March Hatch A Long... anyone with me??

[vfem]

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Congrats!

I'm watching my first hatch get so big already, and my second hatch is right around the corner... I'm so excited. I'm trying to live through everyone else's hatches in the mean time.

 

[sandracollins]

4 out one zipped still nothing from the last one but not bad so far for shipped eggs

will post pictures tomorrow when mum settles down she is a first time mum and seems a bit nervous but she has been a great broody, this is her second time to be broody since November

 

[Chickenrandomness]

how do you people cope with the last week of incubation?! lol, i am just exploding with excitment!!!!!!!!

 

[MMPoultryFarms]

Yay for march hatches.

 

[farmerChef]

All 3 Dom chicks have hatched
Total Hatched: 23/41
0/12 store eggs(all clear)
8/8 "Fuzzy"
4/5 CornishX
4/4 GameX
3/4 Dominque
2/3 DorkingX
1/3 LeghornX
1/2 OEGB

Set 9 eggs tonite
3 GameX
3 CornishX
2 LeghornX
1 poss. Dom (from a friend)
will be setting more this weekend, was supp to be this weekend, thats why I only had 9 to set.
getting Dom eggs, turken/SLW and SLW, olive egg Orps and Colum Wyan from lockedhearts

 

[Coldweatherbirds]

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I was too scared to do an eggtopsy on the quitter I took out at lock-down. Um... do eggtopsies smell? I have a very sensitive nose.

LoL, I can't believe I'm freaked out. I'm a nurse! But I really don't want to deal with bloody, yolky, baby birdie parts if they are going to smell bad too.

 

[just2rosey]

I have never had an eggotopsy smell. Even when they seem to have died several days before I open them up. I am only on my third hatch, but my first two were from shipped eggs that had traveled a LONG way, so I had a high percentage of losses. Stick some vicks sav up your nose first, it would block the smell. Just a thought. Sorry for the losses.

 

[chickette]

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I was too scared to do an eggtopsy on the quitter I took out at lock-down. Um... do eggtopsies smell? I have a very sensitive nose.

LoL, I can't believe I'm freaked out. I'm a nurse! But I really don't want to deal with bloody, yolky, baby birdie parts if they are going to smell bad too.

I felt the same way about eggtopies

but I did find it to be a great learning experience. I think that every little bit of info helps me with this these lovable things in my life called"chickens" I did not find it to smell any different then the incubator after the hatch is done

Good luck with your bath of chickies

Lockdown was today for us!

 

[Gerbil]

Some eggtopsies do smell, it depends on the age.

One of mine did reek pretty bad, but it had died a long while before the others.
Odds are if it made it till just about pipping time, it hasn't been dead long and it won't really have a smell.

I know from experience.
I have a sensitive nose aswell as a sensitive stomach, not much fun to have on a farm!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Did you hatch all those out?

I've been having alot of power outages and I just hope the eggs are okay!! I have 56 eggs in 2 incubator..my homemade bator stopped working, we have to get a new plug for it.

that it works!!