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

[julskinka]

So now that it's breathing it should start absorbing. I want my lucky ducky

So glad for you. Keeping fingers crossed over here. Go Lucky!

 

[julskinka]

By the way, I got that olive egger out this morning! It had absorbed all the blood and still hadn’t come out, so I made a zip for it and waited and then pulled it open a bit and it finally pushed out. It had its wing over its head wrong and was definitely stuck. I don’t think it was shrink wrapped though.

Very proud of you, my internet friend. Those shipping malpos, man...

 

[julskinka]

I left this on page 319. I have a lot to catch up on.

Took out the cracked duck egg, it started to look dead a day after we waxed it. The waxed silkie egg is looking good though. All of the other eggs have moving, active embryos and big veins. Those silkie and serama eggs have only a week or two left before they get moved to my hatcher!

A bit off of the topic of hatching eggs - but still on the topic of chickens and ducks - I now have a large group of ducklings and chicks that were almost snake food. I stopped at TSC for crumble and oyster shell and, while I was lovingly staring at every single chick and duckling, I overheard a man talking about buying all of the $1-ducklings and chicks for his snakes. Obviously, I had to do something. I got my favorite employee and she managed to snag the last 8 ducklings and 6 chicks in the bin. And then they threw in a wry-necked day old duckling, and a pasty-butt silkie. We’re on the hunt for prednisone for the duckling, she’s on a vitamin regimen and she has a brace. So we’ll see how she does!

Welcome back!

 

[FortCluck]

So glad for you. Keeping fingers crossed over here. Go Lucky!

I don't know how it'll turn out but I'm rooting for this little monster.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Very proud of you, my internet friend. Those shipping malpos, man...

Haha thank you so much. I don’t know what I’d do without you awesome people on this thread. I have learned so much in the last couple months. Shipped eggs probably weren’t the best to start my hatching experience with, but hey, I learned a lot, and have gotten some really awesome babies out of it, as well as some awesome internet friends.

 

[julskinka]

Haha thank you so much. I don’t know what I’d do without you awesome people on this thread. I have learned so much in the last couple months. Shipped eggs probably weren’t the best to start my hatching experience with, but hey, I learned a lot, and have gotten some really awesome babies out of it, as well as some awesome internet friends.

Hahaha it is a bit like learning how to swim by jumping in the deep end. I did it the same way tho, and I feel like it made me a bit more fearless. You see a lot of different versions and combinations of what can go wrong, but that kind of exposure makes you better able to deal with whatever else may come.

 

[Mylied]

Good job @FortCluck ! I'm rooting for the duckling!

I'm up to 18 hatched and several more pipped.

 

[FortCluck]

So the veins are receding!!! Lucky duck is breathing perfect and think it has a very good chance

 

[julskinka]

While I run around here on D19 prepping my brooder and doing other chores, I want to just take a moment to complain about this chicken:
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This is Big. She is an F3 or 4 olive egger that's part cuckoo marans and part cream legbar. I hatched her last spring. She has never started laying eggs. I marveled today how I'm literally about to hatch new babies, and last year's hatch hasn't even all started laying.

Screw you, Big. I'm gonna change your name to Sucks.

She finally laid a freaking egg! At 69g it's pretty impressive for a first time.

 

[julskinka]

She finally laid a freaking egg! At 69g it's pretty impressive for a first time.View attachment 2050737

Although, at 44 FREAKING WEEKS OLD, it better be.