Who is with me?

[walkswithdog]

I was talking to a local poultry guy who won't set eggs after the first week of June. Says hatches and brooding just go wrong too often.

And you never know about genetics, some hen or duck really could have genes that screw up chicks in eggs.

I feel better really that the wheaten never would have made it, nothing you can do about guts outside, that just happens or it doesn't. Now if all the other eggs from the breeder do that I'll

but I doubt it.

Marans baby wants out but it's too soon, when he thrashes along his zip line it still bleeds a little. Swear I'm gonna duct tape him in there impatiently little toad. Wow he's got a set of lungs on him...

 

[chickie_mama]

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Yeah, I think it'll probably take me at least until Spring to convince Hubby that we really NEED RGPs!

 

[chickie_mama]

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Don't even JOKE about that!!!!!!!! Especially if the whole backward thing is genetic!!!!!

 

[walkswithdog]

The turkey poult is still with me and I have one out and peeping Copper Black Marans. Yay. Two out of three isn't too bad for very iffy eggses. The wheaten was beautiful but you can't do anything about malformed... sigh...

 

[countrybum]

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Don't even JOKE about that!!!!!!!! Especially if the whole backward thing is genetic!!!!!

Well it cannot be genetic with it being ducks and chicks, so I think it may be in the water.

As for the June thing, what does June have to do with it? I just do not get it.

 

[countrybum]

Okay, 1 backward duck out and not doing well.

Backward baby 1 is deceased and so is backward baby 2. Now I guess I did better with #3 it is in the brooder and chirping and running with the others and it is a gorgeous color, kind of marbled like backward baby #1. Must be from the same hen, eggs looked alike and the chicks are identical in color. The #2 backward baby woould have been red and white. I had 1 egg that the chick had died in the shell, so I should have a dozen chicks in the end and 3 ducks if all 3 make it. When update after I go get everyone fed and check on them again.

 

[chickie_mama]

LOL... oooohhhh THAT water.... thought ya meant drinking water....
It's been a long day!

 

[countrybum]

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You're silly, I do mean their drinking water.

It is 4 days before the hatch date for my peachick. I checked the egg the last time tonight and there is still movement.

 

[chickie_mama]

We must be on the same schedule for our peababies. Mine are due Wednesday! Come on baby peas!!!!!!

 

[walkswithdog]

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Don't even JOKE about that!!!!!!!! Especially if the whole backward thing is genetic!!!!!

Well it cannot be genetic with it being ducks and chicks, so I think it may be in the water.

As for the June thing, what does June have to do with it? I just do not get it.

He said the closer they hatch to July the worse they tend to do as a group. I thought it was perhaps superstitious hooey, he is after all (God love him) a total Hick/red neck/cracker ( you can hear banjo music when he talks). But the closer I have hatched to July, the more trouble there has been. It has to be heat and pressure related. But he was right. It probably varies by region but he was right, it is a LOT harder to get a good hatch now.

My last set of eggs til Fall are in there and I'm worried... but I'll manage.