September Hatch-A-Long!

[Heidisgran]

don't hold your breath....but.....I finished sterilizing all the coops and babies cage!! well I went to reapply the rx and only heard one sneeze....they are all eating and drinking!!! I'm RREEAALLYY hoping we're on the mend

 

[Heidisgran]

has anyone started a October hatch a long?

someone orders some guinea keets then after I started incubating them they decided to buy guinea eggs instead...anywho I'm hatching in Oct.

 

[Jazor]

Thanks for the kind words. My chicks are thoroughly enjoying their temporary brooder. Hoping to get their new home built today/tomorrow and get them a bit more space to grow!

 

[donmhill]

LOCKDOWN for me too :-D

Started with 8 silkie eggs, 1 was unfertile, 1 quit day 9/10, another quit day 14/15 so i'm left with 5 little babies making big movements inside egg

So eggcited!! and very nervous too. Hope i can keep the humidity to where it should be for the next few days.
Woo hoo

they made it this far

Currently at 75% but i'm sure that'll go down within the next few hours (homemade incubator).

Keeping fingers crossed that everyones eggs hatch ok

 

[Heidisgran]

LOCKDOWN for me too :-D

Started with 8 silkie eggs, 1 was unfertile, 1 quit day 9/10, another quit day 14/15 so i'm left with 5 little babies making big movements inside egg

So eggcited!! and very nervous too. Hope i can keep the humidity to where it should be for the next few days.
Woo hoo

they made it this far

Currently at 75% but i'm sure that'll go down within the next few hours (homemade incubator).

Keeping fingers crossed that everyones eggs hatch ok

 

[Steph83]

Put both bators in lockdown last night. Managed to keep from candling till lockdown. Tossed 4 clears from the homemade bator. That leaves 12. 18 in the borrowed bator. Now I get to find out of my homemade bator is any better than the borrowed one I used last month. Temps went crazy when I upped the humidity. But it seems steady at 100 now and humidity is staying between 65-75. Fingers crossed

 

[Heidisgran]

Put both bators in lockdown last night. Managed to keep from candling till lockdown. Tossed 4 clears from the homemade bator. That leaves 12. 18 in the borrowed bator. Now I get to find out of my homemade bator is any better than the borrowed one I used last month. Temps went crazy when I upped the humidity. But it seems steady at 100 now and humidity is staying between 65-75. Fingers crossed

 

[Miss HennyPenny]

I can't stand it! All the chicks....the cuteness!!! The CUTENESS!! I'm afraid that when mine hatch I'm not gonna be able to put them down...is too much cuddling bad for them? My husband keeps telling me that I can't hold them a lot because it's bad for them to be handled.

I know what you mean! Some serious self control needed! It was hard enough when my broody had chicks but it's going to be torture when they're peeping away in the same room!

 

[Heidisgran]

Quote:
keep them warm and your hands clean...but especially if one of them is chirpy I hold them under a wash cloth on my chest to replicate them climbing under a momma...and let them sleep while I watch a tv program

 

[Heidisgran]

Quote:
keep them warm and your hands clean...but especially if one of them is chirpy I hold them under a wash cloth on my chest to replicate them climbing under a momma...and let them sleep while I watch a tv program

the things we go through as mothers lol!! it gives me more pleasure than them