July Hatch-a-Long (including 4th of July hatch-a-long)

[Hucklekree]

Here are some of my homegrown babies I hatched out in May.

 

[Hucklekree]

Here are some from the Meyer hatch in June. Lots of roos. The golden one is the one BYMix I hatched with them. He is so friendly always greets me. They are probably not all pictured. But to remind everyone:

2 blue Andalusians
1 Black Andalusian
2 Speckled Sussex
3 Partridge Rocks
4 Olive Eggers
1BYMix

 

[FortCluck]

Here are some of my homegrown babies I hatched out in May.

I love them!!! I love seeing people hatching more than one month then showing chicks that they hatched previously!

 

[Hucklekree]

Well in that case Here are the Bieles and Creves in their new outdoor brooder. Because thank the Lord it has gotten above 70 this week and looks to stay that way! You can clearly see that the Bieles I bought locally are way behind the ones I hatched just two days before.

 

[FortCluck]

These quail keep escaping the brooder I’m moving them to the shed and putting fencing on top of the storage bin so they stop being escape artists.

The cat keeps looking under the door when they escape

 

[Hucklekree]

Cat wants some free dinner

 

[Oldhallchicks]

I don't remember if you were using DE... someone said they were. It isn't effective enough to trust for killing parasites. I don't like poisons but sometimes one needs them. I haven't had this problem and don't know the best remedies, but searching or asking in the emergencies etc topic will get you some good info.

Yeah...I had been using DE as a preventative measure. The hens were re-homed with us about 8 weeks ago, so I’m assuming there was a previous undetected/untreated issue bc our coop is brand new and we don’t have any other birds!!

it was beautiful today so when mama was outside, I took out all the straw and fumigatedthe coop with a perimythrin (sp?) spray and closed it up for about an hour, then aired it out in the sun put all new straw in.

ive also got some spray coming for the chicks, and invermectin drops for mama. So we are for sure nipping it in the bud!! Lice freak me out 🕷

annnnnnd...while I was up there I went ahead and gave her all the chicks. I’ll just treat the whole flock . She’s such a good mama so far, so might as well let her do all the work

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yeah...I had been using DE as a preventative measure. The hens were re-homed with us about 8 weeks ago, so I’m assuming there was a previous undetected/untreated issue bc our coop is brand new and we don’t have any other birds!!

it was beautiful today so when mama was outside, I took out all the straw and fumigatedthe coop with a perimythrin (sp?) spray and closed it up for about an hour, then aired it out in the sun put all new straw in.

ive also got some spray coming for the chicks, and invermectin drops for mama. So we are for sure nipping it in the bud!! Lice freak me out 🕷

annnnnnd...while I was up there I went ahead and gave her all the chicks. I’ll just treat the whole flock . She’s such a good mama so far, so might as well let her do all the work

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Sooooo cute!!!! My broody has hatched out two cute little fluff balls so far!!! I was so surprised when I went to check on her this afternoon. I didn’t think they would hatch until tomorrow or Thursday lol

 

[ShrekDawg]

They both ran under mama when I opened the lid so hard to get good pictures but I am going back out to try again lol one black and one yellow so far. It looks grey here but it’s black.

 

[Oldhallchicks]

They both ran under mama when I opened the lid so hard to get good pictures but I am going back out to try again lol one black and one yellow so far. It looks grey here but it’s black.

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Adorable!! Is she a speckled Sussex? That’s what I’m hoping to hatch to add to my flock next year