"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Ron Skekel]

That's awesome! Congrats.

Sorry about the chicks. Do you get replacements/refunds?

Their policy is refund but haven't heard from them yet but that's ok . I just sent the pics. The good news is the dead were Roo's. Pam

 

[campingshaws]

I accidentally broke a small cane off my rose bush today when I was trying to move it around. Think I can get it started? I realized (too late) that I probably should have pruned it first. Maybe I'll go back and do that anyway.

 

[Cody A]

Well I haven't been very scientific with this hatch at all. Forgot to calibrate my thermometers, didn't candle or weigh eggs, and didn't number or write anything on them. I don't even know if the FBMC are fertile.

So another comedy of errors?

I've read posts where folks don't use thermos because they're all wrong anyway. They just go for it. May be your best hatch yet.

 

[Ron Skekel]

In reference to the frostbite this post by Beekissed makes sense about humidity and ventilation in the coop. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/811228/the-plymouth-rock-breeders-thread/3900#post_14801434

Thanks for the info been kissed is sorely missed. Mine were fine but one of the rescue cockerels I'm getting rid of one had a purple comb which is the stage before black. Their coop has the most ventilation and the came close to frost bite. Most the time winter isn't a problem. A little Vaseline is easy and you don't have to worry. Pam

 

[Cody A]

I'm NPIP certified now.

Congratulations Pam!

 

[campingshaws]

I've read posts where folks don't use thermos because they're all wrong anyway. They just go for it. May be your best hatch yet.

Man, that's stressful! How do they know what the temp is? I'm still waiting on one SS egg today (she's jumping in and out of the box all day), and then I'm adding them in (two SS and one more FBMC). I've got an automatic turner, but thought about moving them around in the bator.

 

[LemonMeringue]

LOVE it!

Thanks! We always come home scratched up, hot and worn out. And it seems like someone always gets a few chiggers

But we are always happy to have the beautiful berries. You can't buy berries that taste like that.

I do the same thing here -- they grow rampant down at the bayou. Makes a great cobbler, too!

You are so right!!

I'm literally sitting up with a sickly chick.... Umbilical bubble, looks like a hernia, is slightly open in a teeny tiny spot. And it is draining. Making it stick to metal bator bottom... Just hatched today, seems to like my finger pillow....

Aw! Little cutie! Is it doing better??

 

[LemonMeringue]

Thank you. I was just a little weary. Supposed to be 33 degrees on delivery day. Getting the brooder set up right now. Hope all goes well during shipping.

I hope all the babies get there safe and sound!

 

[Cody A]

Man, that's stressful! How do they know what the temp is? I'm still waiting on one SS egg today (she's jumping in and out of the box all day), and then I'm adding them in (two SS and one more FBMC). I've got an automatic turner, but thought about moving them around in the bator.

Think it was Usserys "Small Scale Poultry Fock" where I read that someone put eggs in a compost pile thinking they were no good and the heat from composting hatched chicks. Just goes to show the temp range is wide.

 

[Cody A]

Think it was Usserys "Small Scale Poultry Fock" where I read that someone put eggs in a compost pile thinking they were no good and the heat from composting hatched chicks. Just goes to show the temp range is wide.

Eggs used to be incubated behind wood stoves in the old days.