Anyone hatching April 5-7 or so? ALL DONE, READY TO BE LOCKED

[bburn]

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At day 18 they are rocking????? How exciting...I can't wait to see that one mine! Good thoughts to you and your hatch!

 

[CCourson05]

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At day 18 they are rocking????? How exciting...I can't wait to see that one mine! Good thoughts to you and your hatch!

I know!! I was shocked! Lol. But I am not going to complain...

 

[bburn]

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At day 18 they are rocking????? How exciting...I can't wait to see that one mine! Good thoughts to you and your hatch!

I know!! I was shocked! Lol. But I am not going to complain...

I'll be watching....I like pictures by the way!

 

[skillswife]

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Don't give up just yet, I know they can be a bit late! This is my first time too, I started with 7 and now I only have 3 in the incubator, only 1 I think might hatch and they are due tomorrow. But I am so scared I won't get any and the kids will be devastated! I hope yours are just late bloomers

 

[GJ_Kate]

So far 18 have hatched today (Day 21). 29 eggs went into lockdown. My 4 BR turkey eggs haven't done anything, but my first hatch with them a few weeks ago they were a day late. I brought home 2 chicks tonight, one with possible spradle leg and one that hatched a little bloody and has a little thread-like trail - guessing embilical? My first graders won't even know those 2 are gone.
Today was an early release, morning assemly, twice a month counselor visit and a ton of chicks hatching... needless to say, we didn't get much done! Oh well! Hoping for more insanity tomorrow... turkey insanity!!!

 

[MrsFordTN]

Looks like Our home grown game egg maybe the first to hatch! It has the most progress out of all.

 

[Suechick]

Hi Mrs. Ford -

you were hoping for the game hen chick most of all yes?

GJ_Kate - yeah, that trail probably umbilical. It should just dry up and fall off, but don't pull on it. Congrats on the babies!!

Love the ducks newbiechickenowner, their bills make them they look so happy

Sending hopes for good hatching for those of you still waiting

 

[Suechick]

So, I don't know how many I've hatched and what I actually have.... There are 15 in the bator bearded silkies, EE mutts, orpingtons and one SLW.

I think my First broody was sitting on 13, we can see a bunch of chicks, at least 5. So so so cute to see mama taking care of babies. She takes food and puts it right down in front of the babies and shoves them toward it while clucking at them.

Will get pics tomorrow. Hopefully she'll let me see how many she has. Tonight when I went to remove shells and check for unhatched eggs she pecked me relentlessly.

Guess I'll wait.

My other broody is not quite as good. This am when my ds went to check on her he found a baby in the nest, not under mama all cold and not moving. He though it was dead but he put it back under mama, an hour later, same thing cold dead looking baby not under mama. Again, he put it back under her. By this afternoon she had hatched 3 of her 4 eggs and the chicks all fluffed up nicely. I took the 4th one and hatched it in the bator. I'm not sure she'll be any good at mothering. We'll see tomorrow how she does.

As far as I can tell there are at least 23 chicks out of 40 eggs, that's about 55% hatch rate. My best yet.

 

[snazzyboots]

wow congrats suechick. can't wait to see more pics.

 

[Delmar]

I heard my first little chirpy noises coming from the bator.