Accidental hatch going into lockdown tomorrow

[chickmomma03]

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awesome, can't wait to see hatch pics!

 

[Ranger Daryl]

Hatch update, I have two Silkie cross hatchlings so far, one black skinned grey chick and one white skinned white/brown chick. Both have 5 toes. I use the little baskets to separate the eggs out by known breed when doing multiples and it seems to work pretty good.

 

[Ranger Daryl]

This morning when I woke up, there were 9 chicks in the incubator. I'm still waiting on one more that has pipped but has not zipped yet. I am just going to leave them all in the incubator today while I am at work and hopefully there will be 10 when I get home today. It would be awesome to have a 100% hatch, but I guess I am already doing good with 90%. I've never had a hatch this successful.

On my last hatch only one egg(Roo is his name) out of 12 hatched and I had to go buy two more chicks that happened to be the same age as my hatchling so that we could get some peace. He is actually the father off all these chicks. I will try to post a group shot of all of them tonight when I get home from work.

 

[sumi]

This is fantastic! Fingers crossed chick #10 will be hatched by the time you get home and it make 100%.

 

[Ranger Daryl]

Came home on lunch(perk of working 10 minutes from home) and chick #10 has hatched but appears to be dragging its egg around by membrane/umbilical cord? The humidity had shot up to 80, I pulled all the plugs to get the humidity down. I am assuming this should dry up and pull free right. This chick seems super wore out, it was the first to pip and the last to hatch. It's already bigger than the rest, the shell looks like it exploded, and has a fairly pronounced comb(bet it's a rooster).

 

[sumi]

100% hatch!

Wow, this did turn out wonderfully well! The cord should either break or detach soon and the chick will catch it's breath now all that hard work of hatching is over. Can we see all the littles when they are dried off, please?

 

[Blooie]

100% - Every hatcher's dream! Congratulations!!

 

[Ranger Daryl]

They won't stay still. Lol. Everyone is doing great. I've never gotten above 50% hatch rate, it's like everything clicked on this go round. I've got the brooder ready to go will be moving them later tonight. The last one to hatch has got huge fat toed feet. The middle toes are actually shorter the the other toes. That chicks' mother has no toenail on her middle toe.

 

[Ranger Daryl]

They're in the brooder now, and their surrogate mama(our 7 year old rescue Sheltie) has taken over. Whenever I have chicks in the brooder she will walk over and lay down next to it with her nose just touching the brooder. She always hears the chicks in the incubator before we ever do. It is always amazing to me how content she is to be around the chicks, because she absolutely despises the grown up chickens. I've had chicks 4 times since we got her and it is always the same.

 

[sumi]