Posts by bird-brain

Just wanted to update this. I have 5 chicks safely on the ground and the other six eggs are pipped and progressing nicely. The first eggs started pipping around 10:00 am yesterday. I actually unplugged the turner at about 2:00 am...

Thanks for all the advice everyone. Now just cross your fingers that I don't lose thi whole clutch. I am really banging my head against the wall over this. I keep most of my records on paper and everyone laughs at me for it. The one...

Quote:Quote:Originally Posted by JanO If you're sure today or tomorrow should be lockdown, go ahead and do it tomorrow.  It shouldn't hurt them to be off a day. That's the problem, I'm NOT sure of anything. My hens were way off on...

I set my first clutch on 4/19, I put the date in my phone and set an alarm to remind me to put them on lock down. Everything went pretty well and I have cute lol fluffy butts in the brooder. I set a second clutch several days later,...

HAPPY MOTHER's DAY to all you new chick moms! (Guys you'll get yours next month.). I think we all have, in our combined hatching efforts, secured the future of poultry for the next several years. Lol! Wow, there's a lot of hatches...

Quote:Originally Posted by chickydee64 the first one is probably fine .Can take up to 24 hrs...........from pip to hatch............. Have you read when to assist listed at the top under incubation and hatching...

Question, I have one egg that pipped at 4:00 am that hasn't started zipping yet. He has a pip about the size of a pea and sticks his beak out and chirps but isn't making much effort to do anything. Another one has managed to stick his...

Quote:Originally Posted by noahsmom We are only on day 2 waiting on these eggs to hatch, why does it feel like an eternity already?! I can't wait for day 7 to do our first candling!! Good Luck to everyone with there hatches!! So...

I have three on the ground, one with a foot out and one with a good sized pip in it. Still nothing from the other two eggs. . But I have a question, one of them has moved into the dish where the sponge and water are. It's a shallow...

3 of mine pipped around 2:00 am. Only one has progressed since then and nothing from the others so far. I'm sure the others are boiled. . Should I be concerned that there is no progress on the other two?