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[Cynthia12]

They are just adorable. I am wanting some showgirls so bad. I have got to find me some hatchling eggs. Soon

Too cute for their own good as I like to say about those cute chikies!

 

[Little Wing]

Thanks! They are all doing fine. It was a whole intack yolk. Had to be a double yolker.

 

[Cynthia12]

I put 10 in lockdown today too

Good luck! I go into lock down with some OE's on Sat..on Sun. EE's. Man, this last week is hard to wait for isn't it?

 

[PugBug]

Wobble is now standing & can walk if paying attention!!!!! I redid the wrappings late last night - I have snugly wrapped the joints in place & continued w/ the spraddle leg approach of having the band aid hold the legs closer together. So far so good & improving. I have lots of patience so I am going a treatment & pt route w/ both Wobble & Krip(my other joint issue chick, have now gotten her/he off of walking on the joint)

I also have been dipping Wobble's beak in the water & food thru out the day just encase it's not doing it on it's own. Now I am just hoping they are both ladies so they can spend lots of time in the house!


Maahbeaker coldupnorth - Thank you both for the info - I'm going to check out that page now!

Glad she is doing better. I just saw your other post w/ the pic, and they are right - it's not spraddle leg like my chick had. However if the bandaid treatment is helping, unless you find something better, I'm glad it's helping.

 

[Cynthia12]

I use the dry hatch method to incubate. I only add water when the humidity drops between 25-30% so I think you will be okay. At lockdown I up the humidity to the low 60's and then when I see the first pip I up it to mid-high 60's.

I do the same!

 

[Cynthia12]

Yay, a pip! The chirping may encourage the others to pip too!

Good luck banty! Nice pip, won't be long.

 

[Cynthia12]

Well the surviving eggs from the incubator incident (bulb burned out temp down to 74*, cold eggs) hatched a day or so late. Of the 17 in there 10 hatched. Of mrheinz eggs - I got 1 OE (another pipped, started to zip but died), 2 RC RIR, 2 Speckled Sussex, 1 Bjarther Icelandic (in a different incubator however), and 1 bantam Langshan. None of the Ameraucanas or Welsummers even pipped (4 eggs total). Of my own eggs, I hatched 3 EE/OEs and my 1st Icelandic from my flock (3 of my EEs didnt pip)


mrheinz' bjarthur Icelandic, 2 RIR, 1 OE (black in front), 1 bantam Langshan (black in back) and 2 Speckled Sussex (1 chipmunk, 1 light)

The 2 Speckled Sussex

2 Icelandics (dark one is bjarthurs and chipmunk is our own)

Our 3 EE/OE and 1 Icelandic - 2 of the EE/OE look like they will be rumpless (hens covered by a splash rumpless Araucana)

I am so happy that I got anything out of those eggs, I didn't think they would make it.

Purty darn cute!

 

[Debs55]

Hey guys I just candled my day 14 barred rock eggs but I wasn't sure what I was looking for exactly. In all four I could see dark masses which I assume are the chicks and good air cells in the wider part of the egg. In one I could see lots of veining but in the others I couldn't. Which one is good or bad? Or could my poor light be the reason I didn't see any?

 

[azqhcowgirl]

On Feb. 13th, I was able to get 40 eggs in my incubator! My very first hatch!! The eggs are Easter Eggers, Olive Eggers and Ameracauna/Andie(black and splash). I get to candle then tomorrow and I am so anxious for my babies to get here. This whole patience thing is killing me. LOL

 

[PugBug]

::Krip & Wobble update::
The light one is a reg sized chick, hatch mate of Krip, from Jan hatch. Krip my black & white & little Wobble. Krip has her joint pad off for a while for some breathing time. Wobble is continuing w/ her walking & started drinking & nibbling food on her own!






As you can see here - Krip's foot is kind of twisted & Wobble standing nice & tall! I have high hopes for these 2 w/ their progress so far.

Talk about tugging the ol heart strings!

Keep us posted on thier progress!