JUNE - JULY HATCH-ALONG!!!!!!!

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Names are always hard for me because once they have a name I fall in love and then they turn into roosters, lol! I keep holding on to Fizzgig, the below frizzle because he hasn't crowed yet...but we all know that has to be a rooster . Little bugger is so sweet and still steps into my hands when I reach down.

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Let's see, some really girly names so the Olive Egger chick can't turn roo on me...Summer? Sunny? Solstice?

I was trying to be clever because my daughter is taking Latin...I thought I could name her after the Latin word for strength/might, which is "Viribus" and I was like oh! I'll name her Viri! My daughter looked at me and said...that's basically saying "Man". I told you if I name this chick it's going to turn into a rooster!

I think that if you give your OE chick a name like “stir fry”, then it will turn out to be a pullet, but I’d you give it a name like “Sweetie”, then it’s a roo for sure!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

One of my favorite things to watch in a hatch is when the chicks nod off, sooo cute and funny! And it looks like your having an amazing hatch! Great job!

Those are the cutest little nodders!!!

 

[jolenesdad]

I mean when you take into account that they won't all be fertilized and then you'll have quitters and then there's always the roosters...so that equates to exactly how many chicks you need! lol! I look forward to your updates!

I used that logic to my husband and he looked at me like I had lost my mind.

“Let me get this right... you have to buy and put 65 eggs into an incubator to get ‘4 or 5’ hens?”

“FOUR OR FIVE GOOD ONES, YES!”

 

[CluckNDoodle]

how about Blossom or Fleur?!

Thanks! Those are definitely nice feminine names.

I think that if you give your OE chick a name like “stir fry”, then it will turn out to be a pullet, but I’d you give it a name like “Sweetie”, then it’s a roo for sure!

Lol! You're right! My Aunt wanted a chicken named after her. So we had Pamela the Marans rooster.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I used that logic to my husband and he looked at me like I had lost my mind.

“Let me get this right... you have to buy and put 65 eggs into an incubator to get ‘4 or 5’ hens?”

“FOUR OR FIVE GOOD ONES, YES!”

I support that theory 100%! Lol

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

So, in the oh so accurate words of my DD, the incubator with all of those rescued guinea eggs “smells like death”. We have two external pips but nothing has happened in about 12 hr, so I decided those might have been pipped already before the incubator (keet pips are hard to see) and those, plus the crushed eggs were probably dead...So we did a quick candling of the two crushed eggs and two pipped eggs. One crushed egg dead but other three still alive, but dropping the humidity down to 45% was hardly upping the chances for those pipped eggs, so I quit and just got rid of the one crushed egg. I’m going to try really hard to be patient and tolerant of the awful smell without thinking that they are all dead!

Here are the two that hatched earlier - they seem to have done ok with our unconventional approach at trying to prevent omphalitis. These two are the wild type or pearls, and they are just too cute!!! So glad that two hatched together as a single keet is really pitiful! The lavender keets that hatched a few days ago are still doing well, though they really did not appreciate my cleaning of their separate brooder!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

So, in the oh so accurate words of my DD, the incubator with all of those rescued guinea eggs “smells like death”. We have two external pips but nothing has happened in about 12 hr, so I decided those might have been pipped already before the incubator (keet pips are hard to see) and those, plus the crushed eggs were probably dead...So we did a quick candling of the two crushed eggs and two pipped eggs. One crushed egg dead but other three still alive, but dropping the humidity down to 45% was hardly upping the chances for those pipped eggs, so I quit and just got rid of the one crushed egg. I’m going to try really hard to be patient and tolerant of the awful smell without thinking that they are all dead!

Here are the two that hatched earlier - they seem to have done ok with our unconventional approach at trying to prevent omphalitis. These two are the wild type or pearls, and they are just too cute!!! So glad that two hatched together as a single keet is really pitiful! The lavender keets that hatched a few days ago are still doing well, though they really did not appreciate my cleaning of their separate brooder!

They're so cute!! They almost look like little puffins, lol. Fingers crossed for the other babies! I'm sorry it smells so bad!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

They're so cute!! They almost look like little puffins, lol. Fingers crossed for the other babies! I'm sorry it smells so bad!

It’s not so much that I find the smell repulsive, though I do, it’s that every time I get a wiff of it I feel like I’m nuts to try to hatch from this mess, and then I feel guilty all over again for not intervening sooner... I thought I was ok with whatever the outcome of the communal nest was, there were good rational reasons for it, but I’m such a guilt-prone softie that I was clearly deluding myself!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

It’s not so much that I find the smell repulsive, though I do, it’s that every time I get a wiff of it I feel like I’m nuts to try to hatch from this mess, and then I feel guilty all over again for not intervening sooner... I thought I was ok with whatever the outcome of the communal nest was, there were good rational reasons for it, but I’m such a guilt-prone softie that I was clearly deluding myself!

Don't beat yourself up! This had nothing to do with your choices! You've already saved some and there are more hatching! If left to nature, NONE of them would have made it so every keet that hatches is another baby that you saved, not the other way around!

 

[jolenesdad]

So, in the oh so accurate words of my DD, the incubator with all of those rescued guinea eggs “smells like death”. We have two external pips but nothing has happened in about 12 hr, so I decided those might have been pipped already before the incubator (keet pips are hard to see) and those, plus the crushed eggs were probably dead...So we did a quick candling of the two crushed eggs and two pipped eggs. One crushed egg dead but other three still alive, but dropping the humidity down to 45% was hardly upping the chances for those pipped eggs, so I quit and just got rid of the one crushed egg. I’m going to try really hard to be patient and tolerant of the awful smell without thinking that they are all dead!

Here are the two that hatched earlier - they seem to have done ok with our unconventional approach at trying to prevent omphalitis. These two are the wild type or pearls, and they are just too cute!!! So glad that two hatched together as a single keet is really pitiful! The lavender keets that hatched a few days ago are still doing well, though they really did not appreciate my cleaning of their separate brooder!

There’s quite a lot of chicken (and Guinea) smells that smell like death that aren’t. ;-) lets just say what hatches is going to be very.... ready for the real poultry world.

Don't beat yourself up! This had nothing to do with your choices! You've already saved some and there are more hatching! If left to nature, NONE of them would have made it so every keet that hatches is another baby that you saved, not the other way around!

Ditto.