I'm setting eggs tonight 2/2/12, any hatching buddies out there wanna join me?

[Soaring Chicks]

. The best thing to do is keep a eye one. Maybe offer vit/electrolights (sorry if speeling off using toothpics to keep eyes open)
It sounds like a sport so it may not have anything wrong with it. Just keep a good eye on it like you said and hope it works out and the chick makes it.
BooBear ~By the way looks like you have a carmera hog in the making with one of your chicks already. Very cute pictures

 

[Cynthia12]

Gorgeous babies congrats. Mine are still hatching.

Have to ask, where did you get the eggs? blueberry.. Are they yours, or did you have them shipped? Darling!

 

[BooBear]

Yep, 3 of the chicks are more inquisitive then the others.
The silkie chicks are camera hams.

 

[Cynthia12]

My question was for blueberry..they are all darling, I just love puffy cheeks..Ameraucanas, and EE's.

 

[LilyD]

My question was for blueberry..they are all darling, I just love puffy cheeks..Ameraucanas, and EE's.

I thought it might be for blueberry. Those are some wonderful chicks. Hoping to take some pictures of mine to post tomorrow once they have settled down. They are totally jazzed up tonight. I am going to need some pipe cleaners for the one spraddle legged chick that I have and there is one other that has its toes tucked under who will need shoes but my they are totally cute. The hatching still continues I have chirping coming from the incubator and 6 more pips. Hopefully they hatch on their own.

 

[BooBear]

My question was for blueberry..they are all darling, I just love puffy cheeks..Ameraucanas, and EE's.

They hatched from my stock. I have a breeder coop of pure Wheaten / Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas and the big coop for my layer flock that is a mixture of pet quality Ameraucanas, Blue/Black Wyandottes, Silkies, and Frizzle Bantam Cochins.

Wish more than 1 of my breeder eggs would have hatched. No more signs of any more hatching from the eggs and today is day 24 for them.
The black silkie chick that was shrink wrapped real bad is not doing well. I can barely get a drop of Polyvisol in em and he won't eat or drink at all. Just getting weaker and keeps chirping loudly.

 

[BooBear]

oh and yes I do have a few EEs hatched from mixed romance in the layer flock. I do not mind if my layers are mixed.
The only group not allowed to mix n mingle is the breeder coop which I want to keep pure and improve on, that is if I can get some good hatches out of the stinkers.

 

[LilyD]

I think I can say that hatching is probably done. 20 hatched one with splay legs but the rest all look wonderful. I will be splinting the little girl today. A few had curled toes on hatching but the more they used them the better their toes got and they straightened out themselves without any help just with use. Trying to feather sex them just for fun. Out of the first 14 that are in the brooder I have either 9 pullets and 5 cockerels or the other way around. With my luck it will be 9 cockerels lol. Time will tell and then I will know for next time . The cool thing is that the girls already all have homes just waiting to see who is who and then they will be ready to go. Going to wait to check the other 6 since they are still in the incubator.

The other 7 eggs aren't showing any signs of hatching 2 of these I had marked as questionable. I also don't hear anything from the incubator anymore (When the chicks are quiet and let me hear) so I am thinking I am done. Officially day 21 doesn't end until 1pm but would they hatch that far apart?Congratulations on everyone's amazing hatches!! Here are some pictures of the new babies.



14 in the brooder right now.



Little white chick not sure why she is so white. She will get her leg splints today for spraddle legs but other than that she is healthy and happy.



Goopy little black chick with a yellow face.



The other little black chick. The rest are all yellow.

 

[BooBear]

they are cute, hope the girl with the spraddle legs gets better for you.

 

[Janie1968]

Ok so here are my stats. 6 turkeys and 22 chicks hatched out just fine between one and two days early... which is interesting because my temps were consistently around 99.5 with the occasional 100.0. There are 6 eggs with no pips left in the bator and today is day 21. I don't expect 2 of the eggs to hatch but threw them into lockdown anyway... so we'll see. Of the 4 eggs left, there is one banty chicken and 3 turkey eggs. One of the turkey eggs was added two days late at start of incubation. On a sad note there was one chick who pipped but didn't make it. Other then that I am so happy about how this hatch went for me. Congrats to everyone who has chicks out there. They are so cute.