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

[Chaos18]

Oh, having one granddaughter with Autism (high functioning) and her little sister with Spina Bifida and more severe Autism I can sure relate!! We have a thread here for kids with disabilities and chickens if you'd like to join us! Let me know and I'll post you a link when I get home, if our thread honchos wouldn't mind a momentary hijack.....

I'm not a thread honcho by any stretch of the imagination but hijack away as far as I'm concerned.

 

[flocktastic]

For anyone who hatches in hovabators, little giants, and the like...

What is your protocol on removing chicks that have hatched and dried off? Do you just leave everyone until the hatch is complete?? Do you remove some when things start to get crowded??

I had a FULL bator for the EHAL and there was NO way uncoils have left then all in there to trample each other and the eggs that were trying to hatch still.
I had a couple of chicks that had pipped but weren't able to fully hatch...I believe both were turned over by the other chicks moving about and then they DIS. However, I can't help but thinking what if "I" caused their deaths by opening the bator super quickly but several times to remove chicks as they ran out of space?

At lockdown I put aquarium tubing and a sponge in a bowl to keep humidity where it should be and that way I didn't have to open the bator for that. But once several had hatched and it became overly crowded, I felt that I couldn't leave them in there.

Ideas? Thoughts? I'm expecting pips to start Fri or Sat here and don't know if I should try anything different this time around...thanks!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

He is 14 on the autism spectrum which is why I really didn't want to tell him right before school about the dead chick since that could have been a root to a meltdown later today.

Probably a good idea, not right before school

Oh, having one granddaughter with Autism (high functioning) and her little sister with Spina Bifida and more severe Autism I can sure relate!! We have a thread here for kids with disabilities and chickens if you'd like to join us! Let me know and I'll post you a link when I get home, if our thread honchos wouldn't mind a momentary hijack.....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/kids-with-disabilities-can-enjoy-chickens-too

is this the thread??

 

[Sueg4332]

Quote: sorry if you thought I was being mean! Eggs can get mixed up before leaving a persons or not marked correctly. I did not know the roo was hatched for a blue egg. Was just trying to help. I have seen many EEs colored that way also... so sorry for offending someone. It wasn't my intention.
I have wheaten Ameraucanas and salmon Faverolle . knew the color was incorrect..

 

[DwayneNLiz]

sorry if you thought I was being mean! Eggs can get mixed up before leaving a persons or not marked correctly. I did not know the roo was hatched for a blue egg. Was just trying to help. I have seen many EEs colored that way also... so sorry for offending someone. It wasn't my intention.
I have wheaten Ameraucanas and salmon Faverolle . knew the color was incorrect..

I think you were fine, @tao chick said she was very hard to offend in a later post so no worries!

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Steal nothing

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Steal nothing

what are we stealing?

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

what are we stealing?

I meant steel nothing

(dry humor. Long-time thread users know what it means)

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I meant steel nothing

(dry humor. Long-time thread users know what it means)

Banti could be stealing the barbiebator right now! Watch out!!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

@Ur-ur-ur-urrr so your blonde Barbie chicks that need a map have made no progress?