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[chicken pickin]

Got a pip!

Oh Yay! How exciting! Update with some pics when you can.

 

[TherryChicken]

Guess i should post this someplace else but I am so ignorant when it comes to birds...Dogs cats im fine but birds?...hummm...
So when a roo mates a hen does it just take a second ?.Sort of fly up and get on her and off that quick ? Or do they stay for a minute or so to mate?
Anybody know?
2 of my roos have been jumping on the hens but only for seconds ...like 2 seconds or 1 no longer almost like they are running over them. or are they just practicing?
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Sorry I have no clue, I have a breeding pair but they stay at my bf's place as I can't have roosters here.

 

[TherryChicken]

No one ready fragile anymore is the problem.. I myself lost ALL of my bantam cochin eggs except 3 and only 1 looks like it MIGHT make it.. Such a downer..

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Wont that be like putting alcoholics in a distillery? LOL Never ending hatch... SCAREY ...been on here in the hatch thread since. May ..June ? as it is OMG now its almost Jan and iPLAN to hatch a lot as soon as my girls start to lay.... and they are CLOSE... Wonder how many hours until your bator burns up?

Welcome to enabling Ive got gqf heating elements now, soooo Im guessing about 5 years before ill have to replace them

 

[Of Three Oaks]

 

[Of Three Oaks]

Got a pip!

ME too! Just went out to check on / candle the eggs, and while turning the bantam Cochin egg in my hand i felt a rough edge (thought it was a piece of grass) turned it over and heard *peep* *peep* and saw a little hole!!! The other 5 leghorn eggs look like they have all broken through the membrane too and are wagging their beaks around inside the shell!

So excited! Will get some pics for ya'll.

 

[AlivianAcres]

 
ME too! Just went out to check on / candle the eggs, and while turning the bantam Cochin egg in my hand i felt a rough edge (thought it was a piece of grass) turned it over and heard *peep*  *peep* and saw a little hole!!! The other 5 leghorn eggs look like they have all broken through the membrane too and are wagging their beaks around inside the shell!
 
So excited! Will get some pics for ya'll.

are you candling after they went into lockdown? I'm confused

 

[Of Three Oaks]

What is this lock-down you speak of?.... am i in trouble?

 

[AlivianAcres]

What is this lock-down you speak of?.... am i in trouble?

generally eggs go into lockdown the last 2/3 days where humidity is elevated and temps stay constant...I am only on my first hatch so maybe I'm crazy to think you wouldn't candle during that time lol.

Unless of course your hatching the old fashion way with a broody then I really have no clue hahaha! My hens have yet to go broody.

 

[Of Three Oaks]

generally eggs go into lockdown the last 2/3 days where humidity is elevated and temps stay constant...I am only on my first hatch so maybe I'm crazy to think you wouldn't candle during that time lol.
Unless of course your hatching the old fashion way with a broody

then I really have no clue hahaha! My hens have yet to go broody.

ah, I see. I am yet again enlightened by BYC. Thanks for your info I will read up on it.

I am hatching these little guys under a broody hen, so hopefully she and the eggs didn't mind it to much?