Incubating eggs to hatch about August 8th

[calichicken]

Yeah for all the surprise hatches!!

Day 20 and so far no sound/movement.

I am anxious.

Are we candling Tuesday for the Aug. 8th batch?

Yes...lockdown is almost here!!!!! Haven't seen a second or 3rd baby yet under my broody

Hopefully today because not sure how much longer broody momma is going to stay on those eggs now that she has a baby to take care of

 

[lauraschicks]

Yes...lockdown is almost here!!!!! Haven't seen a second or 3rd baby yet under my broody :/   Hopefully today because not sure how much longer broody momma is going to stay on those eggs now that she has a baby to take care of

If she stops sitting on them can you transfer them to your lock down inc.? Or is that a no-no...

 

[lauraschicks]

So ending the day and still no sign of the other 2 eggs hatching under my broody Peep...I am dying to know what's going on under there Maybe when I wake up the 2nd egg that looked like it was at the same point of development will hatch????? At least in a bator you can peek in the window and see what's happening....LOL!!! Not with a broody Momma Peep and her new baby

Baby Peep is quite loverly!

 

[calichicken]

If she stops sitting on them can you transfer them to your lock down inc.? Or is that a no-no...

Ye, I think I will try hopefull if the babies are zipping in there at that point

Thankfully I have a couple of days for the bator eggs until lockdown! This baby was supposed to hatch AFTER my lockdown group so dates on the eggs must have been wrong...got them from a local breeder

Now I just don't know about the other eggs, dates, hatching??? YIKES!!!!! I didn't want my broody to raise one chick by itself, but guess I really don't have a say, huh? LOL

 

[Alaskan]

If she stops sitting on them can you transfer them to your lock down inc.? Or is that a no-no...

Ye, I think I will try hopefull if the babies are zipping in there at that point   Thankfully I have a couple of days for the bator eggs until lockdown! This baby was supposed to hatch AFTER my lockdown group so dates on the eggs must have been wrong...got them from a local breeder  Now I just don't know about the other eggs, dates, hatching??? YIKES!!!!! I didn't want my broody to raise one chick by itself, but guess I really don't have a say, huh? LOL

If you have anything else that hatches, she might let you add the other chicks. Some will let you, some won't.


Yep, TUESDAY last official candle day!

 

[calichicken]

Thanks! Hopefully she will let me add the new chick s! I really wanted her to raise them all!

 

[calichicken]

It is not the area of the air sac,,,I think we see the birds back side.

how are your eggs coming along?

 

[lauraschicks]

Thanks! Hopefully she will let me add the new chick s! I really wanted her to raise them all!

That's what I want too. I've got a broody in the making, but she's still too young (batty Cochin). ...excuse me that should be "banty." My phone keeps trying to speak for me.

 

[duluthralphie]

how are your eggs coming along?

I have 10 babies. One we had to assist, it was one I had marked because the air sac was on the side not the end. The bird from that egg is very small and weak. We have him/her in the ICU unit with another one that took a header out of my wives hands. He is doing fine, we just wanted to have the weak one have company. I have 1 more pecked. I hear no peeping. And the rest are doing nothing.
I had 3 I thought had birds not hatch and one I thought was junk hatched.

All in all I am happy with the way it went considering how late in the season it is for pheasants. However, looking at it like others would a 25% hatch stinks...

 

[duluthralphie]

Thanks! Hopefully she will let me add the new chick s! I really wanted her to raise them all!

I have a turkey hen that always takes babies broody or not.. She is a little strange. I can have her pack a bag and start hitch hiking west if you need her services....


Weirdest hen alive, will take chicks away from other hens and raise them as her own. Then when she sets on her eggs, she has her "babies" set around her and keep her company.. Of course she does not have the patience to set on a nest for more than about a week.