Hatching addict

[gimmie birdies]

Great, I have 3 out, 3 waiting on pippers.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Here is the 3 that hatched, and one splash chick so 4 total waiting on 2.

 

[gimmie birdies]

splash

chick

 

[aliciaplus3]

I am doing my best to space mine out, so I can have room in the brooder for the new ones..... there will be 7 weeks between my last batch and the next one on Christmas day.....my excuse for those is that most of them are already sold lol

 

[17 chickens]

I too am an addict..... I had to have intervention from my husband... I am addicted to ducks and chickens!
OK..OK... Yes I have said it!
My husband who was a city guy didn't know how these little feathered critters could have such magical powers over his country gal wife!
We started out with 12 on day and yes those were planned, The next 2 hours I said I forgot something from the feed store and came home with their last 8. Then I had to give him a year to adapt before I was counting the days until the feed store got their chicks in.
Had alarm set to be the first to the new chicks at the store... I took our 18 year old son for extra hands and cuteness of course when I got home we were holding each a box of 20 chicks in hand as husband opens the door and said " It looks like you have been shopping again" he then asked how many we both looked at each other and said 20! " No lie here as we both were holding only 20 chicks"
He went to the garage to work and out to the car we go we each had another 10 a piece!
We just figured after 20 he will just glance in every now and then us not thinking that he would sit and hold, count and name all of the chicks! I now have over 100 chickens and 18 ducks and Husband and I are purchasing our next 100 chicks for the new year!

 

[gimmie birdies]

5/6 hatched, the first 4 were all from the same mom, The yellow from a diff mom, The green egg that didn't hatch, I don't blame the incubator, I blame the hen.

 

[KristinS]

View attachment 1196914 5/6 hatched, the first 4 were all from the same mom, The yellow from a diff mom, The green egg that didn't hatch, I don't blame the incubator, I blame the hen.

That is awesome that you have 5! I have 5 out of 8 right now.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Yeah! fun to watch them race about!

 

[KristinS]

Unfortunately the last one that has hatched (#5) was upside down in the shell and died shortly after it hatched. So I am at four with 3 still in the bator, but not promising.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Sorry to hear that my bright yellow chick came from a white egg, it pipped wrong end and was first to pip last to hatch. She was pithy and would close her eyes alot, I gave her sips of egg yoke and held her a bit talked to her and breathed on her, she felt loved. I also gave her water mixed with sweet potato, (thanksgiving) She is doing fine now, hangs out in the food dish and is running about the brooder. I have my brooder outside in a little chick house, I have extra secured clamp lamps keeping them warm, and I have been monitoring the temps. I hatched them out in my house brooded them in the house a few days, and hubby was not the wiser. He never goes to the coop. so all is safe.