March 2022 Hatch-A-Long

[LadiesAndJane]

Tomorrow is lockdown day!! Woohoo! Gonna turn off the turner, put down shelf liner, put in the small egg carton for the saddled eggs and then hope for the best! While I know the Polish are two days earlier, I feel like the d’Uccles will be okay this added couple of days in lockdown? Yeah?

You can wait to increase humidity until DAY 19 if the air cells look good, so the d’uccles can catch up a bit. Split the difference so to speak.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

No, no idea. They left a role of garbage bags behind. The police has them now. Cut a whole into my fence and just opened the outside coops. I had only closed them with carabiner since I have the whole lot locked in the front gate. But of course they cut into the fence... there was nothing I could have done. No finger prints.. so they had gloves on.

No idea... but looking back some members of our breeding club noticed strange people in the area... and I noticed a black Mercedes right outside the night before.. driving very slowly past as if to scope out the place... even backing up again to peek thru the bushes where there is a gap. I did not get a license plate number as it was too far away. I could have been someone who wanted free chicken... another breeder who envies my birds... or people who take them into other countries where the breed is not available.

Not knowing is pretty hard....

This is just terrible. I am so sorry this happened.

 

[Poodlemum]

Todays the day!!!!

Is this looking ok?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Todays the day!!!!

Is this looking ok?
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Yes, looks like a normal PIP!

 

[Poodlemum]

Woohoo!!! Thanks @LadiesAndJane

 

[Poodlemum]

Moving along this morning

 

[abpatchy]

This is just terrible. I am so sorry this happened.

Thank you!

 

[Poodlemum]

My 3 year old meeting the chick: Awwwww, she’s awake!!! We need to tuck her in!!! Like a sleeping bag!

 

[Poodlemum]

We dry hatched (25% average humidity) and now that baby is here, our humidity is at 80%. Do I need to remove some water?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

We dry hatched (25% average humidity) and now that baby is here, our humidity is at 80%. Do I need to remove some water?

You can. I use a syringe to pull the water out of the wells. Each time a chick hatches the humidity will go up. You can also just lift the incubator lid slightly for a moment which will release some of the humidity. It won’t hurt for the humidity to be high at this point.