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

[mamahmendez]

Weird news from the emu front... Unfortunately one of our chicks did not survive the night. It was pretty weak. It might have lived if I was providing around the clock care but I was just so tired I had to get a good nights sleep.

The weird part is that the 4th chick is still alive and has actually absorbed most all of its yolk... four days later! Everyday I was surprised that it was still alive. It was kind of gasping for air so I opened up the top of the egg so it could move its neck a bit and it is no longer gasping. Just chillin in the egg. I covered it with damp paper towels and gave it a good pep talk.

I wish I had left the chick that died in the incubator now, but I really didn't think this last egg was going to do much. I don't know if it will live but I am amazed by it so far, so I am going to hope for the best!

Best wishes.

Hi everyone!! I just had a broody hatch out some mixes last weekend--- this weekend I finished hatching Chocolate Cuckoo Orpington and Crested Cream Legbars... Sunday I have more Cream Legbars to hatch as well as some of my Welsummer over CCL Roo mixes Also have a broody in the coop due in about another week and a half

Cute. Cute. And cute!

 

[sasafras4u2]

Hi everyone!! I just had a broody hatch out some mixes last weekend--- this weekend I finished hatching Chocolate Cuckoo Orpington and Crested Cream Legbars... Sunday I have more Cream Legbars to hatch as well as some of my Welsummer over CCL Roo mixes Also have a broody in the coop due in about another week and a half

oh so cute love them babies

 

[sasafras4u2]

No pips yet anxiously waiting!!!!!!!

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Hi everyone!! I just had a broody hatch out some mixes last weekend--- this weekend I finished hatching Chocolate Cuckoo Orpington and Crested Cream Legbars... Sunday I have more Cream Legbars to hatch as well as some of my Welsummer over CCL Roo mixes Also have a broody in the coop due in about another week and a half

Congratulations!!!!

 

[Razadia]

3 out of 4 viable eggs have hatched under Azura! I am so excited. I think I put one or 2 FBCM eggs under her and one of them hatched! One chick is still working on hatching, but Azura is off the nest with her 3 babies right now. I'll get pics up when I can.

 

[Cynthia12]

No pips yet anxiously waiting!!!!!!!

Good luck, I know the feeling. I have two little black bantam cochins now.

 

[kybyxbee]

One of my week old Svarthonas sounds like a cricket chirping, Kinda cute, kinda annoying. Since he is 1/3 of the size of the other chicks he is just too cute.

by the way, where does everyone get the cute emojis? My iPad does not have them, if I need to download, please share

 

[chickenjoe12]

hatching 8 eggs each has a name on them (shanique,ralph,lofty,dizzy,pilchard,bird,travis and spud) under rico (a booted bantam) and they should hatch on the 24th and she is such a good mum last time she hatched all her eggs. so eggcited

 

[darkbluespace]

@Sally Sunshine
Hatch-a-long update
Incu #1 on lockdown just now
It's been a near total loss

7/41 still going
1/6 Cuckoo Bluebar- (MPC) clears, quitters, saddle cells. The one remaining doesn't look too promising
0/10 White Leghorn- (mail) clears, saddle cells and scrambled eggs
3/18 (our birds) EE, White Plymouth mutts- threw them in after a no show for the fertile eggs x 3 days, early quitters -100% fertile
3/7(our birds) EE- same as above, no shows, early quitters- 100% fertile

Incu #2 (day 16)
8/10 White Plymouths (mail) 1 clear, 1 late quitter
9/12 EE- Erminett type (BYC auction/mail) 1 clear, 2 early quitters- saddled air cells
25/30 Nanci's mutts (coworker) 2 clears, 3 early quitters

Incu #3 (day 15)
1/7 Sebastopol geese (coworker Nanci) 5 clears, 1 early quitter - She's bringing me more to try in a week or two!

Incu #4 (day 4)
17 Columbian Wyandottes (mail)
12 Nanci's mutts (coworker)
Also in #4 (staggered)
10 Olive Eggers- Marans/Ameraucana & Ameraucana/Marans (BYC auction/mail)

Still to come:
12 BLRW
12 Langshan

Hoping for an uneventful hatch- it's been a horrible few days here. After returning from a cousin's funeral (breast cancer), we found our one and only Polish, Sir Topham Hatt dead. No signs of trauma. Quarantined that coop and treated for coccidiosis as one other bird was acting sluggish. All are doing well now, still quarantined. My young son and I cried like babies, we just adored that bird! I deal with death every day (hospice), but I think dealing with such personal loss brought everything to a head. My youngest (3 yrs) grandson came home from the hospital today (pneumonia), my daughter can't convince him to take his meds or breathing treatment, because only Nahma can do it. So I get to give medicine, and breathing treatment, and rock and comfort my precious boy. He's doing much better, and little does he know, he was comforting me.

Just wanted to send some love. . I have noticed that often times when I loose a bird, especially a special bird, it is at a time when emotions are right at the surface. Sometimes I feel like birds almost sacrifice themselves for my well being. One of my first lessons in incubating was that the love I have for anything lives on even after it is gone and I have been reminded of that many times by my birds and animals.

 

[Balloonjuice]

Got back from town and check the 'bator. Still sitting at 69% RH. Had a second pip. First one had not started zipping as far as I could tell.