Mahonri's 2nd Annual NYDHatch, watching them grow...

[Raven1]

Thank you all for the nice comments and yeah babies!

 

[gryeyes]

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I have been trying to get a good photo of my 3 newest hatchlings with their feather duster mommy. They're bantam breeds so they are especially small, and the Porcelain D'Uccles chick kept trying to get under the other two chicks, which are Golden Penciled, or Spangled Hamburgs. So I put the cheap, yellow feather duster in the brooder with them (this one is in the bathroom - they are far too small to add to the much older chicks in the ginormous brooder in the shed).

Immediately, all three snuggled into it.

 

[RareBreedFancier]

Congrats Kathy! Both those pics are so cute!

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

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Very pretty!!!!!!

 

[shesaredroan]

Gryeyes........feather duster mommy...........YES!!!
I started using an old turkey feather duster in my brooder, as a "mommy replacement" not long ago. My peeps are so much more relaxed....it's so funny to see them jump up on it, or snuggling up under the feathers.....happily peeping the whole time.
I first saw this suggestion here at BYC and thought it made a lot of sense!!!
Glad to learn you believe in this technique too.

 

[acid_chipmunk]

I have 4 new BLRW babies, 1 zipping, and 2 more pipped right now!

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

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Congrats!!

 

[Mahonri]

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................. and you're very good at hatching ! Congrats

Great News!

 

[Hurley]

Dude! Du-du-du-DUDE! Yesterday they weren't, but today they are!

(Forgive the first time chick egg incubator, but I thought they were toast yesterday.)

OK, so l can't see much other than a darker yolk shaped blob in the Marans and Ameraucana eggs, but of my 5 white silkie eggs that got held up in shipping during subzero WI temps, 2 of the 5 definitely have veins and a little embryo visible today! The other 3 had 1 with large pores and 2 with big air sacs about 1/4 of the area of the egg. So, considering l figured them all for eggsicle goners, 2 developing eggs of the 5 is fantastic news!

</newbie exuberance>

 

[Rathbone]

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I had never thought of a feather duster. I made a false mommy too. I made a basic pillowcase for the heating pad. And then to its surface I sewed strips of floppy flannel that hang down. I put the heating pad on low and the pillowcase has straps that I thread through holes I cut in the side of the cardboard brooder box so it is suspended above the chicks. They nestle into it like it were a mommy.