August Hatch-A-Long!

[celonecoop]

CELON... .WHAT TIME DID YOU SET THEM? SOMETIMES IF I SET THEM LATER IN THE MORNING OR DAY THEY START TO PIP IN THE LATE AFTERNOON OR EVENING.

GOOD LUCK!!!!!

I set them about 11 so I'm hoping they start this afternoon or evening

 

[Heidisgran]

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[Steph83]

Ok so it has been in the 100's here where I live and I kinda let some eggs pile up before I decided to put them in the bator. Is it possible for some to have started developing before others? I ask because I just put my eggs on lockdown this morning only to come home to this:

It's that or I am losing my mind and I miss marked my calendar...but there are no other pips. I hope I didn't mess everything up by opening it up and turning eggs when they should have been in lockdown

So do I get him/her out of there? I'd hate to open it but I can't leave him in there for 3-4 more days!

 

[Flowerbh]

Does anyone actually know why little chicks live right up to hatch time and then die? It seems like an awful amount of chicks die right when they should hatch! It's so sad!

 

[epmchickens]

That little quail is so sweet. My curious nature has to ask...what do you do with the quail? Do people eat them?

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I spend moat of my time laughing at them lol. But yes, eggs for me and soon meat. They're too funny

 

[epmchickens]

A friend of mine just sent me a message on face book that she just had a silkie chick hatch and one of its legs is wrong. She says its toes are curled but it has iys leg tucked so tight to its body that she can hardly move it. Any ideas?

 

[sweetappleacres]

Well it looks like my hens have both abandoned ship on the remaining eggs. I think they're confused. Maybe seeing one of them dedicate herself to raising the chicks registers as "ok I'm done, time to raise chicks". I still hear a small peep in one of the eggs but someone decided to poop on or around it so there's all this dry poo on that egg. I would imagine bacteria is setting into the egg so the odds are stacked high against its survival as it is.

I want to continue my "if it's meant to be it will be" attitude but I feel bad about leaving a chick to die like that. Maybe though she hasn't abandoned all the way. She still slept on the nest last night after being on and on all day.... idk. I'm just gonna leave them alone.

 

[epmchickens]

So do I get him/her out of there? I'd hate to open it but I can't leave him in there for 3-4 more days!

I removed all my babies as they hatched. A quick snatch won't hurt anything

 

[Steph83]

I removed all my babies as they hatched. A quick snatch won't hurt anything

Ok he/she is in the brooder ... All alone

 

[epmchickens]

Ok he/she is in the brooder ... All alone

Only for now. Maybe a towel or stuffed animal to cuddle up to? Mine like to hide in little "towel caves"