Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[country_girl011]

I've got 4 silver appleyards coming next Friday and I'm REALLY hoping nothing goes wrong with those. But my main stress is the geese because I've never done them before. So right there with ya, and that protective bubble idea that you have. LOL.

haha
i can't imagine doing geese
i hope yours do good.

ill be much happier when i can leave this work to the chickens, maybe a momma duck.
once the warmer weather hits i prolly wont have the incubator running.... AS MUCH
haha
ill prolly still have in a batch a month

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

I love how you added "AS MUCH". LOL. I'd love to have a duck decide to set. We'll see. I don't have much faith in them right now.

haha
i can't imagine doing geese
i hope yours do good.

ill be much happier when i can leave this work to the chickens, maybe a momma duck.
once the warmer weather hits i prolly wont have the incubator running.... AS MUCH
haha
ill prolly still have in a batch a month

 

[country_girl011]

I love how you added "AS MUCH". LOL. I'd love to have a duck decide to set. We'll see. I don't have much faith in them right now.

lol.

well i think im kidna sorta addicted at this point.
so and once i get babies under every hen i wont get them to set again unless i take them .
so i will prolly have the hens & the bator going..
and hey if one of my ducks would like to be a mommy she can, but if the boys are mean to them they will be my babies not hers lol

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

I am about to set 6 doz duck eggs.

And 12 African goose eggs along with 6 Sebbie eggs.

Oh and picking up American Buff eggs, have Olive Egger eggs shipping in and Something else I can't remember right now.

 

[JazminesZoo]

It wil be Chocolate !!!! Why else it taking so long & torturing you so

OH another Golden Cuckoo Maran what cute fuzzy legs they have! I have my 2 cochins, light brahmas, dark brahmas, now my French Marans ! Fuzzy Butts!
Will post pics when they are totoally fluffy butted out

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Ok, why are teenaged chickens so darn ugly?

I really could without this stage in their lives. Half fuzz, half feathered, feathers missing, all around gangly looking.

 

[stillmecle]

Out at the barn right now so can't write long, but did not have a good morning with eggs. I had the 1 explode inside the incubator with the duck and geese eggs. So after I cleaned out all up I decided to move some eggs to the incubator with the chicken eggs. Well I dropped 1 of the eggs so there was duck all over my floor. It was 1 of my Caguaga ducks which had a heart and some veining. Then I went back to the duck incubator and it still smelled nasty. So I started candling and smelling eggs. I found 1 egg that was really really dark. I didn't see any movement in it, so I decided to pull it out. It was 1 of my welsh harlequin eggs. I opened it up and it was nasty inside. It look like the baby had tried to turn upside down the head was down at the pointy end of the egg. Well its time to leave the barn I'll write back when I get home. Bye for now.

 

[stillmecle]

Oh yeah fluffy is eating and drinking and doing good.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

No pip. I'm goin' in.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

I'm so glad I pipped for it. Totally shrink wrapped. No Way it would have been able to pip on it's own. Still has vessels to absorb. And get this... It looks BLACK.

Posting pics now.