Jan./Feb. 2014 hatch a long

[Gen9]

It's funny. When they see that we're going to hatch them anyways then they help. I know mine is tired of hearing chickens. Lol love the look on his face while he sits and listens

My hubby helped me with the incubator but after I started brooding he kept nagging me "when are you gonna move them out? When are you gonna move them out?" I think he drive me nuts more than I drove him nuts
Wish he had more patience...

 

[dolfi]

My hubby helped me with the incubator but after I started brooding he kept nagging me "when are you gonna move them out? When are you gonna move them out?" I think he drive me nuts more than I drove him nuts
Wish he had more patience...

Lol, married life. We'll laugh at this when the years past

 

[DeannaA]

very very exciting news!!!!!!!!
my ducklings that I hatched last year have started laying!!!! very beautiful green eggs!!! I'm incubating but I "know" they are fertile

my babies are grown up!

Do you have pictures of the eggs?

I have selenium, super b complex, & vitamin e crushed up with honey & ACV (with the mother) - I smashed up yolk in the mix & have been giving it that. I'm really not sure if its ok to go back with them.. Maybe if I do this 3x a day? Put it back each time..?

Sometimes the ACV is too sour. You can try leaving it out. Vitamin B deficiency causes a lot of problems.

I just got back inside from putting it back with the others. It was closing one eye... had a bad feeling if I didn't put it back it might die overnight. It was moving around pretty good, but it had a little diarrhea, hope it will be ok. I think I'm going to check early this morning to see how it's doing. When I was putting it under mama she kept shifting around like she didn't want it under her.. I might check again soon just to be sure she didn't reject it

Extra vitamins can cause runny poop and pasty butt. Keep an eye on the hiney.

 

[Cynthia12]

Am I doing this right? My temperature is at 100.6-100.8 and the humidity is at 35%. I'm incubating khaki Campbell eggs.

Yep.

 

[Cynthia12]

Extra vitamins can cause runny poop and pasty butt. Keep an eye on the hiney.


The above is so true..and, so can the medicated feed. I only keep them on it for a week.

 

[dolfi]

Day 10. Huuuu so boring till day 14. Tomorrow I get new incubator. putting some in right away. This way I can have two hatches in on month.

 

[Cynthia12]

Lol I have mine in the living room. In a cocktail cage. He just looks at me but don't say anything. He has no idea that I have another Bach hatching in a couple of weeks. And that in already collecting eggs to incubate right away.

dofi..I have a friend that does the same thing! I thought how funny, but they all get along. lol..

 

[Farmer Viola]

Extra vitamins can cause runny poop and pasty butt. Keep an eye on the hiney.


The above is so true..and, so can the medicated feed. I only keep them on it for a week.

I keep them in a brooder at first... and so I keep them on medicated feed until they are introduced to the soil (where the medication is needed).
I supplement their feed with kale, mustard greens, and watercress chopped up fine until they are on grass

 

[dolfi]

I keep them in a brooder at first... and so I keep them on medicated feed until they are introduced to the soil (where the medication is needed).
I supplement their feed with kale, mustard greens, and watercress chopped up fine until they are on grass

I wish I know where to get these things. Feel lost in feeding.

 

[Cynthia12]

I don't do the special food for the babies. Just the hens outside. They get to free range come spring and all through the summer and fall. Then in the winter I add other things..fruits and veggies. And, BOSS. This is excellent protein for them. They love them too.