Halloween Hatch Along - Setting Oct. 10th

[TinaK]

Oh no

I lost chick #2 - the one with the bent toes. It passed away tonight. It seemed so much happier today and then seemed to be going downhill. Now the endless peeping from my only survivor is going to send me crazy! It has stuffed toy & mirror in the brooder now....

that my broody has some hatch in 4 days time!!!!

 

[cluck-cluck]

OH gosh, I'm so sorry, poor little adorable thing! I had a singleton for 2 days, and can't imagine 4! I hope they start hatching early! I did the same thing with a mirror and fuzzy toy, poor guy stared at himself all day long, I couldn't help but think of Harry Potter and the Mirror of Erised, so I named him Harry. Watch him turn out to be a girl

The picture is really bitter sweet. Wish the little one had made it They were both adorable!

 

[TinaK]

I'm just going through some bad hatching/chicken luck at the moment! They do say that bad luck comes in 3s!

Firstly, my broody who was due in 4 days was off her nest when I checked... she had escaped her cage and is roosting up in the roof with all the other birds!!

Her eggs were cold too. I candled them and 3 out of the 4 were no good! The one that was good... is probably dead as I can't see any movement. I will stick it in the incubator (which is on as I will be setting eggs tomorrow) and see what it looks like tomorrow.
Wonder why she hopped off the nest? Maybe she just knew that they had gone bad?

Second, I found ANOTHER one of my isa brown laying hens dead! They just keep dying but none of my other chooks die! (I think they are old hens... I got them as ex-layers from an egg farm).

so if you add those to the death of my chick.... I'd say I have had my three stroke of bad luck! .... but then there was my BAD hatch in general (started with 17 eggs..... 2 hatched, 1 had died since hatch - leaves me 1 out of 17!!!)

Oh well. Depending on how many eggs I set.... I could have another 85 chances in the incubator tomorrow!

plus the 17 or so under my other broody! Based on my strike rate so far... I need only 7 out of 106 chicks set to survive and then I'll be doing better than my last hatch!

and on a better note (one of my mottos is always end on a good note!!)...

my lonesome little chick is doing sooo great! Such a good little chick. Doesn't peep all day and night. It is doing so well considering it is all alone!

Hope everyone else is having better luck than me!

 

[cluck-cluck]

I'm glad the little one is doing alright. I hope all the bad luck is behind you now! So sad about your hen, so sorry!