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

[debs_flock]

I thought my words were SO important, everyone needed to read them, repeatedly!

 

[ChestnutRidge]

Sorry about Black Betty, SCG.

I just lost my post - again. Grr. Anyway...

On the diabetes conversation, remember that nuts are a great source of good fats and oils, and they can certainly help with weight gain. Also diet-related, for everyone with allergies out there, dairy thickens mucouses so it is terrible for people with bad seasonal allergies - especially folks whose allergies result in sinus infections and such. If you are suffering from allergies right now, lay off the dairy for a few weeks at least. It will help with cramping as well... I've been off diary for two years now, and while I used to have the worst allergies of anyone I'd ever met, we have high-pollen alerts every day now and I am fine.

Let's see. Today is Day 12... it's getting pretty dark in there!

 

[mallory2013]

Sorry about Black Betty, SCG.

I just lost my post - again. Grr. Anyway...

On the diabetes conversation, remember that nuts are a great source of good fats and oils, and they can certainly help with weight gain. Also diet-related, for everyone with allergies out there, dairy thickens mucouses so it is terrible for people with bad seasonal allergies - especially folks whose allergies result in sinus infections and such. If you are suffering from allergies right now, lay off the dairy for a few weeks at least. It will help with cramping as well... I've been off diary for two years now, and while I used to have the worst allergies of anyone I'd ever met, we have high-pollen alerts every day now and I am fine.

Let's see. Today is Day 12... it's getting pretty dark in there!

Thats an EXCELLENT picture!!

 

[ronott1]

So at 430 I kicked broody Black Betty off her nest. She seemed fine. She ate and laid down in the shavings for a bit. Had a colossal broody poo. She's been broody less than a week. And she's a great broody.

At 645 I went out to put the chickens to bed. I'm missing a chicken. Black Betty isn't in her nest.

I find her under the coop, she looks like shes laying on dirt thinking it's her eggs. So I pick up a 2x4 to push her with it and try to convince her to go back to bed. She acts really weird and stiff and pretty much rolls in a 180. I am able to run around the coop and pick her up. She's stiff and weak, can't stand, can't keep her head up.

She's dying. I know it.

She's on my lap right now, I brought her into the house where it's warm (cause she was cold) so she can die somewhat comfortably.

What could have possibly happened in the slightly more than 2 hours since I threw her off the nest?

I had one--a hatchery Black Australorp--that was fine in the morning and dead when I came home. She was 9 months old and laying an egg a day. I took her in for a free Necropsy(free to back yard flock owners in CA) and she died of a liver rupture. Death with this is fast and the comb lost color too. They bleed to death from the rupture.

The report said unknown etiology but common in certain breeds. Do they have free Necropsy's in MA?

Sorry for the sick chicken

 

[zookeeper15133]

I have a question about giving some eggs to a broody. I have a Salmon Favorelle that has gone broody. I am thinking about giving her some eggs out of the incubator on Monday. This will be the first time for "One eyed Jackie". Am I better off giving her a couple eggs on Monday or just putting chicks under her after they hatch?

How long has she been broody? When are the eggs due to hatch? It's a hormone thing, they have to be on the nest long enough before they will take care of the chicks. It doesn't have to be the full 21 days, but it has to be more than a few days.

 

[coz74]

She has been broody for a couple of days. The eggs or chicks in question are the eggs I have set for the Easter hatch. I was thinking I could put eggs under her on Monday that would hatch on Friday or Saturday, or just give her a couple chicks after they hatch. If that is not enough time, I may just give her a couple fresh eggs.

 

[CayuseRanch]

Deb, was your submit button stuck or is my computer being wonky?

What an evening...I wanted to submit what I had left in the incubator and lo and behold but my Chickens rule the roost book is MIA! Thats where I wrote what I put into the bator. It is also where I wrote the post number that I put on here! GAHHH Try sorting thru 8000 posts to find one on rural internet. Finally found out though that you can pull up all of your posts under your user page! That only took about 15 minutes. Too bad I spent about 2 hours before that flipping back pages. Sooooo Here goes..........

***Note I do have 4 or 5 that are questionable, either too dark or may be quitters. If it didn't have an obvious blood ring or obviously clear it stayed
Poco Pollo
Barnvelder Put in 8, Have 8 left (Yay Poco but there are several I can't see in)

Wolftracks
2 Silver Penciled Plymouth Rocks put in - 0 Left (they were clears Bummer)
2 Silver Phoenix put in 1 left (Very early quitter)
2 Purple Egg Project 2 left (too dark to see a thing, but I do think I saw a little bit of vein near the air sac on one. I am a little worried the shells will be too thick for them to hatch but we will see what happens there)
4 EE Project Put in 2 left (clears)
3 FBCM put in 3 left (And I was able to see veins in them)

Shipped Icelandics
10 put in 9 left (!!!!!)

My eggs
4 Cuckoo marans 3 left
6 Barnyard Surprise 6 left

Totals...........41 put in 34 left.

Very excited so far! With my HORRIBLE last two hatches and in experience, I am so excited to see so much development and movement in the eggs. I definately have several of you to thank for that! I am feeling pretty confident that we are going to have some hatches come end of next week! I just can't contain myself! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 

[Wisher1000]

Sit down everyone.

In my almost 54 years on the planet I have never sipped, nor tasted, nor drank even a drop of coffee.

Believe it or not.

My dad made my mom a cup of coffee every morning for 62 years. It was just the way she liked it, Coffee Mate and milk, tablespoon of sugar. He started bringing me a cup when I was the only one of us four still at home. I was eight. I have been a coffee drinker for 42 years and I can drink it any way, any strength, and even warmed over from the day before!

So at 430 I kicked broody Black Betty off her nest. She seemed fine. She ate and laid down in the shavings for a bit. Had a colossal broody poo. She's been broody less than a week. And she's a great broody.

At 645 I went out to put the chickens to bed. I'm missing a chicken. Black Betty isn't in her nest.

I find her under the coop, she looks like shes laying on dirt thinking it's her eggs. So I pick up a 2x4 to push her with it and try to convince her to go back to bed. She acts really weird and stiff and pretty much rolls in a 180. I am able to run around the coop and pick her up. She's stiff and weak, can't stand, can't keep her head up.

She's dying. I know it.

She's on my lap right now, I brought her into the house where it's warm (cause she was cold) so she can die somewhat comfortably.

What could have possibly happened in the slightly more than 2 hours since I threw her off the nest?

I am so sorry, it makes me so sad when this happens. Just keep her as comfortable as possible and remember that she had a very happy life with you. You did right by her.

Also some of you may have noticed Laree's been MIA. She's been up to super secret important work lately and was unable to run her Liar, Liar Pants on Fire Contest.

However, she still had a prize to give away.

She used a random number generator to choose a random post number, and will give the prize away to the poster of the random number chosen.

The winner is... Cynthia12 on Post # 6635

Congratulations, Cynthia! You posted and won! Please PM LareePQG your mailing address.

Congratulations! You lucky ducky, you!

Quote:
I'm sorry, Deb, I didn't quite catch what you posted, can you repeat it?

Just kidding you, girl, seriously, how DID that happen?

 

[ChooksChick]

I have a question about giving some eggs to a broody. I have a Salmon Favorelle that has gone broody. I am thinking about giving her some eggs out of the incubator on Monday. This will be the first time for "One eyed Jackie". Am I better off giving her a couple eggs on Monday or just putting chicks under her after they hatch?

Put the eggs under her. It gives her a chance to make the transition to Mommy from Broody. Sometimes they don't transition well and kill the weird interlopers that appear under them, trying to get their eggs! They just don't get it, always. If you allow them to hatch underneath, it allows them to talk to the chicks, and vice versa.

Me too, I've talked to the deputies at work many times. Their absolute least favorite call to take is a "welfare check" They say when you find a body in the summer time after a few days.......................(skip down if you disturb easily).....................................it's kind of like an overripe plum.

Sorry about your hen. When we have something dying (generally a lamb), if it's cold outside I'll always wrap it in a towel, bring it in the house and let it pass warm and comfortable. It just seems to be the right thing to do.

One of the ladies at work surprised a skunk on her backporch one night. She was wearing a robe and it sprayed her full on her bare leg. She said the spray was thick, sticky and green. She immediately ran into her backyard, stripped naked and hosed off, then moved to her shower to scrub.

She stunk at work for nearly two weeks. It's a very small, closed in office.

Deb

OK! Ok! We got it, already!! LOL!!

 

[Pinx]

My eggs went into lock down today

. (I set early) I am SO nervous and second guessing everything. I just hope something hatches

.

I candled them before I put them in and marked them as to whether I thought they were alive etc. I guess we will see how well I candle lol. Ugh just makes me sick to my stomache thinking about all the "what ifs", and if I messed something up.... or if I should trust my thermometer or hygrometer. I've checked them both... whose to say I did that right

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