First Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon- Join us! Set Day: Easter

[debs_flock]

Do you know if any are "cart" trained? I would love to have a cart trained Icelandic Horse. We live in a large Amish area, so all the stores are setup for cart and buggy parking. On nice spring and fall days those little open carts look fun.

I take that road fairly often and they have a ranch name billboard at both corners. I'll pay attention to the name of the ranch the next time I drive by. I'm sure they must have a website, it looks like a fairly large operation. There's always at least a half dozen horses out in the front fields. They look like a very large, stocky ponyish horse.

Deb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Congrats on all the babies!

We need pictures!

 

[dsqard]

Good morning hatchers! Sounds like the people who set later are having some better results. My turkey tutors are finally putting in an appearance. I have three chicks out and one starting to zip. They are late but at least they are hatching. My wry necked poult is not doing too good. I have to go to the dentist today for a cleaning and will probably pick up some starter fluid on the way home. I tried all day yesterday to work with the poor thing but nothing is helping. SCG I will post some pics later today I promise. I want to get them with the chicks and two of them are still wet from hatching. I so love how the poults run up to your hand when you put it in the brooder.

 

[dsqard]

Fourth chick just hatched. I have one more chicken egg in there. Not sure if it will hatch. If it hasn't hatched by the time I get home, I will candle it one more time and see if it quit or not. Looks like three black chicks and one lavender. Hopefully the lavender is a girl because I am pretty sure that the one I kept back from the Easter hatch is a boy.

 

[njduck]

I have 3 hatched and and the res working on getting out. they sure do go from pip to out in a hurry

 

[NotAFarm]

I have 3 hatched and and the res working on getting out. they sure do go from pip to out in a hurry

I noticed this with the three of mine that got out on their own. Very quick to get out once there was a pip. I wonder why chickens take longer to pip, zip and hatch?

 

[mlm Mike]

I noticed this with the three of mine that got out on their own. Very quick to get out once there was a pip. I wonder why chickens take longer to pip, zip and hatch?

Mine aren't. Last night I had 3 that were pipped, this morning only one more out, total two poults so far. This is the just like my Easter Hatch, one at a time.

 

[Wisher1000]

I have chicks......Yes, with an 's'! Well, it's just two...... but I hatched them! MY VERY FIRST! One is from my friend's Wellsummers (or BCM's not sure which) and the other is from one of my favorite chickens' eggs (she is a little SLW/Campine mix.) I still have a bunch in the bator, I'm going to leave them a while, just in case. I still have 20 under a broody, due tomorrow, and I had another hen go broody on Friday and yesterday I gave her 25 guinea eggs! You can't imagine how excited I am over those two chicks, I love the sound of them chirping in the other room and suspect these will stay inside in the brooder WAY longer than necessary and will be quite spoiled! Woot!
I candled to see if I could toss any last night (ready to give up) and pulled five before I got to one with movement. I put it back and noticed a pip. It was 11:00pm and I went to bed. When I woke up at 5:45am, I heard chirping and nearly didn't make it to the bathroom! LOL! I guess it is a BCM since it has feathers on it's shanks, Wellies aren't featherlegged, are they? It ran to my hand when I pulled them out. The humidity was so high that they weren't drying so I put them under a light.

 

[Arielle]

Thought I'd grab the last 2 out before I leave and there's 3 and more pips. NOW I remember how a hatch is supposed to go! Wish the turkeys were doing something though.

Caught up with all the posts, so hopefully it will be easier to keep up later. Yeah right!

I know you have been working so hard at hatching this year!! Congrats!!

I have chicks......Yes, with an 's'! Well, it's just two...... but I hatched them! MY VERY FIRST! One is from my friend's Wellsummers (or BCM's not sure which) and the other is from one of my favorite chickens' eggs (she is a little SLW/Campine mix.) I still have a bunch in the bator, I'm going to leave them a while, just in case. I still have 20 under a broody, due tomorrow, and I had another hen go broody on Friday and yesterday I gave her 25 guinea eggs! You can't imagine how excited I am over those two chicks, I love the sound of them chirping in the other room and suspect these will stay inside in the brooder WAY longer than necessary and will be quite spoiled! Woot!
I candled to see if I could toss any last night (ready to give up) and pulled five before I got to one with movement. I put it back and noticed a pip. It was 11:00pm and I went to bed. When I woke up at 5:45am, I heard chirping and nearly didn't make it to the bathroom! LOL! I guess it is a BCM since it has feathers on it's shanks, Wellies aren't featherlegged, are they? It ran to my hand when I pulled them out. The humidity was so high that they weren't drying so I put them under a light.

You did it!!

 

[dsqard]

I have chicks......Yes, with an 's'! Well, it's just two...... but I hatched them! MY VERY FIRST!

Wisher this is WICKED AWESOME NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This morning when I was trying to wake up and drink my coffee and keep an eye on my tutors that were finally hatching I was going to ask you if you had candled your eggs again and to caution you that they might just be hatching late since mine are hatching late. I am so SUPER HAPPY for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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