Nevadans?

[evonne]

if you heard it peeping it should be hatching in the next dayish.....

as far as what to do... hopefully you have time tomorrow to sit and watch them?? they may fight over it, they may play nice, they might try to kill it... you never know.. and it's that way even on a single broody.... you just have to be ready for whatever happens... good that you have the brooder ready, if you really want to keep the chick it's safer to take it away, if you're not NEEDING this chick and you can risk the loss, if it happens then see how it goes.... be ready to take the chick at any point, some mommas are good mommas for a few months, some are good mommas for a few days, mine was good for about 2 weeks then started to lose interest.. if i had taken them sooner i would have a lot more chicks in the yard... as it was i took them when there were only 3/10 left... lol.. but i wasn't needing any of htem... i wanted the little frizzle that i lost, but... meh life goes on... i can get another one later....

as a side note, i think one of my dogs things that baby chicks look just like tennis balls running across the yard....

 

[Penturner]

I usually expect hatching in 24 hours after hearing the egg talk but that is just a rule of thumb.

 

[Bloomie]

evonne
06/03/2010 9:11 pm
if you heard it peeping it should be hatching in the next dayish.....

Penturner
Yesterday 12:27 pm
I usually expect hatching in 24 hours after hearing the egg talk but that is just a rule of thumb.

I appreciated yer experience.....Thank You.
Today is Saturday and nothing has happened.
Now I'm wondering if I reeeeeally heard that peeping. Yesterday I swore I felt movement when I held the egg to candle it
but today the egg is quite as a mouse.
I candled it today and cant see anything but dark space.....whats that mean?

BTW, I separated the two hens. Today I found "sister setter" on another egg and a second egg was settin' in the last nest box......I wish I knew who was laying out there!

Anyhoooo, after candling the eggs, they appear to be fertile. I put them under the hen that I have separated in her own setting space.
Reckon I'll continue to see what happens......maybe I'll get a chick for our grand daughters summer visit yet.​

 

[Penturner]

Bloomie, A completely dark egg (No air cell or anything) means the chick did internally pip. it would be able to cheep at that point. Now it is n a balancing act between the oxygen it gets from the blood vessels in the membrane and what it is able to breath on it's own. As the blood vessels shut down it causes the muscle spasms that cause the chick to break through the shell. No sound would concern me though.

 

[Bloomie]

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In searching for similar posts, so I dont burden ya'll with repeats, I read a comment about NOT candling the egg when its ready to hatch.....I hope I didnt do something to harm the chick.

........ but whats done is done. So having confessed to my blunder, I'll continue with the results:
I saw no movement, heard no sound, but there's a large mass inside with a small area that looked like an air cell.

Another members post said that a hen will know if the eggs are alive or not, and will leave the nest if they arent.
My silly bannies will sit on nothing for days...2 are doing that right now....so maybe mine arent smart enough to tell live from not alive.

like me

Still another members story made me wonder if I should be a bit more patient.
After 23 days she tossed the eggs in her compost pile and 3 days later (23+3 = 26 days) she found hatched chicks.
Sooooooooooooooo maybe my calculation is all wrong and Wed wasnt hatch day?

Boy, how do ya'll hatch eggs? This is showin' me a side of myself I thought I out grew!

Thanks for being around, Gang.

 

[evonne]

some people are lockdown spaz and OMG!!!!! you opened it?!?!?!?

i candle eggs whenever i want... esp if i'm worried about the eggs....
i'll take the pipped egg out and look through the pip for movements...
my peachicks i was candeling htem 3-4 times a day until they pipped becasue i wasn't usre hwen they were due and didn't want to lose them... needed to be ready to pip for htem if they looked like movement had stopped....

i know a lot of people who open bators during lockdown.... just have to be aware of what's going on.. make sure you watch for shrink wrap and whatnot....

and i had a friend take eggs out of hte bator thinking they were done, he left htem n the kitchen counter over night... and about 20 hours later he had rocking and pipping on his kitchen counter....

 

[laceynoelle]

hey everyone.
Sunny, i cheated and planted things upside down by cutting a hole in the bottom of a milk carton then hanging it like that. It works out pretty cool. Im starting to think you can grow just about anything like that. Although corn....that might be a bit of a challenge.

Whenever i had broody hens the jerks would hide. even if i did end up finding them in time, i never knew how far along they were.

my hens were alwats so freakin secretive.

I had a game hen i got from my grandma's neighbor. She was so sweet, but would dissapear for days at a time. She was gone for awhile and i thought something got her, but she came baack happy as can be with a brood of two weekish old chicks. hahaha my little hen austenis doing the dissapear thing. I actually really hate that. i get worried. But anyway, do game hens always wander off like that? what do you all think?

 

[Penturner]

I am with Evonne with the opening the incubator part. I have had a lot of losses that look like they where on days that I candled, But I think that was from them being removed from the incubator to long. I have had eggs hatch on day 19, not unusual for seramas, so they didn't get any thing like lockdown. That was my best hatch. The one thing i really do believe about my serama eggs is that they cannot be moved or candled until day 20 at least. I lost 6 chicks just hours from hatch because I moved them from one incubator to another. Since then I have removed piped eggs from the incubator to check for movement and monitor the progress and all that. I do not see that opening the bator is such a big deal. So far I see the biggest problem is letting the eggs get cooled at all.

Lacy, My wife has been looking at those topsy tervy things also. Are you all putting your tomatos out for the year? I was going to tell my wife to go ahead and plant hers but if I do it is guaranteed to freeze at least one more time.

 

[Penturner]

I took these photos the other day but jsut put them on my computer. I didn't really notice this one until I saw it on my computer screen but when I did I had to share it.
The Dog is a Chihuahua, and a small one at that. The photo is deceptive in the size of the Rooster. In real life the bird is just slightly taller than the dog. but I thought this was a cute picture.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Bloomie -- I candle my eggs whenever I get a hankering

I also open the bator during lockdown - to pick out chicks and add water (cause humidity is a battle for me

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When you are close to lockdown or in lockdown - I have found it helpful to tap on the egg lightly with my nail then candle. Often this seems to activate the chick so I can either see movement or hear scratching/peeping back.

Candling a totally dark egg - I move the light around to the aircell and try to see or to the bottom of the egg (pointy end) to see if I see any space or movement - often if the chick has pipped internally you can see their beak sticking up in to the cell.


When I have a broody on eggs, I candle alot less (rarely have I had a hen kick an egg out even if it is bad) and usually do not mess with her except to check for chicks when I hear peeping. With my broodies when I hear peeping I usually have a chick out of the shell. The chick will hide very well in momma's feathers and often cannot be seen at first. Give momma a dish of crumbles and a small water container that the chicks cannot drown in or place rocks in the water. Mom will call the chicks to food when they start hatching - she also calls them to drink. When my broody leaves the nest, then I candle what eggs are left - if I think there might be a chick I stick it in the bator - the others I open.

When I hatch in the bator is the only time I hear chicks peeping before they are out of the egg - I have never heard them under the broody

I currently have 3 broodies, all in different stages - two have clutches and one is in the midst of hatching. Blondie (white lf cochin) is in the middle of hatching and has 5 chicks - but if I pick her up to look at her eggs - the chicks are so well dug into her feathers that they often are picked up with her and all I see are little feet.

Adorable picture Penturner!