Incubating eggs to hatch about August 8th

[TeaChick]

Well....I hatched Peep in my preschool classroom and my students named her....so if it is a children's show then could be???? LOL...Kids!!!! And funny thing is...she is a very quiet girl for the most part

Yeah, it's a kids' show. It's one of my favorites (after "Peg + Cat").

I'm doing a lot of

lately; maybe I should do more

......

Hehe...that will give you something to occupy your hands while you are not touching the eggs and waiting for them to hatch

I am going on lockdown on fridya...my eggs rested 2 days before I placed them in the incubator so I am 2 days behind yours....due to hatch sunday in my bator. Good luck

Yeah, it didn't work. =(
I did cover the small opening with plastic wrap this morning....Back to sitting on my hands....

I am building a coop, so that keeps me busy for most of the day. Also, I have 17 baby chicks, so my maternal drives are curbed away from the eggs toward the chicks. =)

So does this mean, besides Puddin Fluff's iffy chick, we have to wait until Friday/Saturday for more excitement????

(I was looking at EGGS!!!! Repeat with me, it is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!!)

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Is that enough?

And, yes, we're going to have to wait until Friday/Saturday (the 8th/9th) for more excitement...

Well, the baby is on it's feet this morning. Kind of wabbly still. I am leaving it in the hatcher until this afternoon so the other two don't beat it up. I've read they don't need to eat for up to 72 hours so I am not sure exactly when to count that from so it is at 36-48 right now. I tried to dip it's beak in a little bowl of water but all it did was peep at me, no drinking.

That 72 hours is either from yolk absorption completion, or from hatch. I, personally, to stay on the safe side, I would count from when the hatch began (like at the end of zip and the chick's rest time, right before it actually starts to kick out. That's just me.
I, personally, think that dipping its beak in either plain water or water with a little Gatorade (or chicken vitamins/electrolytes); I think that's a good idea. It will probably start drinking eventually; I might even try putting a little dish of moist feed in the hatcher for him/her. A little honey in the water might be a substitute for the Gatorade or electrolyte mixture.
Again, that's just me.

'OH NO!!

I hope he drinks today. The one you peeled out of the shell, are its feet ok? We peeled one out and it has deformed toes and is considerably smaller than the rest, but seems to walk fine on the curled toes. It only spend 24 hours in the ICU.

Come on someone else announce a hatch!

I wish I could start another batch, but we will have frost before they would hatch. So I guess it is time to put the incubator away for the winter. I am hoping to have a bigger better incubator next spring, but at this point in time the war department is against it (read wifey pooh).

On a sad note my cornishX that was in ICU passed away last night. However, the pheasant chick is doing OK, just cannot walk well. It seems as if it has a broken leg or pelvis. Hopefully it is just a bad sprain.

Speaking of deformed toes. I have a Buff cockerel who seemed to have gotten into fire ants (both his legs and feet swelled up pretty badly) a few weeks ago. I had him in the brooder and then in a wire dog crate in the Cochin Bantam pen. He got out day before yesterday in the evening and decided to try to sleep under the porch; we put him on the porch under the brooder in a black plastic nursery pot. Yesterday evening, I found he had climbed on all the stuff under the brooder and gotten himself onto the edge of the 5-gal bucket that half the hens lay in, so I left him there. I was so happy for him. Today, he free ranged happily (although I had to get him out of the bucket this morning; he'd fallen in instead of getting off onto the porch). He follows me around and is watching us build the coop for the NH chicks we just got.
Well, I guess that's a rabbit trail....

Anyway, he lost most of two toes on one foot and the tip of his middle toe and the tip off one toe on the other foot. But he's free ranging happily (very close to the porch) and perches and does alright in general. I hope I don't have as difficult time butchering and eating him in several weeks....=(
But I have more chicks in the brooder and eggs in the bator and Banties and layers and.... lots to be happy and thankful for. =D

My peas are hatching! 9 out of 11 have hatched so far, and the last two are pipped and zipping! Best hatch rate ever, especially with shipped eggs. Will post pics later.

That's an amazing hatch rate for shipped eggs!!!! Looking forward to the pics!!!

I'm sorry, what is "peas"? I assume that's short for something, right?

 

[TeaChick]

The last 2 hatched! 11 out of 11!

Not a very good pic, but I didn't want to leave the lid off for long. These were incubated in my Brinsea eco 20 with auto-turn, and were transferred to the hova bator after hatching.

That is absolutely un-heard-of!!! 100% hatch rate on shipped eggs! Where were they shipped from? Across the street??? lol

So adorable!!! How big are they compared to LF chicks. They appear to be larger.

My hubby reports that our little special chick is doing well. I will probably put it out in the brooder this after noon when I get home. Hope he/she can keep up.

Glad he/she is doing better! =D

I would love some p's!!!

But yep, my other half said no very firmly.

My DH just gives me a certain look....

(that's the look I give him when he looks at me about not getting more chicks, hatching more eggs, etc, etc..... Actually, he lets me hatch all the eggs I want, but buying chicks is out of the question, in no uncertain terms.)

Put our runt out with her two hatchmates. Don't know if she will do anything other than peep. She wasn't interested in water. None of them seem to be.

On tomorrows hatch, I have two pips already!

I don't remember whether chicks actually drink or not; most of the time, I just stick their beaks in the water so they know where it is and then just make sure it's clean and plentiful.

Two pips?!?!?!

Hope I get some tomorrow.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Yeah, all there beaks have been dipped. The peeper didn't seem to notice, just shook his head and kept peeping. The other two did a little swallow. I just worry when I don't actually see them helping them selves-

 

[TeaChick]

Yeah, all there beaks have been dipped. The peeper didn't seem to notice, just shook his head and kept peeping. The other two did a little swallow. I just worry when I don't actually see them helping them selves-

I feel ya.

Sounds like you and your family are going a good job of looking in on him/her often, so at least you'll know what's going on. =)

 

[Cindysid]

Yeah, it's a kids' show. It's one of my favorites (after "Peg + Cat").

I'm doing a lot of

lately; maybe I should do more

......




Yeah, it didn't work. =(
I did cover the small opening with plastic wrap this morning....Back to sitting on my hands....

I am building a coop, so that keeps me busy for most of the day. Also, I have 17 baby chicks, so my maternal drives are curbed away from the eggs toward the chicks. =)




It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!! It is MUCH TOO LATE to hatch more chickens!!

Is that enough?

And, yes, we're going to have to wait until Friday/Saturday (the 8th/9th) for more excitement...




That 72 hours is either from yolk absorption completion, or from hatch. I, personally, to stay on the safe side, I would count from when the hatch began (like at the end of zip and the chick's rest time, right before it actually starts to kick out. That's just me.
I, personally, think that dipping its beak in either plain water or water with a little Gatorade (or chicken vitamins/electrolytes); I think that's a good idea. It will probably start drinking eventually; I might even try putting a little dish of moist feed in the hatcher for him/her. A little honey in the water might be a substitute for the Gatorade or electrolyte mixture.
Again, that's just me.




Speaking of deformed toes. I have a Buff cockerel who seemed to have gotten into fire ants (both his legs and feet swelled up pretty badly) a few weeks ago. I had him in the brooder and then in a wire dog crate in the Cochin Bantam pen. He got out day before yesterday in the evening and decided to try to sleep under the porch; we put him on the porch under the brooder in a black plastic nursery pot. Yesterday evening, I found he had climbed on all the stuff under the brooder and gotten himself onto the edge of the 5-gal bucket that half the hens lay in, so I left him there. I was so happy for him. Today, he free ranged happily (although I had to get him out of the bucket this morning; he'd fallen in instead of getting off onto the porch). He follows me around and is watching us build the coop for the NH chicks we just got.
Well, I guess that's a rabbit trail....

Anyway, he lost most of two toes on one foot and the tip of his middle toe and the tip off one toe on the other foot. But he's free ranging happily (very close to the porch) and perches and does alright in general. I hope I don't have as difficult time butchering and eating him in several weeks....=(
But I have more chicks in the brooder and eggs in the bator and Banties and layers and.... lots to be happy and thankful for. =D




That's an amazing hatch rate for shipped eggs!!!! Looking forward to the pics!!!

I'm sorry, what is "peas"? I assume that's short for something, right?

Yes, those peafowl eggs only had to travel about 300 miles, but it still took 2 days priority mail. I don't expect to repeat this amazing feat anytime soon....now DH is asking what I'm going to do with all these peas??? I'm up to 26 chicks now, with 5 more in the 'bator...uh oh Ladies and Gentlemen, may I direct you to my ad in the classified section...?

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Here are the babies. You can see the difference in size. The little one just sits and peeps. I did see one of the others eat and drink so I feel better. I hope the little one will follow them.

 

[calichicken]

Here are the babies. You can see the difference in size. The little one just sits and peeps. I did see one of the others eat and drink so I feel better. I hope the little one will follow them.

Oh my goodness that little one is small and I even enlarged the photo!! Hopefully with the others to guide it, that little one will start to drink and eat

My hen I have now was the runt like yours and she grew up healthy...just still smaller than her hatchmates

Hopefully baby is just still living off the nutrition from the yolk sac and will have a grumbly tummy soon!!!!

 

[Puddin Fluff]

  Oh my goodness that little one is small and I even enlarged the photo!! Hopefully with the others to guide it, that little one will start to drink and eat  My hen I have now was the runt like yours and she grew up healthy...just still smaller than her hatchmates Hopefully baby is just still living off the nutrition from the yolk sac and will have a grumbly tummy soon!!!!

Thanks. Its stil with us this morning. Abou the same. Well just wait and see.

On the hatcing side. I had a Phoenix pop out befofe bed last night another this morning. About 5 pips visible, one with a little beak just working.

 

[Alaskan]

  Oh my goodness that little one is small and I even enlarged the photo!! Hopefully with the others to guide it, that little one will start to drink and eat  My hen I have now was the runt like yours and she grew up healthy...just still smaller than her hatchmates Hopefully baby is just still living off the nutrition from the yolk sac and will have a grumbly tummy soon!!!!

Thanks. Its stil with us this morning. Abou the same. Well just wait and see.

On the hatcing side. I had a Phoenix pop out befofe bed last night another this morning. About 5 pips visible, one with a little beak just working.

Wow! This should have been titled the super early to hatch thread!

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Wow! This should have been titled the super early to hatch thread!

I had 4 out before I left for work. 3 Phoenix, one buttercup, 7 more piping. I got a txt from a co-worker who has brought me an abandoned duckling

. I don't know anything about ducklings! HELP! Anyone have advice? I plan to put it in with the hatchlings. She says it is a day old but I'm not sure.