

that really bites

 

[Amberjem]

How's your taxes on that 3/4 acre jem? I bet they ain't cheap with your ocean view.

any tax over a dollar is stupid....believe it's based on arcerage here

 

[BriardChickens]

so, that's a 50% hatch rate? Sorry, no math done here... bummer. Where those shipped eggs?

 

[vehve]

Al, sorry about the poor hatch rate.

Jem, looking good. That blue tin roof is actually pretty cool.

 

[minihorse927]

@Alaskansorry about the poor hatch. Seems to me like he didn't know what he had gathered or maybe he knew fertility was bad on one pen and chose not to mark then so it'd be too late for you to complain by the time they hatched.

I'm still shocked they didn't label those eggs.

 

[Alaskan]

so, that's a 50% hatch rate? Sorry, no math done here... bummer. Where those shipped eggs?

depends on how you want to count...

If you count that I PAID for 2 dozen RC whites and darks, and got 6 chicks ..... that is a 1/4 hatch rate. Bad, but not horrific for eggs shipped to Alaska. I count 25% live hatch as the bare minimum acceptable rate for eggs shipped to me.

If you count number of hatched living chicks (do you count the one I killed that had the external yolk as a hatched, or only the number alive after 2 days of life?)

18 chicks made it to hatch (I killed the one that had the external yolk, and I have two that aren't yet fully hatched and fluffed, so iffy)

I paid for 24 eggs... but I received 46 eggs.

So, do you want to do 18 chicks alive at hatch and.... what is the second number? 24? 46?

So, not sure how you would calculate it... but I see it as a 25% hatch.

 

[Alaskan]

@Alaskan sorry about the poor hatch. Seems to me like he didn't know what he had gathered or maybe he knew fertility was bad on one pen and chose not to mark then so it'd be too late for you to complain by the time they hatched.

I'm still shocked they didn't label those eggs.

yeah, because it looks like

1. his RC brown pen has major fertility issues

and

2. his RC white pen has major nutrition issues (a possible cause of so many of the yellow chicks dead at pip, dead before pip, hatched with external yolk and hatched with wry neck)

 

[Ravynscroft]

Sorry, Alaskan...

But at least you did get some...