April Hatch Thread--Come Join Us!

[18Peeps]

I am sooooooooooo gutted mine are dead!!!!

OES - your babies are beautiful

DARN

So sorry

. Don't give up, it will turn out better next time!

 

[18Peeps]

Thankyou! I was practically doing a happy-dance when I realized I looked at the photo on my iphone screen

Update from here: The first hatchling, the one that had the yolk sack on the outside hanging from a string, was dead in the nest this morning. He was alot smaller than the other chicks, but keeping up for the first couple of days so I was starting to hope he'd pull through. Anyways, the other three out in the coop are racing aroung like crazy, eating and drinking well and just being absolutely too cute to be true!

Now, the latest hatchling that was so weak I thought it was going to die last night, has definitely perked up a bit! It lost a bit of blood during hatching, so I think it looks a little more unsteady on the foot, and it's feet are paler, so keeping it in the incubator for at least a couple more days. I'm not taking any chances with this one

Welcome to all the new baby chickens out there, I'm happy with a 100% hatch rate here, although with the loss of one chick at 3 days.

Here's the latest little one:

Sorry to hear about your chick. I don't know how people keep them from rupturing their own yolk until it is absorbed when they already have such sharp little claws. But 100% hatch rate

?! I'd be doing a happy dance too

....Congratulations!!

 

[18Peeps]

Just had my first ever batch. Ordered off Ebay from Florida, 12 button quail and received 16. Had a terrible time controlling my temp/humidity the ENTIRE time. And I was convinced none would hatch. To my shock I got 12! So, there are four dormant. At what point should I call it quits on them? My first hatched on the 26th. They would hatch a few at a time all the way up to the morning of the 28th. Is there still hope?

Those of you who have a brood of the human species , can u tell me if there is some steadfast rule to how much and when responsible children can begin bonding with their new button quail sibs?

-Newby
9lilChicks

Congratulations! Isn't is a wonderful feeling to see them all out of their shells happy and healthy? You had such a great 1st hatch!!

 

[18Peeps]

Adorable! Congratulations!!

 

[chickydee64]

I am sooooooooooo gutted mine are dead!!!!

OES - your babies are beautiful

DARN

I am so sorry......Dang.................I hate it but have certainly had my fair share of disappointment also.................
Guess that is why we need each other during hatch

Sooooooooooooooooo...lets do it again.see you in the May hatch.................

 

[chickydee64]

Almost feel guilty for my news.....................
Had 4 out this morning nad at least two pips right now.
Sneaky little devils.worked while I was sleeping..................
Hatching English Orps and they seem to be very hardy anyway.....................

Later..........

 

[CCWelch]

Out of 30 that started, 26 went into lockdown this morning! Now to wait.....

oesdog I am so sorry you had a let down, try again,

I will be jumping in for next month. I just set another 30.

 

[oesdog]

OES. That was a long haul and I was hoping for lizards too!

Yeah - longer for DH. Only last night he was saying "do you think the temp is too high?" bless him - he still hopes. But I know they are gone. I opened the Bator tonight and a strong smell of decomp came out! He will need to face that tomorrow for himself as that was the agreed deadline.( Or they will explode all over him!lol!) I know there is nothing but death inside. It is the simple task of getting him to accept the time has passed and so have they. I will get him to egtopsy tomorrow and clean the Bator. -
He is moving on though in his own way having bought a new humidity reader ( after telling me humidity didn;t matter in this model) because the instructions said to fill the compartments with water and lockdown!" - Yeah right! Well now he knows it does matter. Hence the new perchase. I believe he will try again and has been caught looking loveingly at chocolate brown Marans eggs. - I must tell him they DO take longer to hatch and are NOT blue and Don't hold Lizards!
I do feel sorry for him he was sooo looking foward to chicks for the grandbaby to see. He even had the camera all set up .

Oes

 

[chickydee64]

5 out....1 zip...1 pip

 

[18Peeps]

Yeah - longer for DH. Only last night he was saying "do you think the temp is too high?" bless him - he still hopes. But I know they are gone. I opened the Bator tonight and a strong smell of decomp came out! He will need to face that tomorrow for himself as that was the agreed deadline.( Or they will explode all over him!lol!) I know there is nothing but death inside. It is the simple task of getting him to accept the time has passed and so have they. I will get him to egtopsy tomorrow and clean the Bator. -
He is moving on though in his own way having bought a new humidity reader ( after telling me humidity didn;t matter in this model) because the instructions said to fill the compartments with water and lockdown!" - Yeah right! Well now he knows it does matter. Hence the new perchase. I believe he will try again and has been caught looking loveingly at chocolate brown Marans eggs. - I must tell him they DO take longer to hatch and are NOT blue and Don't hold Lizards!
I do feel sorry for him he was sooo looking foward to chicks for the grandbaby to see. He even had the camera all set up .

Oes

So sorry to hear that there's no hope of anything hatching...if you are going to hatch the chocolate/dark eggs, this is a really great article on backyard chicken. I wish I'd read it before trying to hatch them! Maybe your DH would be interesting in this:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-dark-eggs