HenniesInMyHeart
Crowing
LOL about the different hens and egg setting! I haven't had that issue, the chickens are all my thing, except hubby picked a breed (BLRW) and I told him he has to pick a baby and love on it! He has 20 to choose from now! LOL!Yes I have 2 males and 7 females BUT the one male and I checked is broody lol he had a winky and will breed. I seen him and you can tell who some of his babies are as he is a black Swedish. lol
Some of mine where drowning because they have like a double yoke thing i think its called I have 5 right now what have pipped 3 started to pip 2 hrs ago an when I checked they had drowned so brought them up with my 5 to 1 day to few hr old chicks an cleared the face on them and they are doing fine they are alive and trying to finish breaking out. the problem with a lot of mine is there is NO room an they need help. the ducks are the same way and the hatch out a week to a day or 2 early and then have the yoke. I have 7 hatch out one time only 2 lived. I had seen it with friend an helped them but did not know what all they did... but now that I know I know what to do and now I am able to save the ducks... the chicks though are hatching out on time or late but doing good but having trouble hatching out... BUT my egg shells are HARD. I even have trouble cracking them as we collect them to eat... I just started this year when my hen chicken and drake duck decided they wanted to hatch out a nest lol.
We live in PA an have a heat wave going on an I should have taken then eggs and put in the incubator BUT did not think of it till I found my old male bunny who was like 12 this after noon passed on of this heat when I went out with Ice bowls (I take bowls of ice an freeze for them and the ducks and chickens with fruits or vegges in them to help them keep cool when we have heat waves like this) well some of them egg (there was like 40) expired I have 16 still good.. but better then non)
I have been trying to keep the incubator ON LOCK DOWN but when you have different times its hard and when they need help you got to be fast. good luck to you.
OH and come to find out hubby has been collect MORE of my silkie and EE eggs after I collected the 3 lol I thought he was suppose to an been putting them in there and I think 2 of them are the ones pipping as they are really smallish eggs lol. I asked him and he was like yeah he is the only roo that goes in there with her and is old enough to breed with her an I thought you wanted me to. I just did not mark them as they are small thought you could tell. I was like YES but sometimes she lays a pretty nice larger egg and some the only hen I have that lays white lays a tiny one at times that is WHY I mark them lol. so here is hoping but still gonna place them to see what I get just them to and my speckled sussex so I KNOW its him for sure.
OOH I love that idea of freezing bowls of water with fruit/veg treats in them! We hit 109 the other day and my poor girls were so hot. In CO we have to have cold weather-hardy breeds and my Coronation Sussex has feathers as dense as geese so she was very hot. My Jubilee Orpington hen is a giant fluff ball so she gets hot, too. I sprayed down their run with cool water and misted the hens, too. They hated it but it helped them cool down! I have silkies due on the 4th! So excited! I don't know what colors they are but they are all pure bearded breeds, just from mixed pens.
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