Thanksgiving Hatch- Anyone want to join in?

[newduckie]

my broody lets you shift her around and even pick her up, then settles right back down on the eggs.

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

Jen4 Your chicks are sooo CUTE!!!

You must have sent the hatching vibe because I have 2 pips.

My DH came in and said you have 2 pips. I thought he was messing with me because I have been so stressed about not being home.

Come on silkies Come on

 

[aggieterpkatie]

Jen4, you were right!!!! I have a pip!!!!

:cd

 

[Jen4]

rustyswoman - Thank You

Momma is a Buff Orpington, she is our 2nd BO Broody. I think She minds alittle but shes a nice BO and our other one is nice too.... now some of our BO girls are alittle mean when I go in to take eggs, they try to peck me so I'm thinking if they every go broody then wont let me handle their eggs or chickies!

newduckie - Thank you too and your plan sounds great, dont see why I wont work

Good Luck and keep us posted.

I just want to go out there and love on that little black bantam... I really hope its a girl! I dont want anymore boy bantams, already got one and hes alittle stinker! I think the other bantam egg is from our silver duckwing... oh it needs to hurry up and hatch!

3chickens - Thank you and that is soooo great!!!! Happy Hatching

aggieterpkatie -

I told ya so,

So happy for you.......

Alright I'd better see some pic. on here sometime today besides mine

 

[Jen4]

I cant wait any long... I'm running to the coop to check on last bantam egg.

 

[newduckie]

thanks Jen. I haven't checked on the hen in a day or two... been lots of overtime and dark by the time I get home. But tonight I am going to go look and candle them in the dark if I have to. Going to put the bator on lockdown tonight with lots of water in it. It just seems to suck up the water, but I don't have any way of knowing what the actual humidity is. Still a bit confused on what it is I need to that.

 

[newduckie]

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LOL!!!!

 

[neferset]

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No, I've been closing the lid to keep him from getting company and getting crushed anyway, but most of it is vented. Food and water haven't been a problem since he hasn't been in the critter keeper too long at a stretch. (I've been putting him in as everyone goes to sleep and taking him out first thing in the morning, getting up early to do it.) But all I'm trying to prevent is him ending up on the bottom of the chick pile and suffocating. If I were doing it for a hospital situation where he wouldn't come out of it during the day, I would drill some holes in the critter keeper and attach two plastic in cage bird feeders and waterers. (I'll admit that was part of my original plan, but I can't find the bird feeders and waterers.) Caps full of water on the floor of the critter keeper don't work and shouldn't be tried.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have an announcement to make. That pip I thought I hallucinated last night?

It's a DUCK!

I went to check on the temp in the incubator this morning and looked in. A little yellow duckling looked back at me. Pictures will come once everyone is fluffy and in the brooder. I didn't spring for the bator with the nice big window (my mistake which I see now, since the price difference wasn't that much), so in-incubator photo ops are difficult.

 

[neferset]

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You'll love your little BO x RIRs.

The ones I hatched before and on (and after) Halloween are such sweeties.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Mine are due in 3 days! Into the hatcher they go!