INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[Sally Sunshine]

SO see it is possible and it happens all the time, @sumi did she need any extra boosts or anything special?

 

[kwhites634]

@Sally Sunshine ,
I'm think you're further North than I originally thought. I thought you were down around Hanover. You up closer to Dallastown?

Was it you who mentioned Rte. 78 the other day? I used to run 78/22 frequently; usually stopped @ the Midway Diner...great meatloaf.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

I'm here

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

@Sally Sunshine are you talking about Joy? I went and dug up my old record keeping book…. Her mom started sitting on the nest part-time (she spent more time off than on) on the 15th of February 2012 (summer in SA). We started removing all the fresh eggs added to the nest when we saw her sitting and left the eggs she had under her. Joy hatched from those eggs on the 30th of March. (And darn near gave me a heart attack in the process as I was so sure those eggs were all dead and rotten by then). The latest I've had a "normal" broody hen chick hatch was due on a Monday, hatched Friday. I remember that because we named the chick Friday.

That would put the chick at day 25, right? That would be the ceiling for hatch days, if my memory serves me correctly... any unhatched eggs after 25 days should be discarded.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I'm here

Any more progress?

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Three have holes more pips and the arrest are wiggling.the one with the pip in wrong end is steel alive but now make proggres

 

[Flockmama87]

Day 25 for me is Wednesday....ill wait till then and see

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Ah... their new home. Are those newspapers in the bottom of the tub? Newspaper is slippery and shouldn't be used unless it's been shredded or dampened and allowed to dry completely. Otherwise, the chicks could get splay legs. Paper towels will give them more traction than slick newspaper...

 

[chicken hawk 33]

The white one is the mispasituon