tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79136006858108880772024-03-06T01:12:39.052-05:00Douglas 4-H ChickQuestFollow the Douglas Family's 4-H ChickQuest Project where we incubate chicken eggs!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913600685810888077.post-44126874935025375792018-01-11T19:33:00.000-05:002018-01-11T20:37:20.153-05:00January 2018<br />
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Welcome to the Douglas Family ChickQuest Blog! I'm Annie, I have a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture/Animal Science from The Ohio State University and I'm a 4-H Advisor in Ohio. In 2010, our 4-H Club decided to do a group project and chose ChickQuest. We were one of 4 families who would have incubators at our house and hatch the eggs. In an effort to keep everyone in our group in the loop of what was happening each day, I chose to blog about it. We still have one hen in our flock from this hatch! Her name is Oprah. She's a beautiful friendly Australorp and you can see her at the top of this page.<br />
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<b>To start at the beginning of our ChickQuest Blog click here: <a href="https://douglas4hchickquest.blogspot.com/2010/05/cast-of-characters.html">Day 1 </a>(</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: inherit;">Monday, May 17, 2010)</span><br />
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We have 13 hens and have made some improvements to the coop.</div>
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We added a covered common area, we like to call the "Ball Room" to the back of the cabin. This allows the hens to have a nice area to hang out in the winter and when it's rainy. It also provides a wind block. We are facing north. We like to think the hens have dances at night in the "ball room" and even had a disco ball hanging in the center of it for a while!<br />
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A run is attached to the hen house and is covered with netting. We have hawks in the area. The top of the run is part of our old swing set.<br />
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Underneath the cabin is a window made of plexiglass. The ladies love to look out and also sun themselves in the winter.<br />
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The dog house provided a covered area for pullets as they integrated into the flock. Many times the older ladies won't let them in the ball room or out of the rain. This worked great for the young pullets to have cover from the rain and wind. However when they started laying eggs, they put some in the dog house. So we had to turn it around to close it off.<br />
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Inside the "ball room". This is their common area. It has food and water. We added a litter box that serves as an extra nesting box. <br />
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The ramp up to the hen house where most roost at night. We can lock to lower dutch door.<br />
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A side view and the "people entrance". We cover the screen door with plastic during the winter.<br />
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The nest box is attached to the cabin. It has two spaces.<br />
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A side view of how the chickens exit the hen house and ball room. The door is on a pulley and we can close it at night. It also serves to to block the west wind in the winter.<br />
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We also have a small roost set up on the Little Tikes chairs. The ladies use this every morning after they eat their breakfast. They sit up there and preen their feathers. <br />
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The run opens up into a very large pasture. The hens love this and spend most of their time here in the summer. We have lots of shade. <br />
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This is the view from our back door!<br />
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If you would like to see how we built our repurposed chicken coop (Cackle Cabin), go here to see the details: <a href="https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/cacklecabins-chicken-coop.48419/">https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/cacklecabins-chicken-coop.48419/</a></div>
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The chickens have grown and a few went to the Fair. Molly showed the a Leghorn and an Australorp from the ChickQuest hatch.<br />
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One of the Leghorn pullets won a blue ribbon at the 2010 Wayne County Fair Open Chicken Show! <br />
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The judge commented on her nice body and tail feathers.<br />
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The pullets were in separate cages when we first brought them to the Fair. The Leghorn was frantic for a day and then we finally put them together in the same cage. They were MUCH happier together. <br />
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Many thanks to all that helped us at our first Chicken Show. Thanks to Laurel for all the advice and help. Thanks to Logan, Theo and Jenny who helped us bathe and prepare the pullets. Thanks to Ann and Logan who helped us choose the best birds to take to the Fair. The Dalton-Kidron Big 4 4-H Club Chicken group is so supportive! Thank you!<br />
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The chicks are growing like weeds in the sunshine! They're are getting bigger, starting to get wing feathers and they're hungry. We could spend hours watching them--and we do! They_ are_ so_ cute!! <br />
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Their personalities are beginning to emerge. There's the alpha chicks --the ones in charge. The curious ones--always first to check out something new. And the shy ones--not wanting to be a part of anything new or scary. <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">14 chicks hatched and lived. (56%)</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3 were not fertile through candling.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 did not pip and died, fully formed, in the egg.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most hatched on Day 23. But hatching ranged from Day 22 to Day 24.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The one that hatched on Day 24, required assistance.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">88% of the fertile eggs hatched and produced a live healthy chicks.</span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5 were not fertile through candling or cracking open.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2 died while hatching.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most hatched on Day 23. Only one hatched on Day 22 and requiured assistance.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">75% if the fertile eggs hatched and produced live healthy chicks.</span></li>
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The hatching is coming to an end. <br />
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The last egg to hatch was White egg #6 (my pick for who would hatch first, LOL!). It hatched at 10:14 am. <br />
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This chick needed a little assistance getting out of the shell and seems very weak. Once out of the shell it was very floppy and wobbly. It kept flipping over and staying on it's back like a turtle that has turned over. We gently keep flipping back upright. With some extra attention, it seems to be OK and we moved it to the brooder about 6 pm. The other chicks are pecking at the new chick :-(<br />
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We candled the other eggs and determined no more are alive or viable.<br />
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Brown egg #6 at 12:20 pm<br />
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All hatched out and resting.</div>
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What a night! Between 11 pm and 8 am we had 8 chicks hatch! All with no assistance.<br />
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This is newly hatched chick brown # 5.</div>
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Pip and Zip! Lots of eggs in the process of hatching.</div>
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Brown #9, white #7 and brown #5 waiting to dry off and fluff up.</div>
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White #11 just hatched. This one is exhausted and look at those huge feet!</div>
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Nine chicks in the brooder getting dry and fluffy.</div>
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Chick white #2. It hatched in 10th place. (Ramona's pick for the hatching contest!)</div>
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6:20 am: White #11</div>
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8:41 am: White #4</div>
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We feel as if we are continuous chick midwifes. It's fun and somewhat stressful at the same time. So much going on with 25 eggs that are taking a long time to finish hatching.<br />
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<b>Happy Birthday to 2 Leghorns! </b><br />
White #3 hatched at 5:50 pm. Molly has named this one Nugget. It's WILD! Climbing all over everything and cheeping constantly. We have a great video of this chick hatching and we will post it tomorrow.<br />
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The second Leghorn hatched at 7:00 pm. This chick is very big! It hatched very quickly once it got going.</div>
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Here are the two newly hatched Leghorns in their "play pen" in the incubator. The play pen is a small square Rubbermaid dish that keep the chicks contained in one area. This prevents them from falling over, turning over and pecking the other eggs that are trying to hatch. They stay in the play pen till they are fluffed out and ready for the brooder.</div>
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Two of the <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Australorp</span> eggs ( #11 and #2) failed to hatch after they pipped and they died this afternoon. We think that while the first chick was in the incubator drying off, it turned these two eggs over and they couldn't continue to "unzip" their eggs and get out because they were upside down. We feel so bad about this. So after this happened, we came up with the play pen idea to keep the other hatching eggs safe.</div>
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Here's the first chick that hatched (<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Australorp</span> #3), happy and curious in the brooder this afternoon. Molly named this one Pip.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally at 6 am Tuesday morning June 1, 2010 we decided to take the egg out of the incubator and see if it had any life. It peeped a few soft peeps. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The chick seemed "stuck" in the shell--not very much moisture and the membrane had dried. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> We decided to gently help it get out of it's shell. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pips on the following eggs have begun: White eggs: #2, #7, #8 and Brown #10. There may be others, but the little chick has moved all the eggs around as it's drying off in the incubator. </span><br />
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Brown egg #3 , who pipped this morning at 6 am is still going. The little chick stalled out for a while and then began pipping again in earnest about 2 pm. The pip hole is now about the size of a nickel. I've read that they pip, then "zip"--meaning they zip open a line in a counterclockwise circle around the egg, then push the two halves apart and hatch. Well, nobody told this little chick! I am beginning to feel sorry for it as it seems to be getting tired. We'll see what happens through the night.<br />
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Good news....two more pips tonight! <br />
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Brown egg #5 pipped @ 8:30 pm<br />
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To the 4-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">H'ers</span> in our group....stop by to see the pips and hopefully chicks!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913600685810888077.post-2797771715948760392010-05-31T09:16:00.000-04:002018-01-11T20:15:06.668-05:00Day 21 -- 7 am<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">WE HAVE A PIP! And.....we can hear chirping!</span></span><br />
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Day 20 Embryo Development: Yolk has been absorbed. Embryo becomes a chick, breathing in the air cell. Pipping begins.<br />
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We also got the brooder ready. The brooder is the "nursery" for the baby chicks once they have hatched. The chicks stay in the brooder about 4 - 6 weeks. Molly was a big help by helping clean the brooder container, and the feed and water trays. Then, she helped set it up this afternoon in our garage.</div>
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Day two of lock-down. Temps are 99° - 100°. Humidity 65% - 69%.<br />
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Day 19 Embryo Development - Beak pips into the air cell and chick begins to breath. Yolk sac begins to enter body cavity<br />
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We keep looking through the windows of the incubator to see if we can see any pips.<br />
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A pip hole is a small crack or hole which is made in an egg by a chick as it prepares to hatch. The appearance of pip holes is generally viewed as a sign that chicks are on the way, as the chicks generally fully emerge within a day or so of creating the pip hole. The process of breaking out of the shell is known as pipping.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Getting the eggs and incubator ready for <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">lockdown</span>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brown Eggs: b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, b9, b10, b11, b12, b13</span></div>
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Humidity: 7:30 am : 30%, 11 pm : 50%</div>
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Day 14 Embryo Development - embryo gets into position suitable for breaking shell<br />
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Incubator Temperature: 98° @ 7am, 99° rest of day</div>
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Humidity 63%<br />
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Turning Eggs:<br />
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X @ 11:00 pm<br />
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Comments: the air sacs seem small. We will try and reduce the humidity. The air sacs should gradually get larger as the egg looses liquid. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913600685810888077.post-66281909873706852002010-05-25T11:01:00.000-04:002018-01-11T20:13:08.421-05:00LeghornsThe second kind of egg in our incubator are Leghorns. These eggs are white and they came free from the Wayne County Extension Service. A big thank you to them!<br />
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The Leghorn is a breed of chicken with origins in Tuscany, central Italy. The first birds imported to North America in 1853 were called Italians. By 1865 the breed was named after the Italian city of Livorno, on the western edge of Tuscany, which in English is also known as Leghorn.<br />
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Leghorns are excellent layers of white eggs (around 280 per year) with a superior feed-to-egg conversion ratio. Leghorns rarely exhibit broodiness and are thus well suited for uninterrupted egg laying. The Leghorn is a light breed that matures quickly to only 3 or 4 lbs and is not considered a viable meat producer. Leghorns are active and efficient foragers. They typically avoid human contact and tend to be nervous and flighty. (from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leghorn_(chicken)">Wikipedia</a>)<br />
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from <a href="http://www.cacklehatchery.com/">Cackle Hatchery</a></div>
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We have two kinds of eggs in our incubator. </div>
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The brown eggs are <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Australorp</span> eggs. They came from the <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Hange</span> Family. The <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Hanges</span> have 20+ <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Australorps</span> at their farm. They have 4 roosters and the rest are hens. Also, Logan has some young <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Australorps</span> for his 4-H project this year. They like the <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Australorp</span> breed because they are calm, friendly, hardy and lay lots of brown eggs.<br />
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This breed originated in Australia developed from Black Orpingtons imported from England; and the emphasis of the breeding program was on egg production without sacrificing too much in size and meat quality. Some sensational results were made in the Australian program, and one hen set a laying record of 364 eggs in 365 days. Introduced into this country in the 1920's, they have become useful and popular and are certainly one of the best layers of light brown eggs of all the heavy breeds. (info from <a href="http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/black_australorps.html">McMurray Hatchery</a>)</div>
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When the eggs hatch, the chicks should look like this:</div>
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Full-grown Astralorp trio</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913600685810888077.post-50761325928094033002010-05-24T16:24:00.000-04:002018-01-11T20:11:43.482-05:00Day 13Sunday May 23, 2010<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>Day 13 Embryo Development </strong></span><span style="color: black;"><strong>-</strong> a</span><span style="color: black;">ppearance of scales and claws</span> <br />
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Incubator Temperature: 99°<br />
Humidity 60%<br />
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O @ 8:00 am<br />
X @ 3:00 pm<br />
O @ 11:00 pm<br />
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