FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

[cedarcovefarm]

Mines just started the same green poop but I can't get them out of the incubator yet. Is that ok that they pooped in there?

 

[nab58]

Here are the 5 chicks I hatched on the 9th. They grow so fast!

 

[cedarcovefarm]

Wow! They do grow fast! Great looking group you've got.

 

[Heron's Nest Farm]

Here are the 5 chicks I hatched on the 9th. They grow so fast!

this is such a cute stage. Nice picture!

As for my humidity problem I ran home, popped open the incubator to vent and saw a pip! Quickly closed it. Hope it's not shrink wrapped. Humidity is 75% in there! but the unit itself reads 60.

Who can recommend a digital thermometer/hygrometer with an internal probe that they like and trust?

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

Here are the 5 chicks I hatched on the 9th. They grow so fast!

Wow! That was quick!!!!

 

[bekkanblue]

Here are the 5 chicks I hatched on the 9th. They grow so fast!

Adorable! Guess I better get building a bigger brooder for my week and a half week olds! That's a nice set up! Wonder if I can modify it for my living room.... sure I can!

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

The current hatch score:
1. Infertile, eggsplosion
2. Shrink wrapped under mom, hatched with assist. Fat, sassy and healthy
3. Infertile, eggsplosion
4. Breech pip, unable to rotate to do a complete unzip, assisted to complete the unzip, also fat, sassy and healthy
5. Hatched nearly completely under mom. Dead halfway out of shell. Cause of death unknown. Healthy looking with normal hatch pattern.
6. Hatched under mom, no assist, totally fat, sassy, and healthy

Pending:
1 egg in incubator, at appropriate stage on last candle
5 eggs under momma, condition unknown

Infertility rate so far 12%, 75% success rate of hatching on eggs that pipped... The wait continues...

 

[rainbowchick]

Okay... That is THE CUTEST picture I've ever seen!!!
(now I'll go ahead and actually read your post...)

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

Okay... That is THE CUTEST picture I've ever seen!!!
(now I'll go ahead and actually read your post...)

LOL! She has been growling and snapping at me since she started brooding. Before that, bit us so hard we all came away bruised. She is the most gentle and attentive mother I have ever seen. That duck adores her babies and it shows!

 

[cedarcovefarm]

Eeeek! I finally had to open the bator. I had one pipped and they(the rugby chicks) flipped it upside down. I quickly opened and threw in a sponge and rolled it. What's done is done. The humidity dropped to about 54 and then is now about 72. It should settle down a little more in the 60s. I hope I did the right thing. One egg has made a nice hole of a pip and I can see it's beak moving but it has made very slow progress. I wonder if beilefelders are just like that. Last night I went to bed with a beil that had been pipped all day and woke up with a chick. Sure hope I wake up to 2 more in the morning. This hatching is excruciating!