***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Cjarvis]

Marybeth, someone failed to warn me that the ornamental pheasants are a 23-24 day incubation... I went to candle eggs and found chicks in the incubator, moved the others to the hatcher looks like it will be 100% hatch on your pheasant eggs that were fertile.

 

[mefordz]

Marybeth, someone failed to warn me that the ornamental pheasants are a 23-24 day incubation... I went to candle eggs and found chicks in the incubator, moved the others to the hatcher looks like it will be 100% hatch on your pheasant eggs that were fertile.

hey carl, pheasants have a 23-24 day incubation!

keep an eye on them in a brooder, sometimes they get a little cranky with chicks and try to eat them.

 

[bfrancis]

hey carl, pheasants have a 23-24 day incubation!

keep an eye on them in a brooder, sometimes they get a little cranky with chicks and try to eat them.

LOL! I would agree with the ring necks...but with the deco pheasants they are actually on the timid, frail side at hatch...and it's just opposite, the chicken chicks will pick on them...they will be quite a bit smaller, like a bantam chick

 

[Cjarvis]

LOL! I would agree with the ring necks...but with the deco pheasants they are actually on the timid, frail side at hatch...and it's just opposite, the chicken chicks will pick on them...they will be quite a bit smaller, like a bantam chick

Not my OE they are about the same size at hatch problem is I dont have anything hatching this week and the brooders will have be re-arranged quickly and a few days early just for these guys..

 

[bfrancis]

Aaah the old brooder shuffle! I know that game to well and don't like it

 

[nnbreeder]

Nanakat these are the the eggs I got at poops and they are already a day late and not one has hatched 20 out of 24 black coppers have hatched in the same incubator. I do not have a way to candle

All it takes is a flashlight and a piece of cardboard with a dime-sized hole cut in the center. In a darkened room put the cardboard over the head of the flashlight and then the bottom of the egg over the hole. Leave enough room between the cardboard and light so the egg fills the hole completely.

A Mini Mag light with the rubber tipped extension works well too.

 

[Cjarvis]

Just for Fun here some young bird Pics..
Silver Blue with Birchen in the Background.


Young Birchen,


Young Opal Cockrell,



Young Columbian Pullets

 

[prettychicks]

I got 8 BCM's this morning from Elie Mea. Thanks Elie. It was nice meeting you. I got my chicks settled in and they look great.

 

[spunkychickenmomma]

Just met with Poco Pollo and picked up a gorgeous assortment of naked necks! Thanks Coral!!

 

[prettychicks]

Ok, I was hit again tonight! But got this one too! The second black rat snake in as many days. The photos don't do it justice but it was every bit 5' long.

Moved my chicks tonight until I can make their brooder snake proof, but when I started, there were 58, tonight there is 50.

This is what I saw when I went to check on them!


Mitzi wanted to know how I use tongs; for size comparison, my tongs are 40" long and 1" diameter.


You see, as I stated earlier, I'm not gentle, just squeeze the....out of it so it can't get away...and a snake this long does not like to be held!


The rest of the pics are too graphic...let's just say it was destroyed with a vengeance!

I didn't know that black snakes had a pattern. I lost so many eggs and a few baby chicks and one 4 month old guinea to a black snake. I hate them. I only use hardware cloth now. Learned my lesson. Also once had a coon or something rip the heads off a silkie or two years back so chicken wire is worthless to me if it doesn't protect my flock. Glad you caught that thing and got rid of it. It was big enough to eat quite a bit.