~*Third Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatch-Athon*~ all poultry welcome!

[foxvalleyfarm]

Bummer yeah i'm going to wait until my chicks are 24 hours over due untill i start breaking into the eggs

I'm more hands on then most especially with eggs that are overdue like these. I had a feeling last night that I should help but I didn't. But on better news I have 3 chicks externally pipped and a duck externally pipped.

 

[JennaLynn122]

I heard you need a good eye or one of those magnifying glasses

probably so. I doubt I have either. But I'm good with feather sexing the ones I can and waiting out the others.

 

[JennaLynn122]

Just locked down 56 chicken eggs. The end of day 18 is technically late tonight.

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Did a final candling last night (3am?) and pumped up the humidity. My actual & usual set time is midnight, because that's when I can usually remove other peoples/critters claws from my skin long enough to do what *I* want to. It's now day 20. Realized I'd miscounted before - three of the eggs in there are 'critical-must hatch' eggs that are ten days staggered and match the turkey egg timing... so, there's sixteen due any minute. Three were vigorously trying for an internal pip while I was candling; (really hard not to sit there & watch/cheer them on!) guess I should go look soon.

 

[JennaLynn122]

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Did a final candling last night (3am?) and pumped up the humidity.  My actual & usual set time is midnight, because that's when I can usually remove other peoples/critters claws from my skin long enough to do what *I* want to.  It's now day 20.  Realized I'd miscounted before - three of the eggs in there are 'critical-must hatch' eggs that are ten days staggered and match the turkey egg timing... so, there's sixteen due any minute.  Three were vigorously trying for an internal pip while I was candling; (really hard not to sit there & watch/cheer them on!)  guess I should go look soon.

I usually set and candle mine really late at night too. I have a 6 yr old, 2 4 yr olds and a 6 month old so turning is even sometimes a challenge lol.

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

I usually set and candle mine really late at night too. I have a 6 yr old, 2 4 yr olds and a 6 month old so turning is even sometimes a challenge lol.

I can imagine; I wouldn't even try doing birds and babies at the same time. You're a brave woman!


I just checked - seven of 'em are visibly rocking around but don't see any external pips yet.

 

[JennaLynn122]

I can imagine; I wouldn't even try doing birds and babies at the same time. You're a brave woman!


I just checked - seven of 'em are visibly rocking around but don't see any external pips yet.

luckily my 6 year old and one of the 4 year olds love to help with the birds. my 6 year old is getting his own bantam flock when the big coop is done being built (assuming we can find the ones he wants by then). He is very smart and loves animals and he chose Nankin Bantams (from the critical list) to help rebuild the breed. He plans on showing them when he can get into 4H (2 years from now). He even understands that to rebuild a breed to standards that we will have to cull alot out. Of course some will probably be put in with the laying flock (probably the more broody ones so I dont have to do ALL the incubation)

 

[JennaLynn122]

I have (3) almost 3 week old chicks and (13) 4.5 week old chicks... they live in separate brooders but right next to each other and they have been brought outside together and players on our floor together. What do you guys think about integrating them? Or are the 3 younger ones still too little?
Also, all of them are at the same temperature on the light so that wouldn't be an issue. For some reason my 3 little ones decided that they didn't need the light so hot very long. It now only gets turned on at night. They are all outside now at 85° and panting and hold their wings out when they find a sun spot

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

I have (3) almost 3 week old chicks and (13) 4.5 week old chicks... they live in separate brooders but right next to each other and they have been brought outside together and players on our floor together. What do you guys think about integrating them? Or are the 3 younger ones still too little?
Also, all of them are at the same temperature on the light so that wouldn't be an issue. For some reason my 3 little ones decided that they didn't need the light so hot very long. It now only gets turned on at night. They are all outside now at 85° and panting and hold their wings out when they find a sun spot

I've integrated small hatches up to three weeks apart in age - often the younger ones snuggle in to the older ones very quickly! But, I also have TWO chicks from the Easter HAL that each have their own mini-brooders because I can't get them to get along with the first three hatched... or each other!

I'd try putting them together, at a time when you can be near for several hours, to see how it goes. If they're getting picked on, pull them back out.

 

[winteree]

I really should know better by now....men are useless

i was outside trying to make room for the new ducks ill be trying to hatch out and i was in the process of putting down support posts for the wire (which had to be done with crappy gezebo ploes), my dad who wanted to expand the garden area for the ducks in the first place. Didn't want to help do it and then has the nerve to get in a fight we me about globalists. while i'm working the sledgehammer and i bought the hammer down on one of my kuckles (all he had to do was hold the pole while i drove them in even that was too hard) the docter said it wasn't broken. But that *** Started the whole "it's man's work and that's why you got hurt" crap on me at the docters office. Like he was trying to make me out to be some stupid highland park wuss in front of the staff. I came home and i'm mostly finshed. ill put up some pics later on today after the swelling goes down