Incubators Anonymous

[ChickNmamma]

Quote: Some roosters are very quiet about their conquests - only way to know for sure is test for fertility

 

[ozexpat]

Some roosters are very quiet about their conquests - only way to know for sure is test for fertility

yup, lots of us roos dont brag.

 

[Runawaylobster]

Some roosters are very quiet about their conquests - only way to know for sure is test for fertility

i guess i may have a self conscious rooster LOL!!!

 

[DMRippy]

wow I just Harvard 100% from several breeds.....rhodebars SLEE AND Olive eggers and the sex linked ones were pullet heavy too.....whaaaahhhooooo!

 

[ChickNmamma]

wow I just Harvard 100% from several breeds.....rhodebars SLEE AND Olive eggers and the sex linked ones were pullet heavy too.....whaaaahhhooooo!

I think you may have had a few too many celebratory drinks..either that or your smart phone thinks its smarter than you are...

Harvard, huh? Well educated chicks!

Congrats on the lotsa girls!

 

[DMRippy]

wow I just Harvard 100% from several breeds.....rhodebars SLEE AND Olive eggers and the sex linked ones were pullet heavy too.....whaaaahhhooooo!

I think you may have had a few too many celebratory drinks..either that or your smart phone thinks its smarter than you are...

Harvard, huh?  Well educated chicks!

Congrats on the lotsa girls!

yeah they are smart too. hehe. I can't wait to have use of a computer that is not as smart as my phone.

I set up my exchequer leghorn cross pen today too. my WL roo attacked me 2 days ago so he left the farm today. i have an nice exchequer roo over my WL/Exchequer cross pullets. I have a few exchequer growing out to put with him down the road. the pullets throw blues too.


Monday we wrecking to more some rocks out of my Isabelle Marans pen so I can start hatching some chicks from them too.

 

[Runawaylobster]

Some roosters are very quiet about their conquests - only way to know for sure is test for fertility

So i put test eggs in there on monday night and because they are marans and blue eggs i couldn't see anything
so tonight I decided to crack them one at a time starting with the oldest and then if i found a fertile egg
stop there. After cracking 5 or 6 i found a fertile one... Woohoo.... There still appears to be a high percentage
of infertiles but i put in the next batch that i started saving on tuesday morning so i will be able to see
if the fertility rate is going up..

still havent seen Mr sawtooth doing his thing.. maybe like you said he is a modest boy

Phew!!! i owe several people some chicks...

and then it must be my lucky day i found two eggs in the wheatens pen. they have been on strike for about
a month. Well they have been in with a cream legbar roo so in the hope of getting some olive eggers I
stuck them in the incubator too LOL!!!!

woohooo....

 

[Haloclimb]

Chick overload at the moment! This looks like my most successful run in the incubator so far- about 10 chicks have hatched out already all on their own, with more peeping away n the incubator Usually I'm having to help because somethings gone wrong!

One thing I'm noticing though is that quite a few of the chicks have unhealed navels...not massive holes, just little bits where it's not completely closed yet. I've sprayed them with a disinfectant (for animal use!), and I'm just wondering how many of you guys have problems like that? I think it was temperature and humidity that caused them, since the humidity was a little off in the last few days and the temp wasn't too consistent!

One chick really has me worried though. It can't stretch it's legs- as in, I can't physically stretch it's legs out. They only bend a little before being too tense, and I don't want to push too hard and end up hurting it. What could be causing that? I don't think it's spraddleleg, but I'm really not sure on what it could be.

 

[tlpounds]

I said that too and then my favorite sweet cochin got sick from a scorpion sting so HAD to put some of her eggs in the bator today just in case she doesn't make it.

Well, after nursing Platinum back to health for over a week she is able to walk about 15 steps before getting worn out but she's going to make it! YAY! And I'm not sure which of my girls have their eggs in the bator, but 5 of them are moving around. I'm so thankful she's pulled through. She actually ate a little today for the 1st time in a week. WOO HOOO!

 

[ChickNmamma]

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Yay!!! Wow, I wondered what happened to her and was thinking the worst. I am so glad she is on the mend, scorpion poison is no joke.