First ever banties hatching...

[ninjapoodles]

...and I feel I must report that a newborn NN chick? Is the UGLIEST cute thing I've ever seen!

Day 20, 4 hatched so far: 1 silkie, 2 frizzled cochins, 1 NN/cochin, all bantams from Dipsy Doodle Doo. I followed wheaties' instructions for dry incubation, and have been having a wonderful time of it so far.

100% of my shipped eggs from DDD were alive and kicking on Day 18, so

for a successful hatch!

 

[swtangel321]

CONGRATS on the new babies !!!

And YES they are pretty UGLY

 

[kbbeale]

I actually think that the NN babies are pretty cute. It's when they're older that they're uglier than sin

Where is this "wheaties" article on dry incubation??

 

[BirdBoy88]

Congrats!!

 

[the1much]

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

That's great, Belinda!!! I hope the rest pop on out for you.

The dry incubation described in that article (I don't think it by a wheatie --- by worrell somebody) is what I use here, kind of.

Maybe the NN will grow on you.

Congratulations on the new chicks.

Lisa

 

[swtangel321]

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Its pretty much the same as this, just with the way "he" does it..... https://www.backyardchickens.com/LC-DryIncubation.html

I wil look for the post for you, BRB !!

EDIT : Here yah go.... https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=113681

 

[junebug7334]

what's a NN? oh never mind I just figured it out...............too much wine---not enough dinner!

 

[swtangel321]

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DARN WINE !!!!

 

[ninjapoodles]

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Its pretty much the same as this, just with the way "he" does it..... https://www.backyardchickens.com/LC-DryIncubation.html

I wil look for the post for you, BRB !!

EDIT : Here yah go.... https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=113681

Yeah, that's it. I did it the way that wheaties says she does it, not the way the quoted article says. I kept humidity between 25-35% days 1-18, and then increased it just a little for days 18-21, never letting it get higher than 55%. Compared to doing it "as instructed" on previous hatches, I am having an astronomically higher rate of success.

I don't know what the final tally will be, but out of 18 eggs (14 of which I KNOW were alive and well on Day 18, and 4 of which I couldn't candle through), so far 8 chicks have already hatched, two more are pipped, and I can hear pecking from inside at least one frizzle egg. TOMORROW is Day 21!

And the sad news: My heat lamp slipped down and overheated my first two hatchlings, a gorgeous frizzled cochin and a silkie. My own stupid fault that I lost them.