The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[Cynthia12]

Ok I went and did it. I have a broody that just wont give up! It's been 5 weeks and she is dead set on raising some chicks and hasn't laid an egg in forever. So I took 8 eggs out of my incubator wrapped them in a warm towel and moved my broody to isolation and set the eggs under her. So what do you guys think? Right or wrong thing to do. 90% of the eggs in the bator are for freezer camp anyway. only keeping the white jersey giant pullets and a couple EE's for egg laying from the hatch everyone else has another purpose.

I've done it!

When they want babies, why not? And I love watching the mamas.

 

[Cynthia12]

Looking for some guidance here... After candling on day seven, all but 1 of my 25 eggs showed signs of life. Well, I just recandled yesterday at day fourteen, and nine of the 24 remaining eggs seemed to have stopped developing. So, I took out one of the ones that looked dead and cracked it open. The yolk was very runny, and I could see a slight blood ring. The embryo was about the size of a dime, but had clearly stopped developing a while ago. I left the rest of the 9 eggs in there.

The other eggs are developing very nicely with large veins.

What did I do wrong? Why did nine of them stop developing?!?

I have them in a homemade incubator that has been keeping a temperature between 99-100 degrees. I turn the eggs manually three times a day religiously. The temperature only drops momentarily when I am turning (about 3 minutes to get back up to normal temp)...

Any help for this firsty?

Now there is a question that every one of us here would like to know..where did we go wrong? When we see that quitter, and we know that every thing has been done exactly the way it was supposed to be done. It could be a number of things..we just don't know why some quit. Sometimes, there is no question, that if the eggs were shipped, that it has a lot to do with chicks not making it. Other things can happen, but which one is it? We don't know. 9 out of 25 so far isn't bad if they were shipped.

 

[Tammy N]

So now that the funny post is over CONGRADULATIONS .

I can also post about the Turkey egg that popped and my Blue heeler Issue .
Mark my roommate aka Mark I bought him a puppy her name is Bandit she is a Big blue Heeler.female

well he gets upset that Bandit always wants to sleep with me WHY because He Snores and no one can sleep when that train comes crushing Down ,

So i notice when the egg popped Bandit was with mark i told him keep her in the front yard do not let her out back went to go potty and He ignored me . What do i do i go out back she is rolling in turkey putrid egg pile from those Nasty eggs sent to me for hatching YUCK .
mark desides he is gonna take a Nap .
OH yeah OK i said im off to bed for good would you keep your dog out of my room and NO i did not tell him Why because he is older then me and did nto listen when i said DO not let her out back.

so he goes to nap i let his dog in with him and i swear he was like OMG whats that smell and the more he moved away the closer she would get thinking this was a Game . PAYBACKS BABY ,.anyhow he ended up sleeping after bathing his dog on the couch but i also taught him how to do laundry Winks God works in mysterious ways . One IM A RED HEAD .

 

[acemario]

Quote Cynthia 12:
Thanks for the response... Nope... Not shipped. I got them from two local dealers here close to home. The only thing that might make a difference is one of the people who was collecting eggs for me worked until 5 o clock, so he would try to collect the eggs right when he got home. He would only keep the ones that weren't cold to the touch. But they all still developed! (Most of the ones that stopped were from his flock though.) Could this be a factor? I thought so, but then thought... but hey! they still started developing! So I discounted that theory...

 

[misskeeter]

Old English hatched!

One more pip from another....

Is this icky belly button okay? Or did something go terribly wrong?

 

[misskeeter]

Here's a better picture...

 

[Cynthia12]

Old English hatched!

One more pip from another....

Is this icky belly button okay? Or did something go terribly wrong?

Looks normal!! Congrats! It will fall off...

 

[acemario]

Old English hatched!

One more pip from another....

Is this icky belly button okay? Or did something go terribly wrong?

What a cutie!

 

[RedIII]

Cute, cute chickies!

Pele, I'm so sorry about your eggs

That's mighty discouraging.

Cynthia, I keep forgetting to say so, but that Leghorn mix you gave me (my broody) is a very caring mother. She scoops the chicks up into her wings and nestles them close to her to keep them warm and comfortable. I think she's very proud of herself, and I'm proud of her, too. She's very patient with me when I intrude to check her eggs or her babies. I've also been putting food and water where she could reach it while she was sitting on her eggs. And, I may have sneaked her a few baby spinach leaves as treats..............

 

[ceocka]

First I have to say congrats to all of the beautiful new babies and pips!

Second I am so sorry for everyone's losses. I have to say I had a bad day too. Been very sick today. And this morning I went out to nursery to water and feed babies and turn eggs and everyone was doing great. So took meds and went back to bed. Woke up at 4 and went to nursery cus kids went out at noon for me. And I found two of my turkens dead. They were still warm. I wanted too ball. My first NN and now I only have one left. Why? Why? I loved them so much. I don't understand. Ugh. Such a sad day.