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[casportpony]

Can some of you help me? I've been watching over this one Pekin egg for so long. Finally at the end and I see this!? Can you tell me if its ok? Last night he was happy and healthy in his egg today this.
Thank you all.

Welcome to BYC!

What day are you at? That *might* be a sign that it's a wrong end pip.

-Kathy

 

[kwhites634]

@LittleLakePhil

Orioles getting the broom ready

 

[BusyBearMama]

Hi! I've got 2 incubators running and 3 hatches scheduled for the coming week and a half! First hatch has 22 eggs, going to post photos one egg has a weird air cell, should I worry? Im taking them off the turners tomorrow night and getting this lockdown deal going will be this years first hatch and our first hatch with our own eggs so we are all excited! Been muddy and we had an egg get smashed in the breeding coop so I've not been saving so many eggs for the next incubation. I will hatch in the one incubator, clean it out and put the next few eggs in lockdown in there and then clean that out again after that hatch and then the other incubator goes into lock down and the first one will get 42 eggs - I have 24 ready already and about 8 days till I should load it up and with 10 hens in breeding coops I've been getting 6-7 eggs a day and it's sort of touch and go on the cleanliness front, so I'm just keeping the clean ones for incubation and rotating them and what not... I figure if I get 5 good eggs a day on average for 8 days that's 40 more eggs and after I go through it and pick out the imperfect ones I will have like 50? And whatever's left can go in the next batch... Or maybe I will have a broody please universe lol. Any of you move broody hens? I'm thinking about how to go about that if one goes broody can I put her somewhere safer than the barn? How many eggs would one put under a broody?

 

[BusyBearMama]

wonky air cell, is the chick small or am I missing something or is the air cell just off to the side and how does this usually affect hatch. I've seen it but am not remembering... I feel like I ended up with an upside down hatcher last year and I had to preform minor egg surgery and the bird was fine but I had to open the incubator and sadly I don't believe I will do that again...

 

[BusyBearMama]

sorry the above photo was the wrong one- this is the one

 

[lindalouly]

Hi! I've got 2 incubators running and 3 hatches scheduled for the coming week and a half! First hatch has 22 eggs, going to post photos one egg has a weird air cell, should I worry? Im taking them off the turners tomorrow night and getting this lockdown deal going will be this years first hatch and our first hatch with our own eggs so we are all excited! Been muddy and we had an egg get smashed in the breeding coop so I've not been saving so many eggs for the next incubation. I will hatch in the one incubator, clean it out and put the next few eggs in lockdown in there and then clean that out again after that hatch and then the other incubator goes into lock down and the first one will get 42 eggs - I have 24 ready already and about 8 days till I should load it up and with 10 hens in breeding coops I've been getting 6-7 eggs a day and it's sort of touch and go on the cleanliness front, so I'm just keeping the clean ones for incubation and rotating them and what not... I figure if I get 5 good eggs a day on average for 8 days that's 40 more eggs and after I go through it and pick out the imperfect ones I will have like 50? And whatever's left can go in the next batch... Or maybe I will have a broody please universe lol. Any of you move broody hens? I'm thinking about how to go about that if one goes broody can I put her somewhere safer than the barn? How many eggs would one put under a broody?

Welcome!!! You are gonna be one busy chicky mama. I can't answer all your questions but I know of many that keep a seperate coop for their broody hens. I'm sure there is always a risk of breaking the brood but sometimes they just aren't serious about it. Looking forward to seeing how everything works out for you.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Some cute photos from this morning before the rain started:

Lavender ameraucana (6.5 weeks) - pretty little cuddle monkey, this one is. I think it may end up being a cockerel, but I may keep him anyway.

Here's Dotty, chronic escapee from her paddock (she drives her rooster to distraction worrying for her, poor guy). I can hear her now, "I'm too sexy for my coop..."


And finally, three crazy girls all trying to share the same nest box:


- Ant Farm

 

[lindalouly]

Some cute photos from this morning before the rain started: Lavender ameraucana (6.5 weeks) - pretty little cuddle monkey, this one is. I think it may end up being a cockerel, but I may keep him anyway. Here's Dotty, chronic escapee from her paddock (she drives her rooster to distraction worrying for her, poor guy). I can hear her now, "I'm too sexy for my coop..." And finally, three crazy girls all trying to share the same nest box: - Ant Farm

Beautiful!!!!!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yeah, actually I looked very closely at Penedesencas because of that, but their reputation as independent birds swayed me away, only because I was a beginner at the time and it didn't seem like I had the chicken-keeping skills yet for that sort of chicken (I could probably do fine with them now, but am full up on chickens at the moment). The Cream Legbars have actually done very well in the heat - that's the Mediterranean bit showing. New Hampshires are supposed to do well as well. The ones I'll need to watch are the Marans. Fortunately I have a lot of shade for all of them, and I give them all little wading pools for their feet in summer (and dunk in ice or frozen water bottles) - it's a little extra effort, but they like it and it cools them off a lot. If I see one that looks like they are feeling hot, I pick them up and hold their feet in there. They recover quickly.

- Ant Farm

That independence makes them MUCH easier to care for. A little food and water, open the doors in the morning and close them at dusk.
I was thinking about this yesterday. I don't know what keeps them from turning feral. There's very little interaction till they're at least a year old. They run off into the woods and return in the evening. I see them in the field occasionally. I'm going through so little food now, I really need to cut back on how much fermented feed I make. I was going through about 4 gallons a day before warm weather hit. Now I'm going through a half gallon now. Fill the bulk feeders and don't have to put anything in there for another week or two.

Wading pools are critical in the heat. I start putting them out when it hits 95.

I hate arguments. I didn't bother to tell her I know someone who keeps them next to their bed

Me too. My parents fought a lot and I avoid conflict at all cost.
I always say if I kept chicks in the house, the dust wouldn't have a chance to kill me. My wife would have already done the deed.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Well, one of these days I am going to get some hatching eggs from you. I just need to get my numbers and housing under control first.

- Ant Farm