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[Hinotori]

is there any way for me to know if there are babies in there? I mean should I candle them? If so when should I do it 10 days?

I could actually see some veining in the eggs after about 4 or 5 days on my EE eggs that the broodies hatched. Make sure if you leave her in place you mark the eggs that stay so you can remove any laid in there with her. One of the silkies I had used to go looking for more eggs to add to her pile and bring back.



I put a new nest box in the coop yesterday and put an egg in it. A few girls went up to check it out, make sure nothing dangerous was in it. The first rock up to it looked inside, scooted the egg to the edge, picked it up and walked off a ways with it before putting it down and going back to check out the box for anything evil. I've never had a bird do that right in front of me before. She picked that egg up under her chin like it was something she did all the time.

And the annoying killdeer won't be clogging up my drive soon. The adults were all edgy tonight so I went to check and one of the eggs has hatched so far. Three more to go. They should be gone by tomorrow evening. The adults take them out back into the grass and puddles as soon as they are rested enough to head out.

 

[drumstick diva]

Neat I know I couldn't carry an egg under my chin- (okay my chins)without breaking it.

 

[hallerlake]

Dolly has a chick hatching under even as we speak. I imagine she'll abandon the other eggs once this one has hatched. There are a couple more in various stages of development.

 

[hallerlake]

Has anyone ever used a heat lamp as an improvised incubator?

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Has anyone ever used a heat lamp as an improvised incubator?

I would think it may be challenging to get the right temp and humidity.

OK and this looks like a good time to make my heat lamp speech. Mostly for new peeps.

NEVER NEVER EVER put a heat lamp in anything but a porcelain fixture. The fixture should have a sticker that says MAX bulb/lamp size. If you put a heat lamp in one of the cheap clamp on fixtures, you are playing with fire LITERALLY !! See the cheap fixtures can't take the heat. Thus the risk of fire.

I know some of you are probably tired of seeing me post about this. Well Since my friend / feed supplier lost their entire barn, Feed business and all their breeding hogs due fire that as near as we could tell was related to a heat lamp. I am on a mission. I will continue to spread the word. If I can save even one person from suffering what I saw my friend go through I will have succeeded.

 

[Rainwolf]

I want to thank Cloverleaf for the awesome little bantam Ameraucana babies!
They are like little bugs under your feet it makes it hard to walk! I now have to toss corn to get out of there!
They even come fly up on my shoulders for riding and petting


sorry it is sideways trying to figure how to post from my phone :/

 

[CrazyChcknChick]

Quote: me neither...but I try :)

 

[KMHunter]

Quote: me neither...but I try :)
Same goes for most of us.

 

[Chickielady]

So this really makes me mad. I just spent the last 4 hours typing and taking and loading pictures to a my chickens page that I have been thinking about doing for the past week, when I put another picture on it went into the wrong place so I right clicked on it to delete it but there was no delete so I hit backspace as I thought it was highlighted...... Nope, it took my computer back to the start page and all that work is gone!

I for the life of me can't remember what the lady said it was or the other one eather. LOL but I think it is a jungle fowl.

Looks like a Dark Cornish to me...


See another here:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/557422/post-your-before-and-after-meat-birds

 

[Chickielady]

is there any way for me to know if there are babies in there? I mean should I candle them? If so when should I do it 10 days?

have you cracked your eggs & seen a bullseye target ?
If there is a Bullseye, they are fertile, if not then they are not.
There is a great link here on BYC showing what a fertile bullseye looks like, and I will try to post it here in a few minutes.

No, I do not disturb the hen & candle her eggs and yes I do move her to her own coop/area where the chicks cannot escape once hatched.


here is the link to fertile/infertile egg pics:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/16008/how-to-tell-a-fertile-vs-infertile-egg-pictures