Chinese New Year Hatch/February 3 2011

[BHep]

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Sorry for your loss...I will remember you and the family on my prayers today at church.

 

[GreenGoddess]

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I'm guilty!!

But, I had a bunch of people talk me into joining the hatch.. They said I could join and just hatch a week early but to me, that wasn't joining so I set 16 more a week later so they would be due to hatch on Feb 3... 2 were clears so I pulled them and the other 14 are going strong... Will be going into lockdown tonight!

Goddess

 

[X2Farm]

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Oh Debi, I'm so sorry

for you and some for your friend

and prayers for yall

 

[GreenGoddess]

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I would have commented earlier but when i was reading the messages, I had read messages about the show/auction and it didn't even dawn on me.. Guess that's what I get for reading messages without drinking a full cup of coffee FIRST!!!

My condolances to all of you....

Goddess

 

[goochgirl]

I'm marking my place here. It's been fun to keep up with everyone's progress, even though I haven't been participating. I've been hatching my own "egg". Just in time for lockdown, I'm finishing the clean out of my basement. I've definitely pulled out a few "bad eggs"! I have the paint ready, and the flooring picked out. I can't say it will be finished by hatch day, but the painting will be done by then! By the time your little chickies are out in the coop, I'll have a finished den and craft room. Not as cute as your fuzzybutts, but the end result will be well worth the effort. And, best of all, I'll be able to participate in another hatch! I'm looking forward to seeing all you cute babies. Good luck with your hatches! Gooch

 

[daisychick]

RareBreedFancier: sorry about your chick.

Debi: Sorry about your friend's husband, I hope they have some peace knowing his suffering is over, but still never easy to lose someone.

Gooch: Getting ready for baby is soooo fun and makes the time go by faster, at least I thought so.

 

[daisychick]

Oooohhhh I almost forgot to do the bunny countdown for today.

We have 4 more days!

 

[HeatherB]

Debi, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend's husband.

That was the first thing I saw getting in here this morning, what a terrible loss. I hope they can find comfort in knowing that while he's no longer with them, he's at peace.

 

[HeatherB]

Wolftracks, congratulations on the marans eggs! And I would love to try and hatch an emu egg... no idea what I'd do with it though. I saw them on eBay and just..

. I mentioned it last night. My husband GLARED at me. I don't think I'll be doing that any time soon. I told him, when I first set up the incubator, he didn't notice it was there for like a month... not like he'd notice I was incubating a monster egg. I wonder what sound the new hatchlings make.. I can't imagine it's a cute, insistent little 'Peep!' ...let's see a hawk try to make off with THAT.

When you candled, did anything look like it was moving along? I saw what you said about the air cells.. I don't think I've ever had one not do that, I thought it was normal. The cell is centered at the small end, but loops down on two opposite sides of the egg. It looks like someone stuck a maxi pad on the inside of the shell.

So what's it actually supposed to look like?

I hope you try again with the Icelandics... this is the second time they've come up clear, right? Any way they can get to you with that egg train and bypass the PO?

Goochgirl, it sounds like you're keeping very busy! I hope everything comes out just perfect

Chances are good once your egg hatches, your chick will be much cuter than our fuzzy butts! ... and it won't feather out , get awkward and sqwacky and grumbly in just 6 weeks

In other news, been a busy couple of days. I started two new classes. Four total left until my master's is done. One of those four is an elective because I'm short on credits, so it'll actually be pretty interesting. But I get to do that one last. Broke the winter lock-in yesterday and went shopping ALL day. Yeah, so I bought Ramen noodles at Walmart, chicken scratch at TSC, and a bucket at Home Depot, but I wasn't stuck in the house staring at the snow, and it was awesome

And for those who were talking earlier about flashlights for candling.. we got some sort of flashlight on sale at Home Depot (because I keep stealing my husband's really expensive one, and I tend to lose it), it's a funky looking little thing, Ryobi brand. It was about $35 for the flashlight, rechargeable battery, and charger.. charger and battery were separate, we had to go back to get them. Wow. I think I blinded a future chick when I candled.. he started kicking up a storm and rolling around in there. And I tried in on a nice, dark marans egg, can see straight through. Worth looking into if you're looking for something!

I went ahead and locked down this morning. I keep seeing different info on the seramas, ranging from they hatch on day 19 to they hatch on day 21... and the one lady I got eggs from sent me a sheet on them that said to lock down on day 16. So today's day 17, I'm locking down just in case. I don't want to mess this up.

If nothing hatches this time, I'm going to have to find someone close enough to drive to and get chicks from.

 

[wolftracks]

OK getting ready to lockdown but I have small aircells and I kept the humidity down, so I need some help here.

Should I set them as is or should I bring the humidity up more? I mean these cells are really small.