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  1. 4H kids and mom

    Need help NOW! Emergency hatches! Please advise!

    UPDATE (with pics to follow shortly): I have 6 dry and fluffy perfectly healthy chickies, one just about hatched, and two more pipping! Sadly, we lost the one (Egg #1) in the photos with the large unabsorbed yolk sac, but everyone else is doing great! Now, the REST of the eggs in the bator are...
  2. 4H kids and mom

    Need help NOW! Emergency hatches! Please advise!

    Here's whats happened overnight to bring yall current: (LOTS of pics!) PS...the hatched chicks dont seem to be drying? How can I speed up the drying process?
  3. 4H kids and mom

    Need help NOW! Emergency hatches! Please advise!

    Your 8:00 AM update: Things are bustling here! First 2 hatched completly. "Egg 2" baby is doing great, standing, walkin around, peepin LOUDLY at me! "Egg 1" baby still has to finish absorbing the yolk sac so he/she can stand better. "Egg 3" is zipping the shell, and this morning there were FIVE...
  4. 4H kids and mom

    Need help NOW! Emergency hatches! Please advise!

    UPDATE: Checked the others in the bator (with turner) to find that ANOTHER had pipped! And its an actual HOLE! So, moved it to the hatcher too! Only thing with this one is that no beak is seen in the hole? However, it is peeping (though muffled) and wigglin around. Will it turn around, or will I...
  5. 4H kids and mom

    Need help NOW! Emergency hatches! Please advise!

    They're takin a break. lol But they still peep at me when I talk to them. Hey, if we (my daughter and I- Egg #1 is hers, Egg #2 is mine lol) hold them as soon as they are dry and fluffy, will they imprint on us? Augh...this waiting is killin me! Oh, of this confusing 12, I have 4 more that when...
  6. 4H kids and mom

    Need help NOW! Emergency hatches! Please advise!

    Here is your next update! They are really movin now! After all that work, they are sleepy now. Aren't they cute?! PS...And I promise not to open the bator again! Oh, but then how do I mist to keep the humidity up?
  7. 4H kids and mom

    Need help NOW! Emergency hatches! Please advise!

    DD is cautiously optimistic, as am I. She tries cheeping to the chicks, but she gets way excited when they cheep back and she has to leave the room. I asked her why, and she said because she can't start to love them yet because they might still not make it. She just cant handle anymore loss...
  8. 4H kids and mom

    Need help NOW! Emergency hatches! Please advise!

    Ok, trying the spray bottle thing. In the mean time, here are more pics to bring you up to the minute coverage!
  9. 4H kids and mom

    Need help NOW! Emergency hatches! Please advise!

    Its so cool to watch his/her little beak open and close and it peeps back at me when I peep at it! I keep saying incouraging things like "Come on little one!" and everytime I do it wiggles and pushes! Aw! I LOVE this! My daughter will be SO excited when she wakes up! PS...on a side note...
  10. 4H kids and mom

    Need help NOW! Emergency hatches! Please advise!

    Ok, news! First little one has made a HUGE hole (thought they were supposed to zip?) and I can clearly see and hear it working away! Its broken through the membrane so I know it can breathe too. This morning, I found 3 peeping and 1 more had pipped! Transferred those 4 to the hatcher too. Now...
  11. 4H kids and mom

    Need help NOW! Emergency hatches! Please advise!

    I had them in the HovaBator with the auto egg turner, thinking they were all on Day 13 so they were all still being turned. I just thought the air cells looked rather large in these eggs (12 of the 36) but thought nothing of it. We've hooked up our new bator (thank you, you know who you are!) a...
  12. 4H kids and mom

    Need help NOW! Emergency hatches! Please advise!

    PS...with it being turned the whole time, is it gonna make it? Should we also move the other eggs that we got with that one and assume they are the same age, or leave them in the bator wit the others? We currently have the turner turned off.
  13. 4H kids and mom

    Need help NOW! Emergency hatches! Please advise!

    Ok, eggs were on Day 13. There's a pip and its peeping at us! We ARE NOT ready (with all things that happened) and the eggs have been in the turner (as it was only supposed to be Day 13). We are currently QUICKLY warming the hatcher to temp. But need help now! How do I possition the hatching...
  14. 4H kids and mom

    Some good news among the tragedy...

    We are quite cautiously optimistic. I guess the only good thing to come of the fire is that DH says we (my daughter and I) can keep whomever we want of the hatches (if they hatch) and THAT is not something he would normally agree to.
  15. 4H kids and mom

    Some good news among the tragedy...

    Today is (was) Day 10 on our bator eggs, and my daughter and I got up the nerve to candle them again. With all that happened this weekend, we weren't expecting much. However, one little one decided he/she needed to cheer us up from inside the shell and began doing a little jig and flipping and...
  16. 4H kids and mom

    Sad Day!!!!!

    I feel your pain hun. We are recovering (slowly) from a fire on Friday that took several of our favorite chickens, including my daighters 20 week old Ameraucana, Becca. Unfortunately, we could not bury her, as we have yet to find her.... I am sorry for your loss. Ameraucanas are and will...
  17. 4H kids and mom

    Anyone know that kind of goat this is?

    Sunny is certainly a Boer, or at least a Boer cross, but she is very thin. She looks just like my Fudge, who is also a Boer cross. (She's crossed with Angora, so she gets longer hair) Your peanut butter is almost certainly a nubian because my neighbors raise those, and Ive have to take a few...
  18. 4H kids and mom

    Some happy news among all the craziness!! Updated!

    Aw that is so sweet. I needed some good news to cheer me up a little, Thanks. Be sure to post pics.
  19. 4H kids and mom

    Pics of our Candled Day 7 eggs...how are we doing? Help?

    Thank you for all the replies. So, do the eggs I posted here look on track for Day 7 (well, Day 8 today)? Temp holds perfectly at 99.7-100.1 and humidity is at 46%. Thanks all!
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