Who is with me?

[chickie_mama]

Got my fingers crossed for you WWD!!!!!!

I think my next purchase will be RGP eggs once it starts to get cooler this fall. Way too hot here in GA to order eggs now and expect any to hatch.

 

[countrybum]

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Hatching vibes coming your way.

Well do not disappear on me.

I know it will not be until next year, but I want to get some eggs from you.

Hell, chicks if you are not to far away.

I think ebay peafowl egg sellers are not to happy with me. They start their eggs so high. I have been selling 2 at a time starting at $5 and noticed everyone else has reduced their price also.

Imagine that.

I noticed by checking the bid section on the sales, a lot of the sellers boost up their own price. I would never do that considering I just want to ship fresh fertile eggs and the eggs are not costing me that much. It really irritates me when the sellers do that. Then they ship older eggs with a 1 or 2 newer and you just paid almost $100 with the shipping and by the time you receive them you are lucky if you get 1 chick.

 

[countrybum]

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If you wait until the Spring, I can send you out some test eggs.

By then mine should be grown and laying. I think it is around April and May they start to lay. You know with me sending them, they will be fresh and fertile.

They will have a coop and nesting boxes by then also.

 

[walkswithdog]

Well, I double checked and both the wheaten and the copper black are alive at this point so here we go... go marans.

The poult is out, drying and doing well. He's going to end up fairly spoiled being the only poult in a hatch.

The resent batch of marans are going so we'll see how many I get from that group. I only candled one egg and I won't candle again til the day before they're due. I'm gonna just turn em and let em roll. That seems to be working for me...

The silkie,sizzle and show girl eggs are in. That ought to be a fairly hilarious hatch.

I don't know what combination of colors in marans I'm going to end up with. Any GCM stays but that's unlikely. I'll end up more likely with wheatens or copper blacks. Since all marans are gorgeous... I won't mind.

You know if you see someone jacking their OWN auction on Ebay you can report t hem? Do report them. That's a no no.

I understand high prices from the best breeders of the best quality birds out there. I actually do. I don't understand them from people breeding anything that will lay and fertilize eggs.

I just wanted some pretty dark egg layers, not show birds. I didn't pay a monster price. If I ever have marans eggs I also won't charge a super high price or pretend they're what they aren't.

If I get interested in them long run, I'll start buying good stock from good breeders, and paying for it. And then if the birds turn up good, then yeah prices go up a bit. But they're a fad chicken and people are getting $$$ for crap when someone buys not knowing what they should be looking for.

I'm afraid the wheaten is backwards... sigh..

 

[countrybum]

Now to update:

Backward baby #1 was gone when I came in from feeding. I think when he kicked out of the shell and bled it was a bad thing, plus he still had something that I think was yoke on his back area. This is want I was mentioning the about the yoke being in the wrong place. He would have been a very pretty marbled chick, sure hated losing him, but losing that much blood, I kind of figured I would. For such a small chick that was a lot.

Backward baby #2 has kicked out of the shell, but sac still attched. I believe this backward thing is really a bad situation for these little guys. To prevent this one from kicking off the shell to soon, I crushed the shell and will help when the yoke fully sucks in. I do not want this one to bleed out also. (which is what I assumed happened to #1)

Backward baby #3, I am still working on. I peeled a little shell this morning and saw veining, so I will wait until I get back from town to check her/him and peel a little more.

Peeling the shell on a backward baby is very hard and tricky, I must admit. There is no air sac to prevent you from tearing the membrane and everything is pressed right up against the baby.

I do have 3 healthy babies in the brooder right now, I just really hope to add a few more. Hopefully there are no more backward.

 

[countrybum]

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Don't feel alone.

My DH came up with a reason for the backwards not making it and sounds pretty reasonable to me, but

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You know how a puppy or kitten get colostrum from the parents? He thinks there may be something in the air sac that does the same for chicks and if they are backward, they are not getting that boost. Possibility.

 

[walkswithdog]

Helping the backwards ones is the hardest, yes. I think the wheaten marans is backwards... I'll keep watching it, the copper black is zipping a bit...

 

[countrybum]

Well the backward ones never chirp and when they do get out of the shell there is a lot of blood compared to the ones that are able to hatch naturally.

Backward #2 is out, but still no sound, it is also off the shell, but not all yoke absorbed. So again this one is questionable. If helping does not work, I will never do it again. Hate to say that, but helping and they still die feels worse than just allowing them to die naturally in the shell. I am going to put some wrap around it and hope the yoke finishes absorbing and the little one gets up on its feet.

Backward #3, seems to be hanging in there also. I removed a little more shell until I saw more veining. It also seems that when they are backward everything they are to absorb does not absorb correctly, which I believe is also causing their death.

(Science mode in progress.

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Well, by trying desperately to save the backward hatchlings, I have continuously opened my incubator, so I may have to save the others also.

 

[walkswithdog]

Yep, the wheaten is backwards but trying..... Copper black looks good, turkey poult playing bumper eggs.

ETA Nope wheaten went and quit, guts were out and wrong... never would have made it.

 

[countrybum]

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Well I must have something in my water, or maybe I need to feed something different.

Out of 2 ducks that pipped 1 is backward. I thought the 3rd was deceased so I decided to oped the end a little bit, yes, backward, but alive. I just do not know what is going on with this hatch.

Why do I have so many backward, 4 backward chicks and 2 backward ducks. I did not have but 15 or so eggs in this hatch. I have never had this problem, I just do not understand it.

Gosh, I hope my peachick is not backward.