The Middle Tennessee Thread

[DMRippy]

Just an update... my sick chick died today

it was for the best, it would not have been happy living like that. It somehow got cold. All the other chicks were away from the light some and this guy was closer and still cold, maybe shock. It was not growing either, so tiny compared to the other chicks. I have one that is kind of a pasty butt that is on the small side but seems to be ok. I clean her everyday and put olive oil on her butt and have clipped some fuzz to help. She was not bad today so maybe it is working.

Does anybody know if NH chicks have colors on there wings at this age? I am getting suspicious of the Red Shouldered Yokohama.

Carol how is your hatch going? How far are you now? Tuesday will be day 14 for my second batch but they are a day or two behind because it got turned off.

 

[CarolJ]

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Donna, I didn't realize you had a second batch going. What do you have in there?

I think my hatch is going okay. Today is day 7. I candled them today - and could see that some were progressing just fine - others I really couldn't tell one way or the other. The ones with dark shells were difficult to see anything. Out of 26 eggs, only 3 are white - and those were the easiest to see. I've read all the threads on candling with the photos to go along with them - and I've watched videos of candling on Youtube, but it is still puzzling to me. It's like anything else, the more I do it, the better I'll get with it. I think that one might have a blood ring, but I'm not sure - so I'm letting it stay in for awhile.

The temp is staying steady at 100, and the humidity stays around 50 - 60%. Any suggestions? I'm just hoping to get at least a few chicks out of this first attempt.

My husband and I went outside today to figure out where we want to put the new barn/coop we're having built in the next couple weeks. It's good to have that settled now.

Donna, I'm sorry about the little one that died. And I don't know anything about NH chicks.

Tish - your new ones are adorable - love the colors.

 

[DMRippy]

They are mine. Blue/Black Barred Rocks and BR x EE so Barred EE's? We will see 14 more!

BTW They were not really laying when I was begging eggs

 

[matlock585]

Well Lo and behold... I found an egg in my coop yesterday...the first one I've found from my March chickens, and it was HUGE! Today however, I (my boys, really) found a much smaller one in the same nest...As I can tell, I don't have that many hens, I have 2 cornish X that I had suspected for the big egg, but nothing to suspect for the small one found today, short of the four pullet barred EE's I hatched back in June, they are only 14 weeks old, and my only other hen is the Ancona, which is a white egg layer. I'm not sure what's up with this mystery, but I'm excited to get an egg 2 days in a row, I put both in the fridge, and I guess I'll save them up for a week or so and me and the boys will eat 'em this weekend. I didn't want to go all crazy cracking open the first egg, cause we are a large frame family of guys with big apps. I want to make sure my kiddos get a good taste of the "home made" eggs before I make 'em some. The eggs were both brown, but the small one is a slightly different color. I don't know, they have me perplexed on this one, I'd already written off seeing any eggs this year, And I hope it ain't my lil girls that laid that second one, they are too young!

 

[HBuehler]

Congrats on the egg...if it's huge and it's a new layer chances are it's a double or triple yolk.New layers tend to do that more and when they do it's whopper size..Cornish don't lay big eggs at all..they lay well but never much bigger than small...usually light brown to tinted color-cream but not all will be the same shade..or at least all the one's we had didn't

 

[DMRippy]

First eggs... exciting!! I am still looking for more first eggs! I have 8 layers in each pen and 3 are mature hens so I am only getting 8ish eggs a day so still looking for more every day!

10 more pullets growing out and 6 marans getting very pink red and combs getting bigger everyday! I will be over the moon when I get one of those eggs! and my olive eggers too! We counted and think I may have 16 pullets out of this first hatch

but we will see.

I was working with my hubby on my new D'uccle pen and told him this is basically what I need for breeding pens... Told him it would not take more than an hour or two to make the coop part and the run is easy. We talked on the way home and I told him I needed 10 breeding pens to keep the roos in so I could just let my girls run together and he liked the idea and seemed to be on board with building these out slowly, one at a time, in our spare time

So excited!!! I have the spot all picked out and all the wood is FREE (Pallets). I have 4 large pens now each could hold 25 birds each so I could use 2 for my layers and 2 grow out pens!!!! That would make thing SOOOOO much easier. Maybe I can talk him into a bachelor pen and/or meat bird pen for all the roos I just hatched... it is all coming together

CHICKEN MATH RULES!!!!

 

[emmalynn]

We are hatching!!!!

13 eggs in lockdown- 5 out, 4 pipped

Tish- so far 2 are showgirls- a splash and a black or really dark blue


ETA: these are some really hardy chicks- we have had 2 more power outages during their incubation- 1 was yesterday during lockdown when just 2 had pipped

 

[Countrypunk92]

I have 8 silkie eggs hatching right now. Then got 85 for october 8

 

[DMRippy]

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[DMRippy]

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85 eggs

good luck