EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Wickedchicken6]

X2!!

I got diagnosed with OHSS .... and I ovulated 10 eggs after we only saw 3-4 on the scan on tuesday. It's a little bit freaky. Hubby said no more fertility treatments with injectables since my PCOS makes me try to have a litter of puppies, instead of a human baby. LOL

So, depending on what happens, we will be going back to the drawing board to figure out how to get me to ovulate, with out having litters.

 

[Flock Master64]

Will it take over night for it to hatch ? The hole has gotten bigger but it still has a long ways to go.

 

[mlm Mike]

Sometimes... Right now, she needs a pointy hat and a broom and the photo would make more sense. She's been broody for weeks now - last year, she broke after a while. Looks like I'll need to break her this time (if I wasn't so overloaded with chicks this year I'd let her sit - maybe next year). Now I have DUELING broodies - Switch has joined her. I move them off the nest every time I go out there. They are NOT amused.

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And I heard Puppy make her egg song outside of the paddock today, so she may have started an outside nest - I live in fear of that, because if she goes broody on a hidden nest, I may not be able to find her and I could lose her to a predator like I lost the last one who did that.



Because guineas are hoodlums and delinquents with voices like car alarms. Ralphie, Banti, please help explain...



Need to photoshop that pointy hat on her one of these days...



OMG, Sally, I think my brain just blew up with cuteness. TOO SWEET!!! TOO SWEET!!!! I need insulin, STAT!!!!!



We need this on video - PLEASE!!!!!!!!



(x5)



Love that sweet boy...

Got the stock pot going. It's like deja vu, all over again.

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- Ant Farm

Yes, photoshop the witch hat on her. The only broody I have lost to a predator was in a coop I forgot to lock up one night. knock on wood

I have one super-glued to the nest, also; not a year old yet......hasn't even been laying full size eggs more than 2-3 months....one of Tucker's daughters. I'm gonna let her keep the eggs. Not even sure how many she's setting, but might have a few extras by the time we get back here the first week of July.

Good luck!

I just had a broody hatch one, one.... Better than none I guess but was hoping for more fm naked necks, the 'one' looks to be a pure naked neck from the other hen. Ohh well maybe next time. Good mom though, she chases the teenagers away like a rooster, they stay well away from her and chick, was worried they'd be mean to chick, don't have a chance Lol!
Jersey giant/Silkie mom
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Awwwww. When you said teenagers, I thought you meant actual teenagers.

View attachment 1031621 Nice! I purchased 4 pearl keets. 3 males, 1 female. I "intended" to sell them all but the female started laying about 4 days before the sale. (Very sneaky was she) So she got to stay and I let her pick her mate. I had tryouts. That pair gave me a pearl, a royal purple and a porcelain the first hatch...lol.

Now I've got 13 I think; I purchased two keets turned out to be white (I think, haven't checked) females, a porcelain male, an opaline male, a royal purple female and the rest are pearls. Plus the 3 keets that hatched yesterday. I think it looks like another opaline, a purple and a pearl.

So cute, and nice variety!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

It can take that long. The humidity is correct under a hen so the hole shouldn't be as much of an issue as in an incubator.

My best hatches are when I'm away. I can't worry when I don't know what's going on. The ones that make it do...and the ones that don't weren't meant to hatch. That's nature's way of making sure only the best survive. When we intervene, we skew the whole thing. If we keep one's that aren't strong and baby them along...it's fine as long as they 're progeny isn't kept. But keeping weak ones AND breeding them is how we end up with problems down the road. (Not saying your breeding this bird)

When you have live stock...you'll also have dead stock. It's just a part of the life cycle. Some babies aren't meant to be born...for various reasons. I have a keet right now in my incubator that I helped...against my better judgment, thinking he may have been stuck because I had been in my 'bator. I was weak. Something's not right, it can't pick it's head up or move from the fetal position...and now I'll have to put him down. He wasn't meant to hatch and I was wrong to help him. Now I have to put him down and I've only increased any suffering he's experiencing by prolonging things. I was hoping that he'd be ok. It's clear that he's not and will not ever be.

Went to take a pic (he's the dark one) and a white keet is hatching.
That one is meant to be.

If you're chick makes it...and he probably will, that will be fantastic! If he doesn't...sometimes that's just life as hard as that sounds. Mother nature is amazing in all her ways. I hope your chick hatches fine. AND soon.

That's my view it from what I've experienced from breeding animals for 30+ years.

 

[BantyChooks]

@BunnynChicks pics you requested of the newest babies. The dom is the stripey one, EE is the big one, and the rest are PC.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Yes, photoshop the witch hat on her. The only broody I have lost to a predator was in a coop I forgot to lock up one night. knock on wood




Good luck!



Awwwww. When you said teenagers, I thought you meant actual teenagers.



So cute, and nice variety!

Pure luck...but I'll take it!

@mlm Mike ...are your Icelandics pure or do you cross them?

 

[Phage]

I got diagnosed with OHSS .... and I ovulated 10 eggs after we only saw 3-4 on the scan on tuesday. It's a little bit freaky. Hubby said no more fertility treatments with injectables since my PCOS makes me try to have a litter of puppies, instead of a human baby. LOL

So, depending on what happens, we will be going back to the drawing board to figure out how to get me to ovulate, with out having litters.

Are you still breast feeding?
That will reduce or stop natural ovulation.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

If you mean CANADA ...Oh yeah, I caught that...it's too bright....too sunny and it's going to be WAY too hot.

Right now it's lovely except for that darn sun. Where's my dark, cold days???

You people just ain't right...

Looks like it's going to rain for most of the day. I need to get that pen finished for the grow outs. I also need to kick out the chicks in the house. It's no fun to find one of my CCL boys wandering around the house. They both do it and set the dogs off. The shipped chicks aren't as well feathered and they've taught them how to get out. I'm glad my brooder is a box on the floor or I'd have some hurt chicks.

Ugh - I totally feel your pain, having only just recently gotten everyone outside.

Finally done! I'm waiting to move the grow outs. I'm so tired. I shouldn't be, but I am. I had to run back and forth to get some of the plastic chick fence moved off the big pen and wired to the unused one. Stabbed myself and didn't notice it until I washed my hands.

(That happens to me all the time - my hands and arms are a mess of little scars now, and I never seem to figure out where it all comes from.)

I got diagnosed with OHSS .... and I ovulated 10 eggs after we only saw 3-4 on the scan on tuesday. It's a little bit freaky. Hubby said no more fertility treatments with injectables since my PCOS makes me try to have a litter of puppies, instead of a human baby. LOL

So, depending on what happens, we will be going back to the drawing board to figure out how to get me to ovulate, with out having litters.

Will it take over night for it to hatch ? The hole has gotten bigger but it still has a long ways to go.

Sounds like you keep looking at it - every time you lift broody-mama, you are sorta increasing the risk of the humidity dropping (and maybe that she will get freaked and do something). Really, just leave it alone (I totally know it's hard). It will make it or it won't, but it's unlikely that anything you do right now will help. And Wicked's post was really excellent - I don't help any more, because when I help, so often they aren't ok.

We're here, it'll be ok, keep an eye out, but don't keep disturbing mom or lifting her (her bottom is keeping the humidity needed so baby doesn't shrink-wrap, and lifting her is like keeping opening the incubator during a hatch).

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

@Flock Master64 - The thread below is really excellent, and more relevant to your situation than hatching in incubators. Very good advice over there. Recommend reading through some of it, and asking questions over there as well.

Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

You people just ain't right...

(That happens to me all the time - my hands and arms are a mess of little scars now, and I never seem to figure out where it all comes from.)

- Ant Farm

Doesn't everyone love 7° weather?

Ditto that. Near looks like I got a cheese grater run down my arm in places.