I was on a waiting list with Bev for 1 year, and she contacted me saying she had eggs, and I have to decide right then as she is leaving soon for England. I however ended up having to cancel my order at the last minute, as my last two hatches haven't! Sooo sad.
This wait was for wheaton...
I'm on day 20 and I have one pipped. It is a little phoenix. It has only zipped like 1//4 the way around, and it just hanging out. I wonder if it has dried out a bit? It has taken it 5 hours to get this far! I don't hear any other peeping, yet. (out of 28 potentially good ones).
Any way...
I'm on day 19 on a variety of 29 eggs. I have one little thing pipping, everybody else is quiet. (Except my 6 year old dd, she is crying for unknown reasons in the other room, sounds like nothing is really wrong though....)
The one pipping is a phoenix.
Been restless today...
Waiting, that's what I'm doing. I've been on line today for at least 2 hours, read tons of stuff on this forum. Only got in about 1 hour of school with the girls, I'm just too distracted to do homeschool! We have one pipping, it is the one that peeped when I was candling it last night. (I...
Wow, Jen,
Your cochins are beautiful! Your silkies are amazing too, but I'm more of a big chicken person, and those cochins are gorgeous! Are you having good fertility with their eggs?
Samara
TX
Sorry, didn't see that I was supposed to wait to PM you, (there are 5 pages in this thread. ) Just ignore my PM.
Samara
edited to get the italic and smileys to work.
here he is
I don't know if the pics show it, but one leg sticks straight out front, and the other one stays tucked underneath. Neither one seems to work right--when I touch the top of the right leg he cries.
Samara
hi cackleberrylane,
what did you do for the crippled chick? I have one now with club feet, any help would be appreciated. It isn't spraddle leg.
Samara
Hi guys,
Well I had a successful hatch, 10 out of 10 fertile developing chicks hatched (8 were either infertile or didn't do much).
One of the ten was one that had a hard time hatching, now I can see that it is crippled! one club like foot, one whole leg affected. It's feet don't seem to...