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[Mtn Margie]

Enjoy the Day! you All!

 

[getaclue]

this is what the BBC reality check page has to say about it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/51980731

For those that have kept up with the multitude of studies, this actually confirms what I have been saying.

 

[microchick]

I have two darling chicks with their heads sticking out from under mamma Cookie's breast feathers and the third chick is zipping.

Mamma Betty Jo has one of 6 zipping.

I almost forgot how fun it is to hatch chicks.....

Then I wonder how many of them are going to be roosters...

Hot here today..almost 90 and then Cristobal moves in over night bringing over 4" of rain along with it.

The heat has really hurt egg production this past week. Can't say that I blame them.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I have two darling chicks with their heads sticking out from under mamma Cookie's breast feathers and the third chick is zipping.

Mamma Betty Jo has one of 6 zipping.

I almost forgot how fun it is to hatch chicks.....

Then I wonder how many of them are going to be roosters...

Hot here today..almost 90 and then Cristobal moves in over night bringing over 4" of rain along with it.

The heat has really hurt egg production this past week. Can't say that I blame them.

It's so cool hatching chicks!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning all we have rain that is all I will say

 

[CapricornFarm]

Morning all we have rain that is all I will say

It's dry here.

 

[microchick]

We were in the timber all morning. There were two dead standing trees that we took down with three more to harvest. It wasn't too bad there as long as you stayed under the canopy but eventually we couldn't and that's when we had enough for the day.

I have more work to do on the grow out pen and then move it into the coop. I'm trying to beat out the weather here. I probably won't move the hens and their chicks until after the weather clears on Wednesday but.....I'd really like to get the bantams moved asap into their own grow out pen with mamma. It's pretty rain proof.

@penny1960. 4+ inches of rain there by tomorrow evening no more rain please?

I always thought living landlocked would spare us from tropical storms....I hate being wrong.

 

[Perris]

It's so cool hatching chicks!

and you should know !

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well I got tired of the Rain in Juneau now it is here I do not mind the 66 degrees out but come on maybe take like okay need to make the broody box weather safe

 

[microchick]

Well, all 3 of Cookie's remaining eggs hatched with 3 healthy little cherub faced bantam chicks happily peeping out from under mom.

Betty Jo's first hatch was a near disaster and still isn't out of the woods. I was outside working on the last brooder pen and something told me to check on the baby. Silly little thing had completely zipped, tore loose from the bottom half of the egg, severing the cord and a small amount of unabsorbed yolk sack. It was breathing and moving but the upper half of the shell was drying to it's head and shoulders and it couldn't get free. I got it out from under mom and peeled off the remainder of the egg. Little thing is worn out but hanging in there. I saw mom peck at the yolk sack so I moved the baby farther under her. Checked before I came in and baby is still weak-ish but moving and protesting when mom parked a foot on it's little neck.The second egg has hatched without problems and mom is happily cluck cluck clucking to it and the remaining eggs.

I may have to decide whether or not to pull the first chick and put it in the incubator so it can dry out and safely absorb the rest of the yolk sack (and praying that mom didn't rupture it when she pecked at it

What do you guys think? This is my first partial unabsorbed yolk sack on a chick.