Texas

[RachaelS]

whoo!! 4 hatched

What I am worried about is, My turner is part of the bator, I can unplug it to stop turning or put down a wire floor under the "no turn eggs". but it does take time with the lid off. I guess I'm worried about the 10-15 minutes of getting all the eggs out, putting in the wire, and then putting all the eggs back in. I need to do this so only the eggs that need to turn can turn and the rest can then rest.
The six that just hatched were on the wire floor, and I did have to remove them quickly so they wouldn't fall through the turning floor, worried about the water below and the turner squashing them. Only one got over that way, it did slip through the squares but did not fall all the way in. He hatched overnight, the rest have hatched today, and after a nap I would move them under the heat lamp.
I guess I will have to play it by ear, I dont want to lose any of the next 3 dozen, but I know that it does happen. So i will just do my best and hope for the best!!

For me, I remove the tuner and put them all into egg cartons, like what bjrob said. Then I just hand turn the ones that need to be, until everyone is done hatching, then put the turner back in. I was also worried about it squashing the new babies.

Quote: Thank you! I only have the 2 Roosters and 5 hens right now. No hatching for me this season. The girls eggs have gotten really thin shells, they have access to oyster and egg shells. It seems to have started after I stopped letting them free range all day. Now they just get 2-3 hours. I think this breed really does best free ranging all the time. I should be getting 4 more girls soon (next month) if everything goes as planned. Super excited about that.

Hello from Deep East Texas! I live just north of Nacogdoches (only a little over a hour from you, Harley!) i don't have any chickens, I have ducks. I can't believe how many hours I spend reading this thread about everybody else's chickens when I don't even have any, but I do enjoy it. I had to go to a conference a couple of weeks ago and thought I'd never catch up!!

I raise Welsh Harlequin and Saxony ducks. Boy, those Saxony eggs are BIG!! I had to order some special egg cartons because their eggs are too big for the ones at Tractor Supply.

Here's a picture of my ducks from this winter, when they were out in the snow. The Saxony boys have grey heads and the girls are a beautiful buff color. The Welsh Harlequin boys have a bottle green head (sort of look like bigger mallards), and the girls are sort of speckled dun colored.

You changed your avatar! I still love that picture!

 

[lisaterrell88]

Lisa,( Lisaterrell 88) do you have any of your Australorps  and Ameracaunas for sale?...And where do you live?....I am in Goliad, Texas.....

I dont have those I have game chickens and I live in gustine texas

 

[LightningTFarm]

I did change my avatar. Which one did you love? This one, of my beautiful daughter, Skye, and our paint colt, Quanah?

 

[lisaterrell88]

I have Cubalaya's

So pretty I have several game birds 3roosters, 16hens and now 16 new baby chicks. I love them.

 

[RachaelS]

I did change my avatar. Which one did you love? This one, of my beautiful daughter, Skye, and our paint colt, Quanah?

I loved the pictures of your ducks, you had posted it a few months back

The avatar I am used to is the one in your sig line, it could be a painting "Girl with her horse", now that you posted this one, I remember it also. Your daughter is lovely and the horses are stunning!!!! I LOVE horses, one day will have one!

 

[lisaterrell88]

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What type of birds do y'all have?.We have old English so cute and small and game birds we love them.[/quote

Welcome and I have srandard game chickens

 

[lisaterrell88]

It is funny I have a blue brittle pit and everytime one of the chicks churp real loud he runs to the door where we have them in a room in brooder and sits andwaits till I opens the door. Then he goes to the brooder looks over top makes sure they are all ok and then goes in livingroom and lays back down. Guess he is my new mother hen. Lmbo silly dog

 

[RachaelS]

Quote:
Mine are not really game birds, it was breed out of them LONG LONG ago. However, they keep certain aspects, like being very good around people and pretty calm all around birds. I can no longer keep the two boys in a coop together, but they do fine when I let them out of the pens.

 

[lisaterrell88]

Mine are not really game birds, it was breed out of them LONG LONG ago.  However, they keep certain aspects, like being very good around people and pretty calm all around birds.  I can no longer keep the two boys in a coop together, but they do fine when I let them out of the pens. 

Once one of my coop doors came open and I didnt know it. I heard sam my young rooster screetching like something was killing him so I went running out back door. And my other two roosters bob and fred was fighting fred was outside of bobs coop trying to fight him through the fence. James my hubby made me this thing to catch them with when I need to.It is a small fishing pole with a small wire hook at end and I can hook there leg andreach down and pivk them up . So I was able to get them apart. So I learned real quick to make sure there was good locks on doors

 

[harley1975]

Hello from Deep East Texas! I live just north of Nacogdoches (only a little over a hour from you, Harley!) i don't have any chickens, I have ducks. I can't believe how many hours I spend reading this thread about everybody else's chickens when I don't even have any, but I do enjoy it. I had to go to a conference a couple of weeks ago and thought I'd never catch up!! I raise Welsh Harlequin and Saxony ducks. Boy, those Saxony eggs are BIG!! I had to order some special egg cartons because their eggs are too big for the ones at Tractor Supply. Here's a picture of my ducks from this winter, when they were out in the snow. The Saxony boys have grey heads and the girls are a beautiful buff color. The Welsh Harlequin boys have a bottle green head (sort of look like bigger mallards), and the girls are sort of speckled dun colored.

welcome to this forum. I have thought about ducks but hear they crap every where and not sure I could provide them with water enough for them to swim in. Do you sell the eggs and the birds?