Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Pastel the Rooster]

I'm in love! Splotches chick has made a pip! I looked at the eggs, and I saw its beak and a little bit of black chick fluff I hope I have a chick by morning! Haha, @Ponypoor, I wish I were more patient but this brain has been worrying nonstop. I hardly got any sleep last night worrying about BBQ, and the chicks.
BBQ is getting a foot bath right now. Here is a picture of her foot that I just took.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Here is the egg.
Ack, my voice is so high on video. It sounds so weird!

 

[Ponypoor]

I'm in love! Splotches chick has made a pip! I looked at the eggs, and I saw its beak and a little bit of black chick fluff I hope I have a chick by morning! Haha, @Ponypoor, I wish I were more patient but this brain has been worrying nonstop. I hardly got any sleep last night worrying about BBQ, and the chicks.
BBQ is getting a foot bath right now. Here is a picture of her foot that I just took.

Be careful, the ring looks like it’s putting pressure on the foot making reddened areas.

It’s looking great though, keep up the awesome work

Yes by morning you should have a chick, maybe a couple if lucky!

 

[LhickenChicken]

Here is the egg.
Ack, my voice is so high on video. It sounds so weird!

I've got babies here too. Tomatilla the broody hatched one black cockerel this morning. I lifted Tomatilla up like I usually do to check the number of eggs under her to make sure none of them have been eaten or pooped on. There was a little black peeper. A close inspection of the comb told me it was a boy. I have another pip.

Only one thing went wrong with the whole incubation. That thing is called:
STUPID BANANITO
She went up there yesterday, shooed Tomatilla off her nest by a series of extremely hard pecks (Tomatilla is a very gentle, docile, hen) and ate Knokalina's egg with a developing chick inside, and ate the chick. Not fair. Had I known yesterday, I would have had roast Bananito for supper, I was so angry.

Anyway that pipped chick will most likely hatch tonight or tomorrow morning. So excited!

 

[LhickenChicken]

I've got babies here too. Tomatilla the broody hatched one black cockerel this morning. I lifted Tomatilla up like I usually do to check the number of eggs under her to make sure none of them have been eaten or pooped on. There was a little black peeper. A close inspection of the comb told me it was a boy. I have another pip.

Only one thing went wrong with the whole incubation. That thing is called:
STUPID BANANITO
She went up there yesterday, shooed Tomatilla off her nest by a series of extremely hard pecks (Tomatilla is a very gentle, docile, hen) and ate Knokalina's egg with a developing chick inside, and ate the chick. Not fair. Had I known yesterday, I would have had roast Bananito for supper, I was so angry.

Anyway that pipped chick will most likely hatch tonight or tomorrow morning. So excited!

BTW Bananito ate the egg as they were going into lockdown.

 

[Ponypoor]

Here is the egg.
Ack, my voice is so high on video. It sounds so weird!

Congratulations but try not to handle those eggs while they are pipping.

And cannot wait to see what hatches

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Congratulations but try not to handle those eggs while they are pipping.

And cannot wait to see what hatches

I just wanted to show you guys! I'm so eggcited!
When I was hatching my guineas last summer, I was very careful not to hold the pipped eggs unless needed.
I'm so eggcited! I really hope that Willow does okay during the hatching process...
I really hope that I get more pips soon, but I'm not going to count on it because it's a scattered hatch. It would be nice for them to be a few days from each other.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

I just wanted to show you guys! I'm so eggcited!
When I was hatching my guineas last summer, I was very careful not to hold the pipped eggs unless needed.
I'm so eggcited! I really hope that Willow does okay during the hatching process...
I really hope that I get more pips soon, but I'm not going to count on it because it's a scattered hatch. It would be nice for them to be a few days from each other.

I just realised that I repeated a lot of stuff.... just shows how eggcited I am!!

 

[Ponypoor]

I just wanted to show you guys! I'm so eggcited!
When I was hatching my guineas last summer, I was very careful not to hold the pipped eggs unless needed.
I'm so eggcited! I really hope that Willow does okay during the hatching process...
I really hope that I get more pips soon, but I'm not going to count on it because it's a scattered hatch. It would be nice for them to be a few days from each other.

No you don’t want them scattered by a few days, the hen needs to take the chicks off the nest for food and water so she will abandon any eggs not hatched.

Hopefully during the night more pip

 

[Ponypoor]

I just realised that I repeated a lot of stuff.... just shows how eggcited I am!!

Sit on your hands, let things happen, hens knows more about what to do than we do!

Tomorrow if no more pips you can candle them again.

Good luck