"Springing in the Chicks" 2016 April Hatch-a-Long Hosted by Mike & Sally

Balloonjuice said:

My (almost) 7 year old grandson has been "helping" me since we first set the eggs. Your kindergartners are going to LOVE it. He's learned about clears and quitters. He and his sister slept over last night and couldn't wait to get up and see if there were any new hatchlings this AM. Children and chicks just seem to go together, don't they?

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Chaos18 said:

Yes. Just add a warm wet paper towel to get the humidity back up after you take them out.

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mlbuttercup said:

My lone rescued chickie egg had a small pip late last night. Still looks the same this morning. Hurry up chickie. I'm not good at waiting.

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billiejw89 said:

Quote: Yes, must post pictures!

heatherfeather7 said:

Reading about all the pips is making me super anxious for mine, and we are only on day 7! HA!

Can't wait to see pics of all the new chicks!

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I know, me too!

hesklj2008 said:

Not sure if I am posting right but as we speak I am on day 22 of my first hatch in a homemade incubator-and we have our first pip and chirping this morning! I feel like an anxious mother.

That being said, these forums and this site in general have saved me-been so much help along the way

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Welcome!

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Cynthia12 said:

Oh my goodness...posts..I see a lot of posts! I can't keep up here.

I did have 4 babies hatch. Those bad air cell ones. Had to assist. When I had waited long enough, and found that the first two I checked were DIS..I started opening others. Only got 2 little ones. :/ But, I think, one is a girl. These little bantam cochins have ridiculous feathers on those feets!

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Cynthia12 said:

Oh my goodness...posts..I see a lot of posts! I can't keep up here.

I did have 4 babies hatch. Those bad air cell ones. Had to assist. When I had waited long enough, and found that the first two I checked were DIS..I started opening others. Only got 2 little ones. :/ But, I think, one is a girl. These little bantam cochins have ridiculous feathers on those feets!

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Chaos18 said:

I'm sure she wouldn't mind if you played dress up with them while you looked. So did you ever figure out that I was incubating Anconas over here?

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firedragon1982 said:

Ok, so did have 11 silkies hatch, but one passed this morning. It looked like it had a yolk sac infection Was a blue silkie, it breaks my heart. It also had fluid it inhaled possibly during hatch? It was still in the incubator, and when i took it out after it had passed, it had fluid leaking from its beak. Never had that happen before... But all others, including the black one are doing great, including the last hatch.

I did do eggtopsies on 4 (2 silkie, 2 D'uccle) unhatched eggs. Two were malpositioned, head above wing, one had head between legs. One looked like it had tried to internally pip (beak up towards aircell) but didn't get thru membrane. 2 others I didn't do eggtopsies on, one just by candling looked like it had quit around day 16-17 because of the amount of yolk/fluid in the shell, and the other probably shrink wrapped, but didn't want to open it up, too depressed with the rest of them.

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junebuggena said:

Day 5 candling here for my overloaded Incuview. Out of 3 dozen set, I pulled 18 clears. 50% fertility from my cockerel. I guess he needs to work on his balance.

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weegarden said:

I'm hoping for a couple more babies at school this morning! There are three eggs that I'm hoping to see hatched or well on their way! One is a silkie and two are Rocks. I also have a back up incubator with a couple of eggs, just in case we had problems with these (don't want to let down my first-graders,) so I should have 4 more hatching tomorrow too. The kids will love that, because they didn't even realize that those would be hatching. I snuck them in from home, when I saw that my hatch was going slower than expected. Peeps and Mikey need some friends.

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mlm Mike said:

Not too bad.

For a good hatch.

Strange.

Why thankful for no new hatchlings?

Send some of that disease here! Welcome!

Congratulations on the 11, sorry about the ones that didn't make it.

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mlm Mike said:

That's the hope when the day starts. Now to find things that will distract me. I need to cut grass but I have a ton and a half of hay blocking the lawn mower. So I need to move that first.

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Chaos18 said:

Some days it's way to easy to find things to get distracted by.

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hesklj2008 said:

Not sure if I am posting right but as we speak I am on day 22 of my first hatch in a homemade incubator-and we have our first pip and chirping this morning! I feel like an anxious mother.

That being said, these forums and this site in general have saved me-been so much help along the way

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Cynthia12 said:

Oh my goodness...posts..I see a lot of posts! I can't keep up here.

I did have 4 babies hatch. Those bad air cell ones. Had to assist. When I had waited long enough, and found that the first two I checked were DIS..I started opening others. Only got 2 little ones. :/ But, I think, one is a girl. These little bantam cochins have ridiculous feathers on those feets!

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