Do you know what it was sick with? Have they all been sick the same way? You may be able to cut the numbers down if you can figure out what's going on. But then again, sometimes bad things just happen. So sorry for your loss!
This is my first hatch, so I can't speak from experience. But I do like the idea of having a separate incubator for hatching eggs. That seems to make a lot of sense to me and I'll probably add a second incubator just for that.
Congrats on a girl! I know you are so happy!The only one of my 8/9 wk old chicks to still keep me guessing... Prolly only cuz I'm hoping HE will turn into a SHE...It's an orpington. If it is indeed a HE, HE has to go.
Well one i lost to a dog(so now they can't free range because I am afraid of neighborhood dogs). One just died in my coop but I had thought it was egg bound a month or so before--but then decided it was broody but it would never really sit on the eggs and then it stopped being broody but never went back to laying eggs. Then it died! Who knows on that one. Then one chick I think got tangled up with a hawk--which another reason they can't free range. The hawk got it through the cage I think because I found it with its wing stuck through the cage. Now 4 of them did die of illness. I still have 4 more from that coop and they all seem fine. This last one has been sick for a while but not from illness--I don't think. I think it was attacked(well I know it was) when I tried to integrate it with the other silkies. I had 3 in a coop and tried to add two new ones. This one was attacked and was never right again. It finally succumbed during the bad weather. So different reasons and maybe just part of owning fowl--I was just upset yesterday with it passing in my arms! It was SUCH a beautiful bird too!Do you know what it was sick with? Have they all been sick the same way? You may be able to cut the numbers down if you can figure out what's going on. But then again, sometimes bad things just happen. So sorry for your loss!
Yay Rockerhen! Can't wait to see your babies after you set them. And what a laying rate!
JEALOUS of that BLUE Orp Pullet!!! a Cutie!The only one of my 8/9 wk old chicks to still keep me guessing... Prolly only cuz I'm hoping HE will turn into a SHE...It's an orpington. If it is indeed a HE, HE has to go.
Love the Fuzzzzzzzy!!!Here are 2 egg colors of chicks I just hatched out yesterday. Ameraucanas and Olive Eggers. The Olive Egger is the one that was laying almost black eggs when she first started laying. As you can see the egg color is still not very olive but I bred her back to my blue Ameraucana roo that hatched from a blue blue egg. She is a splash, their kids have a bright future here, I hope!
Here are some more that hatched this morning. These are still in the hatcher. The blue one is still attached to the olive egg.
My brooder is filling up and I don't remember setting all these eggs. LOL
so sorry .
