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

[daxigait]

Good morning! It is sunny out and shaping up to be a warm day, but it did rain overnight

Good morning! Did your chick open her eyes?

 

[Lazy Farmer]

FINALLY--
nesting boxes being reconfigured and completed. Another inc project on the verge of completion.
The ladies are stressed out from the house repair. They were use to having them nice and high. But have been at ground level since the re roof.

 

[daxigait]

All the babies have hatched!
Three super cute tolbunt polish out and the seramas.
The little engine that could, the Halloween girl passed last night. She was a trooper! Normally I would have culled but this baby really wanted to try.
Blessed to have all my live babies.

The good news and the bad.

 

[mlm Mike]

Morning all!!

We haven't had ANY rain in almost 8 months. Normally, I LOVE when it rains! But yesterday morning, 3 trucks with 6 guys from the solar panel install crew showed up to start working, and within minutes it started raining JUST hard enough to make the roof too slippery to work. They got to sit around for a couple of hours before the clouds moved away. Sky is clear this morning, but another storm is rolling in (only 20% chance we'll get any rain from it). That should hit tomorrow. I think we'll end up getting less than 1/4 inch from both storms combined.

Were they able to get the solar panel installed?

We're getting plenty of rain. They started to drop the lake Monday, and so far have only managed 36/100 of an inch decrease. They wanted to drop it quick and more than normal as they have plans to work on the Marina's boat ramp.

I hope that the swelling goes down - I remember reading someone else had something like this and the swelling went down after a day or two.

For me - I have hatched Polish twice, I've ended up with crooked beaks in both batches. I currently have a polish roo, a sebright roo and 2 sebright hens with beak problems. The original Polish crooked beek died. Is it something I am doing wrong, or is it common in these breeds?

I don't think it could be anything you are doing.

Isn't it? I miss having littles so bad. Still 4--5 more months to wait depending on if it's a warm winter or not.

What about NYD Hatch-a-long?

 

[BantyChooks]

What about NYD Hatch-a-long?

That would be a NO. Did it last year, but keeping chicks indoors all winter is a real headache and if I hatched more than two it would get near impossible.

 

[Christinecam]

Good morning! Did your chick open her eyes?

Awe. She did . Sadly she passed during the night. But she had mine and my husbands full love and care for every second she was with us. When they fight like she did, they definitely deserve a chance.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Isn't it? I miss having littles so bad. Still 4--5 more months to wait ot.

I finally stopped hatching... maybe... it is so hard when I see all those chicks cherping, until I look at my feed bill and have to walk thru an ocean of adults clucking at me complaining about the feed schedule.

 

[Christinecam]

My little Pop eye baby serama! So cute!
Pop eye and two of the tolbunts, sleeping it off. two tolbunts and the last serama to hatch today. I actually fully assisted her. lol passed out the first serama to hatch and in the small brooder with the polish.

 

[mlm Mike]

That would be a NO. Did it last year, but keeping chicks indoors all winter is a real headache and if I hatched more than two it would get near impossible.

Yes, if I had any sense I would get rid of my incubators and just rely on broody hens.

 

[mlm Mike]

Awe. She did . Sadly she passed during the night. But she had mine and my husbands full love and care for every second she was with us. When they fight like she did, they definitely deserve a chance.

Sorry to hear this.