day 18 for suedes babies and the ameraucanas!

[aran]

hey barb...have to wait til i get home at 730pm tonight from work and see if my daughter remembered to bring the camera home from school.

 

[SisterFlash]

Ok well it sounds like you have a good excuse.

Barb

 

[aran]

holy cow the lil silver ameraucana is so cute its ridiculous. Its not grey...it really does look silver! I cant wait to get home and see what else has hatched. I will put all the babies that are dried off in the brooder with the 1 week old mutt survivors out of our own eggs.

 

[aran]

ok so im home from work after 13.5hrs in the ICU...come home to find 8 fuzzy chicks which I have put into the brooder to eat/drink and 2 more eggs pipped. THe guy that was 1/2 zipped was TOTALLY glued into his shell...i dug him out and he is breathing and moving around but the membranes were glued to him...his wings are stuck to his body, his neck was stuck to his chest, legs stuck together...he was a gonna if I hadnt hatched him manually..I bathed him/her in warm water with a cotton bud and got his/her neck and legs and wings freed up ...its still all sticky but looking better. I also hatched out another blue orp..didnt want to go to bed and wake up to find it dead in the shell...the hatcher is obviously not holding the humidity as high as I woud like.


So I think we may be done but maybe another late one in the morning perhaps...total so far:
17 eggs arrived intact
14 developed until the end
10 have hatched into live chicks so far...that is darn GOOD if you ask me for shipped eggs...kudos Cynthia!

 

[speckledhen]

You're welcome, Aran. You did a great job incubating the little ones so my hat's off to you, too! Excellent work!

I just put one each of Charlotte's and Silver's eggs in the hatcher tonight and then when they're due to hatch, I have six more of theirs plus two Blue Orps going into the hatcher. I have another batch of three in the Hova due Dec 2 as well. Golly, I went from "not going to hatch till spring" to "hatching all winter long", LOL. But you see what I'm up against when you look at those precious babies, right?