NY chicken lover!!!!

[cracrzy4chicks]

For those of you who have to go out like Rancher & walk from coop to coop in the snow, I have to go out & bring hay & grain to to fields with horses, and we use one of those 5 ft long narrow plastic sleds. They slide very easily, even with ruts in the ground. I think it would work better than a wagon. Even on wet grass it works.

I have one of those sleds, I use it to haul my wood pellets to the house........................................ or I should say I load the sled and my dog pulls it to the house for me

 

[rancher hicks]

I just don't get it. The chickens in the half hoop that is not completely covered lay more egg than any of the others. Especially those in the coop.

The hatch is done and what a bummer. I took the incu out and put it in the back room and afterward heard peeping. Good garden o' peas. It was the chick that was upside down. I just cracked all the shell off and put it in the brooder. I don't expect it to last the night even though it's warm. Two of the BR chicks has a was of yolk on them even though they got out on their own. One might make it, the other I'm not hopeful. I don't think they were healthy eggs to begin with.

I usually give my birds a dose of vitamins a few days before I start to collect eggs. An only one of my eggs hatched this time around. The BM egg of course did not and I'm surprised that neither EE hatched. It could be the cold I guess.

Oh family just left so there is peace in the house again. Spent over an hour just holding Prince Donovan during the entire of White Christmas. Hope everyone elses Christmas was a nice.

 

[JLaw]

Rancher i got told in this nyd hatch along that is your getting yolk not all the way absourbed its because of low temp.

I bought a brisea spot check thermometer because its supose to be real good. It showed all my other thermometers was off so i hope for a better hatch this time. But my bator temp is flexing too much. I have to get with gqf and get a new top i guess the new 1588s are knowen to be bad.

 

[rancher hicks]

Rancher i got told in this nyd hatch along that is your getting yolk not all the way absourbed its because of low temp.

I bought a brisea spot check thermometer because its supose to be real good. It showed all my other thermometers was off so i hope for a better hatch this time. But my bator temp is flexing too much. I have to get with gqf and get a new top i guess the new 1588s are knowen to be bad.

The only ones with the problem were the shipped eggs and they were in the same part of the incu. The one Del that did hatch was in another with my eggs.

The thermometer said the temp ranged from 100.0 to 102*. My Del chick looks nice and fluffy, they shipped chicks are flat and scrawny. I don't expect two of them to survive. The other if it does will not be a very good bird and a runt.

I will however take your advisement and purchase another thermometer/hygrometer and put it on the other side of the incu.

My turner is missing a row in the middle. I will take it the outside row and move it to the middle.

If I do another hatch I will go out every hour on the hour to collect eggs.

Where did you hear that the new 1588's are bad? Mine is the older model.

 

[JLaw]

Its the new digital ones and it was from someone on the nyd hatch along. I guess someone on here from cali was having problems also and they mailed him a new top.

I know I've had mine set at 100.1 on the lid and I've seen it hold according to my spot check anywhere from 99.2-100.5. On the lid it will read 99.9-100.4. But the thing is it will be right at temp or above temp and it will have the heat light on. But before I put the eggs in trying to get it to hold temp I couldn't it would bounce all around. I started the bator up like 2-3 days before putting eggs in. It would be like .4 under the set point according to lid and it would cycle off the heat. I know this summer I couldn't have the room under 68 or it would loose temp. But I hear others having their bator in basement at like 50. I was running a heater in the room and trying to keep it above 70. I had to move it to the living room because it's a warmer room but I'm still running a heater keeping it 70-75.

I don't know if you do it but I started moving eggs around after candling them. Even with my fan I think I get cool spots. Not to mention I noticed this hatch with using the water channels the side where I added the water the eggs had smaller air cells. Figure this will help keep air cells even. I never paid attion to it before. But I also added sponges in the channels trying to slow the rate at wich the water evaporates.

 

[Gramma Chick]

LOOKY LOOKY we MADE PAGE 3000

I hope everyone had a WONDERFUL day with their family

 

[Gramma Chick]

Cute little Angel !

I feel so bad for my daughter. She just went out and found her buff rock pullet dead. Not a mark on her and can't really tell if her neck is broken. I had gotten a dozen hatching eggs from Florida and we ended up with two cockerels and a pullet. One of the cockerels injured himself when his sister knocked him off the ramp and later died and now her pullet is gone. RIP Sassy

So Sorry ...That is terrible .Give her A kiss & a hug for me .

How old is she ?
Is it maybe bad genetics of the eggs you got ?

 

[Gramma Chick]

Cute Post ! Isnt Photo Shop Fun ! welcome

 

[horsekeeper]

Gramma, she's 37 and lives next door We are sad, but not devastated. We lost so many this year to accident, illness, and unknown causes. We spent this evening talking about whether to continue with the buff rocks or focus on a different breed next spring. Her cockerel (Spike) is almost 6 months old and is huddled up to her big white rock hen for company and warmth. Whatever happened was quick because she watered the chickens, fed her horses, and Sassy was gone when she came back with the chicken feed. Not sure if the older flock did something or if she might have broken her neck when she flew out of her pen and may have slammed into the other coop.

 

[JLaw]

Gramma, she's 37 and lives next door We are sad, but not devastated. We lost so many this year to accident, illness, and unknown causes. We spent this evening talking about whether to continue with the buff rocks or focus on a different breed next spring. Her cockerel (Spike) is almost 6 months old and is huddled up to her big white rock hen for company and warmth. Whatever happened was quick because she watered the chickens, fed her horses, and Sassy was gone when she came back with the chicken feed. Not sure if the older flock did something or if she might have broken her neck when she flew out of her pen and may have slammed into the other coop.

Have an older roo? or bigger hen? might have broke neck?