Setting eggs today...20th May...anyone else?

[ashem0]

Thanks for the cup therapy link Loopy - will check it out later when the kids are in bed!

What a good idea with the shower curtain - would be a good wind-break too I imagine.

 

[ashem0]

Read the link - and am now feeling like a physiotherapist/occupational therapist Loopy12. Experimenting with glasses, donuts etc. So far no joy - either too tight and she squeals or too lose and she falls through within minutes.

But will keep trying because it sounds like early intervention is the key here (that's the clinician coming out in me)

, and she is otherwise seems happy.

 

[ashem0]

After much trial and error, here she is in her cup! Tuckered out with all my fiddling! Hopefully she stays there for the night and doesn't slip through. The thing is, I think she is slipping through because she doesn't have strength in her legs... not cause her feet can't touch the base of the glass or because the donut hole is too big.

Can tell when your all asleep over there

the thread goes silent!

Ni ni all!

 

[loopy12]

Awww, look at the dear little thing...
All you can do is give it a shot for 2-3 days and see if there's any improvement...

 

[Alaskan]

Ashem,

is that a flat roof? I am worried that the wire would catch the snow, form a thick snow roof, and then collapse. The fish net that I have used in the past has done that. Caught the snow until it broke. How much snow do you'll get?

Loopy.....uh, my set up is kinda big, so I don't think I could do what you do.

But, I LOVE the suggestions........so, here are pictures, tell me what you think. I was thinking, at the front left of the coop to bring the eave down, and frame that part of the run as an extension of the roof eave. I have a little bit of metal roofing that I can use to top that section. I can't figure out anything to do with the rest of the front of the run. The back and greenhouse side of the run I was going to do "something" with. But I can't decide just how steep the top has to be so that the snow doesn't stick, or just how strong so that it doesn't collapse.

In the front to the far right is the vegetable garden, to the left is the failed orchard with only one very tall fence post that used to hold up fish net
In the back to the left is the coop, and to the right is the Greenhouse. The roof that connects them is an enclosed shed. This way the chickens get access to the greenhouse in the winter time.

Front of coop

Side of coop, the blurry word says shed

OK, I was leaving the best part for last.

ONE OF MY EGGS HAS PIPPED!!!!!!! I heard it peeping too. I don't know how to tell you how excited I am! I was so thinking that even though those eggs looked all dark, with maybe a hint of veins at the edges, that maybe it was all rotten chick, or something else bad.

I am sososososososso happy! It is one of the Olive Egger eggs. I have 2 Olive Egger eggs in there, and the other 6 are Pure bred Marans. I really really really hope that some of the others make it too!

*pant* *pant* *pant*

 

[comptonsgonecountry]

Look what I found when I returned home from work! Both eggs hatched!!

 

[Alaskan]

Yeah Compton!

So very much fun!



Ok, help me out here.......pant pant pant pant........it can take a full day from first pip to the chick being out, right? RIGHT? And, she is probably also gonna be slow, since she is waiting to hear other chicks peep at her. She is half a day early. So, she might just sit there and wait until other eggs start being active. RIGHT?

I can't believe I am going to have to wait two more days!!! For all these chicks to hatch! (Insert a guy running around in circles)

 

[Alaskan]

So, I went back to check on my first egg, an olive egg, shall we call it chick #1, also, OE #1?

The pip has turned into a larger crack, maybe one inch. BUT THE CHICK IS MAKING THE CRACK AWAY FROM THE WINDOW! How am I supposed to see? And why does the chick do the exciting stuff when I am not watching?!?! I think I heard one little peep.

I have stuff to do today....but how oh how to get anything done.......I don't want to leave the potentially adorably cute little chick! My first chick! All my eggsies didn't die chick!

OOHHH! Louder cheeping! Can't you hear it?

 

[Alaskan]

There was cheeping, then a tiny crack sound, then cheeping, then a tiny crack sound.

Silly disobedient chick! It must now be turned so that the cracking is on the back bottom side....I CAN'T SEE!

 

[Alaskan]

Everyone on this group were hoping for a blow by blow ten thousand posts update..... Right? Right?