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Dry hatch is a misleading term. The humidity should be around 30%, so you still may need to add water to keep it that high. I add water using a catheter, but a straw would work too. Make sure you use warm water. Melissa rose, hope you feel better soon! :)

I am usually just thankful they hatch at all :rolleyes:

Some days I feel like 65, does that count? (some days I feel 20 again )

Kathy, do you have a thread for you emu adventures?

Wisher, if you have not checked your thermometers against a calibrated one, they may be wrong too.

Kathy - You missed your calling as a wildlife videographer

Emus SWIM?

51 - and liking it

X2 what SCG said - we must be in the same weather zone, my first daffodil just popped. And your rain is here tonight, and much-needed. Will send it on.

:lol: I remembered! Congrats to Chestnut Ridge, and thanks for all the great posts

That is just - Wrong Lucky you! I am hatching on, wheaten/BW ams and bantam cochins last weekend, silkies and bantam cochins baking, and bantam cochins, silkies and B/BL/Sp orps on the way. There is something wrong with me - although I did sell 4 hens and 17 hens and chicks this last week

The first 12 hours is the most important, but there is evidence that bathing the digestive tract with colostrum for the first several days helps improve the health of the digestive tract and head off GI infections. The reduction of absorption of colostrum happens over many hours, and does not...

Oral supplements should be avoided for the first 24 hours, as they can interfere with the very essential absorption of colostrum. In selenium deficient areas an injection of BoSe is a good idea for all kids. In ruminants(and horses) the newborn's gut is permeable to the relatively large...

Birdguy, for the first 24 hours they should only get colostrum, to establish their immunity. Feeding other things can interfere with the colostrum's absorption. Continuing to feed colostrum got the first few days bathes the gut with antibodies that help fight off infection s. Kathy, that video...

Ooohhhh - Want!

I think Kathy and I were posting at the same time, so I did not see her post until after she pointed it out.

The link in post 10865

I am not sure that is the right link, it doesn't start until the 20th? Just curious about how many hatched (those that were reported that is)

Small batch closed on Tuesday, regular best hatch on Monday. Sorry...

Wolftracks, maybe you do this already, but if you right-click on a link - for example the my profile tab - you get a drop down menu. Select open in a new tab, and you will have both your original page and the new page open in separate tabs that you can switch back and forth between. I often have...