June 2021 Hatch - A - Long

[RLockhart68]

Love seeing all these adorable peeps! My momma has 5 more days…..tick tock

Definitely a test of patience

 

[FortCluck]

Just checked Pants’ eggs and all 5 looked like they had chicks. No idea when they are hatching. I gave 2 to peeper because pants with 5 chicks seems like a disaster.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Day 10 and 5 have developed. I am not a fan of incubators that don't have good installation, why can't they use thicker plastic, or like the janoel 48 come with the foam outer layer?

 

[hysop]

These hatched out Tuesday or Wednesday... the broody didn't want to be a mother unfortunately and the others died , so now I have to feed these precious little monsters every 3-4 hours... They are quite a bit stinker than the chicks I've taken care of before... @hysop
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They are so adorable!! I never took care of piglets but my Hammy was a few months old and he was a stinker. I learned my lesson never to keep piggies right outside my house

Unfortunately my pet pig owning experience lasting a short month and it has forever been engraved in my heart. I keep debating on replacing him, but I can’t bring myself to replace Hammy in my heart. ... one day .... one day I will.

 

[Chick_Maelle]

So many cute chicks omg!

 

[LadyAchee]

#5 is making it's way into the world.

 

[RLockhart68]

#5 is a Blondie (definitely buff orpington cross)
#6 is another unknown mama. Still fluffing up, no fluffy toes
3 more external pips

 

[yakitori]

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#5 is making it's way into the world.

 

[yakitori]

I have a question for all you people with broodies. What is normal after hatch behavior?

It's day 23 and my broody is still sitting tight in place, but simultaneously she's being a wonderful loving mother to her babies (breaking apart food, clucking for them to eat, cleaning them etc). There are no more eggs under her, so I was wondering why she's sitting so adamantly. Is she trying to be a stationary heating hub for her babies? If I take her off the nest, she climbs back in and sits back down...

Photos. because I took a million and everyone i know in real life is sick of me shoving cute chick photos in their faces

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

I have a question for all you people with broodies. What is normal after hatch behavior?

It's day 23 and my broody is still sitting tight in place, but simultaneously she's being a wonderful loving mother to her babies (breaking apart food, clucking for them to eat, cleaning them etc). There are no more eggs under her, so I was wondering why she's sitting so adamantly. Is she trying to be a stationary heating hub for her babies? If I take her off the nest, she climbs back in and sits back down...

Photos. because I took a million and everyone i know in real life is sick of me shoving cute chick photos in their faces

She does sound like shes still in hatching mode doesn't she.. I wonder if possible, to have them in a slightly larger area where she'd be forced to get up and chase current chicks and show them food etc would help snap her out of it (I'm assuming you are keeping her contained in that crate).