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Today Lady Who came over and we spent the day watching my chicks hatch! One incubator was full of mixes! I put 37 good eggs and one I wasn't sure of (so 38 eggs) in one bator. Of those, 31 hatched. The weird thing was, that the 7 that didn't hatch, one was the one I didn't think looked good but couldn't be sure, 1 olive egger and 5 from the same hen! Those 5 were fully formed but never pipped internally. I wonder what it was about that one hen (who lays a nice large green egg) that makes them just not hatch? Anyway, now I am waiting for the other incubator to finish up. That incubator ran cooler, so is taking longer.

Katsdar and her DH came by to get the big Blue Partridge Brahma I had for sale. While she was here she also bought 5 of my new baby chicks! AND, three of those were Naked Necks! Yay! I'm so glad someone else thinks they are cute besides me!

Here are some of the babies:



There are 7 chicks here that I ended up helping a little. All are doing great!

Now for the clean up on this incubator. I have 12+ Indian Runner Duck eggs coming Wednesday, plus the replacement Swedish Flower and Chocolate Orpington eggs for the Show plus some mixes from Lady Who plus some Crested Cream Legbar eggs from a friend. Ugh, that doesn't leave much room for some more of my mixes! LOL.
 
WGAchick said:
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I haven't been on here in a long time. It's nice to see some of the same people are still here.

I guess I'm feeling a little bummed at the moment and felt the need to seek out my fellow GA chicken peeps. I'm still relatively new to chickens. I still have 7 out of my 8 first chickens I got 3 or 4 years ago. I lost one of my RIR hens around the holidays and now I'm about to lose the other one. No idea what's wrong with her or how to help her. Same symptoms as my other one. I wondering if she's egg bound. All of my other hens seem healthy and happy.

I decided to add to my flock by picking up 6 chicks earlier this week at the feed store - 2 Welsummers, 2 Arauconas (sp?) and 2 Marans. I lost one of the Maran chicks in the first 24 hours. Not sure what happened to it. Very frustrated! I was so excited to finally have a couple of Marans. Hopefully I can get a couple of replacements.
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Welcome back and sorry you lost your hen and I hope you find out what is wrong with the other, I've heard soaking her bottom in warm water helps to get the bound egg moving.

Flowerbh said:
Today Lady Who came over and we spent the day watching my chicks hatch! One incubator was full of mixes! I put 37 good eggs and one I wasn't sure of (so 38 eggs) in one bator. Of those, 31 hatched. The weird thing was, that the 7 that didn't hatch, one was the one I didn't think looked good but couldn't be sure, 1 olive egger and 5 from the same hen! Those 5 were fully formed but never pipped internally. I wonder what it was about that one hen (who lays a nice large green egg) that makes them just not hatch? Anyway, now I am waiting for the other incubator to finish up. That incubator ran cooler, so is taking longer.

Katsdar and her DH came by to get the big Blue Partridge Brahma I had for sale. While she was here she also bought 5 of my new baby chicks! AND, three of those were Naked Necks! Yay! I'm so glad someone else thinks they are cute besides me!

Here are some of the babies:



There are 7 chicks here that I ended up helping a little. All are doing great!

Now for the clean up on this incubator. I have 12+ Indian Runner Duck eggs coming Wednesday, plus the replacement Swedish Flower and Chocolate Orpington eggs for the Show plus some mixes from Lady Who plus some Crested Cream Legbar eggs from a friend. Ugh, that doesn't leave much room for some more of my mixes! LOL.
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Have a very nice visit looking forward to going back, but here are pics of my new babies I got today from flower











 
Attila the Hen said:
Don't post on here often but your stories make me so mad!! My own story in Fannin County was a pit bull that routinely broke through my fence to visit my dogs. She really was ok but it was a matter of time before she got to the birds who free range IN MY FENCED YARD. Fenced because another dog-no longer here- killed a number of birds and another neighbor objected to the birds "moving his leaves around" He noted this when he visited once a month.

Back to the pit bull, I was fortunate that AC here was helpful to me. I was told I could shoot the dog if it was interfering with livestock--ie chickens. I never had to do it and finally AC removed the dog for the second time and a rescue group rehomed it. ( I know people in the animal community and was able to follow what happened to the dog)

Why is life so complicated for chickens and chicken people?

Katsdar--I think you said you would have a court issue on your birds free ranging? One suggestion is to stok Iart a petition in your support. There is a site called Care2 where one can start a petition that reaches people all over the world. It's free-I believe and you already have all the members on BYC. I'd be happy to assist.
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Ok, I made the petition so after everyone signs it, How do I show it to the Judge?


http://www.thepetitionsite.com/357/620/857/let-my-chickens-free-range/
 
Broodie Help - I have 4 of my 12 girls broodie. I had two broodie 2 weeks back - broke one and the other I gave eggs to hatch. Came back in town from a trip and found out I have 3 others (4 counting the one w/ eggs). Ugh...

Anyway - i'm keeping one of them in broodie jail (a separate pen w/ wire bottom) trying to break her (too small to put all 3 broodies I'm trying to break) - but after 3 days in jail she is still going back to the nesting box. I let her back in the henhouse last night - as she jumped into the nesting box I pulled her out and put her outside. After 3 times she gave up and jumped on a roost to go to bed. This AM - back in the box... Very stubborn bird. She is back in jail today.

I need to break them as once the chicks hatch i'm concerned they will all think they are mama's and I wont get eggs for months from any of them.

Any tips?
 
JoshFig said:
Broodie Help - I have 4 of my 12 girls broodie. I had two broodie 2 weeks back - broke one and the other I gave eggs to hatch. Came back in town from a trip and found out I have 3 others (4 counting the one w/ eggs). Ugh...

Anyway - i'm keeping one of them in broodie jail (a separate pen w/ wire bottom) trying to break her (too small to put all 3 broodies I'm trying to break) - but after 3 days in jail she is still going back to the nesting box. I let her back in the henhouse last night - as she jumped into the nesting box I pulled her out and put her outside. After 3 times she gave up and jumped on a roost to go to bed. This AM - back in the box... Very stubborn bird. She is back in jail today.

I need to break them as once the chicks hatch i'm concerned they will all think they are mama's and I wont get eggs for months from any of them.

Any tips?
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I usually just separate them completely from the flock. I've never used a wire bottom cage either, as I think it's the stress of being seperate from the flock that breaks them, not necessarily the temperature. They just flat don't like being alone. You won't get eggs from any of the broodies for 2 or 3 weeks, and they'll keep going broody on and off until winter, at least that's what mine have done.

I have one I think is wanting to go broody. Since the dog thing saturday killed 4 of mine, and the welsummer/am crosses I did both turned out to be roosters, I may let her sit on 6 or 8 welsummer eggs and see if I can get some OE's that will give me darker green eggs. I've got to get some changes made to my pallet coop before I do that though, as I want to put her in the small side of that with the eggs and see how that works.
 
Flowerbh said:
Can anyone tell me what this is on the backside of my newborn?

It sticks up and had the red 'head' on it.
It's like on of those sea worms in the ocean. LOL
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I can tell you what that is, it's WEIRD, that's what it is
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I'm assuming it's firmly attached? it looks like a feather quill, or it's giving robo the finger maybe......
 

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