Who is with me?

[countrybum]

Well, it is nice to know there is more than one stagger hatcher on here.

I do not have turkeys, never really cared for turkey meat and not sure what I would do with the eggs. Awful big for a cake or cookies. I guess if the recipe called for 2 I could get by with 1. I would love to see pictures when they hatch, turkey babies are just adorable, so are chicks, ducks, peafowl and pheasants.

Well my friend told me what she thinks happened with my peahens and eggs, I used up the Gamebird feed and was giving them laying crumbles. Well they laying crumbles are 16% and Gamebird feed is 22%, since the Co-op had more in today I bought the Gamebird feed for them and some high protein catfood. I guess I will see what happens keep your fingers crossed.

As for my incubator. I finally got it back up to the right temp. I had to keep turning it down in the bathroom, with the door closed it kept it hot.

Come on Frilly, you can make it little bit.

 

[chickie_mama]

I brought Frilly back upstairs and put her back in the bator. I have just noticed this "growth" for lack of a better word on the right side of her neck. (She keeps falling to the right.) It is almost like a blister, but is a transparent yellow color. It is about as big around as the end of your finger. It's kinda squishy and she acts like it hurts if I mess with it. Do I need to get a sterilized needle and pick it to try to let it drain or just leave it alone? Poor Frilly.

 

[chickie_mama]

Frilly is still with us. The growth / blister is no longer there this morning. Someone said it could possibly be an air bubble in her crop.

I have tried to take the splint off. It is so stuck to the feathers on her legs so I just snipped it in the middle. She is kind of scooting on her side now. I don't know if that is an improvement or not.

I continue to pray that she will get better.

 

[countrybum]

Well, I am lucky enough that no one else has deceased and all 6 are doing very well. My heart, prayers and crossed fingers go out to Frilly and the rest of my eggs in the incubator.

My Teap has been holding around 100.5 which is between peafoel temp and chicken temp, so that is better than 103 and will deal with the babies being a day or 2 late, better late than never.

 

[chickie_mama]

I was just about at the point of thinking about culling Frilly. I just can not take care of a special needs chickie at this point.

I think taking the splints off of Frilly's legs really helped. I went down there tonight and I don't have to pick her up and turn her upright anymore. She is literally RUNNING all over the brooder. She is as fast as a shot!!!

Thank you for your support!!!!!!

By seeing Miss Frilly like this, it has just brightened my day!!!!

 

[countrybum]

I was sure praying after my loss that little Frilly would pull through.
So is there anything unique about her that she was marked Frilly? Maybe that was her moms name.

Okay I received 14 Golden pheasant eggs, I placed them in the incubator on the 15th and I have 11 fertile. Pheasant eggs are smaller than a bantie egg. So want does that tell me about the chicken eggs I receive? I just do not want to say.

Well, I thought I had something due in the next 5 days, but I checked my calendar and it is marked June 5th for my duck and Guinea eggs. I am just losing my mind I guess. These guys will just have to be a surprise for me.

I also checked a couple of the eggs I put in Saturday and the air sac looked a little funny. So I stuck them all point down in egg cartons and have them in the incubator that way. I think I will let them sit like that for 24 hours and then check them again.

Does anyone know if that will hurt them or not?

My lone peafowl egg is doing good also. Really excited about that.

Chickie mama, I have not forgot about you. If the girls ever start laying again, you will surely get the next eggs. Someone was telling me they are still to young and may not lay any more this year, but my fingers are crossed, just so I can ship you a couple.

 

[chickie_mama]

I had PM'd the guy that I bought the seabright eggs from. He's the one that slipped in the surprise "Frilly" egg. He said by the time she is 2 weeks old, she will look like her feathers are backwards!

She's gonna look like she's had a bad hair day!!!

CB, I know you haven't forgotten me!

I put my guinea and turkey eggs in the bator last night. I don't know. I think I saw movement in 2 of the guinea eggs. I only have 4 turkey eggs... I know 2 are not going to hatch, but I just can't bring myself to throw them away. Of the 2 left, I think only 1 developed.

 

[countrybum]

You never know, you may be surprised.

 

[walkswithdog]

I hatched a bunch of sizzle eggs - the curlies are WAYYYY cute. Hug her for me. Glad she made it. I'm quite attached to the lone survivor of my first incubator hatch, so I know the feeling.

Ponder is that chick, now chicken and the other night I woke to squacking and ran out to the coops to find a racoon dragging off a chicken. He'd got in somehow - found that a hinge had come off a door, sigh. I chased him I thought he released the chicken but couldn't find it.

In the morning - I saw the feathers, and only Ponder has fully matured barred rock feathers and I was devastated. But later that morning she came walking in. She has a neck gash and is now a house resident until she heals but she's home....

Incubating yourself has hazards, you can get a bit too attached to some of them that way... For instance a barred rock in a parrot cage in the library...

 

[countrybum]

What is a sizzle egg?

I am waiting on my duck and Guinea eggs and I forgot to mark them so I am not sure exactly when they are due. I am thinking this weekend. I figure when the duck on the lake hatches her eggs, then mine should be due.

So I am now waiting.