"Springing in the Chicks" 2016 April Hatch-a-Long Hosted by Mike & Sally

[Yorkshire Coop]

Wonder what fun and funky is.?

Fun and funky to me is something like this ~

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Here they are. One has curled toes. I have her in corrective shoes.

Sweet

Good luck with the curled toes

 

[generaldsherman]

Wire* hanging down
Thanks dumb auto spell.

Hate auto spell. It kept "correcting" the word 'nest' to 'best'. SAID NEST AND MEANT IT STUPID PROGRAM!!

 

[generaldsherman]

get some worms have your husband or wife chop it in to small pieces. they need protein

poor little deary didn't make it quite long enough to get to the rescue shelter. At least I made it's last hours more comfortable I guess.

 

[h2oratt]

Sweet

Good luck with the curled toes

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Very eggcited. My first hatch. I have two in the bator that I assume are Dis but not sure I want to do an eggtopsy. I giving them another day.

 

[Jessimom]

Here they are. One has curled toes. I have her in corrective shoes.

Adorable!! Good luck with the curled toes. I have one that has one normal foot, the other curled. It seems to be doing ok with 1 shoe, but it looks pretty funny!

 

[wornoutmomto3]

What do you think caused them to go bad, @wornoutmomto3
? I'm asking because I'm a n00b at this and looking to learn from others' mistakes if possible. (or if it was a mistake that caused it)

The first bad hatch was cooked. It was a classroom hatch and someone removed the temp sensor and over-heated the incubator. The second bad hatch may be the incubator was adversely damaged in the prior hatch. This third hatch is split between an old homemade 'bator (where i have to hand turn) and the problem 'bator(with auto turner). Hopefully, any issues have been worked out and there will be a bunch little babies running around a brooder by the end of the month.

 

[billiejw89]

I got my serama eggs down to about 43% humidity...I will candle again tomorrow. (Day 11)

My LG with 34 eggs is doing great. I candled some of the lighter colored eggs and could see small veins. (Day 5)

I just went out to look for eggs and one of my BO hens fluffed up and growled at me. I collected from the other nests (5 eggs) and placed them next to her and walked away. I came back and she has pulled all the eggs under her so I'm thinking we have a broody! I'm not sure how many she was already on, maybe 1 or 2. I will give her whatever other eggs we get today as well.

 

[feedman77]

First poult of the year.

Looks to be pure palm.

1 out.
1 half out.
3 more pipped out of 8 eggs.

 

[Balloonjuice]

The first bad hatch was cooked. It was a classroom hatch and someone removed the temp sensor and over-heated the incubator. The second bad hatch may be the incubator was adversely damaged in the prior hatch. This third hatch is split between an old homemade 'bator (where i have to hand turn) and the problem 'bator(with auto turner). Hopefully, any issues have been worked out and there will be a bunch little babies running around a brooder by the end of the month.

Glad to hear it's something correctable. It's amazing to me that my grandparents were ever able to incubate a chick. Of course I think hens were broodier back in the day - or at least they would keep older hens around if they got broody. Whatever the reasons I'm looking forward to this (my first) hatch. All my eggs are collected from my current hens. On day seven I had two clears and I broke one egg setting it (it rolled off the table - not into the 'bator). So I'm working with 38 eggs. I will need to add a second brooder....

My roos are both RIRs, but my hens are a mix of RIR and Black Star (1/2 RIR). It will be interesting to see what we come up with. We're at just about the 1/2 way mark today.

I don't have a "classroom" helping me, but I do have two grandchildren (nearly 7 and nearly 5 - both in May). They make it a lot of fun. And they are going to be SOOOOO egg cited when the eggs hatch out. My granddaughter (the almost 5 yo) is already talking about how KYUTE they're going to be.