North Carolina

[BGerres]

South Mills NC

 

[LukesCityHens]

no where near you unfortunatly.. luke offered too but I dont think i can get out there in the next week or so work started for me and its about to get nuts...
Thanks
Jon
wilmington

bring them eggs up here, the 'bator should be here the 5th, I'll plug it in when it gets here and probably set the eggs the 8th or 9th.

 

[jdeoliveira74]

bring them eggs up here, the 'bator should be here the 5th, I'll plug it in when it gets here and probably set the eggs the 8th or 9th.

its getting there that will be the issue.. work starts tomorrow and all hell is going to break loose...

Anybody want to cut some grass in the hampsead ,sneeds ferry area sombody with there own equipment!
Jon

 

[soupysmomma]

Hello everyone!

Yesterday was absolutely gorgeous! Wish today was like that! I am a SAHM with a 3.5 and 22 month old. We need nice weather to go outside.

Chicken wise..... still have layers on porch and Cornish X in coop. The run is 90 % completed. Gotta finish that on Sunday and then moving the layers out with the Cornish X. I am tired of the back porch being used and all the poop is getting ridiculous. Plus the layers really want to roost on something.... So need to get all this done.

Today since it is a little warmer got the Coop open with a screen door across it. Cornish are enjoying the fresh air!

Hope everyone is having a great day and I look forward to all of you guys chicken news.

 

[chickies in NC]

I got my grandaddies flock after he passed away. I got 3 rode island reds, 4 white leggerns, and 3 black and copper layers. I also got a green legged, old man, rooster. And 2 turkeys.

 

[rbaker0345]

no where near you unfortunatly.. luke offered too but I dont think i can get out there in the next week or so work started for me and its about to get nuts...
Thanks
Jon
wilmington

I will have some room next couple of weeks, I would be willing. I am not terribly far away.

 

[rbaker0345]

Thanks, that is what I did. I wasn't able to pull back much of the membrane, but was able to chip away a good bit of shell hoping it would make getting out easier.

I put more water in, it was probably a bit more than a tablespoon. I only have one pip...and it's not much of a pip. Do you think the rest are ok if I did in fact put in too much water??

I had a chick like this and ProfTi told me to wrap it in damp/warm paper towel with its head sticking out and put it back into the incubator. In addition to this, I dusted the umbilical area with some wonderdust. I changed the paper towel once because it dried out and had some dried blood on it, but within 24 hours the chick was ready to be separated from the egg.

 

[TarheelBirdy]

I had a chick like this and ProfTi told me to wrap it in damp/warm paper towel with its head sticking out and put it back into the incubator. In addition to this, I dusted the umbilical area with some wonderdust. I changed the paper towel once because it dried out and had some dried blood on it, but within 24 hours the chick was ready to be separated from the egg.

I tried again around noon. The blood vessels had receded and the membranes were still nice and pliable, not dried out at all. I was able to pull it all back off the chick's head and shoulders. I put the egg back in the incubator. Within a few hours, the chick pushed its way out of the egg and there was some liquid and some blood, but it is detatched from the egg and is holding its head up. I gave it a drink or two of Pedialyte. The area where the umbilical cord is protruding, and raw and red but not bleeding. I poured hydrogen peroxide over it, and the chick is in the brooder, in it's own little box so that the other chicks can't mess with it. We'll see.

 

[busymadre]

Wow! so well taken care of baby chick!

 

[The Howards]

South Mills NC

Hi, welcome!