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

[weegarden]

Ugh, no pips yet. They are moving in the eggs, so they are alive, but none pipped yet. Getting nervous. My first-graders are waiting and very anxious to meet the new babes.

 

[Chaos18]

I ain't gotta use extremities like you....

Well choot dat ain't no fun dan.

 

[generaldsherman]

I found 3 presents for me when I got home. Set 4 eggs, 1 was infertile so had my first 100% successful hatch!!!!!!!

one looked weak, gave it some electrolytes and vitamins. Crossing my fingers that it pulls through

 

[BantyChooks]

*sigh* I might have to bow out of the Cinco do Mayo HAL..........























I'm gonna bust if I have to wait ONE MORE DAY to set! This is painful!!
-Banti

 

[Razadia]

I'm back. Sorta. Stuffs been not so great, but starting to look up. I sold off a good bit of my flock to pay for feed. So my Andalusians, Comets, BJGs, and a few others are gone. Including Saint, the not so saintly Chantecler. Two of the spots he got me are infected, but healing now. I was accused of selling one of my Adalusians as a hen, but they think she's a rooster. They'll be getting a rude awakening once Spot starts to lay for them. She was laying when I sold her.

I made a friend out of the lady that bought the rest I had for sale. We have a lot in common and she's really happy with her new birds. I'm glad I was able to do that for her.

Blu has found a job! He hasn't started yet, but he has the job. I won't have to sell any more of my birds to feed the ones that are left. My friendly Buckeye went broody and my silkie's eggs should be hatching any day now.

My horse has been separated from the neighbor's horses and he's much happier now. He isn't being bullied by the mare and he's gaining his weight back. He's almost ready to start working his way back to being ridden regularly. I need to do some basic groundwork with him to refresh his memory, but he's been doing good otherwise. I'm really happy he wants to ride again, but we both need to get our confidence in each other back. It's not going to happen over night, but it will happen.

 

[chickendreams24]

Hey all think I might have gotten missed in the hatch-a-long list
@lindalouly

I had one broody, a buff silkie, due on 4/1 she had a rough time with eggs accidentally getting broken until we seperated her. She ended up hatching three chicks, two black oegb and a silkie. She had one other egg that internally pipped but never externally. Upon opening it up we were shocked to discover a little crossbeak chick, with possible misplaced/missing eye(one was normal) and a complete lack of a right leg. This chick was a slw/buff Orpington mix. One of the little oegb did require some minor assistance when we discovered the membrane was stuck to the back of its head gluing it in the egg.

After two days one of the little black oegb chicks stumbled too close to our Buff Orpington broody due on 4/4. She acted aggressively and pecked the little one to death.

The buff Orpington was sitting on 1 slw egg, and 7 slw/buff Orpington eggs. All hatched perfectly healthy leaving yet more mystery about the little deformed chick.

These two along with two broodies due the week before were our first broodies.

I am currently waiting in the doctors office as I've been running a fever for over a week. Courtesy of some illness complicated by my asthma.

I have been in a haze for over a week now. Well the bator was cleaned and prepped and late on 4/6 in a haze from my cold I decided to jenga eggs into the bator, determined to fit as many of the eggs we had been collecting as possible into the bator. I will tell you idk how many I set. Lol we will be counting them at first candle in the meantime we are running dry and tilting the whole incubator to turn the eggs. I'm hoping we get a good hatch.

Assuming my sudaphed steeped brain did the math correctly we should be locking down on the 25th and hatching on the 28th.

 

[LocalYokel]

I have chicks

 

[darkbluespace]

How exciting, and it must be a little nerve racking for you too. 

The ones I helped are super sleepy but seem like they are doing alright. Their yolks are so huge, I think it is like absorbing a tennis ball! I've been helping them drink a little. #1 is more active and sitting up, not walking a ton yet but is super sweet.

I can't remember the last time I lost this much sleep. I wake up suddenly and have to check on them. It may have been a little premature to put #2 & 3 in the brooder, but #1 was pecking at the styrofoam walls and I always think babies do better together. #4 is still doing its thing, absorbing, so we'll see. It will be a small miracle if it actually hatches, but amazing things do happen.

 

[LocalYokel]

 

[Sueg4332]

Quote: WOW great save!! good luck with them!!

Well, it was 3:45 am when I got up, because I want to go to school and see if I have any pips yet. But, I have to wait for my own kids to get up.

They ride to school with me (out of town.)

I have 7 eggs on Day 21. One was dropped and is cracked pretty badly, on day 19,

but the membrane doesn't appear to be cracked, so I'm hopeful that it will also hatch!

I peeked in yesterday, and panicked when I saw the temp down to 84.5 degrees

, but then I realized that the incubator was in it's hour of cooling mode (Brinsea.) It shouldn't be cooling on day 20, but there was no way to stop it, so hopefully it isn't a big deal. I'm not wild about the small Brinsea, but it is great for my students' ability to view, and when I have 18 little first-graders who all really really want to watch at the same time,

an open view is VERY important!

So, I'm crossing my fingers, and hoping for a nice hatch, with the eggs I do have. I set 42, but I'm still trying to figure out what is going on with Mr. Rooster, and his lady friends. The rest were clear. The first 7 are from another pen. Mr. Rooster and his ladies got feather pluckings in the vent area yesterday,

so hopefully that will help. Good luck to everyone hatching today!

Super excited!

GOOD LUCK!!!! I have a bunch out!!! gotta get pics after coffee starts having effects, IF it has effects lol

More teensie babies!
...& I think I can fit a couple of these in...

how cute!!! you know what types?

Everyone have a great day!

Good morning Mike!!!!!

GOOD MORNING ALL!!!

no didn't wash the eggs. the wheaten marans egg are shiny maybe the flash made them appear shinier