Starting about 18 BCM eggs tonight. March 24th /25th hatch

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So nice to see everyone's results - I've learned a lot from this thread so I'm glad to see it going on with some more eggs - I should get my Marans and Ameracaunas by Wednesday....in the mean time, I read up on putting a fan in a still air and didn't think I could do it - and I was right, lol!...but God bless my ever patient and loving husband who hates to see me in any sort of distress or frustration because I got as far as getting the fan out of the pc but the exposing and attaching of the wires, I was lost...so he came in and saved me! I so do love that man...he completed and installed the fan for me - ok, he completed it, but just placed the fan on the floor of the bator at an angle....i've been running the bator since yesterday with the fan - and so far, so good...no temp or humidity spike. Now the way he set the fan, the air would be blowing on the eggs...is this a good idea? Since the temp and humidity have been holding I thought that might be a good sign, but again, don't know if eggs should be getting that burst of air directly like that...

Ok, so here are my pic's of the only three surviving chicks from the 7...I'm hoping one of these is a female and a Jersey Giant (one of the black ones)...if not, hopefully I have at least one female out of this lot..

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this is the second chick born and she for some reason doesn't look to great...she eats and drinks but seems to always have her eyes closed..not sure what's wrong with her..
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I wish this pic would have come out clearer..this little one got spooked by the flash and i was able to catch it mid air with it's wings open!
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Almost forgot!! The dove egg that I was incubating hatched Saturday morning, exactly 18 days from incubation...wish my camera pic was clearer..but trust me, this is a face that only a mother dove could love - it's a odd looking little thing..but the parents are wonderful and do a great job at keeping its' crop full.

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The good news is they all made it! They were literally on the brink of death, couldn't stand, legs completely extended and stiff, some limp...and they all made it and look none worse for wear. Bad news...after having our own chickie er, DD stayed a couple hours in the real ER. Ughhh...what a night.
 
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One of my babies (the youngest) is having eye issues too. Just wont open them all the way. I haven't been able to tell if it is eating or drinking on its own so I made up some wet chick starter in a syringe for it and gave it some today. Also put some neosporin on the eye lids to help moisten them up so I hope they open soon. Poor thing is so far behind the others
 
Wow, what a crazy night. I had a heart-stopping/horrifying one as well. I have said all along that I would give the eggs through Sunday to hatch and then pitch whatever hadn't hatched by then. So at 10:30pm my fiance takes the incubator out to the barn to clean it out. Next thing I know he's back in the house saying "it's hatching it's hatching!"... one of the eggs has a huge hole in it with a living chick inside. I have no idea how long it had been like that (I think it was in a spot we couldn't see the pip) but it was definitely shrink wrapped. We ended up helping it out, but it is super sticky and isn't drying well in the incubator. So that was our first scare of the night... we almost threw away a living chick.

So we go to bed, and around 2am I wake up to chicks shrieking. I ran downstairs and found that the cat had pushed my fiance's boots off the screen that was on top of the chicken wire that was set into the lid of the rubbermaid container that I brood the chicks in (I thought my brooder was a fortress because I know my cat is a chick-killer). She had her paw down through the chicken wire and was trying to hook one of the chicks. I grabbed her and threw her out into the barn for the night and put the brooder fort back together, only this time using my fiance's power tools that I have trouble picking up to hold down the screen. We went back to bed.

This morning I woke up and after checking on the day 25 little chick (covered in dry goop but active) I check on the chicks in the brooder. I did a head count and came up with 6. I looked under the little brooder lamp, under the little stuffed animal. Chick #7 is gone. Completely gone without a trace. I imagine that the commotion we heard downstairs was actually the cat trying to get her second chick. But I'm horrified that she managed to reach down into the rubbermaid tub, grab a chick, haul it up through the chicken wire, and consume it without leaving a trace of it behind. And this is a house cat. She has constant access to food and never goes hungry. It makes me feel sick. And it would be terrible if it happened to any chick, but this was one of the blues that I had hatched from shipped eggs and was really really excited about. I feel terrible that I put so much effort into protecting my chickens from predators, and then it turns out that the one slip I make is with the predator in my own house.

UHG
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what's wet chick starter??

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One of my babies (the youngest) is having eye issues too. Just wont open them all the way. I haven't been able to tell if it is eating or drinking on its own so I made up some wet chick starter in a syringe for it and gave it some today. Also put some neosporin on the eye lids to help moisten them up so I hope they open soon. Poor thing is so far behind the others
 

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