HALLOWEEN HATCH!!! Anyone

[kathyinmo]

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Well, would that be out of the ordinary for you? LOL
Before this is all over, I want to tell you guys .... this has been a blast! What a great party. I feel like we should be sorority sisters or something! Thanks for the fun trip!

 

[neferset]

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Well, tonight's menu included vegetable beef soup and my guy is making beef jerky. These chicks will grow up to be strong, sleek hunters of the velt, taking down wild carribou, then bringing them home to be lightly sauteed with spices.

 

[neferset]

Spooky is out of the shell. Second pip is peeping his head off. He appears to be proceeding normally, but I want to check him in about an hour to make sure everything is ok due to the humidity issues.

 

[evonne]

that is nuts nef....
i can't believe they're hatching already.. so, what's you total hatch count in the last 14 days??? lol...

we'll have to see about doing this again for next halloween.. lol...
oh we could schedule a valentines hatch maybe???

that would be fun.. last hatch of the year for a lot of people, and first hatch.. is that too early for a first hatch?? considering they need what 3-4 weeks in the house??

 

[chickenlover54]

i'm in too. I have seramas due on halloween........... lucky accident??????
I will post pics when they hatch

 

[neferset]

14 days? That's all of the hatches this month. Let's see...Including the buff that got out tonight, that will be 17 total chickens in staggered hatches using two incubators, but I lost two that hatched late and had some physical problems, so I have 15 chicks. And, I'm waiting on the second hatchling still.

My hatch rate is about 80%. It would be higher but for the weather changes we have had. I mentioned earlier I lost another one tonight due to poor humidity. A moment of silence for the Unnamed Peeper.
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Thank you.

Add in 2 ducks to that with a dismal hatch rate on the duck eggs. The poor ducks were getting ready to hatch during the temperature and humidity issues. Also, don't a percentage of crested ducks have a problem anyway??? (Can't I get off the hook for that? I did hatch two beautiful baby ducklings.)

I still haven't cleared out the duck incubator, because I believe in fairies. If you do too and clap your hands, maybe Tinkerbell will come back life.

But I'll admit, I hatch better in the rain. I did much better with the hatches before the cold front.

 

[neferset]

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I will weigh in for a St. Patrick's Day Hatch. That gives us the end of February to start instead of the end of January. Here we'll still have the possibility of cold snaps and I wouldn't want a broody setting without protection, but it should be ok with the incubator/brooder. Here we don't get consistent spring weather until May.

 

[evonne]

you're going to be up to your eyeballs in eggshels by the time this next set is done....

 

[neferset]

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Well, would that be out of the ordinary for you? LOL
Before this is all over, I want to tell you guys .... this has been a blast! What a great party. I feel like we should be sorority sisters or something! Thanks for the fun trip!

Well, are you in to do this again???

I think we have some gentlemen in our midst, so a sorority is out. We could be a holiday hatching club.

 

[neferset]

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Nah, that's the beauty of it. You can crumble them up and feed them to the chickens. It's good calcium.