Posts by redhen689

My first SFH chick just hatched!  The day old chick, standing watch, is another breed.  

Amykins, Sometimes they take their good old time.     Top right is the Columbian Wyandotte, due 6/12, hatched with help. 6/13. Center is a Swedish Flower Hen, due 6/15, hatched w/o help 6/14...  just a...

Top right corner is Columbian Wyandotte that hatched with a little help yesterday.  (Hopefully it's a "she") Center is first of Swedish Flower Hens to hatch.  It waited all day and decided to hatch just after I arrived...

I assisted a hatch on day 22.  It looks like a good outcome for that one.    I have 7 eggs in the 'bator on day 19, it looks like most if not all have pipped internally, no external pips yet.    I just...

Quote: Originally Posted by misschickenlittle  Ugh!!! Got home a little after 6 to a house with NO POWER!!! Super exciting day for me!! Pile it on! I can take it!!! Several hours w/o power is okay.  Some of...

I have 7 eggs in the incubator due Saturday.  I just checked and I think most of them have pipped internally. I have one that hatched, today, but -- long story -- this is a staggered hatch -- that egg had been under a...

It's day 19 and all 6 sfh have pipped internally!  I'm nervous, because I'll be away at work all day tomorrow. 

I have a homemade incubator, heated by a lightbulb.  My dad gave me an old thermostat he took out of a building, and the temperature fluctuations were too great, The temperature would drop to 97 F, the light would come on, and...

Quote: Originally Posted by tamtam84  @redhen - How is your girl doing? I found that often times when I poked Buttercup a couple times with the needle she would just drain out completely on her own after that. I hope...

My egg that pipped yesterday didn't progress, The chick was dead in the shell when I got home from work today.  It looks like she might have been turned the wrong way around.  I'm not sure she would have made it if i had been...