Setting Eggs Sept. 24th-Oct. 4th-Last Hatch of the Year. Anyone care to join me?

[chicks4fun]

11 Chicks! 1 dud, 2 havent pipped yet so i left them in the hatcher.

Great news!

 

[debchick]

they pipped last night so it's not bee a full 24 hours but it is so quite and still . . . . .

I feel like if I don't do something they will not make it but then I think I will shrink-wrap them if I do something

Someone remind me why I am doing this. . . . I make myself crazy

Someone please remind me too! Ok so this is what I'm gonna do had one pip last night not due till tommorow. I am not going to do anything. I will keep track of temp and humidity. I will not open bator till they have hatched. I am going to try and chill because I am driving myself crazy. And I am putting my bator in a storage unit at least 500 miles from my house!!!!

 

[chicks4fun]

Someone please remind me too! Ok so this is what I'm gonna do had one pip last night not due till tommorow. I am not going to do anything. I will keep track of temp and humidity. I will not open bator till they have hatched. I am going to try and chill because I am driving myself crazy. And I am putting my bator in a storage unit at least 500 miles from my house!!!!

LOL - the bator I'm using was loaned to me, maybe I should ask her to promise never to let me use it again.
You are in the same mind-set I am, I am online just trying to keep busy and not worry. I have two pips from yesterday. One is in the middle of the egg, that doesn't seem right. The other is a little higher up. Yesterday there was movement and chirps and today NOTHING. I just need a sign. Mine also really were not due until tomorrow, if they had never pipped I wouldn't be in such a state.

 

[Brookhavens]

I think these ones are duds unfortunately...but leave them in for a couple more days if you are unsure then reassess....

Have to agree I think they are duds too. Maybe leave them in for a few more days but after that if nothing is different I would toss them.

 

[Brookhavens]

Just wanted to add some pics. These look so much like Leavingegypt's chicks, as we are working with the same general type cross...only opposite. We are using BO roo over red sex link hens. The hens as chicks were quite a bit darker than these, and they had darker striping and oval shapes on their backs. The BO roo chicks were a good bit lighter than these offspring, so will be interesting to see what they look like as they mature. At any rate, they should be good dual-purpose, friendly adults.








Still have 2 hatchlings in the 'bator, with 2 more trying to progress from a good pip, one more well-pipped but stalled (I am afraid these are shrink-wrapped)...if all goes well with those, that would be 11 of 14 at the start of lockdown. Today would be day 23.
I will NEVER try this again without a thermostat (what were we thinking?!?), but we are well and truly hooked!!! We drove down a country road this past summer, and had to stop for a VERY fancy and full-of-himself roo to cross. I mean, so fancy, we thought about him all day...and many times since. I am considering driving out there to knock on the door to see if they have any hatching eggs they would like to sell me

HUGE thanks to Brookhavens for leading this fearless march!

They are adorable. Thank you for the compliment.

 

[Brookhavens]

11 Chicks! 1 dud, 2 havent pipped yet so i left them in the hatcher.

 

[Brookhavens]

they pipped last night so it's not bee a full 24 hours but it is so quite and still . . . . .

I feel like if I don't do something they will not make it but then I think I will shrink-wrap them if I do something

Someone remind me why I am doing this. . . . I make myself crazy

You still have a while yet. I ask myself the same thing with every hatch I do but yet I still go out and get more eggs.

 

[Brookhavens]

Someone please remind me too! Ok so this is what I'm gonna do had one pip last night not due till tommorow. I am not going to do anything. I will keep track of temp and humidity. I will not open bator till they have hatched. I am going to try and chill because I am driving myself crazy. And I am putting my bator in a storage unit at least 500 miles from my house!!!!

Sounds like a very good plan...LOL

 

[debchick]

LOL - the bator I'm using was loaned to me, maybe I should ask her to promise never to let me use it again.
You are in the same mind-set I am, I am online just trying to keep busy and not worry. I have two pips from yesterday. One is in the middle of the egg, that doesn't seem right. The other is a little higher up. Yesterday there was movement and chirps and today NOTHING. I just need a sign. Mine also really were not due until tomorrow, if they had never pipped I wouldn't be in such a state.

my pip is in the middle too WHAT THAT IS NOT NORMAL

Your killing me here this is my first hatch so I didnt know that ok take a deep breath relax walk away from the bator LOL My back hurts from beding over bator with flashlight looking at eggs

 

[Roxannemc]

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YiPPIE!!!! Here they come!!