May hatch-a-long

[HenniesInMyHeart]

My 6 Jubilee Orpingtons are starting the hatching journey! ALL 6 made it to lockdown...it would be amazing to get a 100% hatch, especially since losing all my Wyandottes last time. I use my Janoel-10 as a hatching brooder. Here we go! They started rockin' and rollin' this morning!

HENNIES IN MY HEART OFFICIAL PICTURE UPDATE: ALL 6 IN LOCKDOWN!!!

 

[cppeace]

I got to take field trips... to plant trees for the major timber companies in logged-off areas. Didn't even get paid for it! That was the extent of my farm experience.

Lol In west Texas I only remember one field trip. It was to a cattle ranch. I remember I kept a piece of a cow's ear after they had docked it to tag them.
When we moved to Louisiana I don't remember there being any farmy or natural field trips but I was raised farmy. So, we always had a garden and always had farm animals. I was raised homesteading before I'd ever heard the word lol.

 

[HenniesInMyHeart]

First PIP! Hooray! Noticed late this afternoon!
They aren't technically due till tomorrow, but none should be born before midnight...even though it's an estimate anyway! SOOOOOO excited! This little one pipped the wrong end and I did break lockdown with hands under a hot moist cloth as another member suggested in order to make sure s/he could breathe. The one time I didn't check a wrong-end pipper, the membrane was too thick down there and the poor baby couldn't puncture it and drowned. I didn't think they could pip the shell but not pierce the membrane at the same time. This time, I had to make sure. I never, ever, want to see a perfectly healthy chick die for no reason. Who knows why they get malpositioned? I can't help but wonder if it's from shipping somehow, but who knows. Fortunately, this baby had broken through and I was able to visualize enough of their beak and hear a peep to make sure they are getting air! SO HAPPY!!!!!

HENNIES IN MY HEART OFFICIAL PICTURE UPDATE: ONE PIP OF 6!!!

 

[HeritageHenNut]

Gah, ten days to go and I am so nervous. I've hatched tons of chicks & ducks but it's my first crack at the Turkey can.

 

[sawilliams]

Afterthought: Are those big huge pics annoying? I can just put them in thumbnail mode.
Oh, and tomorrow I am setting more BLRW's! Silkie eggies should be here soon, too!

No i love it they are so cute i almost want one... But I wouldn't want to still your thunder

 

[HenniesInMyHeart]

No i love it they are so cute i almost want one... But I wouldn't want to still your thunder

Awww really? I just went on an embarrassed delete spree! Sorry!
And NO WAY you aren't stealing anything! I make avies for whoever wants them! Keeps my hands busy during lockdown, on the mouse and off the bator!

 

[HenniesInMyHeart]

How are you enjoying the premier 1 plate? I'm using mine for the first time. I have to keep checking to see if they're alive, because they're so quiet under there!

I have that plate and they love it! QUIET CHICKS ARE HAPPY CHICKS! It seems off to people who used heating lamps forever, but these are sooooooooooo much better! More energy-efficient, chicks get to develop a normal circadian rhythm (natural day/night cycle instead of 24/7 lamp light, it's more like the heat and overhead security that mama hen provides, and this results in HAPPIER, HEALTHIER BABIES! Of course the Mama Hen Heating Pad is good too but I love my brooder plate because it's easily disinfected.

Enjoy your incubation! I don't know how you managed so many years in between! I don't want to stop incubating and admittedly felt a twinge of jealousy. I have 6 in the brooder that hatched a few days ago. I am wanting to fire it back up! I have a broody sitting on 3 eggs as well. It's all I would give her since she is a first time broody! They are due in 10 days. And I ordered shipping eggs this week. They will ship in 2-3 weeks!!!

Girl you are like me! LOL! We are hooked hatchiepeeps!

Oh, and tomorrow I am setting more BLRW's! Silkie eggies should be here soon, too! And I have had 3 bators going, with more Coronation Sussex and Jubilees! You know you're addicted when you can't stop buying bators either (and yes I love the JANOEL-12 TOO! I have one, just sold another one). I am loving my Brinsea Octagon Advances, too.

 

[HenniesInMyHeart]

PIP PIP, HOORAY!!! 2nd meeper has pipped; this one in the right place! Lotsa peeping going on in the 'bator!

 

[Mraya]

i tryed to mark my broodys eggs and she got off the nest for a day and a half but i did it in the day time should i mark them at night or will i break her

I would mark them at night. Question is she really broody? I have moved my broody hens off the nest and they get wright back on again.

 

[Mraya]

You could always let the broodies start them. If they get up when the 12 hatch will your incubator be free for you to finish them off?

Yes my incubator should be free by then.