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Incubator is a great idea, thanks! I currently have it in the brooder (which is at around 95 with the new HAL babies) - in a separate little container, of course!

I believe the baby just hatched yesterday. All down (no feathers), eyes closed. I have been reading about it, and we managed to get some "chick starter gruel" in with a syringe - but your method sounds easier!

HEY speaking of doves.... My kids found a newly hatched dove baby on the ground (with wreckage, a nest theu had previously observed from a respectful distance). So I have this TINY creature inside - in a box in the brooder to keep her safe. But a tree bird is different than the chicks - needs...

Okay, new hatcher question: I have two chicks out so far from my HAL eggs, nothing else even pipped (not due until tomorrow, so that's okay). But I'm worried about one of them - a Silkie. They are still in the incubator, having just hatched a couple of hours ago. But she's acting really...

Tomorrow is our due date, as we were trying to go "by the book" ... but I have one Early Birdie out already! And the best news is that it is from the "pile" of eggs I had mentally labeled "dubious" when we candled at lockdown! Hope hope hope hope...

Thank you. There were a few clears we through out on the first candle, but the rest of these showed some development, or at least the semblance of it (in darker eggs).... So fertility wouldn't seem to be the issue. :(

I'm so sorry. I'm feeling that way, too.... :(

So, candling at lockdown... I threw out another 6 quitters, but I only have 4 that I am pretty sure are alive. That's a whole bunch that I consider "dubious", and I'm afraid are dead, or ... well, never were - but they are all dark. What could I be doing THAT wrong?? I feel awful...

We live in TX, but my husband is in Biloxi MS for job training. He's very experienced with building in general, as well as our coops. Please PM me if you wpuld like a hand this weekend. Many hands make light work. Plus, it would keep your husband focused! Lol! Praying for y'all.

Didn't get around to candling until now. Tossed a few, mostly blanks. There are several more that I *think* have quit, but I'm way too nervous to take them out! So my current count is 30 still incubating for the Hatch-a-Long. I also have 5 more that were stuck in there a few days later...

So very, very sorry. Yeah, it's about a zillion times harder with kids, isn't it? *sigh* We will be praying for you family.

Ooh, ooh! Me, too!! *snort*

How fun, hatching mystery eggs! Greenish is most likely an EE. And I do have speckled eggs with no Welsummers - someone sneaky lays them, and I don't know who! Lol!

I'm sure you're getting much good advice here, but I am behind in my reading, and wanted to make sure to comment on this. I got my inspiration from The Chicken Chick's post on splay leg, which includes advice for crooked toes. Rescued a clutch from a broody who quit, and incubated. Mixed...

We set 34 eggs today, if slightly later than noon. *sigh* Mix of standard (barnyard mix), and bantams ("purebred" Silkie and D'Uccle). The hand belongs to my daughter, The Chicken Whisperer (age 10). :D

I'm in. I will be setting standard and bantam chickens. This will be my first year with the hatch-a-long, and only my second time hatching - the first batch is in now!