***JULY HATCH-A-LONG come join in***

[ChksontheRun]

I have 4 cheeping and rocking. No pips yet.

 

[kjhowe77]

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Hope they hatch soon for you! I know how hard it is waiting, it's hatch day for me too. I have 4 out, one pipping and 5 doing nothing.

 

[NC29mom]

Ordered 25 chicks from Cackle Hatchery

15 Golden Sebright Bantams (straight run, of course)
10 Japanese white black tailed bantams (straight run)

1000 live crickets, already arrived, my chickens LOVE THEM!!!!


I CAN'T WAIT
UNTIL JULY 28th!!!!

 

[Bikergrl]

Finally, 6 eggs set, 6 eggs hatched! That was pretty exciting!

 

[clothdiaperingmom]

My other pipper is stuck...getting shrink wrapped. So I peeled the shell as most of it wasnt on anyway.
I tried peeling some of the membrane....what was exposed by its face was all hard. So I tried peeling a little from the other side and it bled a little. So I wrapped it with a warm wet washcloth.
Im going back in to check on it now.

 

[clothdiaperingmom]

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Awesome hatch!

 

[missred871]

we are at about 12 hatched out today! GO coturnix babies GO!

 

[Cattitude]

@clothdiaperingmom: I hope your baby makes it.

Go, chickies, go!

 

[Kedreeva]

Ok I just have to post about the already hatched this month... The peachicks are noisy, I don't think they ever stop making noise in the brooder unless they fall asleep- and they sleep like the DEAD. I came home today and I immediately ran to the brooder to see if they were ok. One of them was prancing slowwwly around the brooder with the gait of all peacocks, and the other was laying flat out on the floor- legs splayed out to the side, wings opened, head flat on the ground and beak open. It wasn't moving at all. My heart just SANK. I reached in to pick up the dead chick, and it popped up onto its feet and made indignant noises at me for touching it! They are both sleeping in my lap under my laptop. It gens a TON of heat, and they sit under it quietly and sleep. Such absolute DARLINGS. I'm totally smitten.

As for the ducklings I hatched, I was supposed to give them all back to the person who gave me the eggs, but I asked to keep one little guy...

Meet Ping, my little 'microduck'. He is 6 days old and he's pictured here with his 2 day the younger sibling, Darkwing.

Here's Ping on the left with his 3 day the older duckling, Yang. Yowza that is a big size difference!

He basically hasn't grown much at all since being hatched (he was the horribly sticky chick that I had to bathe several times to get the gunk off of... he still has some stuck to his beak and it won't come off- I tried to scrape it off and it actually bled!) and others on the duck forum have told me that he looks like he probably won't. He's on vitamin/electrolyte water and I'm mixing him up some special food since he doesn't eat much of the starter in there for him.

 

[SweetMotherOfMars]

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I know, we thread readers are SO fickle sometimes!

I think people just get stressed for time.

@Rin: I think you have time to let the humidity drop a little. I let mine go from 40% down to 25% (until lockdown). I filled my pan and let it evaporate away, so the dehumidification was very slow. During lockdown I keep the humidity very high. This last time I had the humidity above 80 for the most part (I think it may have dropped into the 70s once or twice before I could open the lid and rewet the paper towel). Out of 23 chicks that went into lockdown, only 3 didn't make it. (And I'd only put 26 in to begin with. Not shipped eggs, obviously or the losses would have been greater.

for you both!

Ked, I have a friend in the UK who was talking about Boot Sales... took me a while to realize she was talking about a swap and *not* shopping for footwear.

Glad I refreshed before posting, Ping is a doll! They think he'll never catch up? (All the better wrt keeping him on the down

low.)

Clothdiaperingmom, how's your little guy doing? *cheers with Cattitude*

@Bikergrl & missred: Waiting for pictures...

Sleeping a little easier tonight, I rehomed a couple of hens that a) didn't fit in my breeding plans and b) were bullying my little black hen.