Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[JazminesZoo]

Well I have Polish Pipping! & Jerseys Giants in LD

 

[bakingintherain]

Hello! how is everyone today! i am so glad i learned how to multi quote, so i can take my time reading and catching up with out worrying about forgetting who i was going to comment on!

Hooray for no surgery!

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I MUST disagree strongly about helping babies hatch. I had two wrong end pippers that I had to help hatch. They are both strong and healthy. I had a 3rd baby that was badly twisted in egg that we had to help hatch. It came out totally messed up and I was very upset that I hatched it only to die a slow and painful death. But that darn baby righted itself after 24 hours and has not looked back. It too is strong and healthy. None of these babies would have been able to hatch on their own... But they are all now special members of the family with no residual issues.
I think it was Celtic who astutely pointed out.... Doctors will always try and if the patient doesn't make it... That is life. But, we don't sit back and say let nature take its course. We do what we can to save them, and if we are lucky, the rewards are worth the risks of experiencing the worst case scenario.

i had to help everyone but 2 of my most recent 2 hatches, and it made me feel a lot better when i felt like a baby killer!

When I popped into the gas station on my lunch break, there was a pair of mallards playing in a mud puddle in the parking lot. I chased them into the pond on the neighboring property so nobody would run them over.

He he i can picture that! i would do the same thing, i even do it with frogs

Funny how big tough men can be such babies about certain things!

i hear you on that one

Meet my little Twitchy! Despite his battles, he is doing GREAT this morning. The past couple nights when I went to bed I expected him to not make it to morning. He wasn't really able to use his right leg. It was pulled in close to his belly like it had been when he was in the shell. But when I checked on him this morning he was STANDING in the incubator! I almost cried. lol! My hours of feeding him and getting him clean and fluffy has paid off! I put him in the brooder and got a picture to show off.

my little monsters LOVE to go outside.
i have taken them out twice.
i pen the dogs up and just sit in the grass with them.
the baby geese graze and the ducklings walk around with them looking puzzled as to why they would eat that yucky stuff.
then they get frisky and everyone runs around flapping their ""wings" until they get tired and plop down and the geese eat while being lazy .
and whenever they hear a scary noise of see something the geese run to me and tell me about it . they get real close stick their necks out real far and look at me talking softly about the scary thing. while i reassure the,

yesterdays scary monster was the guineas who were a good 30 feet away but still noisy and scary

so cute!

CG: I'm more interested in my animals than friends too. Friends end up makin you mad at some point. LOL.

I would be perfectly content moving far far away where no one can stop in and visit me. I'll just stay all alone with my poultry and my kids.

There is someone stopping by every day here. Drives me NUTS. Because I stay at home.. I guess they think.. "Oh she'll be home."

Thanks for the call letting me know you're coming.

(eye roll)

ugg that is the same with me, or calling me for rides!

Just picked up 3 orpington chickens! Yay! Their sooo cute! The roo is huge! Like a turkey! The hens are so cute, and small. The hens are blue, rooster is black. So excited for eggs!

I have 3 buffs one rooster and 2 girls they are lovely he is such a gentle giant!

My DH thinks hes a tough guy, but the only things he can kill for food are fish and bullfrogs. LOL. I told him (We just got married 19 monthes ago) that he wasn't eating one of mine unless he helps dress some. You have to earn the privilage, is my opinion.



I felt the same way about the meat chickens, i made him haul water up the hill if he wanted to eat any because he rufuse to do the butchering part!

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

Heres the girls! Juliet, and Suzie. Suzies the darker one...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/image/view/album/6181434/id/4986987/sort/display_order

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

PSue- Yes! We need to move.. we are working on that one! Lots to do to get this house ready.

SM: I'd say 10 bucks. Heck, you could even say free to good home if ya wanted.
I bumped my humidity up on my staggered hatch and it didn't seem to affect anything... that's the problem with the staggered hatch. But... nobody has the eggs I want all at the same time. And I'm addicted.. so, ya know.

CG: My husband bought a 3000 dollar drum set when he turned 16. And then bought a 500 van to put them in. So he can relate to you. LMBO!

DG: What up girl!!??

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

Hey QJ! Did you see my girls?

 

[country_girl011]

PSue- Yes! We need to move.. we are working on that one! Lots to do to get this house ready.

SM: I'd say 10 bucks. Heck, you could even say free to good home if ya wanted.
I bumped my humidity up on my staggered hatch and it didn't seem to affect anything... that's the problem with the staggered hatch. But... nobody has the eggs I want all at the same time. And I'm addicted.. so, ya know.

CG: My husband bought a 3000 dollar drum set when he turned 16. And then bought a 500 van to put them in. So he can relate to you. LMBO!

DG: What up girl!!??

hahah!

 

[casslarrabee225]

psue Marty1876 bakingintherain CelticOaksFarm Iain Utah

Thanks guys! I love the little bugger, I think I'll probably keep Twitchy. The little one has grown on me now that I've allowed myself to get attached. I didn't think it would survive. If I had it in me to do any culling I probably would have with Twitchy. It was in rough shape and I would have never imagined it would have pulled through like this.

 

[country_girl011]

just water proofed the structure.
next step puttin the house on it.

and grandma bought the wrong stuff. hope it works.
she was gona buy poultry netting, wire poultry netting. so she thought shed get plastic coated so it doesnt rust .
instead she accidently just got plastic poultry netting.
so its pretty much snow fencing hahah .

this will work. right?

 

[JulieNKC]

I've got external pips! Kind of sad because I'm not keeping any of these, but I still am not sure if I have a boy call so I need to save room. I have someone that wants 6 of them already, so they won't be here long. I want to keep my 2 avatar ducklings too, they think I'm scary and run away, but I think they are pretty. They are scaredy cats though. They came up while I had the babies out and my little magpie ran up to them quacking and the 2 of them ran in terror from a little duckling less than a quarter their size.

 

[stillmecle]

I got 2 beautiful baby Pekins!!

They are resting in the last little bit of yolk and stuff. One has its yolk almost all absorbed and the other one is close behind it. Nobody else in there has done anything yet. My chickens still haven't either. What should my humidity be for the chickens???