2017 Groundhog Day Hatch-a-long!

[dannyelle123]

or a feather duster, like with real feathers

I went to Walmart looking specifically for a feather duster for my last little chick and they didn't have any! I am mama... I have a teddy bear in the brooder, but she isn't interested! lol She took extra rearing to learn to be a chick... I had to sprinkle the food around and scratch with my finger and scratch scratch scratch at the water to get her interested in drinking! She's doing well at a week old... I've been waiting for this hatch so she will have some friends! She is so bored and cries for attention. As soon as I open the brooder she hops out and climbs all over me.

Yay! Update on today's hatch: I have 2/6 hatched so far, one EE and my BCM! So exciting!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Lol
Good luck with that baby

 

[CuzChickens]

Well, one little chick decided to give the pokey little puppy a new name, putting my hatch rate at 92%!!!!!!

I did my eggtopsies today ( ) and they appear to have both died on day 17-18. Yolk sac not absorbed, but pretty much developed and moving into hatching position. Any ideas on why they died?

Uh oh. A great friend of ours, who is kinda like my uncle in more ways than one is giving me his incubator......here comes more trouble.....

 

[dannyelle123]

Lol
Good luck with that baby

Finally something more interesting than my eyeballs...

 

[CuzChickens]

Finally something more interesting than my eyeballs...

How cute!

 

[FluffyButt789]

New to this thread. Can't read all 51 pages lol. Sorry if this isn't the hatch-a-long I should be on. Hatching eggs this week. 2 in lockdown, 3 more to go. (they were all put in the incubator on different days). My first time so

 

[CuzChickens]

New to this thread. Can't read all 51 pages lol. Sorry if this isn't the hatch-a-long I should be on. Hatching eggs this week. 2 in lockdown, 3 more to go. (they were all put in the incubator on different days). My first time so 

Good luck with your hatch! Glad to have you here!

 

[FluffyButt789]

Thank you! May I ask a question regarding humidity? I tried starting a thread but haven't had any help yet.

 

[DancingWthDucks]

Thank you! May I ask a question regarding humidity? I tried starting a thread but haven't had any help yet. 

Yep, sure ask away! Hatch a longs are always a great place to find advice

 

[dannyelle123]

Ahhh! Talk about watched water never boils... Ugh... The third has pipped and refuses to come out even after I demand it to and stare at it constantly and play music and clucking sounds... And use my psychic powers to get it to unzip... No. It just wants to take its sweet time, with its beak poking out, I can tell its breathing, just slow! Lol Come on #3!