My name is Stazia, I am completely new to the chicken game but have done A LOT of homework on raising chickens, incubating, brooding, housing you know that stuff. So technically I am completely ready and well informed. But, we'll see how much of that knowledge doesn't go right out the door when...
yay redhead!!! your patience paid off!
I just had to help one that pipped today at 7:30 AM i had been hearing it chirp and wondered why it wasn't zipping. so i took it out and the membrane had dried out around it and was suffocating it. so i took a wet q-tip and started working. i finally got...
okay for you who have that clip on heat lamp<<<<<<tie it onto something!!!! I just had to bury an EE because it fell on him! man, what a way to start a hatch
one EE just poped out and is flopping around everywhere waking up the neighbors...lol but that's what i want him to do...wake up everybody it's hatching time! so two are out and about....
THE FIRST ONE'S OUT!!!!! Ladies and gentlemen we have a blonde chick! okay now how do i put pictures on this thing?
Oh, Ican't believe it! one is OUT!!! FINALLY!
sethsleader....good i'm not the only one.
must take back the last statement of no one zipping. One pippied on a side away from me (they're in egg cartons so they can't roll around) and it must be a roo, he's squeakin' like "let me outta here!" and zippin faster than most of those chick hatching...
walkswithdog<<<<<i just woke up from a 3 hour nap and they seem to have gotten nowhere. yes patience is a must at this point! i agree!
Okay i now have 14 pips, and most of the 10 from earlier are still at the same beginning point. a few have a tad bit more of "A" crack (not many cracks just...
yay redhead! chicky wake the rest of them up for her!!
I've been having a conversation (in chick language of course) with one of mine. every now and them i hear a nother one, but the one i've been talking to, it seems like he will chirp to make sure i'm still there. then he will chirp in...
oh, they are sooooo adorable...and teeny tiny! yes bumble bees are about right. shoot, some of the ones we have out here in the country ARE that big...lol
yes! not opening! and i know that the first day they absorb the yolk anyway so i won't be freaking out thinking they need food or they'll die. I even told my hubby this morning under NO circumstances whatsoever are you to open that bator! he says i know, i know, or they'll die (translation: it's...
okay...i took the flashlight in there to see a little better and i actually have10 PIPS!!!!! oh, it just keeps getting better! 10/25 that's not too bad, now i just hope the hatching part goes okay