Set eggs 3/5. Looking for others to hatch with!

[Ryan Moorefield]

What happened to your babies?

Someone stole them from the coop in the back yard.

 

[wholewheatchicken]

Someone stole them from the coop in the back yard.

Is that the babies you just hatched out?????? Why in the world would someone do that????? I am so sorry

Maybe you can look on CL and find someone selling chicks and they may sell you hatching eggs that you can pick up local. Shipped eggs do not hatch too well.

 

[JoshU]

I set 36 eggs on 3/6. 12 mixed silkies and 24 mixed reds. I have only had about a 60% hatch rate in my hovabator. I have been tweeking things and I am hopeful. This will be my third and largest set. When you use your own or barter for eggs its just a fun fairly inexpensive hobby that I have become addicted to. Good luck everyone.

 

[wholewheatchicken]

I set 36 eggs on 3/6. 12 mixed silkies and 24 mixed reds. I have only had about a 60% hatch rate in my hovabator. I have been tweeking things and I am hopeful. This will be my third and largest set. When you use your own or barter for eggs its just a fun fairly inexpensive hobby that I have become addicted to. Good luck everyone.

What kind of Hovabator do you have? What did you tweak on it?
I have eggs that I set last week in the incubator....I have silkie, cochin, d'uccles and then other stuff. Someone sent me a variety of eggs. I have two blue laced red Wyandotte eggs in there...I hope they hatch....they are such pretty birds.

 

[B J Hopkins]

Keep a good eye on her. Sometimes it will seem like they accept the chick, but then later kill it. Good luck!!!!

Sat w/my chicks after work today. Mi'a seems to treat her newest foster chick (The Rescued Chick) the same as her other foster chicks. The chick didn't seem to show any stress. I tried letting my brooder chicks I bought at MFA (kept in same building as Mi'a) loose to see how Mi'a would act w/them. I purchased them the same day her eggs hatched. So she's seen them every day for the past week. The only thing seprating her & her chicks from the brooder chicks is chicken wire. DID NOT WANT THEM NEAR HER or her chicks. So I could see she doesn't accept just any and all chicks. I believe RC is safe w/Mi'a. I'm glad. After his/her difficult start in life, he/she needs a break. Mi'a took all her babies outside again for about 15-20 min. to scratch in the dirt.

 

[wholewheatchicken]

Sat w/my chicks after work today. Mi'a seems to treat her newest foster chick (The Rescued Chick) the same as her other foster chicks. The chick didn't seem to show any stress. I tried letting my brooder chicks I bought at MFA (kept in same building as Mi'a) loose to see how Mi'a would act w/them. I purchased them the same day her eggs hatched. So she's seen them every day for the past week. The only thing seprating her & her chicks from the brooder chicks is chicken wire. DID NOT WANT THEM NEAR HER or her chicks. So I could see she doesn't accept just any and all chicks. I believe RC is safe w/Mi'a. I'm glad. After his/her difficult start in life, he/she needs a break. Mi'a took all her babies outside again for about 15-20 min. to scratch in the dirt.

That has to be cute. I loved watching the hens with their chicks!

 

[CALI CHICK]

It's good to see everyone is busy with their chicks and hatching new ones!

Personally, I need to stop getting and hatching new babies. It is SO much work getting everyone to their correct tractor or area in the morning...Filling 4 different feeders and waterers...Seperating the Momma hen with babies from the other hens that need to lay eggs in the coop...and then gathering up everyone and putting them back into their prospective brooder or coop for the night!!! It's ALOT of work! I really don't mind doing it, but I'm going out of town in a month and I don't know ANYONE who could handle this responsibility.

My chickens are not integrated to one another. I will always keep my silkies away from my LF, but right now I can't even put all my silkies together because of the age difference.

Why do chickens have to be so mean to one another?

When do you guys "join" younger silkie chicks to older chicks? The older silkies are about 9 weeks old and the younger ones are almost 4 weeks old. I'm trying to sell my 2 feed store silkies since I don't want them in my breeder stock but especially because ONE OF THEM STARTED CROWING @ 8 weeks old! It is more of a croak, but he's not far from the real thing. I'm just so relieved it wasn't my precious BB or MistyBlue....I would have been crushed!
Then, I have Buffy with her 3 little babies that she doesn't defend from the other hens. And, I have the 5 week old Easter Eggers which don't really fit anywhere either. I'm trying to sell 3 of them and keep the 2 that look most like pullets. They really don't fit in the brooder container anymore and probably want to perch. When could I add the Easter Eggers to the big girls?

On a lighter/happier note...Here is sweet Buffy with her 2 Trader Joe chicks and her adopted Welsummer chick. She had them outside ALL day yesterday. Here she is taking a dust bath and they better just watch out from flying dirt and her scratching feet.

 

[Ryan Moorefield]

Is that the babies you just hatched out?????? Why in the world would someone do that????? I am so sorry

Maybe you can look on CL and find someone selling chicks and they may sell you hatching eggs that you can pick up local. Shipped eggs do not hatch too well.

Yeah it was the babies I just hatched that I was going to use for four-h and now I have to show. So now I am getting 6-7 dozen hatching eggs for the incubator. I will get them sometime next week after my duck eggs hatch on Friday.

 

[wholewheatchicken]

Yeah it was the babies I just hatched that I was going to use for four-h and now I have to show. So now I am getting 6-7 dozen hatching eggs for the incubator. I will get them sometime next week after my duck eggs hatch on Friday.

There is a part of me that wants to say I am shocked, but it is a crazy world in which we live in these days! I'm glad you got some more to hatch. What breed/s did you get? How are the duck eggs coming along!

 

[wholewheatchicken]

It's good to see everyone is busy with their chicks and hatching new ones!

Personally, I need to stop getting and hatching new babies. It is SO much work getting everyone to their correct tractor or area in the morning...Filling 4 different feeders and waterers...Seperating the Momma hen with babies from the other hens that need to lay eggs in the coop...and then gathering up everyone and putting them back into their prospective brooder or coop for the night!!! It's ALOT of work! I really don't mind doing it, but I'm going out of town in a month and I don't know ANYONE who could handle this responsibility.

My chickens are not integrated to one another. I will always keep my silkies away from my LF, but right now I can't even put all my silkies together because of the age difference.

Why do chickens have to be so mean to one another?

When do you guys "join" younger silkie chicks to older chicks? The older silkies are about 9 weeks old and the younger ones are almost 4 weeks old. I'm trying to sell my 2 feed store silkies since I don't want them in my breeder stock but especially because ONE OF THEM STARTED CROWING @ 8 weeks old! It is more of a croak, but he's not far from the real thing. I'm just so relieved it wasn't my precious BB or MistyBlue....I would have been crushed!
Then, I have Buffy with her 3 little babies that she doesn't defend from the other hens. And, I have the 5 week old Easter Eggers which don't really fit anywhere either. I'm trying to sell 3 of them and keep the 2 that look most like pullets. They really don't fit in the brooder container anymore and probably want to perch. When could I add the Easter Eggers to the big girls?

On a lighter/happier note...Here is sweet Buffy with her 2 Trader Joe chicks and her adopted Welsummer chick. She had them outside ALL day yesterday. Here she is taking a dust bath and they better just watch out from flying dirt and her scratching feet.

I seriously feel your pain! And I thought your DH was keeping you on lockdown with eggs, LOL!
I move 14 babies from their pen in my garage to an outdoor pen every day with two feeders, one big waterer. I move my adult cochin pair out to an outdoor pen....food/water.....I let my two Serama boys run around the yard and they take 40 minutes to catch back every night. I said tonight they can't go out anymore until I make a chicken tractor for them to keep them contained. I need to rehome them because I don't raise Seramas...free hatching eggs. Then I let all the Lucys out, our RIR chickens, and feed and water them......let out my partridge silkie flock and feed/water them.....move silkie breeding pairs out to outdoor pens if they are coming out that day...again, food and water.....feed the small babies and change out water.....feed and change water on the chickens in housing cages.....get the ducklings out of the barn and feed and water and fill up their pool.....come inside and take care of newborn chicks and check incubators...I keep going back and forth on if I want to build actual houses outside with runs attached, but I'm nervous about not having everyone on serious lockdown every night in the barn. I love being a poultry farmer, LOL!