The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[Happy Chooks]

When is Easter? Because on Monday I put the eggs under lock down. I am flying without a net this HAL. I pray I get some chicks!

Easter is April 5th. (a week from tomorrow)

I read that the incubator temperature may need to be fiddled with as the chicks develop because they're putting off their own heat.
Mine is doing the same...even with my house heated it dropped the last two nights to 97° and went up to 102° during the afternoon.

I'm afraid to walk away and have it go above 102°

Yes, developing embryo's will start generating some heat. With my still air incubator, I would have to lower it a bit. Is yours still air, or does it have a fan?

Quote: Yep!

Just in case you think your incubator is not good looking enough, here are pictures of our McGuyver coolbator. So far our eggs are doing, splendid!

You need a chair next to your bator. You know you will be parked next to it next week!

Okay guys My hatch of the cream legbars is almost over but I took what has hatched out of the bator into brooder. I hope I am right white spot on head = male ?
16 dark heads, 7 spotted heads If I counted them right. Not counting the other 5 in the Dickie Bator their not fuzzy yet...
here is a picture


anybody counting?



these eggs are from my cuckoo marans/crested legbars... The chickens are cuckoo colored with yellow legs both hen and rooster. Only kept 3 2 pullets and a rooster.

Light greyish down with a head spot is a male. Aren't you lucky to hatch so many pullets! I hope this is a hint that it is the year of the pullet. Of course, this year, I need a good cockerel - so I'll probably hatch a bunch of pullets.

 

[Happy Chooks]

For my soap making friend on this thread, I made some soap today with my new mold. I did not burn myself or blow myself up.

It's now resting peacefully in the mold. I'll let you know in a few days how the mold worked out.

 

[venymae]

Yep!

You need a chair next to your bator. You know you will be parked next to it next week!

the red next to the bator in the picture is our sofa, so you bet we will be camping out on that arm! we are so excited!!!

 

[vandamma72]

Hi Everyone,

I need some help. I just bought a few chickens from someone(2-3 weeks old), and I noticed one of them has a runny nose and sneezed this clear goop. I haven't checked the others to see if I saw anymore sneezing, but what should I do about this? Should I give them some kind of medicine or wait and see how they do? It was just very cold out last night, could they have just cought a cold from being too cold?

 

[Sueg4332]

bekkandblue,

My dogs do agility, too, so I smile whenever I see your avatar.

This morning, I got out all the chick stuff and washed it. Feeders and brooders, waterers and various little dishes, all lined up, drying in the sun. Hoping hoping hoping I will have a use for it all. Candling seems promising, but the proof is in the hatch. These will be my own chickens' first chicks (if they hatch). I need to go to the feed store and get some chick starter, but I am afraid there will be little chirpy temptations there.

The chirpys are there went to tractor supply this morning. I could those chicks begging to go home with me. just hatch some yesterday and today so I had my chick fix LOL resisted even looking at them

 

[chicken pickin]

Hi Everyone,

I need some help. I just bought a few chickens from someone(2-3 weeks old), and I noticed one of them has a runny nose and sneezed this clear goop. I haven't checked the others to see if I saw anymore sneezing, but what should I do about this? Should I give them some kind of medicine or wait and see how they do? It was just very cold out last night, could they have just cought a cold from being too cold?

Chickens don't get colds, they get respiratory infections that are very contagious to other poultry.

Not actually knowing what they have if they were mine I would definitely quarantine and watch for other symptoms. It might be wise if they dont get better to send them back to where they came from (or even cull if you want to be sure the infection doesn't get passed else where) again not knowing what it actually is your chicks have the later decision is a little drastic. It could be nothing and a chick might have dust or something in its beak. I would post in the emergency/illness section and ask more questions and post some pictures to try to get to the bottom of it. Definitely be sure they are quarantined from any other chicks they didn't come with and also your own poultry. Tend to the new batch of sick chicks last every morning and last every night and wash your hands thoroughly.

I hope its nothing and I might sound crazy lol. But poultry diseases freak me out so I would take every little symptom and treat it as if it were the worst, that's just me though. You might want to message the seller of the chicks to see if they are experiencing anything similar.

Good Luck

 

[Whoops]

I came back home without any chicks. I resisted! We won't talk about the fact that I *may* have put my name on the reserve list for some Welsummers.

Four days 'til lockdown.

C'mon, chickies!

 

[chicken pickin]

I came back home without any chicks. I resisted! We won't talk about the fact that I *may* have put my name on the reserve list for some Welsummers.

Four days 'til lockdown.

C'mon, chickies!

Oh wow 4 days already! I knew we were on day 14 but I didn't even count forward yet, Ive barely looked at my eggs lol. Oh Boy, better get the brooders ready.

 

[Sueg4332]

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[Happy Chooks]

Quote: Ditto! Chickens don't get colds. Absolutely keep them separated from the rest of your chickens.

I came back home without any chicks. I resisted! We won't talk about the fact that I *may* have put my name on the reserve list for some Welsummers.

Four days 'til lockdown.

C'mon, chickies!

Who did you reserve with? To my knowledge, there aren't any Welsummer breeders in NM.

Welsummers are great birds, you will love them.