FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long, come join in!!

[usschicago1]

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I often raise humidity on Day 17, so they'll be fine!



New baby Delawares in the brooder-still waiting on the last egg to zip.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/348_dscn1033.jpg

Wow, cute speckledhen. Are they in a cardboard box with a viewing window?

 

[speckledhen]

No, Mark, they are in a plywood and hardware wire brooder. The cardboard you see is just a draft guard across the front, which is hardware cloth.

 

[chikincrazee]

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Hey I am sorry more eggs didn't hatch. So you only had 1 out of 5 ameraucanas hatch? I was sure you would get more as we had the same eggs around the same exact day as well from Rockinpaints...I ended up with 6 out of 8 hatch..(and no twins! lol) Mine also came through a terrible snow/ice storm and sat at the PO for the week...

Hi just to clarify...i ended up with 5 live chicks out of 14 eggs but i think the eggs got shook up a lot in the mail as they didnt fire up after their candling and i lost 4 right off the bat as they were clear...the chicks i have are nice looking tho one cant get up so i guess i will have to put the sweet little guy down but the rest are very cute and bossy they rule the roost....cant wait till they grow up to see what they will be....

 

[usschicago1]

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Oh, Very cool

I want to make a permanent brooder so I am always looking for ideas. I want to do wood but I am leaning more towards metal, so that in the rare case of a fire it would be contained.

 

[knjinnm]

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Have you given the chick water? Dip its beak in water maybe it's dehydrated.
Joe

 

[Livinwright Farm]

Peeping!!! I can hear peeping!!!

Only a matter of time... it was officially Day 21 as of 6pm EST... COME ON CHICKIES!!!!!

 

[usschicago1]

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Goodluck

 

[Heckel's Hens]

YEA! New baby chikies!!!!

My friend gave me a silkie egg right out od the nest on saturday and i put it in with my maran eggs already cooking. Now, at 48 hours, it has a tiny baby in there! I can't BELIEVE I can see anything so clealry already!

 

[BobwhiteQuailLover]

I have some buttons due on the 23!

 

[funnybirds]

Congrats everybody on your new little hatchlings! Its exciting business this hatching thing

I went into lockdown at 12:00 today. Have ten little eggs in the Brinsea. All Barnevelders. I wonder how you guys get more to fit. With a sponge and the Accurite, theres bearly any room left. Hats off to you!
Post some more pics you guys! Inspire the rest of us!!!