Just set my eggs... UPDATE: They're hatching!

[classicsredone]

I'm going crazy! The chicks were definitely alive going into lockdown...but nothing yet. Grr! It is so hard to sit here and wait.

 

[florasbell]

5 out of 6 have hatched for me they are so funny 4 are in the brooder and one in the bator drying off as she only arrived this morning 2 of them have funny feet i mean the last toe is bent under but they seem to be getting around ok and fast every now and then they flop on there back and kick there legs but they get back up again, VERY LOUD they have food and water which the now two days old ones are trying out they have a teddy which seems to calm them down abit and a nice heat mat under it not like they spend any time sleeping they are scooting about all over the place lol

 

[classicsredone]

I'm crossing my fingers that I'll wake up with some pipped.

Come on chickies! You can do it!

 

[ozark_chickies]

classicsredone
Today 1:53 amI'm crossing my fingers that I'll wake up with some pipped. Come on chickies! You can do it!

Hope you have some pips?

florasbell
Today 1:46 am5 out of 6 have hatched for me they are so funny 4 are in the brooder and one in the bator drying off as she only arrived this morning 2 of them have funny feet i mean the last toe is bent under but they seem to be getting around ok and fast every now and then they flop on there back and kick there legs but they get back up again, VERY LOUD they have food and water which the now two days old ones are trying out they have a teddy which seems to calm them down abit and a nice heat mat under it not like they spend any time sleeping they are scooting about all over the place lol

Congradulations!

I have 6 chickies!

One is spraddle legged

, so we taped it's little legs. Nothing going on with the other eggs, but I keep hoping

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[classicsredone]

I can't see any pips. / I really want to take the incubator in the bathroom after steaming it up to check better, but I'm sitting on my hands.

 

[ozark_chickies]

Hang in there, it's hard but wait on them. Sometimes they take thier time....and it seems like forever.

 

[classicsredone]

I'm trying to keep busy by prepping what food I can for my daughter's birthday part next weekend. Made some salsa to lacto-ferment, and up next we're trying a couple cupcake recipes. Hopefully it'll keep me out of the bedroom where the bator is.

 

[ozark_chickies]

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Keeping busy is the best thing you can do. If you do look in the bator, talk to them, and cheer them on. It seems to help. Well it makes me feel like I'm doing something, and it does seem to get them moving, and after they pip, they will peep back to you

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[feather2]

I have 5 more days for the ducklings. Going into lockdown Sunday. Broody still doing her job with her three. She is up high in the chicken coop. How do the ducklings get down out of there .........or don't they for a while?

 

[classicsredone]

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I think they jump...but I could be wrong.


No pips here so far. Temp & humidity have been spot on the entire time, so who knows what is going on.