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[homeschoolin momma]

Hey Y'all! Chicago, signing in!
I've got a White Leghorn (Probably) and a RIR (maybe) for about a year now.

Welcome! This is a GREAT group!

 

[Molpet]

Hey Y'all! Chicago, signing in!
I've got a White Leghorn (Probably) and a RIR (maybe) for about a year now.

Glad to meet you

 

[Faraday40]

Here's what my incubator looked like last night with the newly hatched poultry = little drunks flopping around. (You'll see what I mean.)

 

[Faraday40]

Wow that is a great hatch rate for poults.
Do all the poults look like the same colors as last year?
Red bronze Jake might have been the father of some. Maybe he hadn't started breeding yet. I know he did later. The Tom is a calico, same as last year

I'm also very surprised at how well it went. They pretty much all hatched within a small window of time. Most within 8 hrs overnight, but all within 15 hours of each other.

I just call them brown or white. Many of the "whites" actually have some faint light brown striping on their backs and yellow down. The browns look like last year's.

 

[Faraday40]

Here's "Cookie" today. (Nick named "Cookie Monster" when she's broody)
Anyone have a good caption for this pic?

 

[cavemanrich]

Anyone have a good caption for this pic?

 

[Molpet]

Hatch update:
Late last night the 1st 2 poults hatched. They flopped around like little drunks.
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By morning, many had hatched
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The egg that had pipped upside down required assistance. Chick started zipping around dinner and at 6am this morning, it was clearly stuck. Once I removed the top & moistened the hardened membranes, the poult pushed out immediately. The navel didn't look closed so I gently pushed in the navel area, applied antibiotic ointment, wrapped poult in wet paper towels and placed it in a mug to prevent it from too much activity strain.

Spoiler: herniated navel pic

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At this point all 12 turkey eggs hatched. Most are now with mama Cookie in the brooder, and a few are still drying out in the incubator. (Not sure what the fate will be of the cupped poult) There's a pipped orp egg and a few ?? orp eggs remaining. Nothing yet happened with the serama eggs. I did add them later (trying to schedule the same target hatch day) so it's very possible I will have an extended, scattered hatch. The seramas were also all together in the same area of the incubator, so perhaps a cooler spot.


And, here's a poult pic just for fun.
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How's the bellybutton poult?

 

[homeschoolin momma]

Sad news. I found Banshee today. Apparently she had made a nest somewhere in the barn and hunkered down where I couldnt find her. But something did find her this morning. I went to get shavings and found pieces everywhere including a broken egg. There was nothing left but a leg, the wings and feathers. Poor girl. I should have searched more in the barn as i knew she had been laying eggs in there.

 

[Molpet]

Sad news. I found Banshee today. Apparently she had made a nest somewhere in the barn and hunkered down where I couldnt find her. But something did find her this morning. I went to get shavings and found pieces everywhere including a broken egg. There was nothing left but a leg, the wings and feathers. Poor girl. I should have searched more in the barn as i knew she had been laying eggs in there.

So sorry for your loss

 

[cavemanrich]

Faraday40
You take such dyno pix, I looked again and thought of a better caption.

BRIGHTER IMAGE LABS.

Spoiler: I STOLE IT FROM HERE :)