HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long 2016 w/ Hosts, Mike, Sally & BantyChooks

[junebuggena]

Chick #3 piped at the wrong end and drowned. Bummer.

 

[mlm Mike]

Chick #3 piped at the wrong end and drowned. Bummer.

I'm sorry

 

[bauerdog]

Any news yet?  Ducks do take forever.  Mine hatched the 29th night.  Pip to zip took over 24 hours as well.  

They DO take forever. No internal pips yet. Hopefully something will happen overnight

 

[Fluffyserama]

Chick #3 piped at the wrong end and drowned. Bummer.

so sorry, I know how much that sucks

 

[junebuggena]

so sorry, I know how much that sucks

Absolutely nothing could be done. Chick pipped and seemed fine. Turned to start zipping and pecked right into the yolk sac. Suicide by hatching...

 

[junebuggena]

Day 5 for the incubator. Out of 27, there are 11 clears and 2 possible blood rings. I'll be keeping the possible blood rings in until day 10, just to be sure. Better fertility than my last round of eggs set. My mature rooster and his girls are still only about 30%, but my cockerel seems to be doing a better job of hitting his mark. Almost all the pullet eggs were fertile. 7 possible red sexlink eggs, 3 Easter Egger pullet eggs, 3 black sexlink cross eggs, and 3 from my Barred Rocks.

 

[wornoutmomto3]

Posting a quick update before I call it a night.

Woke up this morning to three early (I thought) Ameraucana mix chicks in the incubator. They were from eggs my white Ameraucana hen laid, but I don't know which rooster fertilized the eggs. I think it was my white rooster that was I sold this past weekend. So, they are mix of some kind but look nothing like the Mama hen, yellow legs/feet. Pictures later, sleepy now.

Had FFA Forestry competition for middle DS. Went well for the most part. Glad it is over so we can focus on livestock now, which he is totally psyched about!

Second flag football game for youngest DS. He scored his first ever touchdown. It was endzone to endzone, and the winning score!

Oldest DS had band performance at the last Middle School home football game. He is getting so good at playing the trombone!

I have been up and going since 5am and it is now just about 11pm. So, my exhausted self is calling it a night...

 

[Fluffyserama]

Had FFA Forestry competition for middle DS. Went well for the most part. Glad it is over so we can focus on livestock now, which he is totally psyched about!

 

I have to ask what is involved in a forestry competition.... I am intrigued

 

[lpatelski]

I have two eggs I just candled. Both seem to be significantly behind the other eight. I can see they are alive and moving, but there is a great deal of light going through the egg. The other eggs were darker and the chicks take up more space inside the eggs. Seven days left to hatch. Does anyone know what that is?

 

[junebuggena]

7 chicks sold! Love it. Now I need to go hatch some more!
It's officially "Take advantage of the fact that the feed stores don't have chicks anymore" season.