Hatching.....Very Frought

[julesapple]

Aww...well done for trying-glad to be of help!


- your DD will certainly be very confident with her splinting if needed again some time in the future!

( dare I ask if it was fed on to one of her raptors???)

Her splinting was a miniature marvel - we realised his knee joints were the problem and she made him slightly bent splints (cos their legs aren't perfectly straight) out of cotton buds! All very padded and comfy, but it just wasn't to be. And yes, he was a very fresh supper for Jakk, although DD was in two minds about it.

Jules

[Hilary B]

Her splinting was a miniature marvel - we realised his knee joints were the problem and she made him slightly bent splints (cos their legs aren't perfectly straight) out of cotton buds! All very padded and comfy, but it just wasn't to be. And yes, he was a very fresh supper for Jakk, although DD was in two minds about it.

Jules

Once it's dead, no point in wasting what could feed the raptor. Whatever peronality that poor thing might have developed was gone, just the shell left, to make a meal from another creature, as is nature's way!

[julesapple]

Once it's dead, no point in wasting what could feed the raptor. Whatever peronality that poor thing might have developed was gone, just the shell left, to make a meal from another creature, as is nature's way!

The Daughter is usually very down to earth about these things, but poor girl put so much hope into this spraddled chick that it wasn't a comfortable thing. Although she did say the alternative was just slinging it in the bin and that seemed even more heartless.

Today we went to A&J Poultry and bought some week-olds to pop in with our hatchlings and eight eggs for our Scots Dumpy, who has gone broody with perfect timing, so we'll do our hatching the way nature intended and it's bound to cheer the pair of us up no end!

Jules

[jessmorris]

RE; ebay eggs viability - I bought 6 and 5 were viable. I had 4 chicks, one of whom died at 5 weeks from ascites, leaving three. They are lemon mille fleur sablepoots and all gorgeous. From the trials good people have with incubators it does seem miraculously easy to hatch eggs under a broody hen where humidity and temperature seem to be controlled magically by her!
Good luck with your future tries at hatching and don't be put off!

[julesapple]

Eight eggs are sitting on the shelf coming up to temperature ready to go under Morag at teatime today!

They are a complete mixture, two each of four different types; Welsummers, Light Sussex, Copper Blue Marans and Vorwerks (I think......I knew I should have written everything down) We went to a great poultry place and actually took the eggs from under the hens, freshly laid yesterday afternoon, ourselves.

We've also got six one week to 10-day olds and popped them in with our lot in the heat pen.

The sun shone, the drive was beautiful and the poultry farm setting was idyllic, so a good day was had by all!

Jules

[Nicos]

Oh- now that's just plain wonderful

That sounds like my ideal day!