I have chicks!!! First sucessful hatch of the year!!! PICS ADDED!!!

[Mahonri]

I'll be getting out my bator again next week and getting it ready for "The Great Blue Wheaten Ameraucana Hatch of 2010" I set eggs on the 2nd (If they all arrive by then).

 

[chicken_china_mom]

I thought I would share some pics of the babies as they hatch. I think we're done now, so tomorrow I will unload the bator and do a head count. I lost track around 14 chicks, lol. Then I have to see how many came from my eggs, and how many are the EE eggs I bought from another BYC'er. I'm just so happy that I have babies!!! Here are some pictures. I'm sorry if they seem fuzzy, but they were taken through the bator window which doesn't make for the best pictures.

This baby fell asleep on top of the thermostat, on his back, lol!

The little Silver one on the left here dried up nicely and is so beautiful.

Thought I would share some pics of my new babies. Hope everyone likes them. I am so happy!!!!

 

[GlitterKitty]

There so precious!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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X2 beautiful babies chicken_ china_ mom!

 

[lillypug]

How exciting! Congrats! They are so adorable!

 

[Kristian]

Hi I have my own hatching thread but my friends are all sleeping and I need help, can you guys help me?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=315618&p=2

Im really sorry to bother you guys but I would really appreciate some help

 

[Kristian]

Congrats on the new chicks!

 

[chicken_china_mom]

Thanks everyone for the well wishes, I needed them! I started setting up the brooder for the babies, and I was about to start moving them from the bator to the brooder when my daughter comes running in and tells me there's another pip!

So I go to check and sure enough, there's another little beak working at trying to get out! The rest are all fluffy now and one REALLY wants out. She, or he, comes running at the sound of our voices, and climbs on top of the thermostat to get us to pick them up, it's really cute! We have so many colors, and I just LOVE the little muffs on the EE's! I think I might have a Silkie mix in there too. I'l have to examine the egg shells after I remove the chicks to see who hatched from what egg. But in the meantime I am the happiest chickie mama in the whole world!

 

[Brindlebtch]

Congrats!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

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I know what you mean. I find myself constantly staring into my incubators. I have another batch of eggs set to hatch in my other incubator on the 9th, and even though I'm watching these babies hatch, I'm still checking that incubator constantly for temp and humidity. Sometimes it feels like the 21 days that it takes for the chicks to hatch are the longest 21 days of my life!

I do the same thing. I tell myself that I'm just reading the temp and humidity so I can chart them, but I only do that three times a day. I have no excuse for the forty seven other times that I look through that plexiglass door like something will have changed since the last time I looked. They've only been in there for five days! I'm not even going to candle until day ten. But still I must look.

I'm not completely gone however. I still check on my children the last thing before I get into bed every night...

.....Alan.