Need hatch buddies for or close to the 18th!

[Cynthia12]

Loving the pictures! And good luck to those still waiting..little stinks, come when they feel like it, imagine that!

 

[stines4]

thanks everyone! i just got home and now have 17 babies and one zipping and a few more to go! more pics to come!

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

Question: I have a chick that needed "assistance" because there is a sticky gooey substance on it. Looks like... kinda like merang. (You know like the white stuff on a pie) Or like carmelized sugar. It's very odd. Any guesses? I'm wondering if I should give it a QTip bath with warm water? It's been 24 hours and it's still keeping some of it's feathers stuck. It should be fluffy by now, but it's still like dried goo.

Thoughts?

ETA: I just found a couple posts. One says it happens when the humidity is too high, one says too low. One says the chick will be fine, one says the chicks often don't make it. AHHH!! Contradicting posts!

 

[Poultrybonkers]

The ones that hatched

 

[Garrisonkidsduo2]

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I will have to try this. Do you leave it whole or do you cut it?

You leave the tube whole, you might have to push the tube together on one end for the egg to set if they are small eggs.

 

[Cynthia12]

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You have babies! That makes me happy!

And cute ones at that...

Oh, have to ask, what color is that one in the last picture, not the little chipmunk brown one, but the almost silvery color..very pretty!

 

[Poultrybonkers]

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You have babies! That makes me happy!

And cute ones at that...

Oh, have to ask, what color is that one in the last picture, not the little chipmunk brown one, but the almost silvery color..very pretty!

That would be wet yellow fluff.

 

[jeslewmazer]

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Sometimes perfectly healthy chicks will even die. I have had "sticky" chicks do just fine. I think you might of had humidity problems, but not positive. I do think you should remove as much of the substance as you can without causing too much stress or draft. I normally just use a warm damp paper towel, and just lightly wipe out what will come off without any force. The chick still has a chance if it sucked everything up.

 

[jeslewmazer]

Mine are due tomorrow, but one is already started.

 

[jen85]

Baby number one is here!! Sooo loud and lots of energy! I put him in a paper towel lined little bowl because he was doing flips all over the incubator knocking over all the eggs. He climbed out and is almost able to reach the heating elements... I am going to go ahead and get him out in a little bit. He gets so happy when I look in the window at him! So cute

. It's a frizzle cochin. Did I mention it is really loud? Lol.