June Hatch A Long

[jolenesdad]

I have a chick this morning! The orphan egg hatched at dawn. Against all odds, I really was not expecting success with a heating pad in a plastic tote.
Broody hen and babes are doing fine this morning out in the coop. Next big challenge for this chick is will she adopt it?
View attachment 1812691 Last night we went to TSC and got permethrin poultry powder. I swept out and dusted the main coop, nests, not the birds yet. This morning I will move mom and babies and clean out and dust their area and dust mama with the powder. Does this sound okay? Is this stuff alright around chicks?

This is so exciting, way to go!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bookworm0124]

I'm having trouble getting my incubator humidity up. I have a janoel12 and whatever I add it's at 50%. I dropped the temp to 98.5 per a guide I found on Metzer. Anyone have suggestions?

 

[jolenesdad]

I'm having trouble getting my incubator humidity up. I have a janoel12 and whatever I add it's at 50%. I dropped the temp to 98.5 per a guide I found on Metzer. Anyone have suggestions?

Do you have space for a sponge or anything in the incubator or is it filled with eggs?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Are there gosling's this morning?

Yes! I have one gosling that hatched last night! I'll have to run out to meet someone and I'll post pictures as soon as I'm back!

 

[SueT]

Here's another pic of orphan Spitzhauben chick hatched on heating pad. What do you all know about how to introduce to the hen and the other 3 chicks, now 2 days old? I plan to wait until it's fluffed out, and very active....it's calling out for mama.....

 

[Bookworm0124]

Do you have space for a sponge or anything in the incubator or is it filled with eggs?

I do have room for a sponge, there are only 4 eggs in it this go around. It's my first time incubating and I wanted to start with eggs from home to learn.

 

[jolenesdad]

I do have room for a sponge, there are only 4 eggs in it this go around. It's my first time incubating and I wanted to start with eggs from home to learn.

Great!

Humidity is mostly about surface area. I’d try and get something in there to give more surface area of water. I’m not too familiar with the incubator. A sponge may dry out quickly and I don’t know if there’s a vent. If there is a vent, then you can put the song under the vent and drip water onto the sponge to keep it wet.

If you don’t have a vent hole I would try something else because you may need to be opening up the small incubator too often to get it wet, defeating the whole purpose. Maybe a small glass jar or something else. I would start with a small sponge, but it up to like an inch square or an inch by two inches.

 

[jolenesdad]

Here's another pic of orphan Spitzhauben chick hatched on heating pad. What do you all know about how to introduce to the hen and the other 3 chicks, now 2 days old? I plan to wait until it's fluffed out, and very active....it's calling out for mama.....
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They are so so so cute! Little wonder chick!!!

I think it just depends on the mama. I don’t have broody experiences so someone will chime in. I feel good, though, that she will take it.

 

[Trux]

I have a chick this morning! The orphan egg hatched at dawn. Against all odds, I really was not expecting success with a heating pad in a plastic tote.
Broody hen and babes are doing fine this morning out in the coop. Next big challenge for this chick is will she adopt it?
View attachment 1812691 Last night we went to TSC and got permethrin poultry powder. I swept out and dusted the main coop, nests, not the birds yet. This morning I will move mom and babies and clean out and dust their area and dust mama with the powder. Does this sound okay? Is this stuff alright around chicks?

Congrats!!!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Here's another pic of orphan Spitzhauben chick hatched on heating pad. What do you all know about how to introduce to the hen and the other 3 chicks, now 2 days old? I plan to wait until it's fluffed out, and very active....it's calling out for mama.....
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Can you keep the chick comfortable for the day and put under mom with the other chicks during the night? Might want to be up the next dawn to make sure it was accepted...