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[luvmychicknkids]

congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to see them.

I got nuttin'

 

[chickenlisa]

I've got 2 pips too! Last night was the first, then this morning was the 2nd. The 1st one is getting bigger and pcs of shell are falling off, but its not zipped yet. Will update as we go...lots of new baby chicks are hatching all over today I have a feeling! Welcome babies!

 

[Mrs MIA]

And the fun begins...

 

[Heather J]

Nothing here, but congrats to those who did get pips!

OK, I admit it, I was a bad, bad, BAD incubator last night and recandled. I must have done a really bad job of it on Sunday because I only came up with 3 viables this time. (two cochins, and 1 silkie) The others had some growth, but most clearly died middle of last week. So I called and ordered chicks today. They won't be show quality like these babies were supposed to be, but at least they'll arrive alive. lol

DH and I agree--no more incubating eggs that have been shipped! I can't take the stress of wondering if my investment is going to die before it has a chance to hatch. Unfortunately Ideal has run out of banties for next week so they won't ship until the tenth. I guess that gives me more time to get the new coop built--at the rate we're going, these babies aren't going to see their coop until the snow flies.

 

[Mrs MIA]

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:aww I'm sorry... I know EXACTLY how you feel. I ordered 100 chukar partridge eggs and set the 97 that weren't crushed in shipping a couple of weeks ago. At one week I candled, and pulled 27 that were clear. Last night I pulled another 13 that I had either questioned previously or that had given up. So I'm down to 57. My client wanted 50... I may not have enough left over from the hatch to start my own flock now...

SOOOOOO.... what banties will you get?!?!

 

[luvmychicknkids]

I am so sorry, Heather.

I still have nothing here, either. I am just gonna wait and watch. Good luck with the new babies you ordered. Can't wait to see pics of them when they arrive.

 

[pbjmaker]

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well show us the picture??? Don't flaunt it then leave us wondering...

Was it an alien that popped out?

 

[Heather J]

I orders 8 white frizzled cochins, 8 white silkies and 9 blue silkies--knowing with blue I'll end up with black and splash as well. I think I'm going to try and do some white sizzles--you get that when you cross a frizzle and a silkie, right? Anyway, my new chicken condo can be sectioned off with three coop areas and three runs, so I can cross them any which way I want, and I can always build more space for breeding, right. lol

And I'll try hatching some in my bator next spring if my girls don't go broody on me--a benefit of silkies that I'm looking forward to.

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain, I was wondering what you were doing all those game birds you were hatching. I couldn't imagine you were keeping them all.

My dh's boss raises quail every spring so he can shoot them in the fall--they don't even eat them! Sorry, I have no problem with raising for meat, eggs, or pets, but raising something just to kill it for sport, then toss it in the flesh pit or leave it for the coyotes to find disgusts me.

I wondered how many people hatching out game birds were doing that, but it seems most eat them or make pets of them here. If not, they don't seem to be telling. lol

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

Yeah!!!! Congrats!!!

GO chickies GO!!!!

 

[Mrs MIA]

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I have a "don't ask/don't tell" policy with my gamebirds... I sell a lot of them, and I'm assuming that most are for dog-training or hunting, but some of my clients raise them for meat/eggs. The chukars are for training... but I want to keep some so I can sell the eggs/birds next year. I might have to try one more hatch on those. BUT... it's getting late in the season for me...in the low 40s now, all 2 weeks of Fall is here, and we're sliding into winter fast. Don't know how many birds I want to/can brood over the winter...