August Hatch-A-Long!

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sweetappleacres said:
The one on the right stands and walks kinda funny.... Should I do something?
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Yes, it has spraddle leg...it needs fixing. Go here:

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/02/spraddle-leg-in-baby-chicks-what-is-it.html

Kathy gives easy to understand instructions with lots of pics. You need to do this pretty soon too.
 
Well, I don't have much experience but for about a week maybe, I would reccomend watching the video that BY Chicken Lady sent you, probably more useful and accurate.
 
CGinJCMO said:
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).

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Fingers crossed you get a few babies from the rooster.
 

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