NY chicken lover!!!!

[cracrzy4chicks]

Hi,
We are on day 21 of our 1st ever incubation. I have been using a Brinsea Oct 20. I set 24 eggs from my own flock (EE roo over EE, Brahma, Australorp, and Red star hens). Day seven had one yoker. Day 14 had 1 early death. Locked down 22 on Day 18 PM. Day 19 got a call at work from home saying there was a australorp chick running around the bator! By last night (Day 20) all but 4 had hatched. We are still waiting on 3 blue EE eggs and 1 white Brahma? egg that has an external pip outside of the aircell.

Congratulations !! Sounds like a very successful 1st hatch. I have the same 'bator, they're great. I think the only thing mine won't hatch is rocks

. Pretty much if it's fertile it hatches.

 

[Pharkas]

Despite not being in the aircell, the white egg is zipping around the small end of the egg! Hopefully we have a healthy chick out soon. When it first piped yesterday there was blood at the pip hole at the small end of the egg.

 

[Pharkas]

Egg hatched and chick looks great. Eggshell looks clean on inside so everything was able to enter chick even though she was in the wrong position. 3 eggs to go! No pips yet but one is rocking and rolling. I keep having to remind myself that it is only just the morning of day 21 so these last three are still "on time".

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

This looks just like the incubator we have. April 2014 my husband set 7 eggs and
6 hatched. May 2014 he set 7 eggs and 6 hatched.

Remember: we are NEW to chickens and could not identify roosters from hens until
the middle of Winter. NOW we went to the Barn today and we discovered we have
8 Pure Silkie Roosters. /we knew we had Roosters....but decided to raise and keep them
until Spring.

Dad was a Splash Linzi delivered from CT and the Mom was a dark blue pure Silkie.
We have the Roosters separated. We now have 8 hens and Carlos, the Splash CT
Rooster.in the Coop. They other Roosters are in our Maple Surgar House (now used for a Coop.

The 8 Roosters are beautiful but they need a new home: We have Splash, Dark Blue
and one is white and buff. Before I list them on Craig's List does anyone on BYC
have any interest. We live in Sauquoit 9 miles south of Utica and we can deliver to
Chickenstock. Aria

Aria i would love the splash and the dark blue will pm you

 

[baunlee]

hey guys! havent checked in here in quite some time. I'm away at school now so mr.baunlee is technically the chicken keeper.
However, I did see a FREE yes, FREE program and I instantly thought of all you wonderful people.
I tried sending the link to mr.baunlee and he thought the class was in london -_- but it's actually online

hopefully im not getting this to you too late and you can still join
https://www.coursera.org/course/chickens

happy easter

 

[PhoredaBurds]

hey guys! havent checked in here in quite some time.  I'm away at school now so mr.baunlee is technically the chicken keeper.
However, I did see a FREE yes, FREE program and I instantly thought of all you wonderful people.
I tried sending the link to mr.baunlee and he thought the class was in london -_- but it's actually online

hopefully im not getting this to you too late and you can still join
https://www.coursera.org/course/chickens

happy easter

Thanks for the heads up on the course! Some great info in there!

Have a Happy Easter everyone!

 

[Gramma Chick]

I expect I'll just leave the gully/trench because next year it will just flow again. I might line it with stones as I can afford.

You could very well dig a hole and set a sump in it when things thaw or just dig and area to form a rain swale. Which is basically what I plan to do. Anything to draw the water out of where I walk.

Do you have 2 x 4 s ? that might help it channel or logs / trees ?
I have appreciated that I did this in the Fall ..much less muddy / goopy .. I might do the whole front as the stones help too

 

[Gramma Chick]

Egg hatched and chick looks great. Eggshell looks clean on inside so everything was able to enter chick even though she was in the wrong position. 3 eggs to go! No pips yet but one is rocking and rolling. I keep having to remind myself that it is only just the morning of day 21 so these last three are still "on time".

Welcome

and congratulations ...yes some are late bloomers

 

[Gramma Chick]

Thanks for link ..Im already listening to it ...
It has 2 levels - free & 49.99 if you want a certificate .
The nice thing is they are short minute clips so you can do it

..as you have time .

 

[Pyxis]

Warning, lots of pictures ahead! I finally got new batteries in my camera and I went on a picture taking spree. First, here's Honey's last chick, the little buff barred rooster I promised pictures of and then forgot to get. You can just see the barring on his wings in this picture. He's a little sweetheart and he just perched right on my hand for this picture with no fussing.

Here's my other young cockerel. He's half cemani. I fell in love with his sweet disposition as a chick and then his coloring came in very pretty. I actually have an EE hen that has almost the exact same coloration so I'm excited to see what their chicks look like. Also please don't mind the mess in my workshop in the background here, I was cleaning and stuff ended up everywhere.

A khaki campbell duckling, because they are just so cute. Also I find myself with three extras that I have sexed as female, so if anyone is interested in them, let me know and I'll hang on to them for you instead of putting them on craigslist after Easter. Cute little things!

Lemon, my avatar hen, a red sex link, showing off just how muddy the yard is.

Three of my buff orps enjoying a less muddy area:

And some of the rest of the girls and my guinea on my stairs, where they are not supposed to be.