July Hatch-A-Long

[KuroKitsune]

i had three cute little bantams finally hatch yesterday(the 28th) but them under my best broody serama hen and all hatched out successfully...she has one more eggs that i gave her later when i wasn't thinking but it look by candleing that it should hatche in a week so hopefully it'll be ok and she still content to sit and keep it and her hatched babies warm but if that changes i have a couple other broodies who'd willingly take the egg from her.

her are a pic of Henrietta(momma) and her babies...

 

[darkbluespace]

i had three cute little bantams finally hatch yesterday(the 28th) but them under my best broody serama hen and all hatched out successfully...she has one more eggs that i gave her later when i wasn't thinking but it look by candleing that it should hatche in a week so hopefully it'll be ok and she still content to sit and keep it and her hatched babies warm but if that changes i have a couple other broodies who'd willingly take the egg from her.

her are a pic of Henrietta(momma) and her babies...

Super cute! Congratulations! They look just like my Serama chicks... same coloring and spots!!

 

[COsteveo]

Day 4. Already struggling to keep track of which day it is because the automatic turner means I don't have to check in 3x every day.

 

[frenchiegirl21]

I have 8 chicks!!!! I haven't hatched bantams in a while, so I forgot that they tend to hatch a little earlier

Now, 29 left to go!

 

[stargazer1974]

Haven't been by here in a few days. Lockdown was Sunday. My 11 Dominique's are due to hatch tomorrow. I did a quick candle and I might have a late quitter. I did see several internal pips, though, but nothing external. Gotta get the nursery ready !!!!!:yiipchick

 

[mrchicks]

Luckily I ordered chicks at the same time that I was bidding on ebay eggs. Out of 44 eggs, I have maybe a dozen still in the incubators. I'm on day 10.

 

[Deb B]

Tragedy strikes. Of the 12 chicks that hatched at the beginning of July, I kept 8 and sold 4. The 8 were doing great when I went out of town on Sunday. Monday evening my hubby calls to tell me he came home from work to a dead chick. I thought it strange, but he thought the rest seemed fine. Tuesday am he calls to tell me there's another dead chick and one acting really sick. I'm the one who usually does all the chicken stuff so he really doesn't know what to look for when it comes to anything other than feeding them. I suspected coccidiosis even though he said he didn't see bloody poop, and walked him though making up their drinking water with Corid to give them, which he did. When I got home Tuesday afternoon there were two more dead chicks and the remaining 4 were noticeably ill and bloody poop evident. The 4 made it through the night and seem to be doing a little better now so I'm hopeful they might make it.

What lousy timing. :/ Poor dear hubby is not a chicken person and was doing me a favor taking care of them all. If I had been home I most likely would have noticed and gotten them on Corid a little sooner and more of them might have made it. (I had an outbreak of Coccidiosis in some chicks I bought last year and they all made it because I caught it really early.)

So please, new chick moms and dads. If you aren't feeding medicated chick feed (which I personally choose not to do because I'm raising my chickens as organically as possible) keep an eye on your chicken poop!

 

[frenchiegirl21]

Tragedy strikes. Of the 12 chicks that hatched at the beginning of July, I kept 8 and sold 4. The 8 were doing great when I went out of town on Sunday. Monday evening my hubby calls to tell me he came home from work to a dead chick. I thought it strange, but he thought the rest seemed fine. Tuesday am he calls to tell me there's another dead chick and one acting really sick. I'm the one who usually does all the chicken stuff so he really doesn't know what to look for when it comes to anything other than feeding them. I suspected coccidiosis even though he said he didn't see bloody poop, and walked him though making up their drinking water with Corid to give them, which he did. When I got home Tuesday afternoon there were two more dead chicks and the remaining 4 were noticeably ill and bloody poop evident. The 4 made it through the night and seem to be doing a little better now so I'm hopeful they might make it.

What lousy timing. :/ Poor dear hubby is not a chicken person and was doing me a favor taking care of them all. If I had been home I most likely would have noticed and gotten them on Corid a little sooner and more of them might have made it. (I had an outbreak of Coccidiosis in some chicks I bought last year and they all made it because I caught it really early.)

So please, new chick moms and dads. If you aren't feeding medicated chick feed (which I personally choose not to do because I'm raising my chickens as organically as possible) keep an eye on your chicken poop!

Oh no!!! I'm so sorry Deb.

I have dealt with Coccidiosis as well and I know it is no fun.

 

[kristianhope18]

I have a quick question guys! I bought my first chicks in April from a rough looking lady! She over priced them to me and I bought knowing nothing about them! 5.00 for day old barred rocks and 14 dollars for a day old appenzeller and 12 dollars for a day old mixed barred rock and something else? Anywho when I got home I noticed the 5 barred rocks were acting weird one dropped its wings wouldn't eat got lazy and died then another and another and my 14.00 Appenzeller died then my mixed bird! I realized after looking back she over priced me chicks she knew was sick! That's why it took her a few minutes to pick out which appenzeller she wanted to sell to me! Err I vowed to never buy from her again! I now have over 21 breeds of chicken two breeds of turkey 2 breeds of quail peafowl and pigeons! Over 150 birds all together! I posted online I was looking for yokohamas and she wrote on it she had lots of chicks and was looking for some herself so I offered to trade with her after her telling me that all her chicks died and she had to burn her boorder and start over now everything's doing great! Not lost one in forever! She must have forgotten she sold me chicks that were sick cause she said shed never sell sick chicks! She assured me there was no need to isolate her chicks they could go in with my expensive 100.00 a day old chick Malays I took her word and traded for 7 yokohamas! 3 2 week olds and 4 day olds! I never have chicks die unless its right as they are hatching death is not normal here at my house! Anyway I didn't put her chicks in w my Malays however I did w my show silkie chicks and my shipped cream Legbar chicks/Mille fluer chicks! After 24 hours one of the day old yokohamas falls over dead! I thought oh crap here we go again! I removed all the yokohamas and isolated them! Then the next day one of my milles died! I was so mad but hoped it was just coincidence! Well a couple days later one of the 2 week olds eyes starts swelling shut I isolate it and started vetrx and durmycin in its water nothing phased it it couldn't see to eat in the process of caring for it another day old falls over dead! Then another! (The day olds eyes didn't swell they would just be fine one day n the next morning be dead) the 2 week old chick lingered on forever fighting till it eventually died! I figured I had better start my only 3 left (2 2 week olds and 1 day old at this point they were a week older) on the antibiotics the vet gave me for what mine had before The medicine starts with an a? And worked really good before! Anyway the 2 older chicks eyes started swelling each have 1 eye totally swelled shut and the only day old was doing just fine till I went down to check on them and bam the last day old was dead! I'm still fighting with the 2 older chicks their eyes still swelled shut they are eating and drinking but their eyes look rough I do vetrx daily and I mix a little of the strong meds from the vet in a small dish w a little water an pull it in a medicine dropper and squirt a little down eachs throat so I know they are both getting a dose a day! Anyway it kills me I traded 4 of my amazing quality older chicks (like 4 months old) for these sick dying chicks again!! Is there anything else I can do to save them? They have been holding on now for about 5 days since the swelling began? What could it be? Oh I noticed yesterday they have started sneezing but had no signs of a cold or anything before just the swelling of the eye! And I didn't see any type of worm in it?

 

[stargazer1974]

Out of the 11 I locked down on Sunday I have 8 hatched, one pipped and I think 2 late quitters. Not too bad, so far, for my first hatch of shipped eggs I think.