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

[superchemicalgirl]

How do you become a Delaware Destroyer? I kinda like Delawares....

You have to be bad to the bone to join.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Also wanted to mention today's the last day for submissions for the WEEK ONE contests...

ChestnutRidge's

Most Ingenious Chicken Design Contest

Caption That Photo Contest


If you wanted to submit your entry for either of these contests, make sure you work on them and get them in today!

 

[vclark321]

Will there be a hatch cam? I want to follow the hatching! Set up a hatch cam~!

 

[Arielle]

My 11yo did something for the egg art contest. These are her "turtle" eggs.

Beautiful!!!

 

[Arielle]

The 1 hour seminar on chicken nutrition, say that 3 x fast, was interesting. Very good, concise and easy to understand.

I learned a few things, though the Blue Seal nutritionist said most information hasn't changed since we went to school. It's the micronutients and probiotics and prebiotics that really improves the health of the chicken and poultry now.

Blue Seal was doing a study using 2 pens. One given a higher dose of zinc, the control group was not given the higher dose of zinc. The Midwest heat had soared to 110 degrees. Only 2 birds died from the zinc supplemented group whereas all in the non-supplemented group died. The death of the birds was not intentional and the original study stopped right there for a re-do.

Chickens cannot digest roughages . So too much sunflower seed is not good for them. They eat grass for the sugars. Fish was taken out of the feed because people didn't want to feed fish to the poultry, but a good source of complete protein has not been replaced in the feed. Added methionine and lysine have been added instead.

Regarding our health, omega 3's and omega 6's are important and need to be in balance. While 3's are touted to be so good for us, the omega 6's that promote inflammation is important because this actually aids in the repair of tissue.


Oh, and more and more people are raising poultry! Didn't we already know that?? AND pigs.

 

[ThePigeonKid]

Near Uhrichsville, OH



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[chick-among-us]

Michelle,My fertility here at home is EXCELLENT BTW....I have a whole bator of those eggs I sent you hatching out for my local feed store...they go in lock down today when I candled last night.... (I only candle on day 18!) I pulled four total! two clear and one eggs from a hen I KNOW is fertile...so dunno what happen there I JUST hatched out one of her eggs !

the other is a mystery and the other two where quitters ALL 38 left are right on track...last time I hatched five perfect looking eggs WITH full termies..didn't hatch which makes me NUTS and makes me stand over the bator biting my nails..(Figuratively,I actually chew/worry them)but those are ME issues...fertility isn't the problem...those guys out there got it going on...these are the last eggs from my sweet blue roo(sweet to me not to the hens...they didn't like him)....we got a "better" AM roo who has full muffs and beard and is VERY VERY awesome to the hens...my issue with my previous roo was he was great to people and sweet to the hens in every way EXCEPT mating....he would sling them around,be rough with them,they would try to run, I mean feather would fly! I saw him RIP out feathers!!! They would Eject the "packet" (sorry trying to keep it kid friendly) I watched all this...and I was getting tired of watching all this going on....almost NONE would submit...almost every egg was fertile though as you will see! so something was going on,but nobody seems happy with that roo...and there was no contentment in the yard.
So we got this guy and I am telling you he came in, just walked around and began roostering, very calmly and majestically....he never bred a hen (that I saw) for two days or so maybe longer...When the hawk thing happened he guarded the girls and had them ALL behind him,HE goes on and stands guard over the hens while they lay if there are several girls in there I think to keep squabbles down. When they get in the nest boxes he stands on the boxes over them until they are done and will even help prepare nests for girl he came with...yesterday while they where out, a hawk, low flew over the yard and he sounded the alarm (he is super watchful) they vanished out of that yard in a flash...don't know how he is doing it, but he seems to be running two coops at once...maybe because the roos are very young and bantams next door...but they listen to him too...I think he stands by the fence and tells them quietly what they should do...
I was watching things closely yesterday while I was fixing hawk holes in our netting...and he does his wing dance for the girls and if they lay down...they proceed. if they didn't then he walked away....the other roo woulda grabbed em by the neck and slung em into position....this boy isn't into that it seems and more and more of the girls are coming around to his quiet way of running things and mating and WOW the feeling in the coop is marvelous it is calm and quiet with contented clucking. This has REALLY shown me that roosters makes all the difference in the world!
You let me know if you want more eggs from an even better roo!!! Please keep me posted on how THOSE eggs are doing. sorry got off on the rooster thing but wanted you to know I'm hatching eggs just like yours right now will let YOU know how these go also...Next time will be my new roo!

I don't think I even want to know how far behind I am now

I have been working hard and then playing with my ridiculously cute puppy. My big guy just adores her, I'm glad he finally has someone that will wear him out. I have to separate them for either one of them to get any sleep.





In other news, I candled

I'm happy to report I only pulled 5 eggs. 3 Icelandics (2 clears and a quitter) and 2 AM's (a clear and a quitter)

I couldn't really see into the Marans and all my swap eggs looked good, 1 turkey looks good, one looks questionable and 1 I just can't tell, it's so heavily speckled.

Now my incubator is down to 76 eggs. I just started turning the shipped eggs this evening and I will be turning all by hand. I have a turner but it only holds 42 and I'm afraid that stacking the shipped eggs might further compound their challenges. The seem to be doing good so far, so if it's not broke...

 

[Mahonri]

GOOD MORNING AMERICA HATCHING PEEPS! IT'S FRIDAY!

Tomorrow we'll be 1/3 of the way there!
and now, your Feenicks Phoerkast.


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[kvmommy]

Chick-among-us, that is insane! I can't believe a roo would do that....its soooo violent. Not unlike some people now a days. I'm glad he's gone and you have a good boy to take care of them ladies!

 

[chick-among-us]

me too! I wont ever deal with that again! We have way to many to choose from (well we will later!)