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

[Saris]

Ok one of my pipped eggs died. I opened the shell after I saw it stopped visibly breathing and it hadn't absorbed its yolk. I'm guessing maybe yolk sac infection? Hope the rest are ok... 4 out, two more big pips and one tiny pip that I'm worried about...may be DIS.

 

[Laurel Meadows]

Ok I only got 6 just because I don't want to overcrowd...so 3 cuckoos and 3 BO's

:yiipchick

 

[BantyChooks]

Yup cattywampus. All crooked and wrong. 

Sally is't crooked! (In case your on mobile, her title is "Cattywampus")

Pretty sure the guy at tractor supply thinks I really am the crazy chicken lady...he's the one that helps me every time I'm there...& he hasn't even seen half of my chicks lol.

And I MIGHT have just dug down into our big outdoor trash container a bit so I could better hide the tractor supply chick days box from my husband!!

He'll neeeeeeeverrrrrrr know

Yeeeees... Neverrr....

The chick hatched

 

[kwhites634]

Unfortunately, the boot is the only way to deal with it. I think we all agree that it's mean, but it's self defense.
You can carry him around like a football several times for twenty minutes or so. Then it is time for the pot. I had a rooster that I chose above all the others, and I really couldn't tell you why. He was a red sex link, the others were a Rhode Island red, five Columbian Rock, and a White Rock. Plenty of great choices, but I was dumb enough to keep a mutt just because he was the under dog. He attacked me in the face three times before someone came and took care of him.
Please don't ever forget a mean rooster has mean offspring.
As for or "why now?", I'll bet part of it is because it's spring, but also they are just reaching their maturity.

I tried the football routine; got bit 4 times for my trouble. Even carried him around upside down by the legs for a while; could've saved the time & energy.

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: Good News!

Home from work...3 babies out!! 1 oe 1 ee 1wl! 5 more hatching currently!!

 

[flocktastic]

@Sally Sunshine
 I ended up with 12 chicks from the 16 that made it to lockdown. 

I will be setting again tomorrow evening or Friday, depends on the condition my eggs arrive in because my post office didn't hold them for pick up!  I'm so mad! Wahhhhhhhhhhh

Omg that's so frustrating!!!! That happened to me and I was so mad with USPS!! sahwithchicks (Nicole) sent me 8 hatching eggs and she put all over the box in NEON to NOT take on route and out to call me - even wrote my number on top of the box and I CALLED USPS and told them what to expect and that when it came in, call me ASAP and I'll pick up - do NOT deliver!!
They said ok...& as soon as they came in they put the box on one of the dang jeeps here for delivery!!! (And I know that worker and she drives like a crazy person!!) ughhhh!!!

I had to track her down and get my box but she's already been out for several hours with them.

 

[mlm Mike]

Day 15 Icelandic's














Day 15 Icelandic's

How do they look? @mlm Mike






Day 15

I think you might end up with some Icelandic chicks!

 

[mlm Mike]

Pretty sure the guy at tractor supply thinks I really am the crazy chicken lady...he's the one that helps me every time I'm there...& he hasn't even seen half of my chicks lol.

And I MIGHT have just dug down into our big outdoor trash container a bit so I could better hide the tractor supply chick days box from my husband!!

He'll neeeeeeeverrrrrrr know

We won't tell!

@Sally Sunshine - hatch update. Lockdown today, having a bad run and only 13 into lockdown out of 46. Had incubator spike early. Pretty disheartening, not sure how or if any will hatch as 6 Of those I cant even see into, they are OE and Wellies.

Sorry about your heat spike.

@Sally Sunshine I ended up with 12 chicks from the 16 that made it to lockdown.

I will be setting again tomorrow evening or Friday, depends on the condition my eggs arrive in because my post office didn't hold them for pick up!

I'm so mad!

Wahhhhhhhhhhh

I hate when the post office does that.

The chick hatched

More good news from you!

 

[chicken hawk 33]

I add ad Neosporin ointment on its navel.to cover it

 

[BantyChooks]

OH I guess I can be on the hatchers list for real again....
@Sally Sunshine 10 OEGB x silkie set 3/29.