Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[groundpecker]

Please clear Bradselig. Paypal was sent to me.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

• Lockdown this weekend: French White Muscovy(our stock), Buff Faverolle from AyeUpChuck, SFH from Papabrooder
• just finished hatching: 5/6 Sebastopols (yes BM6 pictures will be taken and posted lol)
• just set on Thursday: 16 more goose eggs
• setting this weekend: 20 CCL, EE eggs, LF light brahma, Khaki and Silver Appleyard duck

Yep that about wraps it up. Cant wait to have the new incubator picked up for the extra space!

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Got a bunch of assorted stuff from one of Jim Heinz fill-your-incubator specials in lockdown yesterday. Got packages from crfarma and kraftyladies yesterday, so they've been stabilizing and will go in the incubator in just a few minutes. Lovely, lovely eggs, and lovely, lovely chicks! I need to move some out of the house and get a brooder set up for the new arrivals!

I told myself this morning that I was going to Be Good, and do chores before checking the swap. And what happens? I missed golden cuckoo marans that had sat there all night long. So much for being good!

 

[madamwlf]

What kind of chicks did you want to get?

I was looking at getting more barnies and a few more NL legbar hens. Looks like I have to put down my NL rooster since he's having leg issues now. It's always something.

 

[Ridge Farm]

SFH from Tnbearchick are starting to hatch - 2 out so far. Got my fingers crossed for a good hatch.

 

[sonew123]

Hey Natalie, do you want to exchange them for another breed?

I would LOVE that i didnt want to be a pain i really wanted them but since Sept a few of my oldest 5yr old bantams passed theres NO need for 3 old gals that are left to have a 8x8 coop with a 20x 10 run!! Thank you soooo much!!!

 

[tdhenson86]

So many posts to catch up on... I'm so sorry to everyone who lost chicks! It is terrible what is happening. I'm glad the PO allows us to ship eggs and chicks (since they are the only ones who allow it), but I sure wish they would take better care of them!!!!!!

 

[chickenbelle]

It seems I'm not having a good hatch rate this time. Of 11 Buttercups, 8 made it to lockdown and I had 5 that pipped, zipped and said "hello" to us within an hour starting Thursday evening. But everything else in that incubator is in slow mode. I have 2 Arkansas Blues, 2/4 Salmon Faverolles, and 1/5 olive eggers. Not a one of the Marans from AyeUp have pipped, either. It seems the larger the egg, the slower they are coming out this time. So that means of the total 38 eggs I set, only 23 made it to lockdown and at day 22 only 10 of those have hatched. Hope the rest make an entrance today.

My second incubator went into lockdown yesterday--those all look good. Lots of silkie/showgirls, silver penciled rocks, bbs marans, and wheatens in there.

I also had serious chicken drama when I got home from work yesterday. We saw blood all over the back neck of one of our light brahma girls. My first suspicion was the 5 month gigantic sized wyandotte. They are all in a grow out run together until I'm sure they are doing their jobs well and can separate by breed. So she is apparently his favorite lately. His hormones kicked in about two weeks ago. He's been chasing her for days.

I pick her up--and I haven't posted pics because it was REALLY nasty-- but the back of her neck is laid open from just behind her left ear to about a quarter inch behind her right ear. All the way across. When I grabbed the feathers to lift so I could see how bad it was, ALL of that skin is cut open. You could just peel the skin and take her whole face right off.

I've never seen a cut on a chicken like this. We washed it good with filtered water and put antibiotic cream on it. She is now in one of the transport cages in DH's shop until she heals. Should I do anything else to it? Anything better I should buy and put on it? Give her oral antibiotics just in case?

POOR thing! She's so sweet...dumb as a stick, but a sweet girl.

I went all through that run and the coop and there is nowhere she could have gotten her head caught--so the question is still did the big cockerel really do this to her? At 5 months, he is 7 pounds. He is larger than every bird I have that is in the year old range. I have seen him chase the girls, grab them, and jump them , but I've not seen him be aggressive towards them when he does.

 

[babymakes6]

Quote: Send a pm to me (and Rachael, if you would, please?) and let me know your choice.

 

[ProfTi]

Good morning everyone!

GM! Did you have requests for you next box yet??