Hands on hatching and help

[Ravynscroft]

As promised, duckling pictures!

And my little NN. She has the strangest little tufts of fluff right under her ears, tiny little black tufts. You can just see one of them in this picture.

Adorable little 'lings!!!

Congratulations!!!!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Just got home from Cody and I have 2 pips! One is fine - right where I marked the "x" but the other is pipped in the pointy end of the egg.....PANIC

Yay!!!!

On the malpositioned pipper. Keep us updated. I wil checking to see what you get!!!

As promised, duckling pictures!





And my little NN. She has the strangest little tufts of fluff right under her ears, tiny little black tufts. You can just see one of them in this picture.

Adorable!

 

[2crazyflockers]

As promised, duckling pictures!

And my little NN. She has the strangest little tufts of fluff right under her ears, tiny little black tufts. You can just see one of them in this picture.

so cute! I love how the nn is striking a pose!!

 

[slordaz]

Them sure are cute pyxis can't upload the pics of the ones I have at the house cause can't find the cable lol

 

[RubyNala97]

Thanks for the encouragement, everyone.  I'll keep 'em in the Brinsea, but I think I'll keep the FI going anyway.  If it looks like it's getting too rough in there, I can transfer the chicks to it and let them finish drying off without knocking everything else in the Brinsea to kingdom come.

Humidity hasn't been a big problem in the Brinsea so far.  It rises and falls a bit, but there aren't any drastic swings.  I calibrated the hygro using the salt/water/baggie method, and this one was easy to adjust to get it where it should be reading after several hours in the bag.  Thermometers are a whole 'nuther ball game.  Not one of them reads exactly the same.  I've come to the conclusion that digital wireless thermometers that also show tenths of a degree just can't be calibrated accuritely.  I drowned one transmitter because I forgot to put it in the Ziplock bag which was laying right next to the ice water.  Did the other ones and they were all a full degree off, or more.  

So if I ever do this incubating thing again, I won't do it until I find the  perfect glass bulb thermometer.  I'm a woman on a quest!!  In the meantime, I have no clue what's happening inside those eggs right now.  Hatch day isn't technically until tomorrow, so patience, Grasshoppah.  

This is the glass one I love and have been going crazy because it's been missing all week. I checked it and it is always dead on accurate.
http://www.amazon.com/Instrument-Li...Accuracy/dp/B00551NPQ0/ref=zg_bs_393283011_16

Just got home from Cody and I have 2 pips!  One is fine - right where I marked the "x" but the other is pipped in the pointy end of the egg.....PANIC

Yay!!! Don't panic...most times when I get wrong end pippers they get out on their own. Especially if they make a good sized pip. If not, we got you covered. I'll pm my cell # (if you text message and I'm not around on BYC you can get me).

My flock apparently didn't read the chicken rules about anything, trying to get some eggs to eat and sell and seems only got 1-3 laying outta 17 lol cause everyone wants to sit on eggs

Tell me about it. I've got 4 broodys.

As promised, duckling pictures!

And my little NN. She has the strangest little tufts of fluff right under her ears, tiny little black tufts. You can just see one of them in this picture.

Such a cute ducky!!!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Ugh, really out of it...

Anyways, got eggs from Ruby today... awesomely amazing packing, very rough PO trip...

Keeping some of them hatch...

 

[WVduckchick]

Gotta love the teen stage, lol... plus, as a loner he will be a lot more stubborn... and spoiled means he'll think he can always get his way, lol...
WV, it was just discussed on the sex linked color thread... using blue with barred *might* cause indistinct head spots... but... if Katherine is for sure the mom, then all of her boys will feather out barred, and all her girls will not be barred... you just might have to wait to see some feathers first to make sure, but that will stay true...

So it could be blue barred boy, just not such an obvious white head spot. Ok, thank you!

gl blooie

I'm getting ready to put eggs down on the mesh in the incubator saturday is day 15, a bit worried did a candle the other day and one of the ameracuanas eggs looks to be twins, didn't see a double yolk though when I sat them.

You might be seeing head and butt, and not two chicks?

Thanks....okay, doing nothing..doing nothing......doing nothing.........
 

DO NOT PANIC

As promised, duckling pictures!

And my little NN. She has the strangest little tufts of fluff right under her ears, tiny little black tufts. You can just see one of them in this picture.

wow, too stinkin cute! Congrats!!

Ugh, really out of it...

Anyways, got eggs from Ruby today... awesomely amazing packing, very rough PO trip...

Keeping some of them hatch...

Woohoo

 

[BantyChooks]

As promised, duckling pictures!

And my little NN. She has the strangest little tufts of fluff right under her ears, tiny little black tufts. You can just see one of them in this picture.

OHMYGOODNESS that first one is SO cute!! Aaaaaaaah!!

 

[Blooie]

No progress yet on the earlier pippers, but two more have decided that sounded like fun and joined in. Temp is stable, humidity is good, peeping and rocking, so I'm just sitting back with a book. In the same room as the incubator. On the same side of the room as the incubator. In a chair right in front of the incubator. With my face at the window of the incubator. Not reading my book.

 

[BantyChooks]

No progress yet on the earlier pippers, but two more have decided that sounded like fun and joined in.  Temp is stable, humidity is good, peeping and rocking, so I'm just sitting back with a book.  In the same room as the incubator.  On the same side of the room as the incubator.  In a chair right in front of the incubator.  With my face at the window of the incubator.  Not reading my book.  

ROFL!!! I totally do that..... The book hits the floor, unread....
-Banti