We should write a book (we could probably write it from this thread alone lol): Confessions of a (bunch of) hatch-a-holic(s)
I'm sorry about your hatch rate. :hugs
Thank you for your support. I still have 9 peafowl eggs in the incubator for about another 3-5 days. Maybe they will hatch well...
I have to agree 100%. My bantam Cochin is cute as she can be, but then all of my babes are cute, beautiful, handsome, smart,.. ;)
But what's wrong with a single comb?
I have to agree 100%. My bantam Cochin is cute as she can be, but then all of my babes are cute, beautiful, handsome, smart,.. ;)
But what's wrong with a single comb?
ROTFLMBO...yes I confess it is possible that I have some clears in the incubator. I candled part of the eggs one day then did the rest a couple of days later. Might have missed some. But the ones that I fer shur did candle seemed to be developing.
2nd confession: I didn't candle a second time...
I'm in for a September hatch - a - long. I just got 6 Silver Appleyard duck eggs and 24 mixed guinea eggs. I would be ecstatic for a 50 % success rate on either. My last hatch was 0. Once again Orpingtons. This time I tried the dry incubation method. It totally didn't work for me. OR...could it...
How do you dispatch your chicks? I have one that hatched blind, and I don't know what to do with it. The kids want me to keep it in a kennel with a pair of breeders, but I don't think it's fair to the chick. I've never done it before. I have a hard time stepping on roaches...
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i know! an emoticonless world is so sad and melodramatic...I often find I'm standing with the back of one hand against my forehead and fanning myself with the other
I have had multiple babes come with pasty butt, probably due to the stress of the travel? However each have survived with a daily butt bath. They don't much like it but they don't get clogged up that way. Maybe that can help...
I'm sorry you've lost your NH Reds babes.
: a fifth button? Button quail? Bellybuttons? What were you talking about? :
Everybody keeps telling me they have a fifth button for the emoticons...I haven't found it yet. :(
For some reason I'm not having a good life with computers lately. My box only has 4 boxes. No smiley faces for me it seems...
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...Although I do have 12 new chicks, though I must admit to a poor hatch rate on my shipped eggs as well. Out of 61 eggs in 2 incubators, I had 14 hatch...