Southern NY, Dutchess county and below

[lichick28]

Thank you Suzanne, lots of beautiful squares to choose from.
I'm really enjoying doing simple sprouting with ball jars and cheese cloth....
I'm really sorry for all the problems with chicks. Please keep us posted.
We are having terrible luck with our new incubator. Our first hatch of bantam Polish was a flop and now our second hatch of Silkies and Nankins has also been a disaster. For some reason, eggs are not pipping by Day 23 and Day 24. Yet when I do eggtopsies, the chicks are fully formed. I'm told that
late death in the egg can be related to low temps...but we ran this last batch at 100.5 and had the auto cool feature turned off.

We actually had one of our own silkie eggs hatch in this second batch, and live for two days until I lowered the humidity on the incubator. The unit started dripping water directly onto the baby chick and it died this morning. My daughter was crying today. I felt so bad. Brinsea is having us send back the incubator so they can test it and possibly recalibrate.

I'm not giving up and will keep trying till we get some good hatches!

Sorry for your mishap. How long are you keeping the chicks in the bator? A chick lived for two days until you lowered the humidity on the incubator? The ones that never piped, could it be the bator was opened to often & the chicks got shrink wrapped since they were fully formed? I don't add water until the 7th. day when I candle to see if fertilized. Then I get humidity up to 35% at lockdown also raise to 65%. I read about dry hatching but never tried it myself.

 

[goldeneggtees]

Kinda gives it a whole new perspective, doesn't it?

I saw that Suzanne, YUCKIEEEE!

 

[CarolinaIsland]

I'm in Ridge (Eastern Long Island), originally raised as a Carolina farm girl and I've JUST talked my husband into building a coop in my backyard. Let the fun begin
I've raised/rescued animals my whole life and my family had chickens but they were never MY job, so this will be a new venture for me.
This site and these forums came highly reccommended so I will be looking to you guys for some guidance!

 

[littlecritters]

Sorry for your mishap. How long are you keeping the chicks in the bator? A chick lived for two days until you lowered the humidity on the incubator? The ones that never piped, could it be the bator was opened to often & the chicks got shrink wrapped since they were fully formed? I don't add water until the 7th. day when I candle to see if fertilized. Then I get humidity up to 35% at lockdown also raise to 65%. I read about dry hatching but never tried it myself.

We hand hatched the chick that ended up dying. After hatching, it took 2 days for the baby to get up on its feet, so we left it in the incubator by itself with the humidity at 65%. When we dropped the humidity to 35%, that is when the water started dripping during the night. I believe that we have an incubator issue and hope that by sending it back for recalibration, it will solve our problem.

I'm in Ridge (Eastern Long Island), originally raised as a Carolina farm girl and I've JUST talked my husband into building a coop in my backyard. Let the fun begin

I've raised/rescued animals my whole life and my family had chickens but they were never MY job, so this will be a new venture for me.
This site and these forums came highly reccommended so I will be looking to you guys for some guidance!

Welcome to the thread! Lots of friendly and helpful folks on here. I'm in the Poughkeepsie/Hyde Park area and loving all our chickens. Tina

 

[Dahlisgrams]

I'm in Ridge (Eastern Long Island), originally raised as a Carolina farm girl and I've JUST talked my husband into building a coop in my backyard. Let the fun begin

I've raised/rescued animals my whole life and my family had chickens but they were never MY job, so this will be a new venture for me.
This site and these forums came highly reccommended so I will be looking to you guys for some guidance!

Welcome!

 

[stoopid]

I'm in Ridge (Eastern Long Island), originally raised as a Carolina farm girl and I've JUST talked my husband into building a coop in my backyard. Let the fun begin

I've raised/rescued animals my whole life and my family had chickens but they were never MY job, so this will be a new venture for me.
This site and these forums came highly reccommended so I will be looking to you guys for some guidance!

Are you my neighbor that rescued Peaches, my Peahen?
29, I'm 34! This story just sounds way too familiar!

 

[queenchick16]

I'm in Ridge (Eastern Long Island), originally raised as a Carolina farm girl and I've JUST talked my husband into building a coop in my backyard. Let the fun begin
I've raised/rescued animals my whole life and my family had chickens but they were never MY job, so this will be a new venture for me.
This site and these forums came highly reccommended so I will be looking to you guys for some guidance!

Welcome!!! I'm in east Islip if you need anything just yell

 

[JerseyHen]

Hi everyone! Welcome Carolina!

Well, the 6 chicks are still hanging in there and they are reshipping tomorrow. They are doing a full reship (even though 6 survived) and I added on 5 blue hamburg pullets just because they had them. I am now going to have too many chickens. Well, I mean, way too many chickens (assuming they survive this trip). I will let everyone know what I have extra after they arrive.

I have to say this though. Myers Poultry in PA is so wonderful to work with, the customer service is outstanding. Diane Myer is great. She has put up with me and my indecision and is doing everything she can to find me exactly what I am looking for. I will be doing all of my future orders with her. The 6 babies I have from them are really great looking babies. No crooked toes or beaks, no scrawny ones, just perfect babies. I hope they grow up to be as good looking as they are as chicks. I am getting meat birds from them later in the season. She spent the time to help me decide exactly which ones I should go with and the differences between the ones they offer.

OK. I hope everyone is doing well! Off to make some dinner.

 

[CarolinaIsland]

Are you my neighbor that rescued Peaches, my Peahen?
29, I'm 34! This story just sounds way too familiar!

YES!!!!! I hear your flock every day and I've got the fever!

 

[CarolinaIsland]

Thanks guys, I've been searching the forums and discovering loads of information. Appreciate it!