September Hatch-A-Long

[CharterChick]

Kind of like a dog park for chickens, right?

That'd be sweet, though the grass wouldn't last long


Lockdown starts tonight for me and the 8 that made it from 14

I have 23 acres of mostly pasture grass... I think they'd be ok for a while lol

 

[darkbluespace]

I have the acres but I wish I had a fence around the entire place so I didn't have to worry about the chickens lol

You know that the minute you build a fence they will want to be on the other side of it...

 

[CharterChick]

You know that the minute you build a fence they will want to be on the other side of it... 

Yeah they are kinda "fenced" in here anyways. Highway on one side they never go near, the mouth of the chehalis river on the the opposite side I don't think they go swimming, an archery range on another and great neighbors on the last side.

 

[darkbluespace]

I just got two more free chicken coops on craigslist today and a sweet little fenced run that is 8 x 5ft... hard to believe I fit most of that in or on my car!! I have to go back for one of the coops though. Why build coops when I can get then for free??!! I am going to build the cabinet incubator instead.... I can't get it out of my head! And I am building a brooder/ bird cage out of an old dresser, it is going to be so cute... just have to finish painting it and make a door.

 

[AmericanMom]

My hatch is almost over!!!! 27/31 are out and running around, The 28th is doing well but still not hatched, I'll give it til morning... The last three have been the slowest ever...

2 never piped, it looked like they were wedged pretty tight and the third has me stumped as I have never seen anything like it... I wish I had taken a picture but when I candled the three that hadn't piped two I could tell right away were full term but dead, opened them up and sure enough, they were wedged pretty tight. The third egg I thought was an early quitter that I had missed as there was quite a bit of fluid and no blood vessels visible nor was there any movement... Opened it up and much to my surprise the chick was alive!! I covered it with a paper towel because I knew I had just killed it, a few minuets later I went back to look at it and it was half the size of my smallest chick, Fully formed but the yolk sack was unabsorbed and there was a lot of fluid around it.. I have never come across that before, I know in the still air the bator is cooler along the edge where the motor is so I try not to have any eggs sitting there, this egg was smack dab in the middle, It was a leghorn/Blue Orpington white egg so I couldn't have mistaken it for one of the others, I only had five of those in there..

weird, but anyways, very happy with this hatch, Lady is picking them up Tuesday and I am resetting Tuesday afternoon

 

[FoxholeFarm]

Ok, now up to two Icelandic chicks and two BA X EE chicks with two more of each pipping. I'm a little worried about one of the cross chicks. Part of what I think is the yolk is still stuck to the inside of the egg. The chick looks fine but the other hatched eggs didn't have the yolk looking thing inside them. Is that normal or did that one come out too early?

If she hatched, she was ready to come out for one reason or another. You'll just have to trust Mother Nature on this one, but keep an eye out to make sure the little one is keeping up.

 

[Red Star Rob]

Congrats on the hatches, I just put mine in lockdown, now the "real" wait begins!

Man CharterChick, what I would do with that many acres,,,,,,

 

[lauraschicks]

That'd be sweet, though the grass won't last for long

It never does...despite the number of chickens I put on it.

 

[lauraschicks]

Sounds GREAT...

Yeah they are kinda "fenced" in here anyways. Highway on one side they never go near, the mouth of the chehalis river on the the opposite side I don't think they go swimming, an archery range on another and great neighbors on the last side.

...except for the archery range. Sounds too much like

Wife - "oh my, DH, I accidentally shot that chicken!"

Husband - "But, DW, you aimed at it!"

 

[lauraschicks]

Man CharterChick, what I would do with that many acres,,,,,,

Man you ain't just whistling Dixie Red Star Rob!

I double drool you