The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: It-needed-a-home on October 02, 2011, 05:57:24 pm
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Have been waiting 21 days and now this is the most nerve racking bit waiting for the chicks i sold a woman 18 eggs and she got 18 outta 18 my luck wont be that good never has been hehe!!!!!
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i sold a woman 18 eggs and she got 18 outta 18 my luck wont be that good never has been hehe!!!!!
I did much the same thing! I sold 24 hatching eggs, 23 were fertile, 19 hatched and she got 12 girls! Which is way better than my hatch rate, but I do also tend to have a higher ratio of girls.
Hatch day for me this coming week is Wednesday morning & Thursday afternoon. I've got 40 eggs and a small hatcher for 20. It's going to be a tight timescale hatch!
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Ooh good luck!! I have some due on Friday and more next Monday ;D
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Chick one here !!! More on there way
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :chook: :chook: :chook: :chook:
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Yay! :thumbsup: How many did you get?
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There not done yet but i think 10 one has splayed leg do i just put a lolly stick between them ave never had this before?? Never seen it before ??
Any advice would be good
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make sure that the surface they are on is not slippery.
we had a splayed leg chick with our first hatch..... probably didn't treat it properly and we had to cull him aged 4 weeks :'(
we had another one with third batch, we immediately taped legs together (hip width apart) and used to handle him to stand in our hands and let him run around on the carpet......(a bit like physio i suppose)
he's fine now wouldn't know there was a problem
HTH
Mx