Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Eyeheartquail]

well they do have alot of yolk left to absorb
but its other fluid . wattery. clear. and kinda stringy.
thats why i hurried to get heads out even tho its a litlle early.
im really worried about those 2.

 

[country_girl011]

thank you.
thats about all i can do is hope.
and hover over the bator.
i keep expecting to look in and see no breathing.

 

[Eyeheartquail]

barrel of monkeys after their bath.

 

[country_girl011]

barrel of monkeys after their bath.

oh my .
it just does not get any cuter!

 

[Eyeheartquail]

I have 10 tricolors right now and a bunch of people wanting females. What do you do with your excess males?

 

[Eyeheartquail]

5 females 5 males....Should have added that.

 

[bakingintherain]

Darn it! Geese rock! Bet your hubby would change his mind once you hatched a few adorable babies.
Wow! 2.5 hours? That's dedication to keeping up with us byc buddies.

he already doesn't like the ones i have, but i did catch him watching Mama chicken out the window and commenting how cute they were and making sure she had all six

Butters is doing very, very well. I think he might have an infection in one eye, but a drop or two of Gentak should fix that. I decided to put the silkie that is wearing taped shoes in with him....Butters was scared to death at first. He's only known me, lol. He's getting used to him now. It looks like the tape has come off of one foot, but it looks cured. Amazing how 24 hrs of tape can fix fisted feet. I'm thinking I'll be able to put Butters in with the group tomorrow.
Have 3 Call eggs due in two days, currently under a broody. Then 5 days from now 2 more under another broody.
I checked my scrambled silkie eggs in the bator, and out of 30 eggs I at least have 22 growing. I seem to have this air cell stabilization thing down pretty good, lol. Chicken eggs are soooo much easier than Call eggs!

My mother sent me this today...going to make it my avatar. Isn't he cute?! Kevin....you need one of these for your zoo!

very cute

Hmmm. I might just go for it. Not that I need any more eggs!

Dodged a bullet tonight. Had to candle an entire incubator full of eggs to find the stinky one. Stink bomb disposal unit did their (my) job.

you are lucky, i had 3 explode in one day, luckily they were not in the nest or a bator! but

the smell haunts my dreams!

Uh-oh. Not the talk.

I've done 2.5 of reading on here, but I doubt I'd be able to do a multi-post that spans two days! I'm impressed.
I concur about the taped shoes. I was incredibly impressed how quickly my duckling improved and shucked the shoe!
Is that the ugly duckling? It's freakin' adorable!

yep BIG BLOW-OUT!
Thank-you!

I have someone driving 128 milessss. to but 1 duckling.
she is coming to get my 8 week old black bibbed (hershey)
i guess she had 2 BEI ducklings and something happened to 1. so she needs a friend for him.

shes going to spend 4Xs as muhc is gas as shes about to pay for a duckling

at least you will know she is dedicated and the ducks will have an amazing new home

Ok...so I caved and checked the 3 eggs under the broody...all 3 have internally pipped and are all over in the eggs and chirping. We are very dry outside, extremely low humidity right now, so I brought them in. Made tiny holes in the tops of the eggs, and monitoring them now. 3 more Call babies coming!! Woohoo!

Ok..so I took the other 2 Call eggs from the silkie and gave them to the Call girls....they were happy, lol.

poor silkie

i have a peeping bator =D

Next year I will have lots of silkies and sizzles to do the job for me

Going to make cubby holes in my chicken coop for just that reason....snake proof ones!

I do too!

sounds cool! and

for you too!

dutch.
i took my hens eggs just so i didnt have to deal with her again.
she was horrible.
hissing and bitting me .
i wasnt dealing with that again.
3 int pipped . 1 doing nothing.

everyone is still scared of mama chicken

she gave me a welt the other day!

My call hen is now broody on a empty nest

. Looks like I'll need to find her some eggs or babies

Mama chicken sat on an empty nest for 2 weeks before i finally gave in and took her for real

, but then the dog ate 3 clutches in a row

so in all she was broody for almost 3 months

that is dedication right there!

I GOT MY FIRST CAYUGA DUCK EGG TODAY !!!

Want to fill my bator with some Duck, Chicken , Goose, & Guinea eggs, (also some silkie)! What do ya all have for me to hatch ???

i have some barnyard mix eggs if you are interested, has been 100% fertility (2 roos over 7 girls) roos are EE and Buff Orphington and Hens are EE, Silver Laced Wyandottes, and Buff Orphington.

all mutts here but they sure are cute

It was sooo much fun seeing them enjoy their sunny day !

I love these !!!
The Impeyan is a gentle bird, easily tamed, and much less flightier than other species of Pheasants & are around 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 pounds.

sooooo pretty!

I am really pleased that we got a 2nd 50'x50' yard fenced off today for Barley & company.

As it is bigger than our other side yard, we tried again to blend the toulouse babies with Barley & company. Barley was miserable and the ducks were not being very smart about getting out of the way of the older geese, and I was concerned for their safety. So, once again they are separated. Then I tried introducing Barley to my 10 day old grey dewlaps. Silly Barley was scared of them and wanted nothing to do with them either. I swear Barley is the biggest baby!!

silly barley is gonna be a big LAP GOOSE

What do you think of these ?? They are endangered I guess too

http://www.ebay.com/itm/280884759313?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2648

 

[country_girl011]

I have 10 tricolors right now and a bunch of people wanting females. What do you do with your excess males?

so far most of the babies i have kept have been females luckily.
i did sell a drake today. she had a lonely duck (unknown gender) and needed a friend.

so im not sure lol.
i know everyone else eats them or sells them

 

[country_girl011]

oh no.
one of the babies busted his yolk

 

[Eyeheartquail]

so far most of the babies i have kept have been females luckily.
i did sell a drake today. she had a lonely duck (unknown gender) and needed a friend.

so im not sure lol.
i know everyone else eats them or sells them

I am afraid of over running my back yard with ducks. I already have 4 meat ducks in addition to my flock that I am keeping. Jaz told me I should just try to make money of off the babies if I can instead of bringing them to her. She is so sweet. I may just send her any extras that don't sell because she has the space.