Anyone hatching on the 27th?

[ursusarctosana]

Here's a link to the post with the two new chicks hatched under my Wyandotte bantam broody hen on the 28th: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1696289#p1696289

 

[ChuckenGirl]

mine is due Feb. 28th -- March 3rd
hopefully soon!!!

 

[pegasuschick]

Gorgeous chicks! Congratulations.
I am a water color artist. Would you mind if I used one or two of your pix for reference for paintings?
Thanks!
Gina

 

[scrapmom5]

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What a cute chick. I think he is a rooster and his name should be Stevie Wonder. I bet he has a beautiful singing voice. You must have had Stevie playing alot while he was incubating.

 

[warmfuzzies]

He is a partridge rock. I will be selling eggs next year, I just love them.

 

[horsejody]

I got 5 Golden Cuckoo Marans hatched Friday and Saturday. 3 Girls and 2 boys. I used 3 thermometers and 2 hygrometers, and temp and humidity seemed great the whole time. However, everybody got stuck in their eggs, except one. The pips started coming. Then I noticed one beak stop moving. They had been pipped too long with no progress. I know I shouldn't open the bator and help, but I did. I was glad I did. I started helping babies. One chick managed to hatch on his own while I was helping the others. His egg seemed normal, and he was only a little sticky. However, in 5 other eggs I found fully developed chicks with absorbed yolks suspended in what I can only decribe as semi-dried glue like substance. They had managed to get their heads in the air cell and pip, but no further. One was dead. The others are now running around the brooder. I started with 12 eggs. 5 were tossed out as clears. 5 are now healthy babies. One fully developed, pipped and died. One stopped developing at about 10 days.

 

[pegasuschick]

Sorry about your chicks. It's a good thing you helped.
Did you keep your bator closed for three to five days before the hatch was due? Did not open it at all?
I had some stick even though I did that.
I have heard that too high humidity will also make them stick and will make sluggish chicks.
Gina

 

[warmfuzzies]

Oh, that is strange. I wonder why they were having trouble? Oh, well at least you were able to save them! Congratulations!!

 

[horsejody]

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Yup. It was closed and humidity was at 74% Temp ran between 99.3 - 100.1. I had 2 hygrometers and 3 thermometers (2 in water wigglers). Water trays were full and there was a small sponge and a wet sock in there.

 

[warmfuzzies]

Maybe it was too high? I really don't know much about it, but I hatched mine at just over 50%. That maybe was a little low, but they did OK. I helped two out, one died, and the other seems to have problems of his own, and that is why he couldnt hatch.

If I had left the other alone, he maybe would have been OK. But anyway, I dont know much, but I know my humidity was a lot lower then that.

Maybe you should put it under its own post so more people who know something will see it!