August Hatch-A-Long

[Brie6895]

I am sorry you lost your chick...     

I understand the discouragement!    For my first hatch I followed the directions I found online and after 28 days, none of my duck eggs hatched.  It was tragic at the time.  It is hard when the learning curve takes tiny little lives,  but I really believe that we are brave for trying!

I find that with each hatch I learn so much... so if you try again sometime, you'll already have this experience to make your next hatches better and better.

Enjoy your two chicks... I can't wait to see them!   


Also... I bury my eggs and chicks that don't make it,  it just feels right to me.  I wrap them in a paper towel until I am able to take them outside.

Thank you so much for this post! This made me feel so much better about the whole situation you have no idea how much comfort that short paragraph just gave me.

I am taking your advice and going to wrap and burry them. Next to my other chicks that died about a year ago. They were sick shortly after I got them and never grew

So thanks again so much for your kind words. I would like to hatch some more,but I think I am going to start in the middle of September and be extra prepared. I will probably go ahead a buy a nicer bator and try a smaller clutch next time .

My fiancé says he is going to try and hatch his own out of a home made incubator so we shall see.

I will for sure post pictures!!

 

[darkbluespace]

Thank you so much for this post! This made me feel so much better about the whole situation

you have no idea how much comfort that short paragraph just gave me.

I am taking your advice and going to wrap and burry them. Next to my other chicks that died about a year ago. They were sick shortly after I got them and never grew

So thanks again so much for your kind words. I would like to hatch some more,but I think I am going to start in the middle of September and be extra prepared. I will probably go ahead a buy a nicer bator and try a smaller clutch next time .

My fiancé says he is going to try and hatch his own out of a home made incubator so we shall see.

I will for sure post pictures!!

I am glad it helped...

I was surprised at how quickly I recovered after loosing my first ducks... I had this strong feeling that the love I had for them didn't die just because my ducks didn't make it. It was like something beautiful was created and lived on even though they didn't hatch (a couple tried to but were too big to maneuver )

It only took me another week to find local duck eggs and someone gave me peafowl eggs and I hatched 10 of them the next time. Those ducks are out back on my patio right now playing in the water after their first big rain!

 

[Brie6895]

I am glad it helped...

I was surprised at how quickly I recovered after loosing my first ducks... I had this strong feeling that the love I had for them didn't die just because my ducks didn't make it.  It was like something beautiful was created and lived on even though they didn't hatch (a couple tried to but were too big to maneuver )

It only took me another week to find local duck eggs and someone gave me peafowl eggs and I hatched 10 of them the next time.  Those ducks are out back on my patio right now playing in the water after their first big rain!

Aww that is wonderful. I would kill to have ducks but my fiancé just won't agree to it, he thinks chickens are enough. But he doesn't understand I want to be a duck mom too


Here they are!
This is penny (that's the name I wrote on the shell before she was born) not sure if ill keep it thought is as thinking of calling them ebony and ivory or something cute since they are the two survivors.

This is the little guy I helped I am calling him MC for now. stands for miracle chick

 

[darkbluespace]

Super cute babies!!! So fluffy

I forgot what kind of chicks they are...?

He might be right about the ducks... they are a scene!

Super messy... super poopy... but still adorable! My Muscovy duck is laying eggs again... I can't take them or she'll go hide a nest somewhere. She is the one that started this whole hatching craze. I got eggs to put under her but she freaked out and got off her nest... she had already been sitting for a long time. I might try again and get a few eggs for her to hatch... I can't help it... she wants to be a mama so badly!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Super, SUPER cute chicks Brie! Congrats!!!

 

[kada6305]

Super cute babies! Tonight have offically began day 23 and n signs, I am hoping we wake up tomorrow to some pips

 

[kada6305]

So we had a pip tonight, been a few hours...but now there is an odd smell, sorta like a fishy smell...did the chick die in the shell? Should I take it out? It is officially day 23.

 

[darkbluespace]

So we had a pip tonight, been a few hours...but now there is an odd smell, sorta like a fishy smell...did the chick die in the shell? Should I take it out? It is officially day 23.

I don't think a chick that died would start to smell that quickly... it might be a different egg. I would definitely want to give the pipped egg a chance to hatch if possible. Of course, if you could figure out which egg is the stinker it would be good to remove it, but it is hard to say how urgent that is.

 

[jaymeellis06]

. First chick from my second batched hatched last night at day 20! He/she is a Blue Andalusian. The rest of my eggs are due tomorrow and Tuesday.

 

[kada6305]

I don't think a chick that died would start to smell that quickly... it might be a different egg. I would definitely want to give the pipped egg a chance to hatch if possible. Of course, if you could figure out which egg is the stinker it would be good to remove it, but it is hard to say how urgent that is.

Yeah, I want to give it a chance to hatch. I don't want to remove the lid until it is out. The smell isn't that bad I didn't notice it until I was real close to the incubator checking on the eggs. I figure I'll give the other eggs until day 26 before I do anything.