Who is with me?

[countrybum]

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I had 20 eggs that where due on the 14th and the temp and humidity average 124. I did not get 1 egg to male it. I candled them on the 6th due to foul odor in the bator and all were rotten.

 

[countrybum]

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I have found that with shipped eggs, if you can keep your humidity around 50 it helps them from becoming shrink wrapped. Any humidity below that with shipped eggs has failed me and I am either sitting home waiting for the babies to break through the membrane, or checking to see if they are ready to enter the world. Then on top of that after all your effort it is still heartbreaking if they do not make it any way.

Sp just watch them and after 24 hours of break off the airsac end of the shell and wetting with hot tap water, do not hesitate to roll back the membrane to the bottom of the shell. Then wait another 24 hours and if baby is still not out, give him/her a little help by pulling the wing free.

Good luck, you get better with practice, but we all wish they could just make it on their own.

 

[countrybum]

Well, this was my surprise when I went out to feed this morning. The tanish baby on the left is 1 of the 3 I gave her that were only a couple days old. I did put food and water out for them since they had been eating and drinking.

I also thought I would update you on the geese I purchased a couple months ago. As you will also see the Canadian Goose I hatched out is doing well also and still here. I am not sure how to teach it to fly, but I figure it will learn that eventually on its own.

Before (the biggest 1 is the Canadian the others are African):

Now:

 

[riqui1]

Oh my word, those birds are adorable, CB!!

 

[chickie_mama]

What cuties! You must be doing something right!!!! But, CB, you need to change your signature!!!! It says you have 6 geese, but holy crap, I counted at least 11 in that picture!

 

[walkswithdog]

Don't know about incubating in this mood. I just took out my frustrations on Soup. He had that name for a reason. You do not piss me off repeatedly on this farm without DIRE consequences and refusing to go in your pen when called is right up there.

I do NOT chase birds to put them up. When I have to, they earn dangerous names like , soup, broth, buffalo, crock pot. Soup is hanging out in the fridge and the dogs appreciate the snacks the rest of him made. There's an RIR pullet about to be labeled crock pot for the same sin.

Soup only made it to 12 weeks and he's a tad thin but enough is enough. Bad news from the dentist - (after four shots to numb me up that didn't work and taking the filling out, they can't save the tooth - it's fractured, which (duh) is why it got infected, and so they filled it back up and told me I have to go pay an oral surgeon to remove it.

 

[chickie_mama]

Sorry about your dentist visit WWD!

I have a roo that is just about to become soup himself.



This is George. He is a free-ranger.... He is also an attack rooster. We all have to carry around sticks when we go outside so we can give him a good whack if he trys to attack.

 

[Kismet]

CB - thanks for your advice. The bunch that go in tomorrow to the hatching bator have been consistently at 50% humidity - higher than the first group, so I will be really anxious to see what happens. Yes, you are right, it is painful when a chick doesn't make it. And for some reason, saying to yourself, "heck, it's only a chicken." doesn't help.

WWD - so sorry about your tooth! I have had a similar problem this month, a crown, and then he told me that the tooth next to it needs to be done too.

 

[countrybum]

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Silly you, 5 of them are ducks. Same ducks that are in the younger picture.

The gray ones are the African, the one on the left is the Canadian and the brown ones are the ducks. So the ducks are actually what I have to add to until they go in the freezer.

 

[chickie_mama]

ok, ok, ok.... i stand corrected!