Alaska hatchers..How is everyone doing? Baby pics !!!!!!

[paulandashia]

<<<-------- TOTALLY JEALOUS.!!!!!!!

WOW Deb!
Those are GORGEOUS..!!!!!


And nah. I only have 1 more set of 12 to hatch out. I might add a few from my girls to check if Rusty is doing his "job", but that is IT for me..!!!!!
I decided I am going to make another brooder and put it right next to the one I have. That will do for now.
I swear if I get anymore eggs, it ain't gona be for ME.!!!
I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good to go!

 

[Mrs MIA]

Lovely eggs, Deb!

As for the rest ...

Out of 50 eggs, you might get 0... 1...10... who knows? I started with 29 marans eggs, 15 went to the hatcher, ONE has pipped so far. They are hard to incubate when you know how to do it, even harder when you don't. Best thing is to find a broody hen. Which, I think one of my silkies is trying to go broody.

I might have to move her inside and put her on my BCM and Welsummer eggs.

6 duckies in the 'bator, one turkey egg pipped so far. I was looking at my hatching sheets, and I have eggs coming out every day of this next week. It's no wonder I have 3 incubators and 3 hatchers going. Talk about staggered hatches!!!

 

[Alaska animal lover]

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Ash, how are you going to incubate and hatch at the same time? I think that's what Deb was meaning. If you have eggs that are still incubating and are supposed to stay at a certain humidity, and then you have eggs in the same bator that are ready to hatch, their humidity needs to be raised. You can take your chances on the ones ready to hatch, and keep the humidity low, but the chicks might get shrink wrapped in the egg by the membrane, or raise the humidity and take the chance of drowning the the other ones.

Some people keep another bator around just for the hatching part when they have staggard hatches. Or they have a homemade one. Plus, chicks no longer need to be turned when they go into lockdown, so if you have an auto turner, it make things even more complicated.

Sorry this is so long, and sorry if you knew all of this, I just got on a roll, lol.

 

[Alaska animal lover]

Deb, BEEUUTIFUULL eggs!

Good news! Number 3 from my hatch is doing great, the band-aid brace totally worked and chickie is up and running! She/he I'm going with she, lol, was near death I'm tellin ya, she couldn't lift her head, couldn't walk. Two days of feeding with a medicine dropper, vitamins and electrolites, chick food slurry, and a splint made out of a band-aid saved her life. Amazing.
Now to name her....

 

[paulandashia]

I understand your guyses concerns completely.
Please be assured that everything will be OK.
A couple days ago I ordered another 1588 Bator. So I do have another one coming.
It should be here within the week.

After this though, I am NOT incubating/hatching anything. I want to focus completely on my adults.

I am more concerned with Brooders. Babies will be a week apart, and I am worried about the age difference. I don't want to keep bigger birds together with baby-babies.

 

[paulandashia]

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Luckie?
LOL

Or maybe Miracle?
Mazie? (for A-Mazing)

 

[MissDeb]

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Ash, but you have more eggs going into that incubator that you have coming....They will be too far apart to hatch with your eggs you already have
cooking and that incubator you have running now has two or three different days in it already doesn't it? Thats why I keep telling you no more eggs for me! I know how many I can
hatch out at a time without having to break out the homemade hatcher.
I always combine my chicks once they hatch, as long as they arent but a week or two older I have never had a problem with anyone getting hurt
or killed. I will change my whole brooder out for a different one and add everyone at the same time....they have no idea who is new.

Brooding is the easy part. I'm trying to figure out how you'll hatch them with different days all in the same bator.



Congratulations Aimee! I was just going to ask how she was doing!.....Your a great chicky mamma! (not so great with the human ones that throw cookies at you though....

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Just kidding! Your a wonderful mom with a beautiful baby boy! Ladies, if you ever get the chance, you have to meet the little man in Aimee's life. He's a looker!

 

[Ban seabhag]

I've seen pictures and he sure is!

 

[paulandashia]

The eggs I have now are almost it.
I have 2 different days in there (2 days apart), but the 2nd Bator is coming, and it will be here well by the time these guys are ready to go into Lockdown.
I am just going to put them into the New Bator for Lockdown and not move the others...

The last 12 eggs aren't coming until these are done cooking, so I can give Amy's Bator back to her and just use my own to do the last ones.

 

[paulandashia]

(((I hope that made sense))))
I confuse myself sometimes.!!! LoL