She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[scflock]

True. And I am so refraining from saying something right now.....ohhhh it hurts!!!!

suffer

 

[AmyLynn2374]

suffer

I have a good one too..Two actually. Darn for this being rated G....lol

 

[scflock]

I have a good one too..Two actually

I'll bet you do

 

[MunsterChicks]

Thank you so much Amy, and everyone else for the advice!

I have been bitten. I will definitely practice on another hatch or two before I try the Polish. I'm over here just thinking about all the chickens I could have!

Air cell up. That helps to keep in excess liquid in the egg down and not leaking into the air cell and possibile causeing them to drown. You'll want to cut the sides of the carton down a little and most people cut a hole out of the bottom of the individual cups for air circulation. 

You can hold back another night if you don't have any pips. In your case I would candle the eggs first and make sure there are no internal pips before you go to bed, because you really don't want them pipping in the middle of the night to a dry incubator. If you have any internal pips I would go into lockdown.  

You don't see a lot of movement at the end because there's not a lot of space for them to move and they are pretty much resting for the hatch, so as long as you still see some veining I wouldn't worry too much. Yet.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Thank you so much Amy, and everyone else for the advice!

I have been bitten. I will definitely practice on another hatch or two before I try the Polish. I'm over here just thinking about all the chickens I could have!

I know. I keep seeing different ones I want too...but first, I need to get my showgirls..they are my goal...lol

 

[WVduckchick]

Thank you! My two year old is learning to handle them. I'm a nervous wreck, that's my oldest she's five so she's a bit better. My two year old just tries to grab at them!

Yours are beautiful! I've read that when they lose the fuzz some people thought they were sick during the transition. But thanks for the tip, I'll remind myself that it's normal if they look scary for a few days, lol! My next learning challenge in a few weeks will be to learn sexing, or early signs of a pullet or roo.

Well, if you figure out an easy way to sex these, I'd love to hear it! From my research, they are one of the hardest to tell because some mature so quickly and others are very slow. They grow at different rates, none of the coloring guidelines in other breeds correlates... The best thing I found was that in the first few days, the girls flight feathers seem to grow faster than the males (in general), but I can't prove that, because I didn't mark the ones that I thought were female in the first few days. I'm starting to get feelings of which they may be by their stance, but its rough!

 

[WVduckchick]

Bad news.... I think my DDH has nixed my idea of going to get bantam eggs to hatch. For now anyway. He thinks we already have too many that are too young for me to hatch any more. We aren't "supposed" to have any, according to our HOA, and I'm up to 20, plus 4 ducks, plus 1 turkey... I want to keep bantams at my house indefinitely, but he thinks we won't be ready to move the current ones to the camp/farm soon enough, so if I hatch more, well... ya know.... Help me with some reasoning to go my way....

 

[scflock]

Bad news.... I think my DDH has nixed my idea of going to get bantam eggs to hatch. For now anyway. He thinks we already have too many that are too young for me to hatch any more. We aren't "supposed" to have any, according to our HOA, and I'm up to 20, plus 4 ducks, plus 1 turkey... I want to keep bantams at my house indefinitely, but he thinks we won't be ready to move the current ones to the camp/farm soon enough, so if I hatch more, well... ya know.... Help me with some reasoning to go my way....

I was agreeing with your husband until I saw HOA. I hate HOAs, POAs, all of those guys. If you bow to the HOA, the terrorists win. Go get you some aigs!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Bad news.... I think my DDH has nixed my idea of going to get bantam eggs to hatch. For now anyway. He thinks we already have too many that are too young for me to hatch any more. We aren't "supposed" to have any, according to our HOA, and I'm up to 20, plus 4 ducks, plus 1 turkey... I want to keep bantams at my house indefinitely, but he thinks we won't be ready to move the current ones to the camp/farm soon enough, so if I hatch more, well... ya know.... Help me with some reasoning to go my way....

I was agreeing with your husband until I saw HOA. I hate HOAs, POAs, all of those guys. If you bow to the HOA, the terrorists win. Go get you some aigs!

lol

 

[MunsterChicks]

LOL. Everytime I see a chicken, I just want it. All the chickens!

I'm going to get some Ayam Cenami's.

Just kidding, they kind of scare me.

I know. I keep seeing different ones I want too...but first, I need to get my showgirls..they are my goal...lol

Oh man, I guess I'm not going to figure this out easily. Thanks that's good to know, about being harder to tell. I'll also keep and eye on feather growth too. I'm up for the challenge though, I'll try to do some research. I hear bad things about having more than one roo, but I dont know. My neighbor only has one, and a friend of mine says to only have one.

Hey question, did you notice if your Orpingtons had furry feet as babies? My husbands old teacher has a farm now- he's the one who sold them to us. He said he noticed they had furry feet, which he wasn't sure if there was some other blood line in the roo he had. I guess the roo they had just gotten and I think this was his first hatch.

Well, if you figure out an easy way to sex these, I'd love to hear it!  From my research, they are one of the hardest to tell because some mature so quickly and others are very slow.  They grow at different rates, none of the coloring guidelines in other breeds correlates...  The best thing I found was that in the first few days, the girls flight feathers seem to grow faster than the males (in general), but I can't prove that, because I didn't mark the ones that I thought were female in the first few days.  I'm starting to get feelings of which they may be by their stance, but its rough!