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

[SportChick]

Thanks Ked. It still looks pretty soggy so I will wait to take pictures after it's fluffed up a bit.

@Correta, your chicks are so sweet.

I actually have another BCM that pipped too. I marked the air cells at lockdown at someone's suggestion and it's pip is just below the air cell. The hatched chick is pretty loud but I don't hear any chirping from this egg & it doesn't seem to be doing much. Maybe she's just resting. I left at 9:15 this morning it hadn't pipped and I got home again at ~noon. So I figure it pipped pretty recently. I am Ok waiting for hours between pip & zip but if it's below the air cell does that mean it is definitely going to drown?

 

[SportChick]

Nevermind. It is starting to zip a little so it must not be too bad. The 3rd BCM is pipped too! I guess I better get the brooder ready after all.

 

[SportChick]

I got my 2 BCM's

Here's the first one. She's so cute and runs to look whenever you look through the windows of the incubator. She appears to have bonded to the sponge. It kept her company for several hours until her buddy was out.

Here is #2. She struggled a lot more getting out of her shell. I'm not sure I like the egg carton thing. It used up a lot of energy trying to get up and over the edge of the shell. It still has all that stringy stuff attached to it's backside and it's umbilical cord. It's pretty tired. We are hoping that after a bit of rest she will get up and run around like the other one.

 

[PunkinPeep]

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They're adorable!

 

[Chicken_Lover4567]

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Congrats on the new fuzzybutts!!! Hope the second one is a bundle of energy when she's rested!!!

 

[SportChick]

Chick #2 flipped over on her back and didn't seem to be able to get back up. I read some posts about chicks that do that and the suggestion I found was to put her in a cup with some paper towels to hold her up on her legs. The only other one that had pipped had pipped way to low and it looked to have been re-sealed so I opened the window in the incubator and put her in a teacup. She seems to be doing great and seems to like her little bed. I checked them again about 15" later and I had a new GLW pip!!!

My humidity didn't drop too much and it seems to be progressing so I don't think I did too much damage to the GLW egg. If I get 3 out of this miserable hatch I will be so fired up! My technique of not setting up my brooder so as not to get our hopes up seems to have worked pretty well.

 

[SweetMotherOfMars]

Sometimes procrastination works, Sport.

So happy to see your chicks and to hear the little one likes the teacup. Hopefully you'll have 2 more

before long.

Rin, hang in there. A lot can happen between now and Friday. Sometimes I think it's best if we are at work or otherwise occupied. Beats sitting on our hands.

I can open the brooder door and say "who wants to see me" now and end up with little fuzzbutts perching on the terrarium edge. Usually they are content with tummy rubs, but a few climb onto our hands and forearms. There's a couple who do the chick equivalent of the feline butt-wiggle-of-doom and launch onto us if we aren't vigilant. I don't mind them snuggled into my hair if *I* put them under my chin, but I don't want them flying onto my shoulder/head -- especially when they are full grown.

*visualizes The Birds, shivers*

 

[chickenmeadow]

Congrats on all of the wonderful chicks that hatched!

 

[kathyinmo]

OK, I think I am done for July.

I hatched from my Lavender pen. Hatch dates July 10 and July 17. In this pen is Lavender Orpingon project rooster, Lavender hens, 1 Lavender mottled hen, 3 Light Sussex. The Lavender over Light Sussex are my project birds (to make Coronation pullets in 2 generations), and they hatch out black. I hatched 47 out of 50. Oh, and I hatched 10 out of 11 Jersey Giants, too. A few have gone to their new homes already.

Lavenders and 2 Black (Mottled?) from last week.

11 Blacks from last week (most are project birds).

A mix of all of them (last to hatch); Lavenders, Mottleds, and Jersey Giants.

These are the same ones from the above picture with the 2 brooders hooked together ...

 

[Rin]

Well, last night right before I went to bed I noticed my humidity was way too high so I tried to open it to wipe the inside window(so I could even see) and let some humidity out and noticed I had an actual shell pip(my first ever) so quickly re-closed it and this morning woke to a second shell pip on another egg. First one seems to have made no progress really last night and I hear absolutely no noise out of either no matter how much noise I personally make. How long should I wait before I should help them(or check if they died) between pip and zip? Today is only the 19th now so these two are several days early even.

OMG ONE PEEPED AT ME 8DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
*calms down* Noooo wont get my hopes uppppp.....