APRIL Hatch a long ......Anyone?

[Kassaundra]

My April crew is growing by leaps and bounds healthy and off heat, even little Rudy. They are in an inside brooder for now, but they went off heat at 2ish weeks, so nearly a week now. I let them out in the outside brooder during the day, and they all run and flap and fly and have a great time. Little Rudy decided to try he ran and jumped and flapped, ..................... then flopped.

Then got up and had a look of "Hey what just happened" lol

 

[chickenmapa]

It's day 26 and I got a chick! I had given up hope but left the eggs just in case (also they didn't stink yet) sooooooooo Happy!

 

[Kassaundra]

It's day 26 and I got a chick! I had given up hope but left the eggs just in case (also they didn't stink yet) sooooooooo Happy!

 

[thecaped]

Aww! Congrats!

 

[Shellz]

My April crew is growing by leaps and bounds healthy and off heat, even little Rudy.  They are in an inside brooder for now, but they went off heat at 2ish weeks, so nearly a week now.   I let them out in the outside brooder during the day, and they all run and flap and fly and have a great time.  Little Rudy decided to try he ran and jumped and flapped, ..................... then flopped.    Then got up and had a look of "Hey what just happened"  lol

Yeah, I just love those special moments. The cuteness is overwhelming.

It's day 26 and I got a chick! I had given up hope but left the eggs just in case (also they didn't stink yet) sooooooooo Happy!

 

[bantambury]

ONE OF MARSHIES EGGS HAVE PIPPED!!!

I went down to the coop this morning before church to check on her and she was outside.....I became nervous that she left the eggs. I came down around noon to find no broody signs, but dust bathing away. I took her and plopped her on the coop and she instantly turned her mama madness on

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I thought it was odd how she was sitting on the eggs....she seemed to be standing lightly over them....I knew she was either doing so because of how hot it is outside and she didn't feel she needed to incubate them as much, or she KNEW something was on its way!

I had taken Cadbury and Woodstock back to the house to free range a bit and when I took them back to the coop I checked on marshie once again. I whistled a bit, but didn't hear anything. my sister began walking back to the house; not being amused by my egg obsession. once marshie got off the nest there was TONS of cheeping, and I screamed.....A PIP! ALYSSA THERES A PIP!!!! so, the egg that I found had the internal pip yesterday (day 18) had finally pipped today (day 19).

im guessing the extreme heat we have had boosted the growth a bit, but I still have to be very cautious in case the baby pips a vein.

I blocked the coop off from the other chickens, and put a baby waterer in there for marshie. I DONT want any birds bothering her eggs.....unlike my last pitiful broody hatch. SO tonight im moving her to the broody quarantine coop located INSIDE the run of my coop.



WISH US LUCK!

 

[Joplus]

Yay how cute those are. So out of the 34 that went into Lockdown (started with 36), I have 3 unhatched (probably dead) and 2 still hatching and the other 29 in the brooder. Not bad for my first time hatch and with no fan or turner. I have one though of the two hatching that seems like it might be dying. After this other one hatched should I help this last one? (Its a BCM)

 

[thecaped]

Good luck! What a cute silkie!

 

[bantambury]

Good luck! What a cute silkie!

thank you!

 

[thecaped]

Here are my eggs, happily wiggling in their lockdown

I'm so excited and I can't be with them right now, so I'm nervous. I hope that some of them wait to get started until the morning!