September Hatch-A-Long!

[Heidisgran]

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I can see what I'll be adding to my flock in the spring

 

[MyNewHobby]

Day 21 here for my Muscovy eggs.....if these were chickens It would be hatch day, but 2 more weeks to go. The waiting is driving me nuts!!!! All nine are growing and moving beautifully. My mama ducks 5 eggs in her nest are doing fantastic as well. I'm starting to think she was just laying to many eggs to properly incubate them all. She is a small female and her little clutch of 5 fits under her perfectly....she laid a total of 17, 3 perished. I'm glad I decided to take some of her eggs.....I think she's going to finally have a successful hatch!!! I've already picked my colors for my next set of Cochin bantam eggs which I'm planning on ordering as soon as these babies get close to hatching!!!

Heidisgran, so sorry about your turkey and illnesses. DeannaA, good luck with your turkey's and please post photos. Steph83 Congrats on the new babies!!! mylittlechicken congrats. To all of you that I've missed happy hatching!!! For all the losses I'm sorry

 

[MyNewHobby]

Wow, sounds like a lot of activity in the wee hours of the morning. Congrats on the new chickies and good hatching vibes to the turkey chickie.

If I may, I am sending photos of Ms. Clessie and her 2 chickies that she hatched early morning too. (7 to go for her, waiting...waiting.)
We set our bator chickie eggs after she went broody, so they are on day #14. Thanks, Chirp

Beautiful!!!

 

[Jazor]

Still trying to decide which one is the "rare exotic" chick included with my order from the hatchery. The Barred Rocks all look pretty similar. If I had to choose one that may be different it would be:

 

[celonecoop]

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Oh wow, that was maybe the saddest and most disturbing chick hatching death I've ever dealt with

I candled the possible double yolker again trying to understand what i was seeing. It was like there was an air cell in both ends. I could see a beak in what looked like the extra air cell in the pointy end and the air cell was filling with what appeared to be blood while I watched. I didn't know what to do so I tried opening the right end in case there were 2 chicks and the one at the other end was ok. All I could see was yolk and a foot pushing on the membrane - there was already 2 tiny tears in the membrane - 1 leaking blood and one leaking yolk. I doubted anything was going to live through this but figured I'd try. I poked a tiny hole in the pointy end air cell and there was indeed an open chamber. I opened it some more to see what was going on and a chicks whole head had ripped through the membrane in that end and blood was trickling in filling the chamber. I didn't know what to do. I think the other twin had died because there was also rotting liquid yolk - like a dark gray green liquid leaking out of the membrane and the chick was swimming in it and gasping. There was nothing I could do except talk to her and pet her with the end of a q-tip trying to clear her nostrils and mouth of all the rotten fluid and blood. She just gasped a couple more times and died. Poor sweet baby. I will make double sure never to set an egg that big again just in case.

at I'm afraid of I have a twins in this hatch too due for lockdown in sat I didn't know it was a double yoker until day 14 when I saw 2 peeps in there! I'm sorry your little guys didn't make it :0(

 

[chirpingcricket]

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at I'm afraid of I have a twins in this hatch too due for lockdown in sat I didn't know it was a double yoker until day 14 when I saw 2 peeps in there! I'm sorry your little guys didn't make it :0(

So, so sorry. Very sad situation to be in, thanks for sharing this experience with us...

 

[familypendragon]

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at I'm afraid of I have a twins in this hatch too due for lockdown in sat I didn't know it was a double yoker until day 14 when I saw 2 peeps in there! I'm sorry your little guys didn't make it :0(

I will have my everything crossed for you that your twins make it

Two white leghorn cross eggs in the bator due today and both are pipped already!

 

[familypendragon]

So, so sorry. Very sad situation to be in, thanks for sharing this experience with us...

I figure we all learn more from each other than alone - I'd love to spare anyone else that experience for sure :/

 

[MyNewHobby]

I figure we all learn more from each other than alone - I'd love to spare anyone else that experience for sure

Oh no, I'm so sorry.

Good luck celonecoop with your twins!

I don't think I'd be brave enough to try hatching twins!

 

[jklyles1]

My little wrong end pipper is still shaking and has made another small hole. I told all the others they can only pip and hatch between the hours of 7am-10pm!!! I have got to get some sleep.