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I'm sure I read this before, but it seems like we have to learn by experience before we remember.I had 7 eggs due to hat...
09/18/2024

I'm sure I read this before, but it seems like we have to learn by experience before we remember.

I had 7 eggs due to hatch last Wednesday. They all looked good at lockdown. One of them pipped Tuesday night and was already out by morning. 3 more eggs were pipped, but one was pipped in the wrong spot, and it was dead. I started reading and came across this bit of information. Then I started to wonder if more of the eggs had the same problem.

So Thursday morning when I had 3 chicks and 3 unpipped eggs I decided to candle them. 2 of them were dead. In the last egg I could see movement, but there was no internal pip. I very carefully removed the shell from the air cell. I couldn't find where the chicks beak was, but I made a small hole in the membrane where I thought it might be. I was careful to not damage any blood vanes. I still couldn't find the beak, so I just put it back in the incubator. A little while later I could hear the chick chirping. I put coconut oil on the membrane to keep it moist. By Friday morning the chick was still alive and looked ready to come out, so I helped her out.

So I saved a little malpositioned hen only to find out her leg was getting more and more crooked. Last time I tried the rubber band and straw it didn't work, so more research. I used the glass cup method to correct her leg. Then she started turning her head and falling over. So I read some more. I gave her some vitamin E oil. Pretty soon she was acting normal. Now she's one week old and looks and acts perfectly normal.

I'm glad for the learning experience, and I'm glad the chick is alright, but just think of all the worry I could have avoided if I just remembered to not candle the eggs at the wrong time. Then I probably would have had all 7 eggs hatch with no problems at all.

Just hatched on Monday
09/06/2024

Just hatched on Monday

I just wanted to share a picture of some bags I made from a pair of old jeans.
08/30/2024

I just wanted to share a picture of some bags I made from a pair of old jeans.

I purchased my Partridge Cochins specifically to hatch eggs for me.I chose cochins because I once had a bantam cochin wh...
08/15/2024

I purchased my Partridge Cochins specifically to hatch eggs for me.
I chose cochins because I once had a bantam cochin who would hatch three batches a year.
I got standard size because I wanted a dual-purpose bird that could also provide eggs and meat.
I just thought the partridge color looked good.

I got them in the fall. Only one hen hatched eggs their first summer. Nearly every cochin I have has hatched one batch of chicks each year starting on their second summer or fall.
I guess the standard size cochins are not as broody as the bantams, but maybe the extra meat and eggs is worth it.
August seems to be their favorite month to go broody.
This one hatched hers in July. One of those days it got up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit. She spent a lot of the time hovering above the eggs instead of on them. I don't know why her neck is bare. She will be 3 years old in October and this is the first time she looked like that.

I gave her Bielefelder eggs to hatch, so her chicks are Bielefelders.

07/17/2024

It's a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Boy!
My children get so excited waiting for Bielefelders to hatch.

Did you know......In most breeds the roosters have different shaped saddle feathers than the hens. There are only a few...
07/16/2024

Did you know......
In most breeds the roosters have different shaped saddle feathers than the hens. There are only a few breeds (including Sebrights and Campines) where the roosters are "hen feathered" meaning they have the same kind of feathers as the hens.

In most breeds the best way to tell if you have a rooster is to look at its saddle feathers (the feathers on the chickens back in front of the tail). On the roosters these feathers change around 12 weeks of age, so this method won't work for younger chickens.

To show you the difference I took pictures of 2 different chickens that are both about 16 weeks old. The rooster's saddle feathers are longer and skinnier.

Each breed of chickens has different characteristics from other breeds so comparing the size of comb and angle of the tail between different breeds is not a good way to tell a rooster from a hen. Also sometimes a dominant hen will mount other hens.

When I was a child someone gave us at least 20 coop ready chicks. Each chick was a different breed. I liked the white one with the biggest comb, and I called it my rooster. After it grew up and started laying eggs I found out it was a White Leghorn hen.

Did you know... Before an egg is laid it gets a protective coating which protects the inside from bacteria. This allow...
07/14/2024

Did you know...
Before an egg is laid it gets a protective coating which protects the inside from bacteria. This allows the egg to stay fresh for longer.

If a hen can she will hide her nest from you and other hens. Once I found a well hidden nest that had 12 eggs that were very uniform in size and color which is a pretty good indication that they were all laid by the same hen. Some of those eggs must have been sitting there for many days. There was no hen nearby, so I came back later. Still no hen, so I was sure she had not tried to hatch them yet.

All of those eggs were still good to eat. If you wash an egg it washes off the protective coating, and then the egg must be refrigerated.

A chick doesn't start to develop in a fertile egg until the egg has been consistently kept at the right temperature (somewhere around 100 F). When a hen gets broody she will stay on the eggs. She will only get up if she feels like it is absolutely necessary, and then she will come back as soon as possible. Even though the eggs were laid on different days they will all start to develop at the same time, and they will hatch at about the same time (unless another hen adds some eggs to the nest later which can really mess things up).

New babies
07/14/2024

New babies

This wool was grown in my own backyard. It is a blend of 3 different fleeces. This wool had a lot of vegetable matter in...
06/12/2024

This wool was grown in my own backyard. It is a blend of 3 different fleeces. This wool had a lot of vegetable matter in it so I used a small card to get it out before blending it on the drum carder. I call this color "orange dream bar" I enjoy spinning it. And it turns out beautiful.
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We got this little guy when he was only a day or two old. The picture on the bottom left is what he looked like when we...
06/04/2024

We got this little guy when he was only a day or two old. The picture on the bottom left is what he looked like when we got him. He was born that way. We have been using some homemade herbal salve on his face. He is doing well. He is now about 4 weeks old.

05/15/2024

I am the owner of Cookie Crumbles farm. I am not online much. Please be patient when inquiring on products and services.
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These are the latest new arrivals. We have 4 newborn goats, and we still have 5 nannies that are due anytime.
04/19/2024

These are the latest new arrivals. We have 4 newborn goats, and we still have 5 nannies that are due anytime.

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