Tis Time for a March 2020 Hatch-a-long!

[CluckNDoodle]

Thank you!

No problem!

 

[FortCluck]

We didn’t let it sit. We cleaned it and that same day just hours later she tried cooking it.

Ooo I live in GA I’d love a class if it’s on cooking a rooster

You need to wait a few days. I heard from 2-5 days. I'm butchering some this weekend and I'll let you know how it goes. We are skinning it because I don't feel like plucking feathers or buying the equipment to do it.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

You need to wait a few days. I heard from 2-5 days. I'm butchering some this weekend and I'll let you know how it goes. We are skinning it because I don't feel like plucking feathers or buying the equipment to do it.

Skinning is the most useful thing anyones told us! Have you done it before? I only know how to do breast and legs but would love to do whole carcass

 

[AusHen]

I just realized it's only 8 days until hatch day for my broody hens egg. I feel pretty bad she's only going to have one chick, my Silkie hatched a single "olive egger" in December and it just feels weird having her out and about with just him when all my others have raised no less than 4.. Maybe I could buy a few days old to sneak under her when the other pops out

 

[hysop]

You need to wait a few days. I heard from 2-5 days. I'm butchering some this weekend and I'll let you know how it goes. We are skinning it because I don't feel like plucking feathers or buying the equipment to do it.

My husband ended up skinning the rooster we have in the fridge AFTER I plucked it, mind you!

Like really? I went through all the trouble and you still skinned it??

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I just realized it's only 8 days until hatch day for my broody hens egg. I feel pretty bad she's only going to have one chick, my Silkie hatched a single "olive egger" in December and it just feels weird having her out and about with just him when all my others have raised no less than 4.. Maybe I could buy a few days old to sneak under her when the other pops out

I had a lot of broody hens last year. I have a strict rule of no more than 3 chicks per broody until they're proven. I actually had 3 broody hens at once so I gave 5-6 chicks to a proven broody, 2 chicks to the second broody, and 1 chick to the third broody...I guess they weren't quite satisfied with the number because they ended up raising the 3 chicks together. At that point I actually felt bad about separating the proven broody because she was a single mom with like 5-6 chicks and the other two hens were raising 3 together.

 

[hysop]

So I candled both white eggs that haven’t pipped. One is definitely not moving. I guess I need to do a careful eggtopsy after I finish up my homework. I’m secretly hoping it wasn’t fully formed instead of dying due to wrong position.

The second white egg has movement. Still see veins so I don’t think I should poke a hole in the air cell unless you guys recommend it.

As far as the remaining two olive eggs I can’t see squat.

 

[Jules929]

Update: with 3 hours and 49 minutes to go, I am still the DUMBEST person on this forum since I'm still winning that stupid auction. My husband is going to shoot me.

How did the auction go?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

So I candled both white eggs that haven’t pipped. One is definitely not moving. I guess I need to do a careful eggtopsy after I finish up my homework. I’m secretly hoping it wasn’t fully formed instead of dying due to wrong position.

The second white egg has movement. Still see veins so I don’t think I should poke a hole in the air cell unless you guys recommend it.

As far as the remaining two olive eggs I can’t see squat.

Do whatever you're comfortable with. Once the chicks are late and all of the actively hatching chicks are done that's usually my gauge for checking on chicks that haven't pipped but there's nothing wrong with being completely hands off and that's what a lot of people choose to do. I have a chick that pipped through a blood vessel last month. In previous experience this didn't cause any issues and the chicks all hatched and acted as though nothing ever went wrong, but this one actually got glued in from the amount of blood that dried around it. It was clearly ready when I opened the air cell and it ended up being perfectly fine but that's a good example as to why I start poking around.

Spoiler: Severe Pipped through Blood Vessel

 

[hysop]

Do whatever you're comfortable with. Once the chicks are late and all of the actively hatching chicks are done that's usually my gauge for checking on chicks that haven't pipped but there's nothing wrong with being completely hands off and that's what a lot of people choose to do. I have a chick that pipped through a blood vessel last month. In previous experience this didn't cause any issues and the chicks all hatched and acted as though nothing ever went wrong, but this one actually got glued in from the amount of blood that dried around it. It was clearly ready when I opened the air cell and it ended up being perfectly fine but that's a good example as to why I start poking around.

Spoiler: Severe Pipped through Blood Vessel

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Okay so it was dead. Positioned wrong. The air cell was on top its head was at the bottom. The yolk hadnt been absorbed or whatever that gooey stuff was.