August Hatch-A-Long!

[Gen9]

Good morning!!! She slept so peacefully last night

 

[jnjmanning]

Here it is.. Ugh. Too cute. I will be heartbroken if this one doesn't make it for whatever reason

Shhhhhhhhhh dont tell anyone but, I had a single chick hatched last year and I carried her in my bra, nestled down right in the center...... wrapped gently in a soft towel of course so I didnt get pooped on. To this day this hen follows me everywhere. Hubby says that is when I went off the deep end....lol

 

[jnjmanning]

This is the chick I hatched a few days ago, (mystery bantam could be serama, sebright, D'uccle, cochin, silkie, frizzle). I've been trying to figure it out. Nobody knows so far but I forgot to mention ithas really long eye lashes. And very long wing feathers. Do any of these have really long eyelashes? I had to plaster them back because she couldn't see and eyelashes kept sticking shut. She is fine but they have fluffed back out.

Not a silkie, they have black skin. I would guess cochin.

 

[NosiphoChooks]

Good morning!!! She slept so peacefully last night

Oh shes the cutest little thing. Did she sleep there with you all night? !

 

[jnjmanning]

Chocolates on lockdown, humidity up to 60%. Still have one more hatch the 30th.
Here is pics of my 2 new brooders my hubby made me this weekend, and my chocolates waiting to come meet me!





I bought this plastic storage container on wheels, with a lid, at Lowes on clearance. I used the lid to catch debris on the smaller brooder, and the container is under the larger brooder catching debris! I lift one end and it slides right out and over to the sink for cleaning. Look how much debris the lid has collected in less than 24 hrs. But there is 14 silkie chicks in there too. Last pic is my chocolate silkies on lockdown. Come on babies!!!! 7 of 9 made it this far!

 

[DeannaA]

How big is your incubator??

I have 2 homemade incubators that hold 60 each, a little giant that holds 60 and my homemade hatcher that holds 24-30. I am waiting for some parts to fininsh my 3rd one that will hold another 60. So so roughly 22 dozen after I finish my last one.

It a disease not my fault and there are no 12 steps for being a chickaholic so there's nothing I can do but feed that monkey on my back.

 

[Gen9]

Shhhhhhhhhh dont tell anyone but, I had a single chick hatched last year and I carried her in my bra, nestled down right in the center...... wrapped gently in a soft towel of course so I didnt get pooped on. To this day this hen follows me everywhere. Hubby says that is when I went off the deep end....lol

Lol hubby said I went off the deep end when I startedAug hatch, some in the incubator & some under broody. He was soo mad. He thought we were done after July's hatch.

Oh shes the cutest little thing. Did she sleep there with you all night? !

Yes... I'm thinking its a boy now. The other 2 just hatched. Look like girls to me. This one will have to be my buddy for awhile.

There was a really bad T storm last night. Right before it started my incubator was staying at 100. It had been 97-99 the up until last night. The last 2 chicks hatched right before day 21. Both of them have open umbilicals. my incubator is running too hot. I packed the area with bacitracin & put them in their own containers but they've escaped. I've given them drops of ACV/Honey water. When can I take them out of the incubator? I rigged it up so it stays at 97. The humidity is still high 60's

 

[bestponymilo]

I'm so glad to hear you "crazy chicken people" acting like my crazy chicken self. I'm joining late in this thread because I JUST found you guys. I had my first experience recently that I'll share. I had two Buff O's go broody at the same time, so I quickly ordered some eggs from BYC that were shipped to me and arrived in 3 days all nicely wrapped. So I moved one broody to a secure pen-like large cage and placed the 12 eggs in a nice nest box inside. By the next morning she still hadn't laid on them but had messed around w them. So I went and got the other broody and she wouldn't lay on them either!! By then, I was super anxious and obsessed. I had just paid for a variety of really cool eggs and these hens were not cooperating. The first broody had already gone back to her normal nest box and was still being broody, so I took the eggs up to her and slipped them under her. I let the other broody go and when she went back to being broody,

I was afraid to move my broody hens, so I just made the cage around the 2 nest boxes they're in. Once the chicks hatch, I'll move them all to the garage into a larger space.

Walked into the coop yesterday morning and caught a whiff of "that smell". An egg under one of the hens broke :-(

Waited until that night, candled the remaining five under her. They all looked fine still so I pulled her out, cleaned the box out, added some fresh hay and popped everyone back in. Hopefully they'll still make it. She's on the one I *really* want to hatch--a super dark green olive egg.

I'm another who doesn't want to have babies once the weather starts getting cold. I do want to try the shipped bantam eggs again...so...dunno yet if this will be my one and only hatch for the year

Down to a dozen, 5 under Miss Accident Waiting to Happen and 7 under the Good Broody. Saturday is hatch day!

 

[Gen9]

Chocolates on lockdown, humidity up to 60%. Still have one more hatch the 30th. Here is pics of my 2 new brooders my hubby made me this weekend, and my chocolates waiting to come meet me! I bought this plastic storage container on wheels, with a lid, at Lowes on clearance. I used the lid to catch debris on the smaller brooder, and the container is under the larger brooder catching debris! I lift one end and it slides right out and over to the sink for cleaning. Look how much debris the lid has collected in less than 24 hrs. But there is 14 silkie chicks in there too. Last pic is my chocolate silkies on lockdown. Come on babies!!!! 7 of 9 made it this far!

Love your setup!

 

[cocopop]

Good Luck! Whatever you do, don't move the incubater. I made that mistake and I think I lost it because it rolled around in the bator. How many days left. Plus when it get close to hatching in the last three days you are going to want to keep tapping on the incubator to see if it moves or chirps. Hold back the urge. I think they do better. The late egg that I didn't pay much attention to is my last and only egg that has a chance for hatching. It the look but don't touch attitude.