HATCH COMPLETE! I have 15 beautiful Delaware chicks.

[csibb]

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I think I may have had a few that weren't fertile also, can't remember!
Oh, and Thanks about my little Delaware boy, it is ok though I know where i can find more!!

And listen girl, have a bit of faith we just seen that a double yokers can make it the distance! And your right, if it doesn't it will be interesting anyhow.

 

[csibb]

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Nope No Idea, he was fine mid morning and laying dead under one of the heat lamps by 4 in the afternoon, maybe he had a heat stroke!.

 

[miss_jayne]

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I think I may have had a few that weren't fertile also, can't remember!
Oh, and Thanks about my little Delaware boy, it is ok though I know where i can find more!!

And listen girl, have a bit of faith we just seen that a double yokers can make it the distance! And your right, if it doesn't it will be interesting anyhow.

FAITH I HAVE....and proof also! there are two babies in there wiggling around like nuts! they are more developed and active than any other egg in the bator!!! my husband almost just freaked out!

can see babies and veins in most eggs.

 

[csibb]

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I think I may have had a few that weren't fertile also, can't remember!
Oh, and Thanks about my little Delaware boy, it is ok though I know where i can find more!!

And listen girl, have a bit of faith we just seen that a double yokers can make it the distance! And your right, if it doesn't it will be interesting anyhow.

FAITH I HAVE....and proof also! there are two babies in there wiggling around like nuts! they are more developed and active than any other egg in the bator!!! my husband almost just freaked out!

can see babies and veins in most eggs.

Oh how neat is that

Need I say more!

 

[miss_jayne]

we were doing the happy dance around here!

will keep you all posted.

 

[csibb]

Shelley, Miss Jayne,

Yesterday I was thinking I was going to have to get some Delaware eggs from you 2 this summer!! What a NIGHTMARE, 2:00 yesterday afternoon I look out the window to my chicken barn up in smoke

now keep in mind it was 20 degrees and they were talking major snow fall) I ran to the barn, open the door, you can not see your hand in front of your face, and I have 21 Chickens, 27 Chicks, and 5 Guineas in there. I was on the phone to my brother, and he saying call 911, I can't I got to get the birds out, so he called the fire department, I got all the adult birds out, (they hate the snow, in which we had 8+inches, and more on the way) then i was like what do I do with all these month old chicks, I can't just throw them out side, so i had 2 6 gallon milk crates, (that some of my hens use to lay their eggs in) so I filled both crates and set them outside, (no lids or anything on them) by this time everyone is showing up, and we are trying to put the fire out, finally by 4 everything was undercontrol, I ran my poor chicks to the unheated garage. (left them there, until i could figure out what I was going to do with them) need less to say there was minimal damage, and by 5:20 we were rounding up the adults, and covered with 5 more inches of snow! got a 4x4x3 wooden box for my chicks, and set them up in the garage. A few of th adults were having wheezing problems, as I was myself, do to smoke inhalation. And so far they have all survived I can't believe it!!!

 

[shelleyb1969]

OH NO, CSIBB! I'm so, so, so sorry to hear that. Thank goodness everyone is ok! Do you know what caused it? I'm just in shock...I just can't believe it. If there's anything I can do, even if it's just talk on the phone, please call me. I am so glad that you're ok and didn't get hurt trying to save your flock.

 

[shelleyb1969]

Only 7 days to go...the countdown is on!

I candled tonight, and everyone still looks good.

The humidity was a little low this morning, so I had to add a little water. I've been doing the dry incubation method, and it's been working wonderfully. But the humidity in my house has dropped since we've cut the thermostat back a little. With the economy the way it is, we've gotta cut corners wherever we can.

I'll update again in 4 days, after the final candling! I can't wait!

I'm just praying for a bountiful hatch since I just lost my other hatching eggs to a temp spike in a different incubator.

 

[miss_jayne]

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Goodness gracious! thank God you are alright! be well and we will be sure to return the favor if necessary, i am sure!

 

[csibb]

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Well I had the barn divided, with the older birds on ones side and the chicks, in the other side, the building is like 18 x 24 but the side that the chicks were in I had a 2 x 8 pen (the top was open) with 3 heat lamps 2 feet apart, at least 2 feet off the ground, in fact I raised them a bit more the other day! They have been out there for over 2 weeks so nothing was any different, and when I got in the barn it was not on fire under the lamps, the bales of straw that were 2 and a half to 3 feet away from the pen were on fire, and being the smoke was so thick, I pulled the pen toward me so I could reach the chicks easier, and I had ruffled the straw, and with the door open, the air of corse boosted things up a bit. but the initial fire was not in the chick pen, but on the outsideof it 2-3 feet away, the only thing I can figure is the roosters were fighting, and I used a tarp to block the space between the ceiling and the middle petition, (I nailed it every every 4-5 inches across the top, it was almost impossible for them to get over it, and if one had wouldn't it still be in that side when I went out there? I'm thinking they aren't smart enough to go out the same place they came over, and the chicks were the only ones on that side, and I'm using the heat lamps that I had plugged in! So I'm just totally baffled on the whole issue, but one of the roosters is being picked on to the point I may have to butcher him, and I may do another one so the fighting stops!

Oh and these chicks are pretty harty, I had 27 chicks , and I counted all that were in the box, (at 7 pm 5 hours later) and 1 is missing, I found her by a base of a tree, hiding behind a sheet of metal, that had leaning against the tree. I snatched her up, ran to garage and got her under the heat lamp, her legs were quite cold, but rubbed, and rubbed them until they warmed up, and she was good to go! And they were so dang cute, they all (but the 1) stayed right in those milk crates, while all the comotion was going on, (5 feet from the barn) poor little bugger's I know they were petrified, but still could have jumped out and ran all over.. They were lucky I looked out when I did.
When is a good time to call you? And Thanks Shelley!