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[LittleLakePhil]

Maybe

 

[ChickaLong]

Anyone up?

Maybe

Good Morning

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Still up from yesterday....

 

[ChickaLong]

Still up from yesterday....

You should be tired.
I just got up but I am going back to bed.

 

[S5apiotrowski]

Who needs flowers and candy for valentines? Not me! my chicks just started hatching. 2 out when I walked past and a few others making noise

Yay! My hatch is happening too... best little valentines day present one can get!

Anyone up?

I am now - Good Morning

 

[S5apiotrowski]

7 little chicks this mornings, running around and turning the other eggs. May need to do a coordinated transfer to the brooder when my husband gets up.

16 eggs left. One appears to have a long crack in it (noticed last night, but no progress made). I am wondering if it was a strong pip leaving a huge crack - nice and straight. Of course the egg is rolled pip down now...

I have two pips now at the wrong end, good beak movement on both right now.

There is a handful of eggs that I am unsure if they are pipped or not. Time will tell.

 

[S5apiotrowski]

I/

This egg doesn't look right. There was a sudden large crack last night. The chicks just rolled it over and a large chunk of shell came off, but the internal membrane is not pipped. I haven't seen any movement through the internal membrane. Not really seeing blood vessels either. The one egg that was similar to this one was the first chick to hatch - but the egg crack happened about 24 hours after the sibling eggs external pip

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Maybe it's just a dud and the chicks probably cracked it as mentioned

 

[kwhites634]

Some girls want diamonds for Valentine's Day... I'm happy with a Super Coop, and Mama Garden, plotted and planned by Handsome Devil (referred to as HD). I know I've talked about these plans before, so, forgive me for repeating... Now it's finally happening!!! The first picture is the outline of the raised beds we'll build at the end of the run. Hubby designed the U shape (12' down, 9' across and 3.5' wide (our tractor is 3' wide), with an extra 3' x 4' bed in the middle.



This second pic is a panoramic taken from the inside of where the run goes...we are building the space to the left out for the coop 18ft x 8ft. It is the back of the girl's playhouse. We will tap into the electricity so I can build a brooder and hospital cage above the nesting boxes. We are pouring a slab for ease of cleaning and security. Half of the open space above the wall, to the left, will be greenhouse glass (for light and rain (should we EVER get any!) protection)), with the rest hardware cloth, where it will come across the front, framing it all in and giving them protection at night... We are making the "people door" a Dutch door I can just open the bottom half of to let the girls out. We will mount that old wagon wheel (propped up against the wall) flat on a post for a fun roost, along with a ladder roost.

The posts will be 4.5' high with hogwire. I am moving the blood orange and fig trees out of the center, into the run spaces...more protection from our overhead visitors. We are planting 2 avocados "inside" the run space as well- 1 along each wall, for protection and to screen our neighbors yards. Outside the run fence I'm planting lavender and rosemary bushes for pollinators, chicken smell camouflage and rodent deterrent. We are adding a gate at the corner from where I took the pano, to be able to close off to use for new bird integration, breeding and/or broody hens... We are adding a small 5'x4' coop at the mandarin tree end too.



I am keeping my "Bielefelder Family" over in the area the big girls have their coop now. I am planning for the big girls to move to super coop when these babies are ready to go out...just so everyone is on new territory.

Lastly, we will fill in the open space with polished gravel and put a picnic table and benches in the middle, along with my favorite adirondack chairs. This is the best Valentine present EVER! I have a feeling it is also bday, Mother's Day, anniversary , and likely Christmas...for a very long time!

Looks like it's going to be a nice setup. Make sure not to get any trees close enough to the fence or an uncovered run; coon & fox are excellent climbers, but I guess you've taken that into account already

 

[S5apiotrowski]

Took the chicks out of the bator. Found this one DIS. It was turned down and I never knew it was pipped. Mal-positioned too. I found a few chicks pipped end down... hatchlings are so naughty