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[funnyfarmmom]

This is off the topic of chickens so if you guys want me to delete it I will. But I have two potbellied pigs that are 3 months old, one male one female, for sale. Also have 6 baby lionhead bunnies just weaned.

Now on to chicken stuff . I have an incubator full of eggs that were due to hatch on Thursday. Its now Saturday, and not one pip. Ive never had this happen before. Every batch has started hatching on the day they were supposed to. Ive never even helped a chick out of the egg after it pipped, I let nature take its course. Husband did unplug the bator the second day of lockdown (whole nother story there). It was unplugged nearly an hour before I found it. Is there something I should do to help the chicks out?

 

[chick rookie]

This is off the topic of chickens so if you guys want me to delete it I will. But I have two potbellied pigs that are 3 months old, one male one female, for sale. Also have 6 baby lionhead bunnies just weaned.

Now on to chicken stuff

. I have an incubator full of eggs that were due to hatch on Thursday. Its now Saturday, and not one pip. Ive never had this happen before. Every batch has started hatching on the day they were supposed to. Ive never even helped a chick out of the egg after it pipped, I let nature take its course. Husband did unplug the bator the second day of lockdown (whole nother story there). It was unplugged nearly an hour before I found it. Is there something I should do to help the chicks out?

We talk about all our livestock here so your fine. As far as your hatch... I've not been hatching long enough to be even close to an expert but when your DH unplugged the bator that may have messed your whole clutch up. What kind of eggs do you have in it? Some take longer to hatch then others.

 

[Faraday40]

This is off the topic of chickens so if you guys want me to delete it I will. But I have two potbellied pigs that are 3 months old, one male one female, for sale. Also have 6 baby lionhead bunnies just weaned.

Now on to chicken stuff

. I have an incubator full of eggs that were due to hatch on Thursday. Its now Saturday, and not one pip. Ive never had this happen before. Every batch has started hatching on the day they were supposed to. Ive never even helped a chick out of the egg after it pipped, I let nature take its course. Husband did unplug the bator the second day of lockdown (whole nother story there). It was unplugged nearly an hour before I found it. Is there something I should do to help the chicks out?

If something like that happened, then there would at least be a delay in hatching. It never hurts to keep the incubator going. If by Sunday you still see no pips, I'd quickly/carefully remove 1-2 to candle. Not sure if you candled along the way to check development or if they were shipped eggs or if one was rotten (Lots can go wrong to kill a whole batch) On the bright side, you're still in the hatching window, so I would just hang tight for another day or so. It's better not to add more variables at this point.

 

[funnyfarmmom]

Thank you both! I did take the bator into the bathroom with the shower running...all but one of the eggs has a moving chick inside it. These are eggs from my hens...buff orps and some mixed breeds. Ive always had very good hatch rates out of them. My friend, who is much more hands on than I am, keeps telling me to poke holes and partially hatch them myself but Im really afraid to do that. It didnt seem like they were in trouble, they just arent hatching .

I keep a notebook also with details about every hatch and checked my dates for this one. They are right.

 

[Leahs Mom]

 

[daskhan]

Oh my gosh are you serious? Lol. How much do you want apiece? Are they straightrun, pullets? Would you be willing to bring them when you come get the others? I cant drive . I would love to get some lol.

They were straight run and I might trade for the buff orpington's other then that idk haven't figured out how to price yet

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Kick me in the face: I have more roosters that I didn't need... but they're so sweet and pretty, and you can't decide differently after they're processed. So I'll keep 'em around until I'd rather eat them for sure, I suppose.

I visited @jchny2000 this afternoon to pick up her ailing Holland hen and hopefully nurse her back to health. I already have her jake here and have been shooting him up full of goodies, keeping him warm and feeding him yogurt to help him fight this "bug" off (and dusting him for the other bugs). While I was there, she told me to take whatever other disposable roosters I wanted because they were going to get processed shortly...

so I picked up the grand impulse grabs of one black Sumatra and one louse-riddled splash-laced-red Wyandotte with a respiratory infection, both pretty young cockerels that I absolutely didn't need...

And then I picked up a pair of black Cochins because I've always wanted some and they don't lay enough eggs to be worth her while...

Oh, and a mystery hen. I'll have to get pictures of her on the forums soon because she (and the boys that were like her) are really odd looking chickens. They have prominent white earlobes, small combs of indeterminate make and model (have to get a better look at hers tomorrow, but needless to say it's not prominent or so far noteworthy), feathered feet, very small wattles, long legs, the silliest running gait possible, and come in splash, blue and black. very awkward birds. The biggest of the roosters was pretty good size, but the others (and the hen especially) were rather small for LF (suspecting they're not done growing at all).

I am sure fighting this odd sinus and eye infection in a few of the turkeys
I will try to find out from where they came what the breed is with the bell bottom feathers and white earlobes,. Dying to know the breed! Very unusual nostrils also. My dynamics here are changing since we have added my FILs older Boston Terrier. Very bird aggressive lil dog. She loves our pug mix and they have had play dates for years. Suzy is at least 9 years old so she is being a real challenge to train.
With the recent additions I took in, am not offering hatching eggs or chicks period until I know that the lil roosters are all gone or clean. Its been a painful learning experience I won't do again. My 2 Hollands have me so worried and I thank you for helping them.

 

[chick rookie]

Awesome!!!

 

[chick rookie]

Got a strong discussion going on right now, have had it before with the same person, almost like trying to make a horse drink when it don't want to.
Want ya'll op.
This person claims to have a chicken that lays 3 different colored eggs, not at once, I say it's impossible, that she cold lay a different shade of the same color as she gets older but not completely different colors every other day.... This person claims to have WATCHED on 3 different occasions this hen lay 3 different colored eggs, a green an off white and a lt brown. Am I wrong in thinking this person is just plain NUTS??? This person says it is Possible cause of the mix in the hen!! I say NOT!!! I have told her to look it up and do some reading!! She looks everything up as it is don't know why she wont look this up??? I swear she just wants something to argue about!! I know I should just give up and let her say what she wants, but

drives me nuts when someone tries to ACT like that know it all, when they don't know jack.... just goes through me, and to keep bringing it up every time we see each other!!

We cant get our NEW shed to stop leaking!! We put some of that clear sealant on the roof the kind that comes in a spry can, I cant remember what the name of it was. So we are just going to put a tarp over the roof for now.

Our old house that we replaced the whole back wall cause of it leaking last year and molded, is leaking again this year!! What is up ?? My temp. tarp houses are better at keeping things dry!!!

Sweet Pea our Cochin is officially a hen, she has give me 3 LG brown eggs this week...

Mystery solved!!

Now if the last Wellie and the BCM's will start laying???

Got a question for ya?? I think I know the answer but want to check.
I hatched this EE chick this summer, in July, It is SOOO small, everything else I hatched with Him/Her is way bigger the him. It was one of my own eggs, I have no EE bantams. Why is he so small? Can on of my hens or my roo carry a bantam gene and pass it on to the chicks? His comb is already red and he has feather coming in his tail that look like Rooster feathers???

 

[Faraday40]

chick rookie
I've seen hens lay diff shades - like one starts out peach but fades to white several months later. I've also seen some brown speckled egg layers sometimes lay a solid brown. Unless one of her eggs was shell-less , I doubt there'd ever be that much of a difference. However, I understand what you mean about that know-it-all personality. One of my daughter's classmates criticized DD's drawing of a chicken. The little girl claimed that all chickens must have orange beaks & feet. My daughter told her that chickens can have black, gray, olive, white, etc legs and that she owned chickens. The little girl simply told her she was wrong & of course a liar. Later DD went to her locker & brought back a photograph for show & tell of herself holding some of those nonexistent chickens. She didn't want the whole class believing that all chickens looked like White Leghorns. Then when she told them about the green, blue, tan, pink, & speckled eggs, their jaws dropped. I ended up getting a call with a request for an in school field trip.