Utah!

[RedIII]

Well, I just checked the Serama eggs under my broody. 0/5 are developing

Looks like it's time to set my backup plan in motion and see if I can encourage Mr. Sammy to do the manly thing with the girls. I don't think he's doing that at all.

 

[sillycmoy]

Cynthia, your pupppies are so cute. -sigh- Someday.


Silly, I'm dying to hear how your incubating is going.

Well I for sure have 4 eggs that are developing but I totally missed the 2nd turn yesterday, it was crazy busy here, and I had people coming in from out of town staying with us for the next 10 days, and went to the airport, dinner, visits etc. We got home around 10pm, and I was like crap. I totally was going to turn them before we left around 1pm, which is early, usually around 3pm. And I totally spaced.

I'm all freaked out now that I killed the little guys, and I don't know what I'm going to tell my daughter, she's marking off every day till hatch day. I pray they don't quit on me, since I'm a bad momma.

But other then me forgetting

The temp. has been steady the entire time, and I'm still battling the humidity, but I've been getting pretty good at keeping it 28%-35%

 

[acemario]

Well I for sure have 4 eggs that are developing but I totally missed the 2nd turn yesterday, it was crazy busy here, and I had people coming in from out of town staying with us for the next 10 days, and went to the airport, dinner, visits etc. We got home around 10pm, and I was like crap. I totally was going to turn them before we left around 1pm, which is early, usually around 3pm. And I totally spaced.

I'm all freaked out now that I killed the little guys, and I don't know what I'm going to tell my daughter, she's marking off every day till hatch day. I pray they don't quit on me, since I'm a bad momma.

But other then me forgetting

The temp. has been steady the entire time, and I'm still battling the humidity, but I've been getting pretty good at keeping it 28%-35%

Missing a few turns shouldn't affect your hatch. You will be just fine. Sending good vibes your way.

 

[sundancenbare]

Well, I just checked the Serama eggs under my broody. 0/5 are developing

Looks like it's time to set my backup plan in motion and see if I can encourage Mr. Sammy to do the manly thing with the girls. I don't think he's doing that at all.

tell me how you encourage him Naughty boy

 

[RedIII]

tell me how you encourage him Naughty boy

I just put him in a separate cage inside the brooder so that he can see the girls, but not get to them. Don't worry, he has food and water

I'll let him out tonight and see what happens.

 

[themadchicken]

Well, I just checked the Serama eggs under my broody. 0/5 are developing

Looks like it's time to set my backup plan in motion and see if I can encourage Mr. Sammy to do the manly thing with the girls. I don't think he's doing that at all.

I haven't checked all mine but the couple i did check last Saturday don't look promising, BUMMER! I did throw a couple fertile eggs under her so she felt like she did a good job just in case. I will check all the eggs this weekend and get rid of all the duds and replace them with wood eggs. I use wood eggs because it seems to keep mama from breaking the real eggs. I used to loss a few eggs until i seen a hen step on them and figured out what was going on. The wood eggs add support for the mama's weight when she is moving around. Micheal's hobby store has all different sizes.

 

[tellorton]

If I have groundhog furs would any of you guys around Spanish fork area buy them. Maybe rabbits,muskrat, anything that I trap mostly. During the summer I will be getting a lot of groundhogs this summer.

 

[themadchicken]

Just did a late check on the flock to see if the kids missed any eggs. I found 2 eggs still in the nest boxes. And guess who was sitting on them making sure they didn't freeze? Yep, Momo! Her last chicks are only 17 weeks. She was sitting on one of hers and someone else's. Her 2 Silkie chicks were snuggled up right next to her and the Banty RIR chicks were sitting on the perch just out side the box. This is the first time they have all sleep together in a month. Momo is usually up on the perch next to the rooster and the chicks are down on the floor or on the nest box perch. If she is truly broody i am just going to give her new hatched chicks instead of eggs. She has excepted chicks before and i think she will again.

Cynthia, what did you say you were hatching?

 

[RedIII]

Gary, if I'm unable to coax some fertile eggs out of the Seramas this week, I'm collecting several Icelandic eggs as a standby to put under my girl. She really is a good momma, and she's stubborn about sitting. She's small enough that I've never had her smash an egg - knock on wood.

One of my Icelandic hens was acting peculiar yesterday. I think she may have been trying to go broody, but I'm not sure. She was sitting in the pen and growling at anyone that got too close, so I put her outside for a little while. Five minutes later, she'd found a hidden nest from my Ameraucana and was happily arranging herself on the ice-cold eggs. Yeeeeah, I took those away. I think she got the point, much as I'd like to have an Icelandic broody. I hear they make fantastic mothers.

Sundance, no action from Sammy tonight that I've seen

I think he is very, very contented. I've only seen him drop a wing for the girls once since they've been vacationing here, and it didn't accomplish anything. He loves to find food for the ladies, and when I open the lid, he gets between me and them to let me know he's a big, tough man. But no manly business. I'll try to keep working with them in a way that doesn't stress them. I'd rather have them be happy and comfortable than try to force hatching eggs out of them.

 

[Sphinx]

I candled my eggs this morning. It looks like all 6 golden cuckoo marans and the one olive egger are all alive. The one maran looked.... funny to me. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it quits. It just didn't look quite right, but I can't put my finger on why.

Silly, when I did one hatch this past spring, we had to hand turn the eggs. They got turned at 8:30am, 12:30pm and 4pm. Then, they didn't get turned AT ALL from Friday at 3pm to Monday at 8:30am. We still had a pretty decent hatch rate.



I am really, really upset you guys. Today while I was at work, I got a voicemail from a neighbor a few doors down. "T" had gotten out and she was wondering if I'd seen him. I'm not clear on if that was HER son, or if it was another neighborhood child and she was helping call around (I should know the neighborhood children better, but I don't. -sigh-). I called her back and said I was at work and couldn't check. She said that she'd found him at my house, checking out the chickens.

A couple hours later, dh gets home from work and says that ALL of my coop doors are open, and chickens are out. He got the ones in that he could see, but he has no idea how many are in my flock, and didn't know if he got them all. I count when I get home, and my one frizzle from Diana (the broody with the babies, Diana) was missing. Can't find her anywhere in my yard.

of course. One of my favorites. So I text my next door neighbor, whose chicken habits make me look like an amateur. She's escaped before, and gone to his barn because his set up is WAAAAAAY cooler than mine. I explained the situation, and asked him to keep an eye out for her.

He just texted me. Good news/bad news. Good news is he found her alive and well. Bad news: all of his doors are open. At least 14-15 of his 4-5 weeks old wellsummer chicks have been stomped/kicked to death, and another 8-10 are missing. I went over there to try and help him. We found all of the missing chicks. All but one was alive and well. One production red chick had some crushed ribs. She was alive, but definitely had a punctured lung and needed to be euthanized.

I need to call the woman who called me in the morning. What a mess.