June Hatch A Long

[jolenesdad]

Day 9 for my eggs and I think the ones I marked as good are still doing okay veining is better and seems to be a little more full than it was the last time I checked. One egg looks like it may be developing blood ring and veining dying back. But there are others that are still going strong so far. Harder to see than the mottled eggs. Going to make me crazy until lock down. Will be locking down in plastic egg cartons so they are upright and protected from each other after hatching.

I think I’m too late to get it for lockdown anyway, and I guess I’m going with cardboard... but what plastic egg cartons do you use??

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I lost a bird tonight. Weird. In my Broiler pen I have a male and female Delaware I was going to keep with my layers later and see about working on a heritage meat breed. No one in TX has heritage/breeder Delawares and the guy who gave them to me, they were his last he is hatching and got rid of his flock. To someone NOT in TX.

Anyway, that boy and girl range the farthest of all the young 50+ birds I just put out on pasture. They never really bonded to the other birds and were stuck to each other’s side. Tonight at feeding and closing up he is nowhere to be found! I wondered if maybe he overheated but they were in shade there and no one Else is heat stressed. I’m thinking a snake. Ugh.

At least I sort of hope so. 90% of my birds are too big for a snake to really try to take them down. If those Delawares were just laying in the grass they absolutely could have been gotten.

Luckily she doesn’t seem bothered. Maybe he was holding her back.

Guess that answers if I’m starting THAT project this year!

Oh no! I'm sorry! Maybe a hawk? They have been intense this year...

Day 9 for my eggs and I think the ones I marked as good are still doing okay veining is better and seems to be a little more full than it was the last time I checked. One egg looks like it may be developing blood ring and veining dying back. But there are others that are still going strong so far. Harder to see than the mottled eggs. Going to make me crazy until lock down. Will be locking down in plastic egg cartons so they are upright and protected from each other after hatching.

 

[jolenesdad]

Oh no! I'm sorry! Maybe a hawk? They have been intense this year...

Shhhhhhhhh. I’m looking for anything other than a hawk. Lol.

If it’s a hawk, I’m doomed. It’s not passing through, and I’ve got a BUFFET out for him. :-/

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Shhhhhhhhh. I’m looking for anything other than a hawk. Lol.

If it’s a hawk, I’m doomed. It’s not passing through, and I’ve got a BUFFET out for him. :-/

Lol...oops! Just kidding?

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Duck eggs are WEIRD. They’re harder .... but wayyyy more transparent. I feel like I can see the air cells in some of these eggs without candling, too. Not a line like those, but just the shadow of it.

I’m so excited to lockdown I don’t know what to do! Thankfully like all of us I’m also too hot to care and grateful i don’t have anything to do tonight.

Are most of us done with the awful heat wave in the next couple of days?

Cooler, but still 90 F tomorrow, then a flash flood watch for Sunday! Oklahoma has had a very rainy spring and lots of flooding, but hopefully this will be a smaller event.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Legbar #2 to hatch is FROSTED!!

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Your frosted baby!!!!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Cooler, but still 90 F tomorrow, then a flash flood watch for Sunday! Oklahoma has had a very rainy spring and lots of flooding, but hopefully this will be a smaller event.

We just went through that here last week. Our yard rapidly turned into lakefront property, lol. We were very fortunate there wasn't any flooding in the house.

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!

I’m so excited for you, I know HOW BAD you wanted one!!!!

Your frosted baby!!!!

YES! I'm super excited about my little frosted baby! I wouldn't mind one more popping out frosted so I have better chances of one being a pullet, the white ones aren't autosexing. My husband just named her Millie...for million dollar chicken. I told him how much they charge for them at hatcheries and he just about laid an egg himself.

I don't expect too much more action, for now, those were my two early pips. Tomorrow morning is the big day!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Oh no! I'm sorry! Maybe a hawk? They have been intense this year...

I lost a bird tonight. Weird. In my Broiler pen I have a male and female Delaware I was going to keep with my layers later and see about working on a heritage meat breed. No one in TX has heritage/breeder Delawares and the guy who gave them to me, they were his last he is hatching and got rid of his flock. To someone NOT in TX.

Anyway, that boy and girl range the farthest of all the young 50+ birds I just put out on pasture. They never really bonded to the other birds and were stuck to each other’s side. Tonight at feeding and closing up he is nowhere to be found! I wondered if maybe he overheated but they were in shade there and no one Else is heat stressed. I’m thinking a snake. Ugh.

At least I sort of hope so. 90% of my birds are too big for a snake to really try to take them down. If those Delawares were just laying in the grass they absolutely could have been gotten.

Luckily she doesn’t seem bothered. Maybe he was holding her back.

Guess that answers if I’m starting THAT project this year!

Sorry to hear that you lost a bird! I don’t know how anyone free ranges without a dog or electric fencing... We’ve lost multiple chickens/ducks/guineas even when we were home. The guineas seem to mostly hold their own at least...

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

We just went through that here last week. Our yard rapidly turned into lakefront property, lol. We were very fortunate there wasn't any flooding in the house.




YES! I'm super excited about my little frosted baby! I wouldn't mind one more popping out frosted so I have better chances of one being a pullet, the white ones aren't autosexing. My husband just named her Millie...for million dollar chicken. I told him how much they charge for them at hatcheries and he just about laid an egg himself.

I don't expect too much more action, for now, those were my two early pips. Tomorrow morning is the big day!

What day are you at, CluckNDoodle? I’m just starting day 20, and suspect that their is hatching going on under my two broodies...

 

[CluckNDoodle]

What day are you at, CluckNDoodle? I’m just starting day 20, and suspect that their is hatching going on under my two broodies...

Today was day 20, tomorrow is hatch day. I set the eggs early in the morning if I remember correctly so I may actually have some more hatch in the middle of the night. I wrote it down... somewhere. Lol