2017 Groundhog Day Hatch-a-long!

[Bantambird]

First batch hatch next week!

 

[FluffyButt789]

Good news, our first egg hatched! The other 4 are wiggling around getting ready to pip as well!

My question is, he is in the incubator to dry off, but it's at 99.5 degrees, and I read that chicks need 95 degrees for their first week. Is he too hot?

 

[BantyChooks]

Good news, our first egg hatched! The other 4 are wiggling around getting ready to pip as well! My question is, he is in the incubator to dry off, but it's at 99.5 degrees, and I read that chicks need 95 degrees for their first week. Is he too hot?

No, he's fine. Let him be til he's dry.

 

[frenchiegirl21]

My chicks are hatching!

I've got 5 so far - 3 cochin and two silkie

 

[eldonrgv]

Came back today after 5 days in Mexico in a funeral to find 7 babies on my homemade bator out of 13 in lockdown, today is day 20 and seems this little gadget I built is working great.

 

[CuzChickens]

No, he's fine. Let him be til he's dry.

X2

Your chicks are adorable, eldongrv!

 

[FluffyButt789]

All dry! 2 more eggs have pipped, so this one will have siblings soon!

 

[FluffyButt789]

So I am a stressed out, worried, chicken mama. The little one is doing okay, I just haven't seen him drink on his own. I dipped his beak in the water and he wants nothing to do with that, all he wants to do is eat. So every hour I pick him up and give him droplets of water off of my finger. I can't keep doing this and he needs to learn to drink on his own. Also, I don't know if he has pooped yet? He could have, and I just can't see it, but I'm not sure. I probably worry too much. He is a happy perky little guy, I want to make sure he, and all the others that hatch, will survive.

 

[BantyChooks]

So I am a stressed out, worried, chicken mama. The little one is doing okay, I just haven't seen him drink on his own. I dipped his beak in the water and he wants nothing to do with that, all he wants to do is eat. So every hour I pick him up and give him droplets of water off of my finger. I can't keep doing this and he needs to learn to drink on his own. Also, I don't know if he has pooped yet? He could have, and I just can't see it, but I'm not sure. I probably worry too much. He is a happy perky little guy, I want to make sure he, and all the others that hatch, will survive.

How old?

 

[FluffyButt789]

How old?

He hatched just yesterday, a little over 12 hours ago. I know they can survive off of the yolk they absorbed for a while but I don't want him to get dehydrated since he is already pecking at the feed. And I'm not sure when he should start pooping? He doesn't have pasty butt.