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HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long 2016 w/ Hosts, Mike, Sally & BantyChooks
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NysiaAnera
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My four roosters!
1. Mo is a 2 year old (I think!) White Crested Black Polish, and is the top rooster. He is an excellent rooster, very attentive, very gentle with his ladies, and friendly.
2. Red is a 7.5 months old Buff Orpington. He is a little standoffish, but still friendly.
3. Twin #1 is a huge 7.5 month old Buff Brahma. He is very friendly and curious, and likes to hang out close by me, often right next to me, as long as I don't touch him.
4. Twin #2 is a huge 7.5 month old Buff Brahma, and his personality is exactly like Twin #1. Very friendly and curious.
The twins can be difficult to tell apart, but #1 has longer feathers and a little bigger comb/waddles, and is darker all around.
They are all turning out to be excellent roosters!
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NysiaAnera
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Thanks! I have really fallen in love with the Brahmas. They are beautiful, and so kind! Like gentle GIANTS. And to think that had we not ended up with them through chicken math, I never would have thought about getting them, and would have sorely missed out!
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Agree!!
I had one buff brahma hen, loved her.... Can't find any now and miss having a brahma or five in my flock. They're so majestic....
NysiaAnera
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They sure are!! As much as we want mixed chicks, I am hoping for a few more pure Brahmas from some of the eggs.
@Sally Sunshine
Lady I would be bombarding you with pics if I could my phone will not post and I don't know why.
Regardless it doesn't matter as my phone is being the stupidest most worthless piece of technology ever at the moment. Ugh.
Now for the 5:30 update. This chick is incredible I just want to say that first. I can't imagine another chick fighting so hard. We have one olive egger out and it has a head spot I'm think.
hopefully the other four eggs pip and hatch tonight. I want to say humidity ran about 22-24% the entire hatch and I was very pleased with that. At lockdown other than the one very odd looking air cell everyone else's looked more or less perfect even the seramas. One Marans has a bit smaller air cell than I would have liked but not bad.
Now I went to check on the chickie in the odd egg a bit ago and discovered that the egg was starting to smell. Worried and knowing that smell meant the build up of bacteria I quickly assessed the chick and the egg as beat I could. The chick has been slowly backing towards the open air cell since last night and this afternoon almost managed to get its butt out. Unfortunately this meant less of the membranes on the sides of the egg that could be seen. But I saw no blood in any veins. Proceeding with caution I began to wash away as much of the sickening yellow stuff (yolk left over white what have you I don't care it was gunna killy chick) very slowly and gently I washed with a warm wet paper towel wetting the membranes and peeling just shell away.
More and more and more. Then I began to peel the outer membrane away from the chick. It appeared to have its umbilical wrapped around its back by this point. Seeing very little blood I continued to gently wash and peel.
Is everyone on the edge of their seats yet?!
The smell is pretty bad I'm not going to lie. Last night there was no smell that my still slightly stuffy nose could discern at all.
Peeling and peeling. Washing and peeling. I took stock of what I was seeing and smelling and I made the decision, this baby was coming out now. There was little blood left in the umbilical and the veins were drying up. I decided that to wait would be more costly and further risk infection. I cut the umbilical or what I believe to be the umbilical everything was so convoluted and goopified. No bleeding. Good sign. I quickly but carefully began to peel the membranes down afraid of what I might find.
Knowing the only backup u have right now is God and praying the entire time.
(I might also add I got the hiccups in here somewhere- ever tried to assist a hatch with the hiccups?!) Lol
Finally I decided to slowly dump the chick on paper towels layed on the incubator with gentle iodine and sterile scissors nearby. The chick laid there and I know it was cold. I had the warm water running in the sink and I knew I had to make one more push to completely detach the baby and wash all this goop off. To give this baby the only chance I could see. The smell was worse at the bottom of the egg. It still feels my nostrils. yuck!
I've never had an egg that was dead for three days smell like this when eggtopsying.
I cut the baby free and started wiping chunks off. I can't be certain right now exactly what all I was seeing. There was something that seemed more than normal afterbirth that I had to cut free. The umbilical is not completely closed but thank God it's much more closed that I had feared. There are no visible dark skin that I've come to equate to yolk sac infections. However there does seem to be a small bulge in the stomach. Perhaps part of the yolk was absorbed?
I'm pretty much clueless and only time with tell if God saves this baby. It certainly didn't have the best start. The best part is that it seems to be a pullet.
If she survives little Miracle is one lucky chick.
I cradled her in my hands and gently ran warm water over her lower half hoping to wash away any infection or infection carrying goop. I then iodined her tummy and placed her in her strawberry box in the incubator for a rest. Time will tell but my fingers will be crossed for sure. Poor little thing is oh so tired and weaker than I had hoped but glad to he rid of the egg that entombed her. If nothing else I'm glad she made it out of the egg.
Miracle her name may change but I do believe that today she earned it. She pipped early and was still in the turner but pipped below the turner so I didn't see she had not yet been placed into a hatching box and I can not believe she didn't drown. I believe it's been two days since she pipped and it is not yet day 21. Thankfully somehow though the goop formed over and ran out of the pip hole it did not suffocate her.
Will try to post some pics later with DH2B's phone
Lady I would be bombarding you with pics if I could my phone will not post and I don't know why.
Regardless it doesn't matter as my phone is being the stupidest most worthless piece of technology ever at the moment. Ugh.
Now for the 5:30 update. This chick is incredible I just want to say that first. I can't imagine another chick fighting so hard. We have one olive egger out and it has a head spot I'm think.
hopefully the other four eggs pip and hatch tonight. I want to say humidity ran about 22-24% the entire hatch and I was very pleased with that. At lockdown other than the one very odd looking air cell everyone else's looked more or less perfect even the seramas. One Marans has a bit smaller air cell than I would have liked but not bad. Now I went to check on the chickie in the odd egg a bit ago and discovered that the egg was starting to smell. Worried and knowing that smell meant the build up of bacteria I quickly assessed the chick and the egg as beat I could. The chick has been slowly backing towards the open air cell since last night and this afternoon almost managed to get its butt out. Unfortunately this meant less of the membranes on the sides of the egg that could be seen. But I saw no blood in any veins. Proceeding with caution I began to wash away as much of the sickening yellow stuff (yolk left over white what have you I don't care it was gunna killy chick) very slowly and gently I washed with a warm wet paper towel wetting the membranes and peeling just shell away.
More and more and more. Then I began to peel the outer membrane away from the chick. It appeared to have its umbilical wrapped around its back by this point. Seeing very little blood I continued to gently wash and peel.
Is everyone on the edge of their seats yet?!
The smell is pretty bad I'm not going to lie. Last night there was no smell that my still slightly stuffy nose could discern at all.
Peeling and peeling. Washing and peeling. I took stock of what I was seeing and smelling and I made the decision, this baby was coming out now. There was little blood left in the umbilical and the veins were drying up. I decided that to wait would be more costly and further risk infection. I cut the umbilical or what I believe to be the umbilical everything was so convoluted and goopified. No bleeding. Good sign. I quickly but carefully began to peel the membranes down afraid of what I might find.
Knowing the only backup u have right now is God and praying the entire time.
(I might also add I got the hiccups in here somewhere- ever tried to assist a hatch with the hiccups?!) Lol
Finally I decided to slowly dump the chick on paper towels layed on the incubator with gentle iodine and sterile scissors nearby. The chick laid there and I know it was cold. I had the warm water running in the sink and I knew I had to make one more push to completely detach the baby and wash all this goop off. To give this baby the only chance I could see. The smell was worse at the bottom of the egg. It still feels my nostrils. yuck!
I've never had an egg that was dead for three days smell like this when eggtopsying.
I cut the baby free and started wiping chunks off. I can't be certain right now exactly what all I was seeing. There was something that seemed more than normal afterbirth that I had to cut free. The umbilical is not completely closed but thank God it's much more closed that I had feared. There are no visible dark skin that I've come to equate to yolk sac infections. However there does seem to be a small bulge in the stomach. Perhaps part of the yolk was absorbed?
I'm pretty much clueless and only time with tell if God saves this baby. It certainly didn't have the best start. The best part is that it seems to be a pullet.
If she survives little Miracle is one lucky chick.
I cradled her in my hands and gently ran warm water over her lower half hoping to wash away any infection or infection carrying goop. I then iodined her tummy and placed her in her strawberry box in the incubator for a rest. Time will tell but my fingers will be crossed for sure. Poor little thing is oh so tired and weaker than I had hoped but glad to he rid of the egg that entombed her. If nothing else I'm glad she made it out of the egg.
Miracle her name may change but I do believe that today she earned it. She pipped early and was still in the turner but pipped below the turner so I didn't see she had not yet been placed into a hatching box and I can not believe she didn't drown. I believe it's been two days since she pipped and it is not yet day 21. Thankfully somehow though the goop formed over and ran out of the pip hole it did not suffocate her.
Will try to post some pics later with DH2B's phone
NysiaAnera
Songster
WE HAVE CHICKS HATCHING RIGHT NOW!!! I am so excited!!! This is day 19, and these are the eggs that got pooped on. So far, I haven't gotten a peek at the little tykes, but I can hear them and there are at least two out right now (shells are sometimes visible when momma moves)!
WE HAVE CHICKS HATCHING RIGHT NOW!!! I am so excited!!! This is day 19, and these are the eggs that got pooped on. So far, I haven't gotten a peek at the little tykes, but I can hear them and there are at least two out right now (shells are sometimes visible when momma moves)!
Yay congratulations!!!
awesome and congrats, you did well even if she doesn't make it know that u did everything you could@Sally Sunshine
Lady I would be bombarding you with pics if I could my phone will not post and I don't know why.
Regardless it doesn't matter as my phone is being the stupidest most worthless piece of technology ever at the moment. Ugh.
Now for the 5:30 update. This chick is incredible I just want to say that first. I can't imagine another chick fighting so hard. We have one olive egger out and it has a head spot I'm think.
Now I went to check on the chickie in the odd egg a bit ago and discovered that the egg was starting to smell. Worried and knowing that smell meant the build up of bacteria I quickly assessed the chick and the egg as beat I could. The chick has been slowly backing towards the open air cell since last night and this afternoon almost managed to get its butt out. Unfortunately this meant less of the membranes on the sides of the egg that could be seen. But I saw no blood in any veins. Proceeding with caution I began to wash away as much of the sickening yellow stuff (yolk left over white what have you I don't care it was gunna killy chick) very slowly and gently I washed with a warm wet paper towel wetting the membranes and peeling just shell away.
More and more and more. Then I began to peel the outer membrane away from the chick. It appeared to have its umbilical wrapped around its back by this point. Seeing very little blood I continued to gently wash and peel.
Is everyone on the edge of their seats yet?!
The smell is pretty bad I'm not going to lie. Last night there was no smell that my still slightly stuffy nose could discern at all.
Peeling and peeling. Washing and peeling. I took stock of what I was seeing and smelling and I made the decision, this baby was coming out now. There was little blood left in the umbilical and the veins were drying up. I decided that to wait would be more costly and further risk infection. I cut the umbilical or what I believe to be the umbilical everything was so convoluted and goopified. No bleeding. Good sign. I quickly but carefully began to peel the membranes down afraid of what I might find.
Knowing the only backup u have right now is God and praying the entire time.
(I might also add I got the hiccups in here somewhere- ever tried to assist a hatch with the hiccups?!) Lol
Finally I decided to slowly dump the chick on paper towels layed on the incubator with gentle iodine and sterile scissors nearby. The chick laid there and I know it was cold. I had the warm water running in the sink and I knew I had to make one more push to completely detach the baby and wash all this goop off. To give this baby the only chance I could see. The smell was worse at the bottom of the egg. It still feels my nostrils. yuck!
I've never had an egg that was dead for three days smell like this when eggtopsying.
I cut the baby free and started wiping chunks off. I can't be certain right now exactly what all I was seeing. There was something that seemed more than normal afterbirth that I had to cut free. The umbilical is not completely closed but thank God it's much more closed that I had feared. There are no visible dark skin that I've come to equate to yolk sac infections. However there does seem to be a small bulge in the stomach. Perhaps part of the yolk was absorbed?
I'm pretty much clueless and only time with tell if God saves this baby. It certainly didn't have the best start. The best part is that it seems to be a pullet.
If she survives little Miracle is one lucky chick.
I cradled her in my hands and gently ran warm water over her lower half hoping to wash away any infection or infection carrying goop. I then iodined her tummy and placed her in her strawberry box in the incubator for a rest. Time will tell but my fingers will be crossed for sure. Poor little thing is oh so tired and weaker than I had hoped but glad to he rid of the egg that entombed her. If nothing else I'm glad she made it out of the egg.
Miracle her name may change but I do believe that today she earned it. She pipped early and was still in the turner but pipped below the turner so I didn't see she had not yet been placed into a hatching box and I can not believe she didn't drown. I believe it's been two days since she pipped and it is not yet day 21. Thankfully somehow though the goop formed over and ran out of the pip hole it did not suffocate her.
Will try to post some pics later with DH2B's phone
wooohoooo!WE HAVE CHICKS HATCHING RIGHT NOW!!! I am so excited!!! This is day 19, and these are the eggs that got pooped on. So far, I haven't gotten a peek at the little tykes, but I can hear them and there are at least two out right now (shells are sometimes visible when momma moves)!
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