November/December "Hatch-a-Long"

[CarolinaHen]

Don't read this post if you don't want to cry....

I was moving an egg that was ready for lock down...I dropped it and killed the chick...lost too much blood...my heart hurts

So sorry

 

[rehric00]

Today was productive for me... I got my coop clean in preparation for my whopping two eggs that are due to hatch on Saturday

I had three but one got stepped on. Last time I candled, a few days ago, there was a lot of movement. I am hoping I get something out of them. I am really hoping I get two hens, of course. I am anxious to see what they will look like too!

I also shucked a ton of walnuts. I got a about 3/4 of a wheelbarrow full after shucking. I work the next few days but will be doing more after I get a few days off work

 

[Pyxis]

So I have a pip. I only found it because I thought I had no pips, so I was taking the opportunity to fill up the water before tomorrow when they're due. I just happened to nudge a black sex link egg and noticed that it pipped - away from the air cell, into the bottom of the incubator. It pipped internally and externally all in one, and I'm happy I found it, because according to all information on malpositions, this one is supposedly almost always lethal. Somehow the little bugger managed to make a tiny air hole AND miss all the veins. So I carefully widened the air cell because it didn't seem to be getting much air. Now I just have to wait and see.

 

[familypendragon]

I moved my chicks all outside to the outside brooder coop since its starting to turn cool I want them to have a chance to acclimate more easily. One end of the coop is nice and hot and the other isn't so they can go back and forth without shocking their system so much. I have some odler chicks that have been out for a while and are used to getting put up in there at night. Well they were mad and wanting out so I decided to leave the little door open for a while. I think one of our roos went in and killed a chick One of my only 3 Apenzeller Spitzhauben (cute little splash mohawk chicken) that I hatched myself. I could kick myself. It was such a bad day otherwise I wasn't thinking straight. The 2 year old woke up at 1:45am - 15 minutes before I was due to go to bed and then stayed up till 4:30am - one hour before we had to get up and get his brother ready and to school. So I got 1 hour sleep and then had a very cranky, screaming, half naked two year old I had to drag to the car and wrestle into a car seat. I so wasn't thinking "one of the roos will kill my chick while I am gone". *sigh* Then we came home and I had to carry my shoeless 2 year old (he's nearly 40 lbs and I am disabled with back, hip, leg and foot problems from 9 years in the army so that alone HURTS) and then I fell up the porch stairs carrying him. I managed to NOT drop him but ripped up my entire body pretty good. And then I found my dead chickie and have also concluded my ENTIRE flock of over 100 rare/endangered birds - most of which are between a week and 2 months old - are passing around the fowl pox virus thanks to the recent rain and bloom of mosquitoes after our record breaking dry spell. I.CAN'T.WIN.... UGH! And 2 days ago my dogs ate another chicken - a golden laced wyandotte roo. Luckily I hated that roo and he bit me every opportunity he got. But that makes 20 chickens they have killed since April. They went under the crawl space under our house and out the other side through a wall to get to them. So - more fencing in my future with my messed up body - fun....

 

[familypendragon]

Don't read this post if you don't want to cry....

I was moving an egg that was ready for lock down...I dropped it and killed the chick...lost too much blood...my heart hurts

OMG! I am so sorry - that is a fear of mine every time I candle. Most of the time now I don't even lift the eggs out of the turner. I just open the top and shine the light down in them.

 

[DeannaA]

Max is growing up so fast. Hanging out with my dog more. qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqf f She is so tall. hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Abd getting heavuier. A syou . ca n b see

 

[ShayBaby]

 

[foxystag]

Max is growing up so fast. Hanging out with my dog more. qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqf f She is so tall. hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Abd getting heavuier. A syou . ca n b see

You make me want a turkey. :c But there is just no way I can get away with a turkeyyyyy

 

[gardenmist216]

I saw spiderwebs of life when I peeked inside today but, I also found a whole bunch of detached air cells

 

[chicketydooda]

I saw spiderwebs of life when I peeked inside today but, I also found a whole bunch of detached air cells

what does a detached air cell look like?