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

[chicken hawk 33]

they wher stinky.they died after internal pip they had the whole yolk sack still unabsorbed.i checked no breathing nothing.but we have four healthy and happy babys.yayayayyayayyayayyya

 

[BantyChooks]

So I have to stop eating chocolate to get zebras to appear? :*(

Depends on the strain, but why do you think zebra invasions are so uncommon? Nobody wants to stop eating chocolate.
-Banti

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

The chick is eating, drinking, pooping, and running around... just like other chicks. It really needs a bath, but it looks 100% better than it did this morning. I think it's going to make it! Good idea... I think I'll name it Balut.




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Joey, congrats!!! I kind of can't believe they are already hatching - didn't you JUST set them? (I think I may have a localized temporal distortion here in my office...)

@Jessimom , I missed this post, so so so sorry to hear this!!!!

I use a Mama Heating Pad now, have used a plate before. Maybe this will help for later, but I have found that I often have to manually put the chicks under the heat source at night for at least a while, and I still check on them every night at bed time when they're little, and sometimes need to relocate them for a number of days (I just remind myself that by the time they feel the cold, it's too dark for them to see their way to the heat) - they usually learn eventually. I also leave the door cracked so I can hear when they're in the mudroom - I've woken up in the middle of the night to cries, and found one chick had wandered off and gotten lost. If I move them outdoors with the heat source still on, I have found I have to "start over" to teach them to go under at night, and check on them until they reliably put themselves to bed. I figure that with a real broody mom, she clucks and calls them to her, and I have yet to figure out a way to get my MHP to cluck...

Not sure whether that would have helped this situation with them getting wet as well, but thought I'd share. Maybe if you got a baby monitor for the next group? You'd just need to hear, as they will cheep if they get cold.

I'm glad you still have 8 babies, though.

Quote: @flocktastic , you lucky duck! My EHALs are still in the brooder, and they are HOODLUMS!!! I am closing in on finishing their tractor, so they are going out in the next couple days, but we've had hail almost every day so far this week, so I was unwilling to move them out in that anyway. But I am SOOOOOOOO looking forward to them going outside - the German New Hampshires in particular are in a growth spurt and are HUGE - they are running out of room in there!!!!

Oh, and my EHAL CL cockerels have been crowing for a couple weeks now (and they've got some of the GNHs going as well). My Cream Legbar rooster apparently carries the "crows-at-an-obscenely-early-age" gene, and it's showing up in all of his chicks (confirmed when I spoke with his breeder-mommy). Lucky me...

Well, lunch is done, I'd better get back to work. My back seized up in the shower this morning, and so I've been in pain and moving slow, which sucks when you have a lot to do. But I know from experience that, at least for my back, the only thing that makes it better is to keep moving so I don't freeze up, and that it'll be better soon. So I'd better get moving then. (I HAVE had to say several times to people at work today "You haven't done anything wrong, I'm not mad at you, I'm just in a lot of pain." I may have to go home anyway to keep myself from snapping at people... )

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

Wow, that is a very early age to start crowing!
-Banti

 

[Chaos18]

 

[chickengirl72]

is this a saddle? this is day 9 on a chicken egg from a local breeder. i thought that saddles normally happen with shipped eggs? are there other causes?

as far as handling this egg, i just keep it upright when i'm candling, and try to leave it alone as much as possible? when it's time to move it to the hatcher, is the best position with the saddle slightly up?

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Depends on the strain, but why do you think zebra invasions are so uncommon? Nobody wants to stop eating chocolate.

-Banti

i don't want to stop eating chocolate. Maybe if it was a unicorn pegasus zebra. Yeah. maybe then

 

[chickengirl72]

another newbie question about a chicken egg. there isn't an air sac, and i think this is a blood ring at the bottom of hte shadowed area? if someone who knows what they're doing can verify, i'll get rid of this egg and another one that looks just the same. eta, this is day 9

 

[Jessimom]

@Jessimom , I missed this post, so so so sorry to hear this!!!!

I use a Mama Heating Pad now, have used a plate before. Maybe this will help for later, but I have found that I often have to manually put the chicks under the heat source at night for at least a while, and I still check on them every night at bed time when they're little, and sometimes need to relocate them for a number of days (I just remind myself that by the time they feel the cold, it's too dark for them to see their way to the heat) - they usually learn eventually. I also leave the door cracked so I can hear when they're in the mudroom - I've woken up in the middle of the night to cries, and found one chick had wandered off and gotten lost. If I move them outdoors with the heat source still on, I have found I have to "start over" to teach them to go under at night, and check on them until they reliably put themselves to bed. I figure that with a real broody mom, she clucks and calls them to her, and I have yet to figure out a way to get my MHP to cluck...

Not sure whether that would have helped this situation with them getting wet as well, but thought I'd share. Maybe if you got a baby monitor for the next group? You'd just need to hear, as they will cheep if they get cold.

I'm glad you still have 8 babies, though.

Well, lunch is done, I'd better get back to work. My back seized up in the shower this morning, and so I've been in pain and moving slow, which sucks when you have a lot to do. But I know from experience that, at least for my back, the only thing that makes it better is to keep moving so I don't freeze up, and that it'll be better soon. So I'd better get moving then. (I HAVE had to say several times to people at work today "You haven't done anything wrong, I'm not mad at you, I'm just in a lot of pain." I may have to go home anyway to keep myself from snapping at people... )

- Ant Farm

Thank you so much! This was a tough way to learn that kind of lesson!! I have always kept the babies inside until they were at least somewhat feathered. They always sleep in piles, so they shared body warmth. Our plans are to insulate the coop, add lights with timers and I will surely go out after dark to check on anyone. But for now, they are in my bedroom and I"m sleeping in my daughter's room.

I am REALLY sorry to hear about your back. I hope that you find some relief soon - yes going home would probably be the best! Take care of yourself!!!!

 

[Chaos18]

is this a saddle? this is day 9 on a chicken egg from a local breeder. i thought that saddles normally happen with shipped eggs? are there other causes?

as far as handling this egg, i just keep it upright when i'm candling, and try to leave it alone as much as possible? when it's time to move it to the hatcher, is the best position with the saddle slightly up?

Slightly saddled. That would be the best course of action for it.

another newbie question about a chicken egg. there isn't an air sac, and i think this is a blood ring at the bottom of hte shadowed area? if someone who knows what they're doing can verify, i'll get rid of this egg and another one that looks just the same. eta, this is day 9

Did you candle from the fat end?