Recent content by Tstraub

Sounds like lots of chicks in your future. Now you need to train the broodys to leg band the chicks at hatch and you’ll be all set

If you are ever in my area I can give you some green eggs. Most of my green egg layers are Hoover Hatchery olive Eggers Americana x Cuckoo Marans so they should have one copy of blue gene and 1/2 of the daughters will inherit it and lay green/ olive color eggs. They are all covered only by Axl...

I saw you had one thinking about it but hadn’t seen she was fully committed. Congratulations

That’s the same bird as the first picture of that post. He was first one I had pegged as a cockerel. He has had an attitude since day 1. I’m not sure who the mother is. When My Jersey Giant was ready to sit on eggs and I realized the timing would make of Easter Sunday hatch I gave her 9 green...

It’s been a while since I have posted anything to this thread. Mostly because none of my Marans eggs hatched. I did get some olive eggers 5 weeks ago and one BCM X BR to hatch a week ago. It has the head spot so definitely a cockerel.

Cock-a-Doodle-DON’T. Don’t you do it Dutch Baby. 5 weeks old today and the wattles are beginning to turn color and swell up.

I’m still reading every post over there but haven’t posted myself in a while. Yard work and garden projects are taking a big portion of my free time right now

The incubator has been turned off and eggtopsy complete. Most of them looked like the developed up to around day 14-17 then quit. In hindsight I believe I was too hot. There are definitely spots in the incubator that are warmer than others I think when I raised the temperature I created a hot...

Sorry for the long winded post but I’ll try to give updates of all the chicks hatched in this thread. I think I’ll candle the eggs currently cooking later today and make a final decision on whether or not to continue incubating these eggs. I know it’s not impossible for eggs to hatch late but I...

OMG you have a pet Skeksis! Where can I get one?

I brought the other 3 out all at once late last night. Lacy must have heard the chicks peeping before I even opened the door because she was calling for them. They all ran to her. When she stood up to let the chicks under I grabbed up every egg I saw. I’m not sure if I got them all because some...

I took the one that hatched out to my Wyandotte. At first she snapped at my hand then at the chick a couple times and the chick ran from her. The chick was just standing there peeping for a minute or so while she watched. Then she started clucking to him. He followed her clucking and when he got...

I really wish I knew what is going wrong. Honestly it’s not even about wanting more chickens it’s about wanting answers. The simple answer is let the hens do it for me they want to do it and they are far better at it than I am. I’m about to go way off topic but this is my thread and we’re all...

Still no additional pips or peeps. The incubator is still running but I’m not really hopeful of additional hatching. I’m not sure where things went wrong but clearly something went wrong. Anyway time for plan B. The one that did hatch has been moved to a brooder. He looks healthy and is eating...

I don’t know if it’s wishful thinking or possibly a pip that is out of my view but the humidity just shot up.