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

[lozerface79]

Trying to put my 3 month old silkies in with the adults. Stupid roo thinks hooray, fresh meat. Hens attack, and the roo makes them back off, then tries to mount them. How do I keep the roo from mounting the babies? I think they are girls, but not positive.

That is a very good question. I dont have an answer but is the mounting hurting them?

 

[country lovin]

If there's a way to get into trouble, a chicken can usually find it. Bad as toddlers.  Sorry it had to be one of yours.

Thanks, he was one of my friendliest chickens ever. He will be missed, and it made me change my dynamics of what I was going to breed.

 

[lozerface79]

Thanks, he was one of my friendliest chickens ever. He will be missed, and it made me change my dynamics of what I was going to breed.

I am so sorry. I lost a rooster a few months ago... i know how you feel...

 

[country lovin]

Okay had way to much fun at my super bowl party. (didn't watch a min. of he game) but had to log in to tell you all how much I appriciate all your help in my hatching adventures!

 

[gotro17]

OK, humidity holding well and regulating appropriately now, no more funny noise, and I have calmed down. I thought I was going to be so COOL about this hatch - nope. Let's see how many times I freak out during lockdown.... Meanwhile, @Sally Sunshine you wanted photos. I finished the new coop today, and moved the Naked Necks in this evening. They are a little freaked and huddled on the floor of the run in a corner in a pig pile (that's how they've been sleeping in the tractor). They'll be grumpy kept in there for a few days to "learn" it's their new home, since they're used to roaming a lot, but it is pretty nice in there. I assume they'll figure out that they have a sheltered henhouse with roosts eventually. Still have lots of cleaning up of stuff in the yard, and I need to start building tractors now (growout for the chicks) and some A-frames (for solo roosters). But it's nice to get it done. And Dumbledore is back outside with his girls - his tail feathers are growing back out. I don't have it in me to set up the brooder right now - I'm about to drop. I'll set it up after work tomorrow... Busy week at work next work. I just know I'll be a wreck while at work worrying about the hatch/chicks - I can't take off to watch them. I just need to have faith - what will be, will be... I'm going to try to do a read back of the stuff I missed before heading to bed. - Ant Farm

Wowzers! Amazing!!!!! Great job!

 

[lozerface79]

Wowzers! Amazing!!!!! Great job!

I thought everyone was asleep.
Hi there!

 

[chicken hawk 33]

HELLO,anyone still here

 

[lozerface79]

HELLO,anyone still here

I am. Wassup?

 

[country lovin]

I am. Wassup?

nothin apparently

 

[gotro17]

@Sally SunshineFINAL update! I might still be shaking... About an hour ago, I texted @Jessimom that the last silkie, whom I had made the pip for this morning, still hadn't done anything and that I was starting to panic... Sure enough, I go back to the bator and she had started zipping. Meanwhile, my daughter lost her first tooth and I got all caught up in that- Hubby and I put her to bed and I ALMOST started the dishes from the game but thought I'd peek at her progress (see totally procrastinate!)... She had stopped chirping and moving. I thought for sure she was DIS... So, like I told Jessimom, I SPRUNG into action!

I nearly had an anxiety attack peelig away the shell. She was "gulping" air but not chirping. Finally I pulled one piece off and she literally exploded herself out the top. She was DRY! I tossed her back in the bator with the warm damp towel I had used for the SEAL team extraction. She is chirping away in there and ditched her "pants" right away... I am pleased to close out my first hatch with having learned more than I even wanted to but super grateful to you all!!! Final count stands at 23/28 that went to lockdown- out of 41.
I could NOT have done it without you crazy chicken people!