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Well no pics worth posting yet. Too much glare from the flash on the bator window. The other 2 have not done any more yet. Could they be quitters?? The one first piped about noon and we saw it active but nothing since. The other one pipped about 5pm and has not done anything since. Will they be OK??? PANIC IS SETTING IN but I am (barely) resisting the urge to help !!!!
After the first couple hatches, you may experience a short break before the next - Wait about 24 hours for any more to hatch out. Have you candled them on day 18 and know how many are atleast expected?
Either way, I say wait. I didn't wait for mine only because I only had 2 eggs in there that have been exposed to a nasty temp spike, and so I waited one extra day, but. . . I finally broke them open to find one dead fetus and one dead chick without its yolk even taken in.
Aaaanyway. . . Just wait.
They'll come eventually.
Either way, I say wait. I didn't wait for mine only because I only had 2 eggs in there that have been exposed to a nasty temp spike, and so I waited one extra day, but. . . I finally broke them open to find one dead fetus and one dead chick without its yolk even taken in.
Aaaanyway. . . Just wait.
Well the one that piped at 5 last night hadn't done any more and then about 3:30 this am that little sucker just exploded out of the shell. I will be lucky if it doesn't destroy the bator before I can take it out. It is very lively hopping all around and making lots of noise. The other one that had piped about noon has a nice size hole and I can see the beak and part of the chick. It almost look like the membrane is dried out and stuck to it slowing progress.
I can't wait for the pictures!!
I have a 12x12 enclosure with a few different miss matched coops in it.
How many chickens would you suggest keeping in it?
I don't plan on keeping any roo's to keep the neighbors off my back.
I have a half an acre they can free range on when the weather is nice.
I have a 12x12 enclosure with a few different miss matched coops in it.
How many chickens would you suggest keeping in it?
I don't plan on keeping any roo's to keep the neighbors off my back.
I have a half an acre they can free range on when the weather is nice.
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Show a pic, perhaps we can help before Buffy does something too drastic..
krazycricket - Are you talking just to sleep in or a place to actually live in? Because for now, our 20 adult girls and a boy sleep in a, oooh I'd say 12x16' ? building, probably a little bigger - But they run around by day in a 3 acre pasture. . Although with your half acre of roaming space, I don't know. A lot of people say that a chicken should have the minimum of 8 square feet to roam, so. . . I think it is safe to say you can have far more than 12 chickens.
Pretty sure that our building can hold all 50 or so chickens we plan on having by summer. . . It's just, the nesting boxes we'll need to move to another building.
herbandteas: I think you're looking for Easter Eggers. I have Ameraucanas, but only chicks right now (and more in 21 or so days) and will have Araucanas later, but I feel you're looking for Easter Eggers
Show a pic, perhaps we can help before Buffy does something too drastic..
krazycricket - Are you talking just to sleep in or a place to actually live in? Because for now, our 20 adult girls and a boy sleep in a, oooh I'd say 12x16' ? building, probably a little bigger - But they run around by day in a 3 acre pasture. . Although with your half acre of roaming space, I don't know. A lot of people say that a chicken should have the minimum of 8 square feet to roam, so. . . I think it is safe to say you can have far more than 12 chickens.
Pretty sure that our building can hold all 50 or so chickens we plan on having by summer. . . It's just, the nesting boxes we'll need to move to another building.
herbandteas: I think you're looking for Easter Eggers. I have Ameraucanas, but only chicks right now (and more in 21 or so days) and will have Araucanas later, but I feel you're looking for Easter Eggers
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Show a pic, perhaps we can help before Buffy does something too drastic..
krazycricket - Are you talking just to sleep in or a place to actually live in? Because for now, our 20 adult girls and a boy sleep in a, oooh I'd say 12x16' ? building, probably a little bigger - But they run around by day in a 3 acre pasture. . Although with your half acre of roaming space, I don't know. A lot of people say that a chicken should have the minimum of 8 square feet to roam, so. . . I think it is safe to say you can have far more than 12 chickens.
Pretty sure that our building can hold all 50 or so chickens we plan on having by summer. . . It's just, the nesting boxes we'll need to move to another building.
herbandteas: I think you're looking for Easter Eggers. I have Ameraucanas, but only chicks right now (and more in 21 or so days) and will have Araucanas later, but I feel you're looking for Easter Eggers
actually I would take either breed.
Show a pic, perhaps we can help before Buffy does something too drastic..
krazycricket - Are you talking just to sleep in or a place to actually live in? Because for now, our 20 adult girls and a boy sleep in a, oooh I'd say 12x16' ? building, probably a little bigger - But they run around by day in a 3 acre pasture. . Although with your half acre of roaming space, I don't know. A lot of people say that a chicken should have the minimum of 8 square feet to roam, so. . . I think it is safe to say you can have far more than 12 chickens.
Pretty sure that our building can hold all 50 or so chickens we plan on having by summer. . . It's just, the nesting boxes we'll need to move to another building.
herbandteas: I think you're looking for Easter Eggers. I have Ameraucanas, but only chicks right now (and more in 21 or so days) and will have Araucanas later, but I feel you're looking for Easter Eggers
actually I would take either breed.
OK here is foto's of the new family. The first one is Woody OEGB silver duck wing roo x white silky hen. 2 and 3 are what I got from eagle2026! I have no idea what they are. the eggs looked just alike so imagine my surprise to get 2 different colors. The dark one and the woody are both feather footed. And yes I am sure which is which I watched the first and last ones hatch. The last one actually needed some help. It had been so long that the membrane stuck to it and hardened.
Woody silky cross
All 3 thogether. the one on the right was the one that needed help and doesn't look very clean but that has been taken care of.
Woody silky cross
All 3 thogether. the one on the right was the one that needed help and doesn't look very clean but that has been taken care of.
Congrats on the chicks!
herbandteas: Well, I'll have extra Ameraucana chicks available in less than a month, and plenty chicks and/or eggs available in 5 months.
Right now my current Ameraucanas look like this:
Without the dark feathers coming in on their head and necks yet, they look like Lavender Ameraucanas.
herbandteas: Well, I'll have extra Ameraucana chicks available in less than a month, and plenty chicks and/or eggs available in 5 months.
Right now my current Ameraucanas look like this:
Without the dark feathers coming in on their head and necks yet, they look like Lavender Ameraucanas.
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They do look lavender
They do look lavender
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