Recent content by Cornflower

I see your area has absolutely no cover for your chickens in the photo. Until you find your solution perfect for you, here's some things you can do now and hopefully alleviate the problem: Plant some thick tree shrubs in the chicken yard. You want a shrub or tree whose foliage goes all the way...

Update 6/10: Yesterday (6/9) at 10 PM I shut down the incubation. The last 4 chicks didn't make it. The tape sealing the cover had dried out and I didn't notice that until 7. But I had struggling to get the humidity back to 70% for the 24 hours after the last chicks were dried and removed...

Thank you and good luck on your chicks, too!

I have some new about the chatty chick. At 7:30 tonight she started hatching. She was in there breech. I tried to help by cracking the egg where she had it already cracking. And she made it out! No 4 chatty chick is looking good drying out in the incubator with her hatchmate No 14 who leaped out...

Hi I did what you said and the coconut oil made the membrane easier to see through. It looks like the umbilical is still attached and red and is exposed where the shell is peeled away. My daughter also thinks she see's more veins on the other side under the shell. The chick is chatty with us and...

I have both O2 lines pumping in on full now, and the activated carbon carpeting the floor under the mat. Had two more hatch a short while ago and had to clear out the shells it was getting crowded. They're rambunctious and chirping. If they were groggy I would worry. I'm watching carefully, this...

I might end up trying that. Coconut oil is something I have, and qtips. Thank you!

Thank you. Yes. I can open and close it and they are still sealed in, but I can slip my hand in and it doesn't lose much humidity according to the monitor. I got the two dry chicks out and they're in the warming box learning to drink and eat.

June 8 2pm Egg #2 is third to hatch about 12:30 this afternoon. She was pipping last night. (No 4 is still alive in shell but not hatching. I scaled the shell away from the pip site but didn't open the membrane. When she's ready to hatch she shouldn't have any trouble on her own. Here is #2 out...

Update June 8: At 7 am I woke up to two hatched chicks! Looks like No 11 in the back and one that hadn't pipped at all by the time I went to bed last night. No 4 who is has broken through the side is still alive but hasn't made any more progress. I think I'll try helping her out when I get back...

Thanks twochixchickens. I don't have a phone, but I'll be building a larger and better incubator. My current design hatching box i've moved them into doesn't have a water pan. I'm watering the carbon on the floor. But those are some neat gadgets I definitely would like to try on the next build...

#4 the "broken" egg is sticking her beak through the hole. I shut the dehydrator motor off for a minute and heard a "peep". She looks like she just rolled down a window and stuck her head out to say, "Hi!". I'm glad I didn't try to patch the hole! #2 has pipped. #10 looks like it's taken some...

The "broken" egg (is #4) is moving, and ripping that membrane a little more. There's a dab of fresh blood. Maybe she's not bleeding too bad and will still be able to pip out. I'm standing by with 10% povidone iodine solution, gauze and more duct tape in case it becomes apparent that a supportive...

Remember this is smoke from wildfires and not an industrial toxic disaster. There are wild birds, too that are enduring this and we seem to be getting worse every year. I'm optimistic that chickens under this cloud won't have the same trouble that the chickens in the Ohio town near the train...