Eastern Tennessee Thread

[stanglover2001]

11 chicks, a 12th zipping. I think that's all that will be hatching, but will give the last ones another day since I can't tell if there is any pipped or not... though after #12 gets hatched and dried I will be moving them to the temporary tote brooder..

bairo - I'm glad you like him! I thought he was really sweet, glad he'll be your herd buck. Question: What day was Ninja chicken born?

tnbarnqueen - what day was the maran born?

I'm trying to keep track of all these different days... Does anyone remember how old the cochin rooster is? tennesseeckn???

 

[bairo]

Ninja was hatched Jan, 28
Fredrick was about a year when I got him I think....But Daph may have it written down someplace. How long are his spurs?

 

[stanglover2001]

Ninja was hatched Jan, 28
Fredrick was about a year when I got him I think....But Daph may have it written down someplace. How long are his spurs?

LOL, thanks, I'm not sure how long they are, he's so feathery!

 

[stanglover2001]

11 chicks in the brooder, the 12th one I had to help out, it was such a late hatcher it got stuck to the egg. It's in my little brinsea now since the styro-foam wouldn't have warmed up quick enough from grabbing the others... The last 4 never pipped, so I must have seen quitters in the egg when I was pulling the empty ones out... but they look so similar I'm better off keeping them in...

 

[TNBarnQueen]

I had a broody failure today. I isolated my two broody Wyandottes who were sharing a nesting box (converted fruit crate). Tonight I went in and found two fluffy chicks laying stiff in the shavings. One was still breathing and I put it under one of the broodies, hoping to warm it back up. The other was gone. The rest of the eggs haven't hatched, yet.

So, do I go back out and bring the barely breathing one and put in under a lamp? Do I leave the other eggs and hope they do better or should I take them and stick them in the bator?

It's my Wyandotte curse. It was Wyandotte eggs that I left unplugged overnight and lost every single one. I've had major fertility issues. I don't know that I'll ever have a chick besides the obviously male one in the brooder.

I thought a broody would be fool-proof!!!

For myself I guess I would put under the light. but...I would give it a little warm bath first...warms them up quick. They wrap in a cloth and stick in your bra...yes...bra til the incubator warms up enough. I usually put the cloth over it while under the light for a while. Sometimes I just can't let them go. It is a personal decision though. You always run the chance of the chick being weak if it was a really long time before you found it.

 

[TNBarnQueen]

11 chicks in the brooder, the 12th one I had to help out, it was such a late hatcher it got stuck to the egg. It's in my little brinsea now since the styro-foam wouldn't have warmed up quick enough from grabbing the others... The last 4 never pipped, so I must have seen quitters in the egg when I was pulling the empty ones out... but they look so similar I'm better off keeping them in...

how adorable!! Mine will start hatching in a week in one incubator then the other one 5 days later. Do you eggtopsy your eggs that don't hatch?

 

[stanglover2001]

how adorable!! Mine will start hatching in a week in one incubator then the other one 5 days later. Do you eggtopsy your eggs that don't hatch?

I have before, I carefully pull the egg shell off so if it's rotten I won't have to smell it. I've only done it a few times, I have only had one occurrence where it had a fully formed chick in it, the others were just egg goop... kinda like a yolk that was broken... I've had an egg explode and decided to open the some of the eggs, I saw little developing embryos with eye balls...

 

[TNBarnQueen]

Bummer. Bummer...Bummer!!!!!

I just found out my sons graduation is at 10:30 on the day of the chicken show!!!!!!!!!

I thought it was the second Saturday. I have almost 50 eggs that I am hatching out for this show. But I cannot miss his graduation because he has worked very hard and still has a few more years to go.

Is there any other shows in a 100 mile radius of us that is coming up soon?

 

[TNBarnQueen]

I think that sometimes when the fully ones do not hatch....if it is just a few...that the chick was possibly to weak and would have struggled if it hatched. I am a science bug and like doing eggtopsy just to see what happened. If I have a question to their being icky I drop them as I step back. They if it is OK...take a look. One of the things I miss about teaching is doing dissections. We even dissected a shark...it had babies!!
You have a beautiful group of chicks!

 

[tennesseeckn]

Ninja was hatched Jan, 28
Fredrick was about a year when I got him I think....But Daph may have it written down someplace. How long are his spurs?

He arrived here on Valentine's Day, so he's fourteen months old. If it weren't a holiday I never would have remembered.