Done hatching
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2020 3:34 pm
So I decided I was done hatching beginning of July.
Think again!
, I guess the hens at the barn didn't get the memo. I go out today and there's one hen with 6 chicks, I search around find the nest and can hear more babies waiting to hatch. Also find another hen happily sitting on another batch. So I set the hen up by herself with her 6 chicks in a stall and take the unhatched chicks and power up the incubator to put them in. .The incubator needs some oil in the fan I guess and is making a horrible squeaking noise , my husband says he needs to replace the fan. The hen is a splash ameraucana the rooster is either a blue wheaten ameraucana or a Bantam blue ameraucana.
No one is separated because I didn't care to hatch any more. The other hen is a silverlaced Bantam Wyandotte, who knows what she's trying to hatch out.
I decided about 4 days ago to put some silkie eggs under a broodie silkie as one of my older and really good silkie hens is laying again and I thought I would like to see how her babies turn out with the rooster she's in with. The hen is broodie I thought ok I'll just let her hatch them out , no trouble for me. Yeah right!
I've seen a couple times where she's sitting there, stoned, eyes glazed over sitting on the eggs, but wait I see one egg is not underneath her and is cold. She's sitting on 7 eggs, lots of room.Ok she's a new broody, I push it under her. I check again the next day, there again a couple eggs are not underneath her, I push them under her, check on her later and there's another one out. Finally I take them all away and now they too are in the incubator. I'll have to wait and check them to see if they are even alive.
I hear the incubator even now wailing away, I have a couple other incubators perhaps I will have to bite the bullet and set one of them up.
Now that I have the incubator going I'm wondering if I shouldn't just put those dozen and a half silkie eggs in. I was going to sell them but you know might be fun to see what I get.
But you know I'm done hatching!!!
Think again!
, I guess the hens at the barn didn't get the memo. I go out today and there's one hen with 6 chicks, I search around find the nest and can hear more babies waiting to hatch. Also find another hen happily sitting on another batch. So I set the hen up by herself with her 6 chicks in a stall and take the unhatched chicks and power up the incubator to put them in. .The incubator needs some oil in the fan I guess and is making a horrible squeaking noise , my husband says he needs to replace the fan. The hen is a splash ameraucana the rooster is either a blue wheaten ameraucana or a Bantam blue ameraucana.
No one is separated because I didn't care to hatch any more. The other hen is a silverlaced Bantam Wyandotte, who knows what she's trying to hatch out.
I decided about 4 days ago to put some silkie eggs under a broodie silkie as one of my older and really good silkie hens is laying again and I thought I would like to see how her babies turn out with the rooster she's in with. The hen is broodie I thought ok I'll just let her hatch them out , no trouble for me. Yeah right!
I've seen a couple times where she's sitting there, stoned, eyes glazed over sitting on the eggs, but wait I see one egg is not underneath her and is cold. She's sitting on 7 eggs, lots of room.Ok she's a new broody, I push it under her. I check again the next day, there again a couple eggs are not underneath her, I push them under her, check on her later and there's another one out. Finally I take them all away and now they too are in the incubator. I'll have to wait and check them to see if they are even alive.
I hear the incubator even now wailing away, I have a couple other incubators perhaps I will have to bite the bullet and set one of them up.
Now that I have the incubator going I'm wondering if I shouldn't just put those dozen and a half silkie eggs in. I was going to sell them but you know might be fun to see what I get.
But you know I'm done hatching!!!
