August Hatch-A-Long!

[Bantamlover124]

I feel bad that she is alone. If you lived near me I would give you one if my chicks so she had a buddy

Yeah, it was so upset its first night out of the incubator! Loudest chick I had ever heard, it was quiet whenever someone hushed it and stood by it but then it was so loud again! But in the morning it was a quiet little chick, has been ever since! It has a unique personality, it likes to peck at anything you hold and likes to investigate!!!

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

[COLOR=FF0000]1 Hatched!!! I saw it he/she is SOOO cute!!

[/COLOR]

A little more excitement please....LOL. I was that thrilled with my first as well...and second, and third...

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

Yes! I'm a hatcher for life now. Although it can be emotionally draining.

That's how I feel too.

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

So my hen has been raising the chicks in a bush outside by my house. Now that the chicks are hatching should I move her inside the house with them inside a crate? 1 has officially hatched the others are pipping. They are officially due to hatch tomorrow.  The chicks are peeping and that could attract predators. Skunks and feral cats come to my next my house often at night. The feral cats are fine with the grown chickens but I dont know about the chicks. If they came they would come like 5 yards from the nest so... Should I move her inside? I feel bad moving her but I dont want them to get killed. Should I move her?
Thanks so much! (Please reply quik thanks)

I would move them. It's been 56 min since your post so you probably already did it so I'm just adding my two cents.

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

Yeah, it was so upset its first night out of the incubator! Loudest chick I had ever heard, it was quiet whenever someone hushed it and stood by it but then it was so loud again! But in the morning it was a quiet little chick, has been ever since! It has a unique personality, it likes to peck at anything you hold and likes to investigate!!!

Bet your going to spoil it rotten.

 

[sweetappleacres]

The one on the right stands and walks kinda funny.... Should I do something?

 

[Bantamlover124]

Yep! Too late, it has already claimed one of our blue wash cloths as a bed

 

[Bantamlover124]

The one on the right stands and walks kinda funny.... Should I do something?

Maybe you should sling it's leg or something, it looks kind of wierd with it's legs splayed out...

 

[CGinJCMO]

Day 10
I candled my 41 incubator eggs. 4 looked good (these were eggs collected after roosters died - one by my choice, one by illness or something-so I'm looking at them as last chance bonus). I have a few iffy ones, but a lot of "nothing" ones. Since every single d'uccle egg was infertile, I checked the broody d'uccle sitting on 6 more eggs... also infertile. So for the year, I got two d'uccle chicks to add to my sons' flock of 2 hens and 2 polish. Since there was still a broody bantam, I gave her the four good eggs. I'll keep the incubator going on the remaining blue eggs but I'm not holding out much hope - it's more to keep the incubator warm until the eggs with the broody start to hatch in case I need an emergency incubator (if I left the hatching totally up to my first broody, she would have only had 3 instead of 6 chicks because she was ready to leave the nest before all of them were finished hatching). Who knows, I might be pleasantly surprised. There's one egg that i couldn't see in, and two more that I could at least see the air cell but nothing else because they were green-ish instead of blue.
Oh well, I'll look on the bright side...broody can raise the 4 chicks (oops, I'm counting my eggs before they hatch LOL) and if nothing happens to the incubator eggs, I won't have chicks in the house much longer (the 2 1/2 week olds should be able to go outside by the end of September if not before).

CG

 

[Bantamlover124]

Day 10
I candled my 41 incubator eggs.  4 looked good (these were eggs collected after roosters died - one by my choice, one by illness or something-so I'm looking at them as last chance bonus).  I have a few iffy ones, but a lot of "nothing" ones.  Since every single d'uccle egg was infertile, I checked the broody d'uccle sitting on 6 more eggs... also infertile.  So for the year, I got two d'uccle chicks to add to my sons' flock of 2 hens and 2 polish.  Since there was still a broody bantam, I gave her the four good eggs.    I'll keep the incubator going on the remaining blue eggs but I'm not holding out much hope - it's more to keep the incubator warm until the eggs with the broody start to hatch in case I need an emergency incubator (if I left the hatching totally up to my first broody, she would have only had 3 instead of 6 chicks because she was ready to leave the nest before all of them were finished hatching).  Who knows, I might be pleasantly surprised.  There's one egg that i couldn't see in, and two more that I could at least see the air cell but nothing else because they were green-ish instead of blue. 
Oh well, I'll look on the bright side...broody can raise the 4 chicks (oops, I'm counting my eggs before they hatch   LOL) and if nothing happens to the incubator eggs, I won't have chicks in the house much longer (the 2 1/2 week olds should be able to go outside by the end of September if not before).

CG

Good Luck on the 4 eggs, I hope it works out good