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Utah, you're doing a fab job. Sorry for not coming back earlier....I forgot that I had a poultry club meeting to go to. Just got home a little while ago.

You must be exhausted.
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post #22652 of 37905

No worries Cocoa.  Thanks for the compliment.  I don't know how all these guys are making it!  There are 4 eggs to go.........

My menagerie includes 5 horses, 3 dogs, 4 cats, 32 geese (dewlap toulouse & african) and 10 ducks (muscovy, ancona, cayuga & silver appleyard).

NPIP Certified- #UT-179

Spirit's story: http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/725035/spirit-the-amazing-grey-dewlap-toulouse-gander/
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My menagerie includes 5 horses, 3 dogs, 4 cats, 32 geese (dewlap toulouse & african) and 10 ducks (muscovy, ancona, cayuga & silver appleyard).

NPIP Certified- #UT-179

Spirit's story: http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/725035/spirit-the-amazing-grey-dewlap-toulouse-gander/
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Originally Posted by Iain Utah View Post

So, I realized I had not seen any action from the silver apple, so I decided to take a look. It too was shrink-wrapped. So I busted it open too. The first shrink-wrapped baby I found was too far gone, but the rest are doing well. I am now one by one freeing heads from shell.


thats a bummer.

that alll of them got shrinkwrapped
 

 

 

its a zoo here:

12 call duck....2 geese -1 female saddleback pom. ....1american buff.

10 peafowl chicks <3

2 bantam cochins....

5 silkie hens and 4 splash juvis....

6 goats.....2 ponies....3beef cows.

an african grey parrot....2 fish tanks...

6hermit crabs... 3 betas... a turtle

and some guineas (all ages)

 

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its a zoo here:

12 call duck....2 geese -1 female saddleback pom. ....1american buff.

10 peafowl chicks <3

2 bantam cochins....

5 silkie hens and 4 splash juvis....

6 goats.....2 ponies....3beef cows.

an african grey parrot....2 fish tanks...

6hermit crabs... 3 betas... a turtle

and some guineas (all ages)

 

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post #22654 of 37905
I think I'm gonna have to go to sleep, myself. I'm hoping that I'll wake up to hear that your little guys are doing well. :-)

The whole shrinkwrapping thing is a major downer. I'm gonna see what my duck books say about it tomorrow. You're doing so well to get so many out alive.
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post #22655 of 37905

iain, i ccouldnt imagine having to help that many babies at once. 2-3 was stressfull enough.  but like 70 said if you didnt help you would regret it.

you really have to be exhausted tho. i would have gotten beaks to where they could breath and taken a short snooze.

its a zoo here:

12 call duck....2 geese -1 female saddleback pom. ....1american buff.

10 peafowl chicks <3

2 bantam cochins....

5 silkie hens and 4 splash juvis....

6 goats.....2 ponies....3beef cows.

an african grey parrot....2 fish tanks...

6hermit crabs... 3 betas... a turtle

and some guineas (all ages)

 

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its a zoo here:

12 call duck....2 geese -1 female saddleback pom. ....1american buff.

10 peafowl chicks <3

2 bantam cochins....

5 silkie hens and 4 splash juvis....

6 goats.....2 ponies....3beef cows.

an african grey parrot....2 fish tanks...

6hermit crabs... 3 betas... a turtle

and some guineas (all ages)

 

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First let me just say....Wow to you staying up all night with these babies I don't think I could have done that. hugs.gif

This was deffinately a hard hatch for you and given your last set of Ancona eggs not going so good either I'm starting to wonder whats going on with your incubator. What was your humidity durring the incubation? How about durring lockdown?
 

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Baby #7 is out.  Internal pip/shrink wrap baby seems to be fading, but my other 2 internal pip babies look good. 



 

Coyote Night Acres

NPIP Certified

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Ducks:Indian Runner Ducks, Silkie Ducks

Chickens: Bantam Cochins,Wheaten Marans, Mottled Ameraucanas 

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Coyote Night Acres

NPIP Certified

www.coyotenightacres.weebly.com

 

Ducks:Indian Runner Ducks, Silkie Ducks

Chickens: Bantam Cochins,Wheaten Marans, Mottled Ameraucanas 

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post #22657 of 37905

Updates from my end of the world - We are starting to see some movement in our hatching incubator! We have true Ameraucanas in their (this will be our first set of eggs from our pullet) along with some Olive Eggers and just a few splash cochins. I was hesitant to set the cochins because i have so many chicks in the grow out pen right now from the splash flock. The Olive Eggers will all probably be for sale after hatch though because I have plenty of those too.

 

Friday will be a few runner ducks hatching out which will be the first of the season.

 

Coyote Night Acres

NPIP Certified

www.coyotenightacres.weebly.com

 

Ducks:Indian Runner Ducks, Silkie Ducks

Chickens: Bantam Cochins,Wheaten Marans, Mottled Ameraucanas 

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Coyote Night Acres

NPIP Certified

www.coyotenightacres.weebly.com

 

Ducks:Indian Runner Ducks, Silkie Ducks

Chickens: Bantam Cochins,Wheaten Marans, Mottled Ameraucanas 

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post #22658 of 37905

Here is my bator.... hoping the 3 internal pips can get out on their own when ready.  Hoping to leave the SA egg alone for at least a few more hours.

 

my bator.JPG

 

Chicken, not sure about last week's set, but this set took a heat/humidity beating during last week's hatching when I was trying to save an egg.  This time around, I was better about remembering to micro-manage the other bator when steaming up room to hatch these guys. 

My menagerie includes 5 horses, 3 dogs, 4 cats, 32 geese (dewlap toulouse & african) and 10 ducks (muscovy, ancona, cayuga & silver appleyard).

NPIP Certified- #UT-179

Spirit's story: http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/725035/spirit-the-amazing-grey-dewlap-toulouse-gander/
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My menagerie includes 5 horses, 3 dogs, 4 cats, 32 geese (dewlap toulouse & african) and 10 ducks (muscovy, ancona, cayuga & silver appleyard).

NPIP Certified- #UT-179

Spirit's story: http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/725035/spirit-the-amazing-grey-dewlap-toulouse-gander/
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Originally Posted by Iain Utah View Post

Here is my bator.... hoping the 3 internal pips can get out on their own when ready.  Hoping to leave the SA egg alone for at least a few more hours.

 

my bator.JPG

 

Chicken, not sure about last week's set, but this set took a heat/humidity beating during last week's hatching when I was trying to save an egg.  This time around, I was better about remembering to micro-manage the other bator when steaming up room to hatch these guys. 



does looke like a hospital ward lol.

i would maybe put sumthin under the newly hatched babies so they arent straight on the wire.

either paper towel or shelf liner

 

its a zoo here:

12 call duck....2 geese -1 female saddleback pom. ....1american buff.

10 peafowl chicks <3

2 bantam cochins....

5 silkie hens and 4 splash juvis....

6 goats.....2 ponies....3beef cows.

an african grey parrot....2 fish tanks...

6hermit crabs... 3 betas... a turtle

and some guineas (all ages)

 

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its a zoo here:

12 call duck....2 geese -1 female saddleback pom. ....1american buff.

10 peafowl chicks <3

2 bantam cochins....

5 silkie hens and 4 splash juvis....

6 goats.....2 ponies....3beef cows.

an african grey parrot....2 fish tanks...

6hermit crabs... 3 betas... a turtle

and some guineas (all ages)

 

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post #22660 of 37905

so my ducks started laying feb 6th, and since then i have gotten 88 eggs.

its a zoo here:

12 call duck....2 geese -1 female saddleback pom. ....1american buff.

10 peafowl chicks <3

2 bantam cochins....

5 silkie hens and 4 splash juvis....

6 goats.....2 ponies....3beef cows.

an african grey parrot....2 fish tanks...

6hermit crabs... 3 betas... a turtle

and some guineas (all ages)

 

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its a zoo here:

12 call duck....2 geese -1 female saddleback pom. ....1american buff.

10 peafowl chicks <3

2 bantam cochins....

5 silkie hens and 4 splash juvis....

6 goats.....2 ponies....3beef cows.

an african grey parrot....2 fish tanks...

6hermit crabs... 3 betas... a turtle

and some guineas (all ages)

 

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