My first hatching experience Sad update page 9

[Shelly_WNC]

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!! love seeing the pics too.

 

[brendapa]

Tala!

Congratulations!

You were up past 4 AM!, for pete's sake.
Just waiting for you to get up this AM for an update....

Thanks for sharing the pip, zip & chick pix!

brenda

 

[LindseyM12]

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Here's some popcorn!!! lol

 

[Tala]

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I went to bed just after 3, guess the forum's time is a bit off...

Anyway!

I had 6 chicks at 6.30am when I got up to pee and checked, I had 7 when DH came home and I woke up around 9, and now it's 11 and I have 8 babies!!!
The humidity is up to 70% with all this hatching, the windows are foggy and the chicks aren't drying as fast as I thought they would. lol But they are starting to fluff

Here's the "problem" --- I bought a clear plastic tote for these guys right, well then I bought 8 3-day old BCM babies and put in it......so now I need another brooder!!!!!!!!

Working on getting pix uploaded

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In these two pix you can see eggs that pipped yesterday, now have bigger holes in them, so I expect more fuzzies to come out!!

 

[Tala]

Have a white egg zipping, and 2 others thinking about zipping!

WOO HOO!!

Pic when it started, now he's halfway around!

ETA: One of the yellow chicks has one eye that doesnt' seem to open. Maybe it has hatch gunk on it??? Dunno it appears to be ok, just stays closed. Hopefully it just has sticky goop on it and will be OK after I get him out.

ETA:: The zipping chick is out, so the live beak count is up to 9.
Still got a pipper in an egg that is sticking his tongue in and out so he's just absorbing yolk I guess, and the EE egg with a hole in the side is not really doing anything....Still have several pips that I hope hatch out!!

 

[Tala]

10th chick is on his way out!!

 

[fordmommy]

 

[Chicky Tocks]

 

[newduckie]

ETA: One of the yellow chicks has one eye that doesnt' seem to open. Maybe it has hatch gunk on it??? Dunno it appears to be ok, just stays closed. Hopefully it just has sticky goop on it and will be OK after I get him out.

One of my baby ducks that hatched last Friday night had an eye that wouldn't open either. It looked ok but just wouldn't open. Took two days and now, I don't have any idea which one it was. Not sure what the problem was, but it did resolve itself.

 

[Tala]

I'm going to take a shower and use the humid bathroom to get the chicks out tonight, it's just getting really CROWDED in there!

I counted 14 babies when I came home from work, and some of the green eggs hatched -- one of them is dark blackish brown while most of the chicks are half Leghorn and pretty light colored. Brownie stands out!