May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

[Jehri]

@Offshoreorca I’m rooting for that little one

 

[Offshoreorca]

@Offshoreorca I’m rooting for that little one

Not the most flattering photo of it as s/he just had a bit of a meal, but here the chick is this morning. Progress in leaps and bounds for sure!

 

[Vantic]

But they are in your backyard......Bear Country USA. Lol! (The Black Hills is one of our favorite places to go for a vacation that is "realativly close" to home.) We have Mountain Lions....some spotted within a couple miles of our house stalking a neighbor and her horse when they were out for a ride. I don't go for walks much anymore just for that reason.

We have cougar, black bear, coyote and rarely a wolf or two in the backyard. That is just on the ground, the bald eagles are hungry too. People wonder why my animals live in electric fencing....

 

[Pretty Birds]

One of the eggs hatched, and two other eggs have pipped!

 

[FortCluck]

Ducklings are hatching

 

[FortCluck]

Anyone have eggs hatching on Monday

 

[chickiebaby1]

Anyone have eggs hatching on Monday

I should!! Just put 29 into lockdown last night. Saw a few internal pips already so they might be a little early. Not holding out much hope for this batch. I used my little giant bator for these and it is not the most reliable incubator. Lots of cold spots. I started with 47 eggs and only locked down 29. This incubator will be retired after this hatch. I wasn't going to use it again after my last hatch, I only got 3/42, but I figured out the temp was way off and messed with it for a few days with an extra thermometer and got where I thought it was more stable and I had extra eggs sitting around ( I hate to waste my silky eggs) so I went ahead and tried it. Still disappointed in the low rate of eggs going into lockdown and still not sure about hatch, but I guess you live and you learn. Hopefully I get at least a few from this batch.

 

[FortCluck]

@Vantic @Knighstar679 @KDOGG331 heres one of the Polish Deathlayer. I’m really digging the coloring and the cowlick

The black with gold aren’t as feathered yet, but I’ll get pics of them in a few weeks.

 

[kelseyk]

We have cougar, black bear, coyote and rarely a wolf or two in the backyard. That is just on the ground, the bald eagles are hungry too. People wonder why my animals live in electric fencing....

We've got coyotes here too....tons of them! We have to fight them every calving season as they try and get the newborn calves. We have even had them gang up and take down a 3 month old calf. Getting to be a lot of Mountain Lion sightings in the area, lots of farmers carrying guns to go fix pivot tires once the corn gets tall. You can't see anything in a tall green corn field, so would be easy to have one sneak up on you. I have friends in Northern Nebraska that said that they have heard wolves howling and a there have been a couple reported sightings of wolves in the state....but Game and Parks is denying that they may be here. They are still denying that Mountain Lions are in our area, even though people have caught them on game camera. And what else would they be tracking in their pickup with all the antennas on it???....chipped predators that have been released in the area???

 

[kelseyk]

Anyone have eggs hatching on Monday

That is hatch day for the OE eggs that I set in the hatcher last night. Most of mine hatches have been hatching early though, so we will see if they wait that long.