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

[Phage]

OMG


You could enter the pics for next years calander - for the December page

There you are!! Hi @Phage
where are you hiding all the time!!! 
I dont know where that is lol maybe I will take more... those are fuzzy my cell stinks for close ups!!! thank you!!

At work mostly

My reason for hatching eggs in the first place has just gone to vet school (in UK) and now I have to pay for it.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Oh, look at that beauty!

Thanks, ambe! It's my very first... so yeah... I'm a very proud daddy!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

On as a totally uniformed person reading a ton to get ready for my first attempt with the New Years hatch any advice?
Second, I gather it is bad, but I haven't found anywhere here why you can't help a pipped chick that seems to not finish hatching. So is it attachment related?

What have you learned about incubation so far?
learned that you need more than one thermometer and hygro?
and to calibrate them?
that you need to not use humidity as a set number, that you use it as a tool to get the proper weight loss?
how important turning is?

there are many things to learn.... where you want to start? what bator are you using? fan or no fan? what temp are you running it?


as far as pipping, there is a fine line here, one that comes with experience.... I have an assisted hatch guide... the reason I wrote it is because most first time hatchers get too antsy and kill chicks by stress and picking at pips thinking their chicks are dying during the resting stage from external pip stage to the final zipping stage. Some of us that breed will not help our chicks at all...

 

[firedragon1982]

I noticed she started eating misc stuff out in the yard, sometimes pcs of shale, and grass weeds who the heck knows what she eats now... I assume meds make her do it?

The hunger makes her do it. Dozer will still eat pine shavings if I let him in the garage with the baby brooder. As well pine cones, the little ones. Annoying as all heck because his body says he is starving even tho he is truly not. He's almost had a couple of times where what he ate nearly caused an impaction, but was able to puke/pass it before surgery.

Hope your girl doesn't have any issues with that.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

At work mostly

My reason for hatching eggs in the first place has just gone to vet school (in UK) and now I have to pay for it.

that happens, it will pass sooner than you know it! you just need to hatch more and more right?

but then you have no time!!!
Have you found a good place to work? do you have to apprentice for a while?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

parents are heading over for lunch soon

this back and forth to laptop is driving me insane as I am getting ready for them, so I will check back in on hatch's and on the responses just after our lunch!

 

[canadachickens]

Pics as promised. Please excuse the nose prints on the bator windows.

 

[ambe0487]

thank you shah she hasnt had any more



go with your gutt on this one... you have a very weird bator full of uckyness... and only you see whats in there....  I am sorry sweets, I knew we were on the edge with these teeny air cells, but I know you have been following along good... so they are in the best hands they can be!!!

follow the assist guide chicky.....  go very slow, and you know when to stop... you can tell just by that little opening if she is ready or not, just by chippin a tiny piece away, and TINY ahem... TINY at a time  BLOOD put her back... wait!!   come back and talk to us... 

She just needed a little help!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Pics as promised. Please excuse the nose prints on the bator windows.

CC!!!!!! go babies go!!!! how many now????? how many pips!!! oh crap their here!!

 

[ambe0487]

Thanks, ambe! It's my very first... so yeah... I'm a very proud daddy!!!    e