Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[Noncentzter]

Power was off for 3+ hours during the night...hoping everything will be ok!

 

[EnnisLakeFarm]

Ennis...loooove your Avatar! Darling, did you catch that pic yourself??

Thanks! I found it on my computer actually. I think my DD12 copied it off of facebook or something. The title of it was butt heads

 

[viejo loco]

wouldn't you know it? She called again.

Is it time to candle yet? We are at least a week away from first candle aren't we?

I hate counting my chickens before they hatch, but I'd LOVE to get more than 20 out of 74 eggs.

But alas, with shipped eggs and temp issues at the beginning, I suppose I'll need to be happy with whatever comes out.

How I miss the days of having a roo, but I simply can't afford $518 to get a roo decrowed.

Time to go back to sleep. Talk about RANDOM RAMBLINGS!
G'nite... again.

Mahonri, That's not MN calling.. It's FT, (Father Time).. You're not getting any younger... Will

 

[EnnisLakeFarm]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"$518 to get a roo decrowed"[/FONT]
I didn't even know you could get a rooster decrowed! I bet if I hit up my neighbors for a de-crowing fund for my rooster I would double that amount! My darn thing crows morning noon and night!

 

[ThePigeonKid]

We're adding bees this year. It was DH's idea. We get to the store and pick out the hive stuff, then go over to the bee suits and DH looks at me and says "pick out what one will work for you". I was

I am getting bees this year too!

 

[Cynthia12]

X2

We have lost a few to predators, but I have to say it wasn't as traumatic because I didn't see it happen, nor did I have to fight off the predator. Lots of prayers for your hurt babies.

X's 3 Just read what happened. Prayers for your little one you did surgery on. Let us know how she is doing.

 

[wolftracks]

so i got the 4 doz eggs yesterday that the po lost/missent after being in the mail for 1 week. so these will be after easter chicks.

so i set them yesterday. we had a 21 yr old guy crash and roll his car at the storage units were i work and he died

very tragic. so i forgot my camera at work and took this photo on the ds last night.

still dealing with that today with insurance etc.

OH what a horrible thing to happen! Just awful.

Ok so here is the "STORY" Yesterday I hear a comotion in the coop so I go in the gate of the Covered run and walk over to the window of the side with the younger chickens...look in the window and I can see thru the entire coop I see the big chickens in the corner and the new rooster sreaming his head off and kinda Gaurding the girls by standing in front of them all....I look down to where they are all looking...and see something huge on the FLOOR OF THE COOP fighting with pinkachu our little silkie cockriel...well he WAS. So I am thinking somehow one of the EE girls have gotten over there and is killing him....nope...I start yelling and take off around the other side to the pop door...well the bird Flew out the pop door was now trapped in the outside COVERED run. We had just moved birds around and put the silkies in this run the day before...WE had kept pinkachu and ALL the silkies in our dang house until he was CROWING!we love them so much....ALL our favorite BANTAMS are in this pen it is secure (we thought) and no hawk had ever gotten in! but yesterday I lured the babies out with cooked spagetti...and sat outside the pop door and showing them it was safe...after I left I guess the hawk perched on the roof of the coop and dive bombed the netting (every inch is covered in netting it is all zip tied together and stapled up) when he hit it he broke thru....we found the hole RIGHT over the spagetti...(I'm gonna be sick just trying to tell this) well when he broke thru he was right in front of the pop door! All the babies prolly ran for the safety of the coop and he followed them, where he went on a killing spree I interupted him slaying pinkachu...which evididetly he was TRYING to fight the hawk and the hawk severed his little spine he was alive and fighting then was just dead,with a blow to the back of the neck.He was a pure white silkie,boy. a Maran pullet was tapped in the head and was leaking brain fluid I had to put her down. she about two months or so from laying only one of 4 maran girls....another Maran girl did have blood on her but I can find it now....and little princess another white silkie (girl we think) princess for the crown of a hairdo....she was torn open on her side then down the back of her little leg I held her and honestly after putting down the maran girl,I knew I could NOT kill princess even in kindnes,I had nursed her during that respritory crap....we had sat with them in our laps, I didnt think I could bear the red blood on the gorgeous soft fur...so as I was sitting there thinking she was taking her last breath, she drank! then ate a bit of egg....SO I decided to stitch her up....long story short of this was that you could see the clear membrane and under that the lung or heart or whatever and I knew it needed to be closed...I only have regular needle and thread so I soaked it in hand sanatizer let it dry and stitched her up she was a good girl too and :talked to me if it seemed to hurt... I had no way of easing her pain and I want you to know I felt a rage yesterday that I have never felt in my entire life. When I went into that run and that bird was trapped inside there I don;t know what came over me....There was no fear, only rage intense and consuming...he WASN't EATING! he was killing indiscriminatly for pleasure, it seemed willy nilly all over! I don't have a gun except a bee bee gun so couldnt kill him... So I walked over to him and he tried to fly away and he hit the netting and fell to the ground and I was so angry I walked over to him and stepped on him. and picked him up by the feet like one of my mean old roosters! And carried him away from my babies! He was turned over to the appropriate people....but my babies and THOSE chickens are our babies as they are just fun little darlings that cuddle.... some people say they are just chickens and trust me some are....but not those ones....when it was over and the bodies counted 3 dead and one deathy injured...another we arent sure... I went and SAT in the coop with them and called them poor little splenda came and cooed and got in my lap and wouldnt be PUSHED OFF she would chirp and fuss if I tried to put her down other ones that rarely wanted attention were crawling into my lap...I had no treats...they wanted comfort and were tramatized...the durned thing flew into the POP DOOR!!!!!!!! it was a huge hawk I have a picture of me holding it... the kids knew I was on the phone with AUTHORITIES.... when they took the ****** picture.frankly I was ready to bash it on a tree. NO I didnt do that. While it WAS magnificent I was filled to overflowing with hatred....I could have easily killed it.
You know this brought up something....I DONT want to cut the head off of a pet....these bantams ARE just that... PETS and if We are processing our roos that is one thing, but is there not something for euthanesia that is HUMANE? for a suffering bird? I thought of insulin, but that makes you FEEL so bad....I dunno ...They are staying in, I DO know that, the big chickens wouldnt go out at all, after the incident,our rooster is new and he did a great job, for not even knowing his way around yet....pinkachu gave his life...as the hawk was inches from a whole pile of his silkie family... MY children are farm kids they have to bury animals, for various reasons all the time, chickens croak, you cant eat em and they bury them for me....yesterday they buried all the littles together and made a headstone for pinkachu they said he was a hero....they also said they wont ever and no one should, mess with mom....that I looked like a hard Butt walking out of that pen carring a bird with a 6 foot wing span....very much alive. Princess is trying to live and all the littles have been brought back in the house, they were so upset they wouldnt eat or get out out of the silkie huddle....Splenda is back on Nanny duty in the brooder................ pray for princess....she is trying I hope she didn't go thru surgery for nothing. And today the rage is sadness deep and intense....and the coops are quiet as the birds wait....on the weather? the storm? or another Hawk? They dont seem to mind being in....

So sorry about your bird. Do you think there's any way she could pull through? I hope someone can help you if there's nothing left to do.

Mahonri, That's not MN calling.. It's FT, (Father Time).. You're not getting any younger... Will

 

[EnnisLakeFarm]

I just realize I have been sitting at this darn computer for 2.5 hours! And only 15 minutes of that was actually doing anything productive! I suppose I should go pretend to do something constructive. OH I know! I can go check the incubator temps again!

 

[ronott1]

To those with the new Genesis 1588, the one with the digital display on the top and the new water tanks and channels in the bottom.

Be careful if you are following the cheat sheet for hatching. Do not fill all of the channels with paper towels @ lockdown. Mine could not compensate for the extra humidity and water. It stayed stuck at 97 degrees, so i think it messes up the thermostat. There was condensation over the display, so I had to look at it from and angle to see the numbers.

I took took the water tray out and put paper towels in the middle channels only. This made a square around the three tanks in the middle. Humidity went to 70 this way and the heater was able to get the temp up to 99.3, so I moved my 6 SG Dorking eggs in. It all stayed stable over night so all should be well.

They hatch on Thursday

Ron

 

[Arielle]

My internet service went down. . .. .and I missed 300 posts! . THat's 30 pages!!!


Incubator temps started rising. Hope I did n't cook them. I feel like throwing them all out and starting again. We are having crazy weather: 60-70's during the day and drop to the low40's at night. Not normal for here. Messes with my LG.

Well, now that I think about it I do have another incubator!! I'll start collecting today.