Hatch On Dates: Oct-nov? Dont Forget About This Post!!!

[scoopy82]

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Better than monsters or something alien I suppose LOL I'm so impatient I keep peering into the bator wishing one to move and imagining I see them rocking

they still have several days to go.

ETA: Glad I'm not the only one who is dreaming about it!!! Seems it happens frequently

Same, mine are due thursday but I'm predicting they will start hatching on wednesday and I'm very tempted to go into lockdown tonight. But I will wait until monday lunchtime. And I too suffer from the crippling effects of batorfixationitis:

batorfixationitis: A debilitation condition whereby the sufferer feels an overpowering urge to look into their incubator with hopes of seeing movement even when no movement is scheduled to happen. Chronic sufferers may even experience hallucinations, believe they have seen movement or hear noises, experience sleep loss, victims families are often affected by way of neglect and have to deal with the sufferer's compulsive checking of the incubator, obsession over temperatures and humidity, incoherent raving about development of air cells and the inability to focus on other regular daily tasks. This stage of the disease is most prominent during the 16th-21st day of incubation. There is no known cure and the condition can become contagious to individuals with a predisposition towards cute fluffy baby animals.

 

[JEH1984]

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Better than monsters or something alien I suppose LOL I'm so impatient I keep peering into the bator wishing one to move and imagining I see them rocking

they still have several days to go.

Same, mine are due thursday but I'm predicting they will start hatching on wednesday and I'm very tempted to go into lockdown tonight. But I will wait until monday lunchtime. And I too suffer from the crippling effects of batorfixationitis:

batorfixationitis: A debilitation condition whereby the sufferer feels an overpowering urge to look into their incubator with hopes of seeing movement even when no movement is scheduled to happen. Chronic sufferers may even experience hallucinations, believe they have seen movement or hear noises, experience sleep loss, victims families are often affected by way of neglect and have to deal with the sufferer's compulsive checking of the incubator, obsession over temperatures and humidity, incoherent raving about development of air cells and the inability to focus on other regular daily tasks. This stage of the disease is most prominent during the 16th-21st day of incubation. There is no known cure and the condition can become contagious to individuals with a predisposition towards cute fluffy baby animals.

WOW! That is what I am suffering of!!!!

 

[bikerchic]

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Better than monsters or something alien I suppose LOL I'm so impatient I keep peering into the bator wishing one to move and imagining I see them rocking

they still have several days to go.

ETA: Glad I'm not the only one who is dreaming about it!!! Seems it happens frequently

Same, mine are due thursday but I'm predicting they will start hatching on wednesday and I'm very tempted to go into lockdown tonight. But I will wait until monday lunchtime. And I too suffer from the crippling effects of batorfixationitis:

batorfixationitis: A debilitation condition whereby the sufferer feels an overpowering urge to look into their incubator with hopes of seeing movement even when no movement is scheduled to happen. Chronic sufferers may even experience hallucinations, believe they have seen movement or hear noises, experience sleep loss, victims families are often affected by way of neglect and have to deal with the sufferer's compulsive checking of the incubator, obsession over temperatures and humidity, incoherent raving about development of air cells and the inability to focus on other regular daily tasks. This stage of the disease is most prominent during the 16th-21st day of incubation. There is no known cure and the condition can become contagious to individuals with a predisposition towards cute fluffy baby animals.

I am so glad I have a name for it now! I also suffer from this!

 

[ChickN'ChaseR]

Hi All, We are on Day 22 1/2. I have 7 fluffy chicks, safely and happily adopted to a very patient mommy who sat on a Ping Pong ball for SIX MONTHS before it hatched into her Septuplets! (I love a Happy Ending) BUT, Three LiL eggs died before hatching completely, all three had an inch long opening, and SEEM to have died right around the same time. It ALMOST seemed as if "their timer ran out". Like there was a certain time-frame they were required to hatch in, and they missed the deadline.

I only opened that incubator THREE times during the ENTIRE process, from Day 1 till Day 22. Day 1-they went in. Day 7-1st candling. Day 18-2nd candling and removal of egg turner. Day 22 removal of 7 Fluffies and 3 dead-in-the-shell. SO I do not know of any other reason those 3 should have not lived other than their time was up. I left it on and re-wet the washcloth to bring humidity back up, as the cloth had almost dried and the humidity had begun to drop when I finally decided that the ones that had opened their shell were definitely not moving and must be dead. I was terrified of opening that incubator and wrecking someones chance at life, but the seven alive were starting to attempt eating the stuff left in the hatched eggshells and were all very dried out and since no progress had been made by the others I figured I had no choice but to relocate the alive chicks. There are five eggs left in the incubator now, and tomorrow if none show any sign of life I will consider them deceased I guess, and discard them and clean the incubator, and thank God for allowing the 7 to hatch safely. Then I will go outside to my ducks abandoned nest and collect Puddles and Paddlefeet's eggs, which should be fertile since Paddlefeet is VERY AMOROUS with Puddles~his wife, and I will put them in the incubator and see if any are viable.

All in all, I feel this was a very fun and rewarding first time hatching experience, Angel and Silvermist have reproduced, I have seven new chickens, and Aubrey has been rewarded for her patience with her 7 new babies, and LOTS of humans~children AND adults got to watch the miracle of a chicken hatching!!! I would like to thank all of you for the very helpful advice and comments and encouraging words! THANK-YOU!!!

 

[Stuck in the Coop]

I love a happy ending. chick'nchaser, it sound like you did everything just perfect, so those chickies were just not meant to be. It's better they died before you got attached if they were that weak

Congrats on your hen adopting the chicks!

Please post some pictures if you can.

 

[Lady EE]

I'm starting lockdown today! Due to hatch on thursday!

 

[Barbedwirecat]

Today is lockdown for me, gonna do it later tonight. Hope I did everything right!!!

 

[Cattitude]

Tomorrow is lockdown for my Marans eggs; today I prep the hatcher and make sure the temp and humidity are good to go.

*gnaws fingernails up to the elbows*

 

[ChickN'ChaseR]

OK, Good Morning...It seems I am not allowed to post pictures? I read somewhere that I must post 10 times before I am offered the privilege of sharing my photos. I do believe that this will be my 10th posting here, so after this I shall post a pic of my wet lil hatchling, and then I'll go take a good one of my MaMa hen Aubrey and her 7 lil fuzzies who are just now awakening this morning

 

[JEH1984]

ChickN'ChaseR :

OK, Good Morning...It seems I am not allowed to post pictures? I read somewhere that I must post 10 times before I am offered the privilege of sharing my photos. I do believe that this will be my 10th posting here, so after this I shall post a pic of my wet lil hatchling, and then I'll go take a good one of my MaMa hen Aubrey and her 7 lil fuzzies who are just now awakening this morning

Looking forward to those pictures!!​