March hatch along

[subhanalah]

If you have the time, I would try every 5-15 minutes. Maybe that's asking too much lol.
Do you have the poultry nutri-drench?

 

[carcar80]

No, I already tried again

I knew there was a reason I showered & washed my hair before bed.

No, sorry forgot to say earlier.. No vitamins. Had thought of getting some today but it may be moot by then.

 

[carcar80]

28 breaths per min.. Compared that to one of my sleeping brooder babies who was 32, so not far off.

 

[carcar80]

Ack- sudden change- I think we're done. Breathing agonal now..

 

[carcar80]

Well shoot- now breathing again. Okay. Well. We will see how s/he does today.

Thanks so much for your help.

 

[subhanalah]

Praying for your baby

 

[carcar80]

Called hubby when I got to work to be sure my temp isn't too high in the bator. He looked and said, "THIS thing ain't gonna make it!?"

I said, "is it breathing??" He said yes but not well.

So, we'll see. Maybe it'll surprise us!

 

[johnderosa1]

Looks like my final hatch will be 7 of 11. I had to help the last one out of the shell but the rest hatched nicely on their own . I havent checked the remaining eggs yet do there is a remote chance that one is still cooking but I doubt it. I am happy with the results but was hoping to do a bit better. Definitely much better than last time when i got 6 out of 29. Now the bad news... One of the chicks I put into the brooder was belly up this morning and i dont think it will survive. It was totally fine last night, nicely fluffed up and seemingly healthy. I dont know what happened. I couldnt even try to help since i had to go to work. Bummer. Ive never had a healthy chick go south before so i was really surprised to see it. I hope nothing happens to any of the others as these are my lavender ameraucanas and i am trying to build up my numbers a bit and am behind in the number of chicks i wanted to hatch due to the problems from last time. I was hoping to have 15 by now and if I lose this one i will only have eight... I am going to put another dozen or son the incubator around the 17th but that puts me two months behind uuuggghh!

 

[Joshua G]

Here are the new chicks!
Sorry that some aren't the best quality pictures but I've determined that chicks don't like to have their pictures taken.
I just blame it on the camera.









Here's one of the bearded ones.
I have never had a bearded chick before so this is pretty neat.





Our favorite "little blue" (even though he's gray)





I think this one is different because of it's face.

 

[Kassaundra]

Cute babies, I love bearded chicks and NN chicks and the best are bearded nn chicks! lol


I take lots of chick pics and the best way to get good shots is a helper, so you can concentrate on getting the pic while the helper concentrates on making sure the chick is safe and not running off.