Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[dcba flock]

So excited!! Candled the lemon cuckoos I put in the Brin mini @ my kiddos school and all 7 are doing something! Hopefully some will make it! The kids were so excited! Been busy like everyone else doing the chickie shuffle getting them moved from inside-outside! Excited for the Bash have lots of plants to bring! Hope everyone has a great day!

 

[PsycoPeep]

This is the 'order' I have placed with a lady I'm going to meet tomorrow:
1 naked neck (turken) pullet - partridge
2 mille fluers (I may get more, as she has the porceleans, too)
1 splash silkie
3 red crested red Polish - standard sz
2 silver laced Polish - standard
1 gold laced cochin pullet - standard sz
12 painted japanese button quail

I'm debating getting 3 blue sweedish ducks and 1 turkey.
I'm also debating getting a knee-high pr of Sebastopol geese. Problem is, is that even tho she has them at a fair price, the list at the top is already $71 and then it'd be another $100 for the Sebby's, not including any ducks or turkeys. But I suppose those can wait for some other time. Plus I'm sure there'll be other chickens I want to get from other people. So that $100 on the Sebby's is going to throw me off on anything else that I wanted. I did see someone else who had them for only $35 each, but now I dont' know where I saw that at. Drat! LOL!

 

[199787]

Have fun at the swap PsychoPeep. That's quite a list you have there...nothing like jumping in with both feet, eh? You sound a little like me a couple months ago. I came to my senses...not really...and sold some. Had to make room for all these chicks I'm hatching out. I am addicted to hatching chicks already. Make sure you quarantine all these new birds so if they have cooties your chicks don't get sick.

Sorry about your Aunt BigFam. 64 seems so young now that I am, a-hem, ...getting older.

Speaking of hatch addiction. I have a chick in triage right now. I had 9 out of 10 hatch and the 10th one didn't pip at all but was peeping like crazy. It was like, HELP ME! At least that's what I heard. So I pipped for it and opened a small window. I could see the little bugger tightly shrink wrapped inside. Part of me said, "let it go Lisa. This is going to be a pain in the butt." Well, that part of me, the part that sees reason, lost, and my heart said to help it. I wrapped it up in a wet paper towel and put it back in the bator. In the morning it was still alive and not as shrink wrapped so I opened more shell and moistened up the membranes. It started peeping a lot less and wearing itself out struggling, but its leg was over it's head so I delivered it a couple of hours ago. Still alive but just laying in the bator on a paper towel. The yolk was absorbed, but the navel is just a little open yet. Stressfull...I hope little Shrinky Dink makes it. It's pretty week and just sleeping on the bottom of the bator occasionally trying to thrash around, but not getting anywhere. Seems perfectly formed and has both eyes and all. Any suggestions?? Have any of you guys done something like this an pulled a non-pipper out of the egg? As tightly wrapped as it was it would have never made it out. I am pretty sure I just have to wait and see what happens.

No idea how this one baby got shrink wrapped so bad, the rest were just fine and humidity 70-80% was consistently fogging the windows of the incubator.

Lisa

 

[Angiebubs]

I know there has been talk of the LadySmith swap tomorrow...is anyone going? PsycoCPeep-is that where you are picking up your chicks? Has anyone been to this one before? I really dont need ANY thing but would be fun to look around!

 

[Amyable]

Lisa, I just did the exact same thing with a duck last week. It was very weak at first then perked up. A couple days after it was in the brooder it died. It was drinking, but I don't know if it was eating. Def easier to just let them go in the egg.

Wanted to say that duct tape will not pull the foam off a styro bator. It will certainly help keep your mitts off the eggs. Which is not a bad thing.

 

[Apyl]

Ok so if I were to put duck tape around my LG bator, how do I turn the eggs ? Keep undoing it every couple hours ? Plus the undoing of it, wouldnt that shake the eggs pretty bad and make them roll all over. I dont have a hatch in and really not sure if I even want to atemp hathcing again since I obviously have no talent for it even while following directions. Just curious I guess if I tried again.

 

[JustJohn]

Ok so if I were to put duck tape around my LG bator, how do I turn the eggs ? Keep undoing it every couple hours ? Plus the undoing of it, wouldnt that shake the eggs pretty bad and make them roll all over. I dont have a hatch in and really not sure if I even want to atemp hathcing again since I obviously have no talent for it even while following directions. Just curious I guess if I tried again.

Put the eggs in cartons inside the bator with the big ends of the eggs up and then put a 2x 4 block under one side of the bator when it is time to turn eggs, just move the block to the other side of bator. No need to open the lid then until you lay them flat for the last 3 days of lock down.

See Jim I read your posts.

 

[Apyl]

Quote: I did that with my last attempt at hatching and nothing hatched. At least when I turned by hand I had 4 hatch . So I thought maybe my sero hatch was becasue I had the eggs sitting up right and not flipping them. ugh Why cant haching be as easy as you all make it sound

 

[Celtic Chick]

Put the eggs in cartons inside the bator with the big ends of the eggs up and then put a 2x 4 block under one side of the bator when it is time to turn eggs, just move the block to the other side of bator. No need to open the lid then until you lay them flat for the last 3 days of lock down.

See Jim I read your posts.

Suck-up..............

 

[Celtic Chick]

I did that with my last attempt at hatching and nothing hatched. At least when I turned by hand I had 4 hatch . So I thought maybe my sero hatch was becasue I had the eggs sitting up right and not flipping them. ugh Why cant haching be as easy as you all make it sound

Did you have the pointy end of the egg down? The round, fat end needs to be facing upward.