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

[Kedreeva]

@ Rin: They really will peck at and eat ANYTHING they can fit in their little curious beaks- including bedding. For the first day, I usually put a layer of paper towel over the shavings so that they learn to eat the food first and peck at the shavings second.

I thought I would post some update pictures of my July hatch. The big ducklings are sleeping outside, so I haven't got pics of them, but Ping is still inside with the two peachicks.

So here is Ping, with the two peachicks.

And a side view of my first born peachick. She's about a week old now.

And just because he's cute, Ping again! (BTW, he's about 2 weeks old now... he should be twice this size!)

And this link is for Sweet, so she can hear the noises the peachicks make while I'm over there. If you want to know what they sound like when I'm NOT at the brooder, just blow a whistle. On every breath out.

Try to ignore the yammering the background, I have no idea what my parents were watching.

 

[Rin]

I hazzzzzzz piturrreeeee!

Can you tell which one I helped?

I dunno about you but it looks like I have two MF and a Porcelain here?

 

[Kedreeva]

Hey Rin, I've been meaning to ask... your server is Dalaran?

 

[ray2310]

We have 2 hatched out and a third with a leg out. Several others have pips. Will post pictures in the morning.

 

[Rin]

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Actually it's Moonglade EU XD Lolz I love how many closet WoWers I seem to lure out with my av XD I'm a WoW junkie and proud and you can bet your button 90% of what hatches will end up with elf/troll names XDD You do have a point though location does seem like server.. hmmmmz... *edits* thar.

Those poor things are so wet still. I think it's because I had to keep the humidity so high in the bator because of the others. Was about to say it was dried that way but just checked on them and the lighter one has definitely started to already fluff out.

There's a total of two definitely zipped eggs still in there that shifted - one of them is REALLY chirping at me. Not sure which. One was the second egg to pip(did so yesterday morning) and the other pipped sometime today. I'm gunna take some sleeping pills and ear plugs and head off to bed now XD

 

[SportChick]

Congrats on everyone's new chickies!
I ended up with 3 of the 5 eggs that made it to lockdown. 2 BCMs who look great and 1 sweet little red headed GLW who has a messed up splay leg that I put a band-aid brace on. The GLW is getting weaker & the BCM's were mean to it so I moved to the other side of the brooder & put a separater between them. I don't think its going to make it. Any suggestions?

We cracked other 2 eggs last night and they were fully developed but hadn't absorbed the yolk at all. I'm guessing this means they died on about day #18. Why is that? Humidity at lockdown was about 65% and my hygrometer was calibrated. Neither has pipped at all.

 

[SweetMotherOfMars]

Hooray for everyone's chicks!

Sport, not sure what to tell you, other than make sure this little one has the warmer side of the brooder. Did it drink when you helped it & have you seen it go get water recently? Many people swear by baby vitamins (PolyViSol, NO iron) but I just picked up the vitamins in the bird section of the store. A few drops in the water will help. Hopefully someone will have something more definite to tell you.

Rin, so happy your chicks have hatched and you have more on the way. I've never logged onto WoW, but I'm all for elven names!

Ked, those chicks are so cute. I like the whistle when you are there, but probably would get tired of hearing it constantly when I wasn't right by the brooder. And Ping... precious. He looks like the happiest duckling EVAR. Can ducks even look sad/despondent?

Ray, hope your 3rd has more than a leg out now. Thanks for the smile.

Stormy & Amy.... I want more Mama & Chicklet photos! Don't know if I'll ever get a broody myself, so I'm living vicariously through you!

Moved the chicks from the little brooder to a bigger, plastic brooder after their playtime outside today. We let the hens out with them for the first time. Only Kyan (the splash) was rude to them. She pecked 2 on the head when they got too close, so we put her back in the run. There wasn't as much interaction as I'd expected from the way the hens gathered along the side of the run when we let the chicks out there before. A couple let the chicks hang out near them, but none tried to mother them.

The reason for the move? Tomorrow is lockdown for the other eggs!!

(Gotta have time to clean that mess in the little brooder!)

 

[spikennipper]

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They hatched!

removed one egg at day 7 as it had no development so probably a clear then another at day 14 as it didn't have as much development as the others cracked it open to find a very small foetus that looked around 4 days old so not quite sure what happened there? that left 4 that developed and came out in the big wide world yesterday they are a nice mix of colours just have to wait and see what they turn out like still have another 4 eggs from the same birds a week behind that seem to be ok will be putting them under their broody mum soon so she can get to see them hatch

p.s just thought I'd add that their mother is actually the chick in my avatar when she hatched

Here's the 1st four fuzzies : https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/37551_picture_331.jpg

They are soooo cute. How long after they could sit up/stand did you wait before moving them to your brooder? I helped one of my chicks and now they have two others with them and they all seem to be "fighting" for spots on the egg carton. XD

I HAVE ANOTHER ZII-IIIP

and the three are all trying to get together - ones on the bars trying to get in the egg carton - ones in the egg carton trying to get on the bars XD Silly chicks.

Hi Rin, thank you

I waited until they were more or less dry before transfering them to the brooder they were walking about by then too.

 

[Rin]

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They are soooo cute. How long after they could sit up/stand did you wait before moving them to your brooder? I helped one of my chicks and now they have two others with them and they all seem to be "fighting" for spots on the egg carton. XD

I HAVE ANOTHER ZII-IIIP

and the three are all trying to get together - ones on the bars trying to get in the egg carton - ones in the egg carton trying to get on the bars XD Silly chicks.

Hi Rin, thank you

I waited until they were more or less dry before transfering them to the brooder they were walking about by then too.

Mine were actually "fluttering" about the incubator by the time I moved them. But still awfully wet. They are even wet looking today still even after spending the night in the brooder. Hmmm

Well folks! Two more in the bator today! One of the zips from last night though is NOT one of 'um.

I might actually need to help that one too... it hasn't made any progress and is so quiet today... oh so quiet....

Edit: Went to help her and she was very much dead... was moving last night when I went to bed...

Oh well. Checked other eggs while I was in there. Found two other dead in shell after pipping on sides I couldn't see. One of them had pipped and gotten their beak all the way past bars and into the sponge where they suffocated >< She also seems like she snorted up some water that had gotten in her egg cup and the third was definately WAY too big for their egg. Never got to move.

Aside from these three there are still six eggs and none have done anything yet (no beaks in aircells, nothing) so I gently set them up. Re-upped the humidity and gunna tend to the 5 very much alive ones. Since this has been syuch a staggered hatch I'm gunna leave those six be and see what they do on their own... meanwhile I have 5 fuzzybutts to tend to...

 

[Kedreeva]

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Ping used to look sad... now that he is a little older, he is just a creeper... he never peeps in the brooder (unless I take the chicks out, or take him out alone), and when I open the top or peek in, he gives me this face:

No noise, no movement, he just looks up and stares right at me. I took him outside and got him a little tupperware of warm water to play in, thinking it might get him excited (the other ducks are just BESIDE themselves if there's water nearby, they splash and zoom and bathe themselves and generally make as big a mess as possible). I set him in it and he sat down and looked at me, and looked around... and that was that. Pretty much the only time he moves fast is when I bring the wet mash I've warmed up to them... then he quickly waddles over and starts eating it as fast as he can. While taking a chance to stare at me between bites.

I am keeping fingers crossed for your hatch!!!