**~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

[wolftracks]

Definitely an Ameraucana. Hatched from the same big blue egg as the blackish gray Am. Has just a hint of grayish to the legs. Big and gorgeous! Poofy cheeks and all. I'm trying to post a pic, but the upload keeps failing. Hopefully some time tonight.

OMG!! I want a splash!!!! I can't wait to see pics. blackish grey? That should still be blue I guess, but ......well, my roo is dark blue and my girls are too, so I guess that makes sense. But I had no idea I could get a splash out of them. Learn something new everyday. LOL

 

[Daniel1974]

Time for the geese.

The whole gang.

African gander

Chinese gander

Chinese stretching after his bath

George (American) knows he is my favorite

He has a hole in his head, you can see in one nostril and right out the other side if you look carefully, LOL

I have lots of pictures of him chewing on the camera strap.

Who's behind me???

Beautiful!!

 

[QuirkySue]

My humidity is WAY too high with all the chicks hatching. 80%! + the windows have condensation. I've opened the lid a few times but it makes the temps drop too in the 95/96 range and I still have a few eggs left to hatch.

I have 8 chicks hatched with 9 and 10 on the way out of 15 eggs. The chicks aren't fluffing up like they should they all still look wet.

 

[debs_flock]

My humidity is WAY too high with all the chicks hatching. 80%! + the windows have condensation. I've opened the lid a few times but it makes the temps drop too in the 95/96 range and I still have a few eggs left to hatch.

95/96 will be fine, it will go back up. And with the humidity so high, it's better to be slightly cooler.

Good luck with finishing up your hatch.

 

[ronott1]

Second Annual Cinco De Mayo Turkey Hatch a long Digest 5-5-2013

TManfarm had one Turkey Hatch and will be setting Replacements for the clears; Wolftracks has nothing so far and has added water. Debs_flock has 15 Slate and 10 black poults out with 4 pipped; Manningjw has a lot of hatching going on with some pipped at the wrong end.

Mahonri is still hoping for a Naked Neck to hatch…

Manningjw posted a hatch video! Post 3088

Arielle has poults hatching too—it sounds like 6 so far. Pinkyglory123 has her first successful hatch! Chicken pickin might have their first 100% fertile hatch! Gardeningmama had 8 out of 15 hatch!

Chiques chicks has four turkeys out early—will post a pick of the mystery package from the poetry contest.

TMNfarm has a question about assisting Turkeys while QurukeySue has two baby chickies and more pips—needs to find a better place for the bator—or not hatch again…Yea Right….TMNfarm did not assist soon enough and one did not make it.

Others are doing well with assistance.

SCG is Back from vacation. Turkeys are hatching and pet messes need to be cleaned up! Chocolate cake is a must on days like this. There were hiking (chain climbing?) pictures too!

Yinepu missed a bunch of posts but has a gosling hatched while Ducklings and chicks are working on it! Heyheypaula had all six silkies make it!

Karimw said broodies usually calm down and are not as hard to handle. Tutors and poults are hatching!

ThaiDye Posted baby Chick pictures!

ChooksChick checked in—being run ragged so pictures will not be posted.

A chick with crooked legs was dispatched to heaven.

There are too many pips to get a tally….Turkeys are Broody and one is hiding In the woods….

Dsqard jumped to the end of the thread to let us know that the bator over heated

so new tutors were purchased from the feed store. The Poults think the tutors are their mothers…..

Silkie Sensation is getting a new incubator! It all has something to do with visiting an old farmer and making the BF turn the eggs…So lucky….

Gardengirl73 has chicks this morning hatched from eggs wolftracks sent her!

Gryeyes has tutors and no tutees….SCG has tutees but no tutors….debs_flock has everything, even call ducks….

Wolftracks hatched a tribble silkie!

Pinkyglory123 is so happy with her hatch she is calling in sick tomorrow….

Razadia has Chicks hatching and Quail rocking!

Debs_flock posted an cute Duckling picture! Then later she posted Geese baby pictures….

Wildriverswolf90 has not been on much—there is flooding where she lives.

 

[Mahonri]

Went out to check on the broody and she was no longer on the eggs and they were cold. I took the two that I thought had hope and put them in the bator, just for kicks but I'll be removing them Tuesday if they haven't hatched.

So. no naked necks for me.

BUT.. the broody is being very attentive to the 14 Dellies and 1 SLW sent to me by KathyinMo.

Those Dellies just run everywhere and she keeps calling them back... good mama.

I thought I had another broody today, but alas, she's off the eggs. I'm hoping she get's broody before the 18.

I candled the 28 eggs I had in the bator and I'm now down to 25. Removed one blue, one brown and one Aloha.

 

[Arielle]

Hola!

So far I have a dozen various poults, and I'm run ragged at the moment or I'd post pics. Sadly, I had one that naturally hatched and looked quite healthy, but upon holding all of them at once, I thought it had curled feet...then I realized it had one toe on one foot and two on the other...and its ankles turned out to the side, like a crab. It was otherwise healthy and perfect in appearance, but it was not going to ever be able to stand or function, so I had to have hubby send it to Heaven. That sucked.

I still have more pips, so I'm waiting to get a tally.

In other news, my Bourbon Red hen Scarlett has gone broody, so I'm putting the 4 pea eggs I've collected under her with the 2 eggs she nabbed yesterday. I have decided the Slate is in the woods broody, because she came back yesterday and then was missing again. I'm going to have to follow her to get her and keep her safe. There are TONS of coyotes around and nothing makes it for long unprotected.

Tis the season for broodies . . . . I have too many!!

The view was worth it, though.




That hike started from the canyon floor... it was fun!

Just gorgeous.

Of course I didn't need any convincing to hike "Hoodooville"

Very impressive. THank you both for sharing.

Love the vacation pics!

What a great weekend! Yesterday was the annual swap/meeting for okies on the byc. Today I have two poults out, and 2 pipped (one on wrong end though). Then went to get eggs from my layer flock and lost several layers of skin to my spitzhauben. I have a broody! Made up the broody pen and put her in. If she takes to that she will get to raise some chickies!

 

[Arielle]

Fourth tutor chick is out.

Come ON, Turkeys!

This is THE first Hatch in which I have started to hover over the incubator.

A couple of days ago, I lost the BBB hen I purchased as a potential partner for last year's CdM solo surviving poult. I suddenly discovered her with a horrendously prolapsed vent and could not save her. Felt like an absolutely terrible flock mistress and really wasn't able to talk about it until today.

Of course, she was my favorite and friendliest turkey hen. Sarge, the MW tom will miss her too - she was his favorite turkey stand. If'n you know what I mean...

Sorry, Linda, for the loss of the BBB---not your fault.

I'm sorry for your loss, Linda.

BF had to take care of my Ginger while I was gone. Wish I could have said goodbye.

SCG-- sorry to hear about GInger.

Okay, I just took all the baby waterfowl for a bath and a graze on the lawn. I need to sort through the 100+ photos I took, but in the meantime, here is some ducky cuteness for you.

One of the call ducks I just hatched out

THe cuteness!!

I SO want call ducks. The first I hatched were at the house I rented before I bought this place and moved up here. I had chickens, a Cayuga pair and four calls. My landlady had a "thing" about ducks (although she loved and had geese) and she made me re-home the calls after a predator got the Cayuga duck on her nest. That is the reason I went looking for a house in the first place...

I brought a call pair with me but the duck disappeared, leaving Elvis with all the Cayugas. He has taken a Cayuga wife though - they are such a cute couple.

I do wish the female calls weren't so loud.... But I would so love a flotilla of call ducks for the new pond....

THat's why I have muscovy .

THe noise from the turkeys and the chickens is bad enough.

 

[Arielle]

"Am I a goose............or a gander?"

Quote: THis is my understandin: .blue x blue = blue black and splashes. Breed black x splash = blue SO maybe the white one is the splash . . .?

 

[Razadia]

The humidity refuses to go above 35% and I don't want to open the bator. SilkieSensation told me that the humidity should be at 40% for the quail to hatch. I guess it's time to go find something to add water with. I can't wait until they start hatching!

I haven't checked in on the broody yet, but considering the fact that I checked on them around 3 I think it's safe to say I might have at least one chick hatched. I'm going to check on them in a bit and give a count on what's hatched so far.