"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

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Barred Babies said:
Saw this pic on FB and had to share!!

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Love it! I need one for our property.
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justinschkz said:
my rhode island reds are six weeks old now and i just took them out of my brooder and put them into my 300 square ft run it was fun to watch them get their feathers in the dirt for the first time. they looked very confused at first but they been in there a couple of hours now and already seem to be adjusting well. they seem to be loving it.
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I envy you. I have 3, 4 and 6 week old chicks in my dining room and even though I clean my floors each day, I still feel like I'm living in a barn. :/
 
Rise & shine - it's Monday!

OK who need some guineas? They will be one week old Wednesday, all are healthy & eating well & growing like weeds. Most of them are pearls, a couple have a touch of white here & there.
I have 7-8 available. PM me & make an offer!
 
G'moanin' Terri the offer is tempting on the keats but I got too much stuff here already I'd jusat love to have a passle of those for my neighbor to enjoy beings he really loves the crowing of my roosters daily, ( iguess his daughters roosters crow quiter than mine IDK but the guineas would sure be a mind over matter psych-trick to pull on him It'd sure get him of the idea that my roosters are disturbing huh? LOL
I always have said if you don't like it move(I was here first) LOL. I love the sign that Missy posted last evening with the warning info on living next to a farmers property
 
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I posted this in the Pea section but I wanted to share this with all of the La-yers.

Well, I have been on a rollercoaster ride over the last week with this hatch. I had a terrible hatch but I am happy for what has hatched. However, this is my very first time trying to hatch pea eggs in the incubator. The 5 pea eggs were scheduled to hatch on Saturday. I had 1 baby that began zipping a few days early. I noticed the "point of zip" looked VERY dry. It didn't look good at all. I was very nervous about the pea not being able to get out of the egg but I let nature takes it course and let things happen. 24 hours had passed and the baby was still trying to get out. I checked the humidity and I thought that the humidity was 20, so I panicked and opened the incubator and put in more water. I looked at the hyrdometer and it read 60!!! I misread the hydrometer. It was actually 40 instead of 20 and it spiked to 60. I could have kicked myself. :smack So, after that, still no baby. Terri helped me so much through this process and gave me some great advice on what to do. I tried to save the baby but it was too late. After more than 48 hours of trying to break out of the shell, the pea wasn't strong enough to make it out. It died in the shell. I opened up the shell and it was full formed. :hit I was so sad after that. :hit

So, on Friday, I noticed another egg that was zipping. I had another baby trying to break out. I noticed AGAIN that the area where it was breaking the shell was again VERY DRY. I was soooooooo nervous because I thought the same thing was happening. Temp, humidity and vent was perfect but the area looked very dry. I went to bed and woke up Saturday morning to a baby pea. I was so happy to see that it was able to get out with no problem. There were 2 problems with his baby. Problem #1- There was membrane that had dried on the right side of it's face covering it's eye. I went to the bathroom, turned on the hot shower so that I could bring it in a warm and humid room. The house was too cold. I removed it from the bator and ran in the bathroom . I had my tweezers ready. I carefully removed the dry membrane from it's face . It was VERY VERY VERY dry and it was difficult to remove but I did it.

The other problem that I had and it was my fault was that it's little foot was a little tangled on a loose thread from the towel that I had placed on the slippery tray. I should have used a paper towel instead but I didn't. So I will have to try to put something on it's foot to straighten out. I took it out of the incubator on last night and it is eating and drinking. It went to the food and water immediately. I can tell that it's little foot is giving it a little problem but it is moving and walking around ok. It is chirping away for company. I put the other pea that hatched a couple weeks ago in with the new baby. It looked at it and flew out of the brooder. :gig I don't know what that was all about.

So the final hatch for this round (5 pea eggs) was 1 pea died in the shell, 1 hatched, 2 eggs were fertile but failed to fully form in the shell and 1 egg was not fertile.

I placed 4 fresh pea eggs under a broody chicken hen and I have picked 3 pea eggs this weekend. I will remove the 4 eggs from under the hen and place those eggs along with the other 3 pea eggs and put all of them in the bator with some turkey eggs and guinea eggs.

I read somewhere in another pea forum that a person stands to have an excellent hatch rate if they allow a broody hen to incubate pea eggs for 10 - 14 eggs and then place the eggs in the incubator. I may try this next go round . As long as the girls are laying, I will continue to hatch.

Thanks to Terri who walked me through all of this and was there for the emergencies. She was my on-call life line and support for these past few days. Thanks TERRI !!! :bow

Here are some pics of the baby that hatched on Saturday.







 
I was able to sell my last ram this weekend. He was going to be butchered but someone stopped by and made me a good deal. I also sold 4 adult turkeys, 6 poults ,2 guineas and an offer of $60.00 for the pea that hatched on Saturday ( of course, I didn't sell it) and of course a ton of eggs. A lot of people were baking for Father's Day. It was a good weekend.

Now on to setting more pea eggs, turkey eggs and guinea eggs today.
 

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