***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[BetsyOK]

Ideally their necks and all other skin should be black, and the color of the fluff depends on the color of the parents, just as in regular siklies. Sometimes the ones with lighter skin will turn darker, but usually they are pretty dark when hatched.

 

[SharkmanDan]

Yes it won't hurt to head into lockdown a day or two early. Better than keep turning if they need to position for hatch.  Good luck!  Your homemade bator seems to be doing it's job!

Thank you Rinda!
They just now went in hatch mode. I do need to take this one chick out, sometime today, and get it in the brooder, for food and water. It took 24 or more, hours for it to finally fluff out, but seems to be doing well, now. I have 3 other pips, one of which is actively working on getting out of it's shell. The other two, have simply pipped, and are doing nothing more, yet. But, I'm going to keep a close eye on them. All those hatching early, are eggs rescued from the broody Cuckoo Marans hen, when she simply had too many eggs to handle. None of the rest, are "due" until Thursday night, or Friday morning. But, if what I've been reading, is correct, I'll likely be getting hatches, most every day, this week.
This is too cool!!!

And, if I can figure out, how to upload it, I have video, where you can see the one actively working on getting out of its shell.

 

[SharkmanDan]

Let's see if this works.
[VIDEO]

[VIDEO]

 

[Clink]

Hello fellow Okie's, I'm up in the northeast corner of the state. I hope everyone has fared well in these storms and rain the last week

 

[SharkmanDan]

We are south of you, down near I40. It got pretty intense a few times but, we did alright. How did you fare in this round of Spring storms?

 

[SharkmanDan]

Back, with another question. Actually a few questions.
1) What is a normal time for the chicks to fluff out? It took 24+ hours, on this most recent one. Is that typical?
2) What is the typical time frame, from first pip, until the chick has freed itself from the shell?
3) Is it better to leave them all in the hatcher, until they are all hatched? Or, remove them, as they fluff up?
4) Is it normal, for those hatched first, to peck at the later hatches? Is this helpful, in some way?
5) Since my hatch will likely take a week or so, to hatch them all, how soon should the earliest hatched chicks be put in the brooder?

 

[Kassaundra]

I have some very sad (to me) news today. I just found Frick (Miss Priss) dead in the run. He was fine this morning active and full of attitude. I know he ate well b/c his crop was full of fermented grains (and we just put that out this morning), not a mark on him, neck was intact so not broken, the other 3 in the group were fine. I have no clue what happened.

 

[SharkmanDan]

I have some very sad (to me) news today.  I just found Frick  (Miss Priss) dead in the run.  He was fine this morning active and full of attitude.  I know he ate well b/c his crop was full of fermented grains (and we just put that out this morning), not a mark on him, neck was intact so not broken, the other 3 in the group were fine.  I have no clue what happened.

Kass,
I'm so sorry for your loss. I have had that with a few birds, over the past year. Most notably, was Sherman, one of the Marraduna Basque roos, that I had gotten from Coral. I called Bryce at OK Ag Dept, and he took Sherman in for a necropsy. It turned out to be Avian Lymphoid Leukosis. It was quite advanced, and they thought he'd had it from birth, and it likely made him very uncomfortable. That may have been the reason he was such a "Mr. Attitude" in the yard. If you want Bryce's phone number, I think I still have his card here. Also, I have an email for him. If you would like him necropsied, just refrigerate, him in a sealed bag. Bryce will come to you, to pick up the bird.

 

[mjgigax]

I'm doing chores for a friend while she's out of town and she told me yesterday that she's overrun with guinea eggs and doesn't know what to do with them all. She would usually hatch them but she's going to be gone for about a month. Anyone interested? There's about 5 clutches like this and she doesn't know the ages of the eggs

crazy guineas

 

[mjgigax]

Let's see if this works.

You are officially infected with the hatching bug. It is incurable and the symptoms can only be eased with more eggs.