Great pics, food killa! Cute little chicks. I have 3 eggs in my hatcher now but don't have high hopes...much as you didn't until you actually heard yours singing...
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So cute!!! Glad they are hatching for you!!! Mine are due in three days!
LOVE your thread!
LOVE your thread!
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Thats great i hope you have a good hatch, lol, i am not used to this incubation wishes it feels like saying wishes to a pregnant woman that is about to give birth. The base is the same right? birth, so i am not completely wrong
Also my wife calls me the name of the doctor we had when we had our baby
I think i might post more pictures later on, hopefully this time the third chick will be in the photos.
Everything in my incubator looks the same, the isolated strong chick looks great. The weak one is trying to stand on both legs, the leg looks MUCH better today, it uses the chicken wire and its beak to try to practice "lets stand up somehow, on those legs" BUT it still has guts there, dryer but look very bad, even worse than yesterday, i hope that this is something that will fall off and not the actual guts, because i was reading somewhere that undeveloped chicks die and have their guts out while in the egg OR SOMETHING. The third egg that hatches(bakers!!!!) looks ok, still inside the egg, half of the egg shell is gone with my help and you can see it from some membrane holes getting ready to get out. I really wanted that chick! If everything goes well i will have a cross from my huge rooster and my huge hen, that creature will look like an elephant. For the other chicks i wish they get well and grow up to show genes from the rooster and lay white eggs! I only have brown eggs isnt that sad (it isnt really)
If i have 3 new roosters i will propably.....EAT THEM, if i ever get to kill a chicken, if i cant, i will buy 30 hens and that will solve the problem, hehe
Where is that coffee????????????????
Also my wife calls me the name of the doctor we had when we had our baby
I think i might post more pictures later on, hopefully this time the third chick will be in the photos.
Everything in my incubator looks the same, the isolated strong chick looks great. The weak one is trying to stand on both legs, the leg looks MUCH better today, it uses the chicken wire and its beak to try to practice "lets stand up somehow, on those legs" BUT it still has guts there, dryer but look very bad, even worse than yesterday, i hope that this is something that will fall off and not the actual guts, because i was reading somewhere that undeveloped chicks die and have their guts out while in the egg OR SOMETHING. The third egg that hatches(bakers!!!!) looks ok, still inside the egg, half of the egg shell is gone with my help and you can see it from some membrane holes getting ready to get out. I really wanted that chick! If everything goes well i will have a cross from my huge rooster and my huge hen, that creature will look like an elephant. For the other chicks i wish they get well and grow up to show genes from the rooster and lay white eggs! I only have brown eggs isnt that sad (it isnt really)
If i have 3 new roosters i will propably.....EAT THEM, if i ever get to kill a chicken, if i cant, i will buy 30 hens and that will solve the problem, hehe
Where is that coffee????????????????
You never cease to brighten my morning! Yes, wishing on unhatched eggs is very much like wishing on a pregnant belly...nothing wrong with that, lol.
2 of my eggs seem to be moving around, so hope is not lost for me. And I think buying 30 hens for 3 roosters is a fabulous idea...
2 of my eggs seem to be moving around, so hope is not lost for me. And I think buying 30 hens for 3 roosters is a fabulous idea...
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The second chick is dead. RIP.
I helped the third chick out of the dry egg, i THINK it was stuck, it has been about 24 days since i placed that egg in the incubator. The eyes are closed, its still laying there wet and doing some spasms every now and then, my back hurts from standing there staring in the brooder box all day, alone, the strong chick is trying to fly.
I hope that third chick stands up and open her eyes too, because the strong chick does not deserve to be isolated and needs more space fast.
I am not going to that mother-in-law trip, i prefer to stay home, the trip was canceled because of bad weather and my wife is going tomorrow. I am staying home to take care of the chicks and the others.
I helped the third chick out of the dry egg, i THINK it was stuck, it has been about 24 days since i placed that egg in the incubator. The eyes are closed, its still laying there wet and doing some spasms every now and then, my back hurts from standing there staring in the brooder box all day, alone, the strong chick is trying to fly.
I hope that third chick stands up and open her eyes too, because the strong chick does not deserve to be isolated and needs more space fast.
I am not going to that mother-in-law trip, i prefer to stay home, the trip was canceled because of bad weather and my wife is going tomorrow. I am staying home to take care of the chicks and the others.
I'm so sorry you lost your second chick. Stay hopeful about the third one and I hope it survives okay. Either way, you do have the first chick that seems to be doing well.
They grow up so fast. Take lots of pics!
They grow up so fast. Take lots of pics!
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Well, at the very least you can feel greatly encouraged by being able to incubate all three eggs successfully. That's very good work! It sounds like number one is very healthy. I hope number three makes it so there are two to be together. Good luck.
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Well, at the very least you can feel greatly encouraged by being able to incubate all three eggs successfully. That's very good work! It sounds like number one is very healthy. I hope number three makes it so there are two to be together. Good luck.
I'm sorry...it's never easy to lose little ones, I've been there. I had 3 eggs in the incubator ready to hatch but they were getting late so I float tested the three yesterday and found that 2 were wiggling but I'm pretty sure number 3 is dead. Sure enough, this morning two were pipped and now this evening, one hatched and the last one is not doing anything but peeping...glad to have one alive but hopeful for two at least!
On another note, candled some eggs that are on day 11 in a homemade incubator and found that their air cells are MUCH too big! I've been dry incubating and it's worked till now but I didn't take into account that using a homemade incubator (to this point they have all been store bought incubators) with a lightbulb will dry the eggs drastically! I moved all the eggs out and to my regular incubator but who knows if the moisture can be replaced...
Oh well, I'll cross my fingers for you and you do the same for me! Please keep updating us: I have only ever subscribed to one thread on here and that's yours...it is very fun to read!
On another note, candled some eggs that are on day 11 in a homemade incubator and found that their air cells are MUCH too big! I've been dry incubating and it's worked till now but I didn't take into account that using a homemade incubator (to this point they have all been store bought incubators) with a lightbulb will dry the eggs drastically! I moved all the eggs out and to my regular incubator but who knows if the moisture can be replaced...
Oh well, I'll cross my fingers for you and you do the same for me! Please keep updating us: I have only ever subscribed to one thread on here and that's yours...it is very fun to read!
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Its ok really, at the end i feel happy for the chicks death, it suffered and i think was not meant to be born, not even a single moment it wasnt normal in this life so after i stopped trying to save its leg and just let it die, i was checking very often how are things, the best part was when it did actually manage to stand on one leg and use the other as a stand to be able to stand up, i was happy about this but... the guts there were getting worse. Then at some point when i looked, it was laying there, this time with both legs pointing at the back...not breathing...and moved the little wings slowly... the little chick was dying(was dead), i did nothing about it just looked over the glass (didnt even open the glass) and i can reassure you that this little bird is now an angel and has learn to walk and fly and will always be around its little sister to assist her when she cries for help. Who knows next times those little souls hatch together, maybe they both make it and be the best friends in the flock.
Now the third chick, hair are dried, resting, 1 eye is working, but seems to be able to see from both, just wont open it, not standing yet neither trying that hard... hasnt had any water or food, stopped drinking water drops from my finger like it did when still in the egg. I am not very excited about its future...
Hey, how many miracles does it take to deserve a normal life on this evil earth? Those chicks hatched under so bad conditions and i thought they would love being finally out of the dry eggs and never look back, i helped them and i find out that one miracle was not enough for the second chick and the third looks doomed. Why didnt they just die on days 1-15 in the incubator when the temperatures was 103-105. To give me hope? For what? I dont feel sorry i feel angry. I want to speak with the manager, of miracles. I am trying not to think about it more than i should.
Its not fair for the first, strong chick. Isolated in very small space like jail that cant really walk around for being too healthy to be with the crippled one that has double space to cripple around and knock the walls with its head until hopefully it decides its time to learn and practice standing OR die....
I finally dropped the temperature of the incubator a little, from 37.5 to 37.0, hope the first chick will appreciate that at least. No more egg shells around to talk about
I had a weird dream today, groups of 3 eggs were incubating with no incubators all around everywhere and hatching tiny, undeveloped chicken embryos that moved, they were so many and that place was so weird, if i was younger i would still be crying and would never mess with eggs again. Maybe the dead chick sent me this dream from above, so i stop "helping them out" and be careful with my incubating process in the future so they can hatch by themselfs.
BigDaddy'sGurl i wonder if the second egg hatched, did you discard the third egg or just let it there just incase. How is the little survivor
Now the third chick, hair are dried, resting, 1 eye is working, but seems to be able to see from both, just wont open it, not standing yet neither trying that hard... hasnt had any water or food, stopped drinking water drops from my finger like it did when still in the egg. I am not very excited about its future...
Hey, how many miracles does it take to deserve a normal life on this evil earth? Those chicks hatched under so bad conditions and i thought they would love being finally out of the dry eggs and never look back, i helped them and i find out that one miracle was not enough for the second chick and the third looks doomed. Why didnt they just die on days 1-15 in the incubator when the temperatures was 103-105. To give me hope? For what? I dont feel sorry i feel angry. I want to speak with the manager, of miracles. I am trying not to think about it more than i should.
Its not fair for the first, strong chick. Isolated in very small space like jail that cant really walk around for being too healthy to be with the crippled one that has double space to cripple around and knock the walls with its head until hopefully it decides its time to learn and practice standing OR die....
I finally dropped the temperature of the incubator a little, from 37.5 to 37.0, hope the first chick will appreciate that at least. No more egg shells around to talk about
I had a weird dream today, groups of 3 eggs were incubating with no incubators all around everywhere and hatching tiny, undeveloped chicken embryos that moved, they were so many and that place was so weird, if i was younger i would still be crying and would never mess with eggs again. Maybe the dead chick sent me this dream from above, so i stop "helping them out" and be careful with my incubating process in the future so they can hatch by themselfs.
I am sorry for your loss! You are right, the chick is better off if it was so frail. Death is hard, especially when it is a life so little.
My 3 eggs have produced two seemingly healthy chicks. The last egg is a dud, I'm pretty sure.
Here is a pic of both in the brooder:
Don't give up on incubating! Early problems lead to long term solutions in incubating! Have a good Sunday.
My 3 eggs have produced two seemingly healthy chicks. The last egg is a dud, I'm pretty sure.
Here is a pic of both in the brooder:
Don't give up on incubating! Early problems lead to long term solutions in incubating! Have a good Sunday.
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