Hatching Party! Wanna Join?! Set 8/7, Hatching 8/27!!

[libertygirlz]

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The one that pip'd is zipping right now. Hopefully she will be out and fluffy by the time I get home from work. Nothing yet from the other one...It's incredible watching them hatch!! The kids and even the hubby can't seem to stop watching.

 

[KIDDSBANTAMS]

So true on watching them, the 3 that were hatched yesterday are so tiny, they are Cochin bantams. There is more that have piped but they are taking their sweet time, it is driving me crazy.

 

[LoveMyChicklets]

Came home from work yesterday and 4/6 hatched!!! Two EEs and 2 showgirl mixes. I LOVE THE SHOWGIRL MIXES!!!!!! I don't have pics yet, but will get some tonight

My hubby called as he was leaving for work and said another one hatched but I don't know which one!!!! Now only one left to go in there

 

[destin0709]

Now 6 guineas have pipped waiting for them to zip.

 

[libertygirlz]

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The one that pip'd is zipping right now. Hopefully she will be out and fluffy by the time I get home from work. Nothing yet from the other one...It's incredible watching them hatch!! The kids and even the hubby can't seem to stop watching.

Well, I think I'm done trying to hatch eggs for a while. The one that was half way zipped was gone when I got home, she never made it all the way out of her shell. The other one internally pipped but then quite....heartbreaking

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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The one that pip'd is zipping right now. Hopefully she will be out and fluffy by the time I get home from work. Nothing yet from the other one...It's incredible watching them hatch!! The kids and even the hubby can't seem to stop watching.

Well, I think I'm done trying to hatch eggs for a while. The one that was half way zipped was gone when I got home, she never made it all the way out of her shell. The other one internally pipped but then quite....heartbreaking

Aw! I'm sorry!

It really is heart-breaking to finally see a chick pip, then die!

How are you incubating? Are you using the Dry Incubation Method?

~ Aspen

 

[steffpeck]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy, do you do the dry incubation method??

 

[ContessaKris]

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I'm so sorry, Kris. It is heartbreaking to lose them. I guess at this point I'd poke holes in the airsac side of the egg just to be completely sure that nothing is going on.

This go 'round I only ended up with 5/18, but most of that was from my stupid mistakes. If I had only just given 8-9 to Lacey and tossed the rest, I'd probably have better results. On the flip side though, 2 or my fuzzy butts are ones that started life in the 'bator and were moved to mama at last candling, so who knows.

I'm glad you liked the picture. Broodies with babies are just about the cutest things ever. I love it when the chicks start getting up on mama's back. I'll have to get a shot of that this time around. Right now the chicks are in "pluck mama's eyelids" mode.

And totally off the subject, I just noticed that you homeschool. I do too!

Well, none lasted. I candled late last night real quick, but none were moving, nothing was happening, they're all gone. So sad. Emptying them out tonight.

Tiss, yes, we do homeschool! I'm down to one now though, 7th grader.

We'll try eggs again in the winter preparing for a a spring of chickens.

 

[N.WChickenGuy]

I just found this thread and wanted to share my little one that just hatched 8/21

and the rest that hatched on 8/11

I'm so proud

so are there daddies

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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I'm testing in out my this batch of eggies. We shall see how it goes!

~ Aspen