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

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When I was convincing my Cochin hen Lena to go broody (I wanted her to have some of the shipped eggs, partly so that I wouldn't have so many chicks under one hen, and partly because Lena has hatched before and I know she is a good mother), I gave her one of her own eggs to sit on. Cochin that she is, she was broody by that night! Since it was only a few days before the shipped Calico eggs arrived, I decided to leave Lena's egg with her. On Friday, it hatched!!
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Today, one of the Calico eggs pipped! I can hear cheeping inside some of the other eggs as well! This is day 20 for them, and hopefully I'll have chicks tonight or tomorrow! :)
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Cynthia12 said:
I knew I had a chick zipping, sat down to talk with my hubby a bit, then remembered the chick, ran..silly me..to get to the bator, rammmed...yes, rammed my pinky toe and the next one into a doorway, really hard. Pretty sure it's broken. :/ Man that hurt! All to watch a chick hatch! It's doing a nice swell up job..I've broken this pinky toe before. I've broken both pinky toes before. Am I a clutz? I guess.
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I fell on top of the brooder. Poor babies in there thought an earthquake had happened. I have my son's wedding to go to next Thursday. Hope I can wear a shoe. :/ I'm so mad at myself. This is the hatch for a friend..A Barnie is first to hatch.
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See, I find opportunities in odd places. To me this the perfect time and the wedding a perfect excuse for sitting down with an ice pack on that poor little toe.....in front of the incubator, of course....until you can get that shoe on or all the eggs hatch, whichever comes first.
 
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Blooie said:
See, I find opportunities in odd places. To me this the perfect time and the wedding a perfect excuse for sitting down with an ice pack on that poor little toe.....in front of the incubator, of course....until you can get that shoe on or all the eggs hatch, whichever comes first.
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LOL..Blooie. It hurts like heck, but it isn't swelling like it did before. Not yet anyway..no blue's, or green colors showing up yet. I really got up too fast from my chair. I have a condition in my ears..so I am dizzy a lot of times. If I still had my long blond hair, there would be a lot of blond jokes coming to mind right now. But seriously..I have less fluid in my left ear than my right. After yrs, and yrs. of wondering what in the world was going on..a few tests came along that explained it. I have bouts with this, it isn't fun. But you would think I would know how to move by now with it...get up slowly, turn slowly.
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Ok guys I've been lurking on here. I set some eggs in the cabinet incubator a few days ago. I have one broody ready to hatch today and one broody only a few days in. Plus the brinsea octogon is due tomorrow. Yikes what was I thinking!!!!
 
DwayneNLiz said:
That's no good! Hopefully you are starting over? Did she not know before you got it
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Yes, I am starting over. That was last year. I now have 13 hens and a rooster plus my first chicks from them :)
She didn't care when I told her. She wouldn't issue me a refund and she wanted her chicks back.
 

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