The Fathers Day Hatch-A-Long!!! The Last Day To Set eggs Is June 3rd!!!!

[Arielle]

Quote: The peacocks are lovely but I value my peace and quiet. I do get my fix every couple of years when the local boys saunter across the road, fortunately traffic does stop for them. A beautiful view to see these 4 colorful boys striding across a scenic road. I always look for them hoping . . .

 

[crazypetlady]

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You must have a beautiful yard of birds, you hatch so many wonderful chickens!!  

I'm ditching my heritage flock of layer hens except the amers. And keeping one or 2 of the more exotic or fancy breeds that I hatch and selling the rest. Then there is the d'uccle, silkie and Serama flocks. DH needs to build more pens I think.

 

[crazypetlady]

The peacocks are lovely but I value my peace and quiet. I  do get my fix every couple of years when the local boys saunter across the road, fortunately traffic does stop for them.  A beautiful view to see these 4 colorful boys striding across a scenic road. I always look for them hoping . . .

. Then you don't want any macaws or cockatoos they not only talk but scream and imiatate pigs. I was talking to my neighbor the other day and told her I sold the 2 noisey male chinese geese and she was happy until I told het the macaws were coming out for the spring and she made a face. My poor neighbors. But we do live in the country.

 

[Arielle]

Quote: The exotic birds are beautiful, but the noise is too much for me. No macaws, no cockatoos, When my old dog died I missed him for about a week, the constant barking I didn't miss. He wasn't always a barker, it developed in his senile years.

I do try to keep the noise down . I do like the quiet, to hear birds singing and buzzing of bumble bees.

 

[Noncentzter]

I set 8 more eggs tonight: blue barred EE's

 

[PollyC]

Is it to late to join? I have eggs I am picking up to put in the bator today.

 

[ChestnutRidge]

I have been lucky and been able to sell or give away most chicks. I have a "mud" room in my house we are not using so I turned it into a nusery for chickens. I have 3 brooders in here. I just found a old horse/cow water trough in one. Of the barns at our family and it will fit just perfectly I. The space in the mud room so I will have that for the large fowl then I will use the 3 other brooders for bantams and I just got an old fish tank for the Serama/silkies to put in the living room so I can keep a better eye on them. For the 1st week or two. Dh isn't too thrilled but I told him I could just put fish in it instead of chicks and he said ok to the chicks.

That sounds like an awesome nursery! I have a 2'x4' brooder in my bathroom (the only room where I know I can wash every surface) and a 4'x4' grow-out/isolation coop with a run. That's it. I'm trying to combine my 4-week olds (currently in the bathroom) with my 7-week olds (grow-out pen) so that I can have a few weeks of peace and get ready for the Father's Day hatch group. I put the "Littles" out with the "Mediums" (yes, this is actually what we've been calling them, and then their are, of course, the "Bigs,") on Saturday night. They co-existed peacefully until mid-afternoon when one of the Littles' heads was pecked bloody by a Medium. I found her hiding with her head in a hole for protection. Poor baby. So, they are back inside and the wound has been washed and healed. Not sure what to try for attempt #2.

Well I'm excited because my first time broody is still on my eggs. She was broody for 2 1/2 weeks before I 'set' them so I'm worried she'll break before they are out, but I have an incubator ready if I need to use one.

Of course my husband is going to be confused cause he knows I set them last weekend but he's coming home to chicks in the dinning room tonight and he'll think wow that was a fast hatch. LOL just wait til 2 weeks from now when the others actually do hatch.

Love it. And I'm with you - broody is still on her eggs, but like you, she was broody for a few weeks beforehand (although I was trying to break her by putting her outside every few hours.) Day 2!

I do try to keep the noise down . I do like the quiet, to hear birds singing and buzzing of bumble bees.

I'm with you on that. I don't like noise - I like the sounds of the forest. I don't mind the occasional crow from my rooster, but the ten-minute, crow-after-each-breath crowathons make me think about axes.

My humidity was down to about 25% last night in my incubator (in the room with the AC), so I added a small bottle of water. It brought the humidity up to about 29% again. It's lower than I am used to going... We'll see. If my air cells are growing too fast, I'll add a water dish with more surface area.

 

[ChestnutRidge]

Is it to late to join? I have eggs I am picking up to put in the bator today.

Not at all! It looks like you can join if you are setting any day up until June 3rd. If you set today, you'll actually be hatching very close to Father's Day (if not on Father's Day if you have Day 20 hatches.)

I set on Saturday, so ours will come pretty close together.

 

[Arielle]

I do try to keep the noise down . I do like the quiet, to hear birds singing and buzzing of bumble bees.

I'm with you on that. I don't like noise - I like the sounds of the forest. I don't mind the occasional crow from my rooster, but the ten-minute, crow-after-each-breath crowathons make me think about axes.

My humidity was down to about 25% last night in my incubator (in the room with the AC), so I added a small bottle of water. It brought the humidity up to about 29% again. It's lower than I am used to going... We'll see. If my air cells are growing too fast, I'll add a water dish with more surface area.

Takes extra watching when you change the method. Some people put in a small tupperware type container with a hole to leak moisture over a long time. Many ways to increase %RH if you need to. When is the next candling?

 

[crazypetlady]

Takes extra watching when you change the method. Some people put in a small tupperware type container with a hole to leak moisture over a long time. Many ways to increase %RH if you need to. When is the next candling?

What we are not candling every day!! I didn't get the memo.. I have so many eggs it seems like I am candling every day. Well ok maybe I am on few eggs