INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

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BantyChooks said:
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Me, too - I've lingered too long. Gotta get some sleep.
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chicken hawk 33 said:
because number fourteen just hatched and it's yolk sack start bulging out.so we put it in a cup.and it looks like the last one the other Silkie has died.hasn't internally pipped and no faint movement what so ever
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I'm sorry about the last egg, but 13 healthy and 1 that might recover is a great hatch rate!! I have only had a perfect hatch rate twice. I know you have lost entire hatches. So, GREAT job on the 14 that successfully made it full term!!!
 
Fire Ant Farm said:
OK, so you all probably realize that my "handle" here has some basis in reality - the thing that grows best here is... fire ant mounds. It's bad enough that I actually have developed a sort of immunity to their stings/bites. I'm surprised at all the anti-ant solutions - are my chickens really that different? They LOVE eating ants! My Cream Legbars found mound and scratched the thing into oblivion, eating all the larvae. Ants crawling up their legs, they didn't really care (though they'd step back every once in a while to shake it off). It was a food orgy!!! Yeah I was actually kidding. I don't know how you would keep ants out of your chicken coop. Or why you would want to. The chickens will eat them right? Next time I find a mound in my garden beds, I'm bringing out the Cream Legbar hens - best ant exterminators ever! I build every coop assuming that if I go outside at night, this is what I'll find. Not a bad approach, as they pull the side of my house off to climb into my attic. This morning I found raccoon scat near the coops, and the fly traps dragged all over the place (one opened). All chickens completely safe. I'm not an idiot - one may eventually find a way in. But all my coops are very secure for a very good reason... I cull/process in a little alcove near the hose faucet that cannot be seen from almost anywhere else, in my yard or from the neighbors, for this reason. You bad boy... I had an abacus as a toy when I was a small child. I'm only 45, but my mother was a teacher and my father was an engineer. It was inevitable... You know, CC, I SERIOUSLY considered just starting with Penedescencas before I bought my first chick (I was doing all that breed research). I opted not to because I didn't have experience with chickens, and surmised (rightfully, I think), that they'd be hard for a beginner. I'm now up to my ears in my own project(s), but every time I see your birds, I am tempted to set up a space and coop for them in the back of my property and Have I mentioned lately that you are my hero??!! Such a guardian angel for everyone's chickens and flocks, always making yourself available, accepting of the concept of "being on call" all the time. So glad you are here (on this thread and on BYC). :clap CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! (BTW, I know you don't read back - here are the paddock pics I posted for you - finally switched the poor grass starved Naked Necks, they are SOOOOO happy now!) Before: After: Hurrah!!!! Congrats, CH! Good job, and good job letting them do their thing and hatch on their own! They are lovely chicks. Yeah, I was way back in the back and couldn't get in fast, and I also thought it would stop (it went on for much longer than I expected or had experienced before). Recently we had 4.5" hail that broke car windshields. I didn't know if it would get worse, and didn't want the chickens to have to deal with that - the ones that didn't take shelter were mostly the young ones who didn't know better. You can BET they know better now!!!! :gig - Ant Farm
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No activity from the only surviving Sebastapol goose egg. I was just about ready to admit defeat, when I thought I'd better check temp and humidity one more time...
A pip! It's rocking and peeping like crazy! So, maybe I will have a goose after all!
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No activity from the only surviving Sebastapol goose egg. I was just about ready to admit defeat, when I thought I'd better check temp and humidity one more time...
A pip! It's rocking and peeping like crazy! So, maybe I will have a goose after all!
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Exciting!! I would love to hatch some of these. We need to build our pond first.
 
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