NY chicken lover!!!!

[AbiLuv]

Hi people
I had no idea there were so many chicken-lovers in New York!
I'm right in the Chemung/Waverly area, near Elmira.

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

Hi people
I had no idea there were so many chicken-lovers in New York!
I'm right in the Chemung/Waverly area, near Elmira.

Welcome. It is amazing how many of us are out there.

 

[Berner Mom]

Pyxis, We have 7 eggs in a carton. After 5 days, sitting there, we will candle them.
We are NEW to chickens and really are so trying to learn.

We did crack OTHER eggs we had....and non had a bullseye. So do we assume
none of these eggs are fertile. Should we candle them NOW? Or wait 5 days?

SIMPLY....WE DO NOT KNOW how to proceed. WOW...we need step #1. #2 #3 etc.

Thanks for any help. Regards, Aria

I feel your pain and have had no luck with trying to hatch too. In my case I think it was heat/humidity/lack of turning, but it is an art. Try reading some of the posts in the baby chick section as they have some great info going on there. Best of luck.

 

[Cass]

pharmmom, We have a Tiny Brinsea that holds 7 eggs. We are doing what Lindsay
advised and cracking....AND THERE WERE NO FERTILE ONES. We do have a camera and we do see Rooster Carlos with the hens.

We have 7 eggs in a carton in our laundry room and will wait 5 days and candle them.
If we do not see "something" bullseye or veins we will NOT put them in incubator and
start collecting more eggs and go through the same process.

Are we doing ok? Regards, Aria

Ummm....veins will not form if they are not in the incubator. And you can't see the "bullseye" by candling, you have to carefully crack the egg and look at the yolk....I use a clear glass "prep dish" so I can see both sides of the yolk with risking breaking it by rolling it with a spoon.

We are the only country in the world that refridgerates our eggs. My aunt never puts her eggs in the fridge....keeps them in a bowl on the counter and yes, she has a rooster. (when I was a child it was the meanest thing I ever met, but I was too small to beat it. ) While she might crack an egg with a blood spot or meat spot in it, she never has a baby chick growing inside her eggs. The kitchen would have to be 99 - 100 degrees in th kitchen for the fertilized egg to start to grow a chick.

You are going to have to crack an egg or two to find out if your rooster is doing his job. Once you see that tell tale bullseye around the regular white dot on the surface of the egg yolk, then you can collect eggs for hatching. (In the meantime, eat the eggs you have collected if they are not fertile)

Edited to add: Do not wash eggs you are going to hatch. Doing so forces bacteria through the porous shell in to the developing embroyo and it can cause it to die. Just use the cleanest eggs you have (and scrape off anything you see stuck to the shell with your fingernail or dry scrubby pad)

 

[PhoredaBurds]

Hi people
I had no idea there were so many chicken-lovers in New York!
I'm right in the Chemung/Waverly area, near Elmira.

Welcome! This is a great thread on a great site! Enjoy!

 

[Gramma Chick]

pharmmom, We have a Tiny Brinsea that holds 7 eggs. We are doing what Lindsay
advised and cracking....AND THERE WERE NO FERTILE ONES. We do have a camera and we do see Rooster Carlos with the hens.

We have 7 eggs in a carton in our laundry room and will wait 5 days and candle them.
If we do not see "something" bullseye or veins we will NOT put them in incubator and
start collecting more eggs and go through the same process.

Are we doing ok? Regards, Aria

Try Turning the eggs over sometimes the bulls eye is on the bottom ..when you crack open a egg

 

[Gramma Chick]

Hi people
I had no idea there were so many chicken-lovers in New York!
I'm right in the Chemung/Waverly area, near Elmira.

Welcome ! Love your avatar ..Is that a chicken ? or a quail

 

[Metella]

LuvmyCHICKS

ha ha ha mine was a total impulse too - they are just SOOOO cute ... but I'll only breed them once - again for me .... and then if I am still enamored, I guess I will have to buy some nice chicks to mix in new blood.

Peepers is adorable too! I love the way they are so upright.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Morning all. Warming up today and a lot of snow has melted. Hoping the rest of it goes away today. Dh told me that little Timmy, our next door neighbor, came by last night to see the babies and the bawk bawks. I guess he told his mother he had to see them. So glad I am creating a new chicken person! I was at work so I didnt get to see him. He does love my chickens though! I was going to be a nice chicken momma and let Junior and his girl out for a bit to run around while I was getting ready for work but Junior had to act all roostery. He first tried to mate with his girl but she wasnt having it and then he ran over to his fathers coop and wanted to fight through the fencing. I threw him back into his cage and told him he needs to take a cold shower. I candled my silkie eggs last night and they went from slow development to and almost full egg so it looks like I will have chicks soon. My broody silkie girl is sitting tight on a whole bunch of eggs so we shall see how many I get from her. I may have chicks to bring to the picnic yet! My other eggs are perking along. I will candle on sunday to see how they are doing.

Aria--I have a larger brinsea and hand turn my eggs. As was previously stated, you have to actually crack open and egg to see if there is a bullseye. If there is, you can go ahead and collect and set eggs. I mark mine with a marker...an x on one side and an o on the other so I know which side to turn them to. I only turn mine twice a day as thats all I am here for. I keep my humidity low, around 20 percent, until lockdown, then up it to 65 percent. I also dont candle till day 7 and then again around day 19. Once they are in lockdown, I dont do anything. I have had very good hatches this way. I am currently in a hatchoff with my broody silkie as we started at the same time. She has more eggs. Gives me a slight advantage. Hehe.

Off to another long day of double duty. Ta for now.

 

[featherz]

Hoping to try and combine a few coops, maybe next weekend when hopefully more snow is melted and my runs have more room for pecking order issues. I'm thinking in my big coop of just throwing in the nine large adult hens I want to add (at night, of course). There's about 20 hens and two roosters in that coop now (it's HUGE). Think I'm courting death and destruction here?

Have one other coop with only 7 hens I'd like to combine, but that one has a couple of bantams. I hate to throw them in there too so I'm waiting to see how the first group goes.