Anyone else setting eggs today - 1/31?

[jenanneray]

You can use a warm damp paper towel to moisten the sticky stuff. You should be able to wipe/peel off the remaining membrane, just make sure its really,really wet. Glad to hear the chick is doing ok!

 

[thebanthams]

Thank you for that tip ! That chick is doing well ! I am a little concern about that one leg ! after putting her in the brooder, her right leg(the one sticks out of the shell) kind of sticking out farther. she walks around with that leg out a little but. I am not sure if its her shoulder hurts. I hope that will go away. I am going to ask my daughter to post some pictures of my silkie cross with 3 toes !!

You can use a warm damp paper towel to moisten the sticky stuff. You should be able to wipe/peel off the remaining membrane, just make sure its really,really wet. Glad to hear the chick is doing ok!

 

[SIMZ]

Dreamer -- did either of your eggs hatch yet?

 

[jenanneray]

Let me see if I can get this to work......

Nope. Here's the link to my album. They aren't the greatest pics....the little buggers wouldnt stand still. There's more chicks now, but haven't taken pics of them yet. I'm up to 21 chicks

https://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/image/view/id/4951756/album/6171068

Dreamer, how are your chicks doing?

Hows everyone?

 

[dreamer5577]

Hi everyone! I'm glad to see everyone and their new chicks are doing well!

Still no chicks for me yet.

These last few days have been pure torture. And I ended up being bad. Haha
See, I was sitting at the computer and I thought there was a stink coming from my incubator. (the stink never ended up being from the incubator). So I got paranoid. And ended up grabbing my white egg and candled it real fast. Good news.. the smell wasn't coming for him! That little guy had internally pipped. And was moving around. I just thought it was odd because I figured I would hear some peeping or...something!? but I didn't (and still haven't). So I still have hope for that little one.
My brown one... can't tell for the life of me. I know he hasn't internally pipped though. So I'm going to wait a little while longer. My temps. ran a little low throughout this process anyway and I know that can cause late hatches. So.

 

[dreamer5577]

I have a pip! And the little thing is peeping its head off!!!

 

[SIMZ]

YES!!! So glad to hear that, although surely not as glad as YOU are to hear it!


I took 9 fluffy chicks to our co-op today. Kids faces started lighting up as soon as they saw me asking if I had the chicks! LOL Most of the kids already knew they hatched because I sent out email updates. Of course, everyone loved them and we all really enjoyed the little light chick with dark legs that we'd watched in the egg.

I pulled 4 more almost-dry chicks out before I left this morning while one was still hatching in the incubator. I put him in the brooder when I came home and saw no other pips. I decided to pull the gross eggshells out and check out the remaining eggs. One of the eggs had an inch long zip on the bottom over the water trough. He must have gotten flipped over and drown. So sad. I'll leave the rest of the eggs in until tomorrow evening. Then I'll candle them and see if any are moving, although by then I'd think it's too late.

Final tally:
34 eggs set minus 5 discarded through the hatch for 29 eggs
14 hatched (15 if you count the drowned chick)
14 left
So, I had about a 50% hatch rate - same as last time.

 

[dreamer5577]

MY NEW LITTLE BABY!

 

[bloom chicks]

Awe what a cutie! Love the fuzz butts!

MY NEW LITTLE BABY!

 

[thebanthams]

My chickie is doing better !! (the one that sticks her legs out.) She is walking normal . I am waiting for my daughter to help me post pictures. I am not good at it !!