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[mjgigax]

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?

I leave my hatcher closed for 24 to 36 hours after hatch date. I don't want to mess with the humidity and temperature while chicks are in the process of hatching. They are pretty strong right after they hatch, after all that is the age that hatcheries mail them. When I do open it if there are some still in the process of pipping and hatching I leave them another 12 hours. Those late chicks often are fine, maybe have spraddle leg, but that isn't hard to fix.

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.

So sorry to hear that.

 

[margaret8]

I leave my hatcher closed for 24 to 36 hours after hatch date. I don't want to mess with the humidity and temperature while chicks are in the process of hatching. They are pretty strong right after they hatch, after all that is the age that hatcheries mail them. When I do open it if there are some still in the process of pipping and hatching I leave them another 12 hours. Those late chicks often are fine, maybe have spraddle leg, but that isn't hard to fix.
So sorry to hear that.

Have you wormed them?

 

[SharkmanDan]

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

how did I miss this post earlier? I wish like heck, that I could afford the drive out to that area. I need all of the guineas I can get my hands on. But I can't afford the trip.
Dog gone it!!!

 

[margaret8]

how did I miss this post earlier? I wish like heck, that I could afford the drive out to that area. I need all of the guineas I can get my hands on. But I can't afford the trip.
Dog gone it!!!

Really.....I just hatched off 30 and have about 300 in my Sportsman incubator. I have them on sale for $5.50 a piece. I live in north Edmond.

 

[SharkmanDan]

Really.....I just hatched off 30 and have about 300 in my Sportsman incubator. I have them on sale for $5.50 a piece. I live in north Edmond.

Yeah. I have 20+ acres here, that my guineas need to rid of ticks. Problem is, I had 20 guineas, and I'm down to 3. Darned dogs had a difficult time figuring out, that the guineas are their friends, and not toys, that they could play hard with. I lost 2 or 3 to wild predators, and the rest, to my catahoula dog, over the past 12 months. I need guineas, bad. The ticks are awful this year. If I could put 60 guineas out there, I would. I just can't afford it. I need to get some, but I have to wait, until I have the money. I have a local breeder, who sells them for $3 each. But, I can't spend money I don't have.

 

[miohippus]

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.

Sorry to hear that kass

 

[Firefly89]

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

I guess I should specify. I'm in north Edmond. These would be extremely cheap or free. There's a lot of them there. I'm gonna try a handful in my little incubator but there are hundreds of eggs.

 

[NanaKat]

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 to hear about Frick. Might the no feather gene have a fatal factor?

 

[Kassaundra]

Kass, I'm so sorry to hear about Frick. Might the no feather gene have a fatal factor?

No, it doesn't from all reports of people who have many (university and those trying to make them commercially viable)

 

[Clink]

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?

everything died down before it got here or went around us,