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[SilverPhoenix]

Sorry to post so much today, but the first incubator serama chick is out! Adorable, too!

And there's another that has a fairly large hole but hasn't quite gotten the idea of zipping yet. Also, looks like two other pips!

It's so hard to be patient when hatching is so exciting!

I need to go draw or something so I don't check the incubator every five minutes.

 

[gryeyes]

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I went to Starbucks with my laptop and did what I do at home: logged into my e-mail, logged onto BYC, noodled around on eBay. But I couldn't just get up and check the 'bator from there. I got involved in stuff and a good two hours passed. One coffee, one refill, and two Outrageous Oatmeal Cookies.

The other thing I did was go to a Goodwill Store and look around for stuff, just picking up this or that - like very big coffee mugs in which to make the 5 Minute Microwave Chocolate Cake. Spent an entire 7 bucks and about 45 minutes or so, there.

 

[SilverPhoenix]

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I went to Starbucks with my laptop and did what I do at home: logged into my e-mail, logged onto BYC, noodled around on eBay. But I couldn't just get up and check the 'bator from there. I got involved in stuff and a good two hours passed. One coffee, one refill, and two Outrageous Oatmeal Cookies.

The other thing I did was go to a Goodwill Store and look around for stuff, just picking up this or that - like very big coffee mugs in which to make the 5 Minute Microwave Chocolate Cake. Spent an entire 7 bucks and about 45 minutes or so, there.

Thanks for the ideas to pass the time! They help!

 

[txmel]

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here is a pic of my little serama now. she (

) likes to be held and between my 3 girls gets held a lot.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/46766_dscf2687.jpg
edited to put in pic

awwh how cute. she looks partridgey. is she?

i'm not sure what color she will be. she is my first serama chick.

 

[outback hatcher]

8 out of 14 so far. 3 of 6 Welsummers. 5 of 8 RIR:

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

My 42 Button Quail eggs are going into lockdown Thursday!

Finger's Crossed!

 

[undergroundchickens]

I got my next batch of eggs in the bator now. They are Wheaten Ameraucanas due in 21 days.

 

[Rozzie]

How much you wanna bet the rest of my babies hatch tomorrow when I'll be so busy I can hardly think straight, instead of Thursday when I can watch them all day if I want to?

They could hatch either day.

All 3 button quail are doing well.

I am now waiting on the 12 coturnix eggs. I have not candled them BUT
1 is damaged (probably no good BUT I smeared it with glue in the damaged area and it doesn't stink yet. It's been five days since then.)
2 or 3 feel lighter than they should. However, it's not over until a couple of days after all the others hatch!

So, probably 8 hatchable eggs.

The ones that feel too light are NOT the fault of my incubator. I suspect it's the female bird in this case. Her eggs are sometimes abnormal. About every 3 weeks she lays a soft shell, even though she has plenty of calcium. She also lays thin shelled eggs on occasion -- so thin they break in the nest. Once in a while she has a blood spot in her eggs, too. I figure her eggs probably aren't hatchable, but tossed them in as extras just in case.

 

[cthrash1]

Marans number one hatched this morning(a day early)... Three to go. Another is peeping in the air cell but hasn't pipped yet that I can see, it is the other big egg by the thermometer. The other two eggs are smaller like maybe pullet eggs... Hope they all hatch!

 

[cthrash1]

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Won't be hatching anymore but will watch the October thread in 21 days... HAPPY HATCHING!!!