The Hatch That BYC Built (aka Frieda vs. the Brinsea!) (Warning--pic heavy)

[BantyChooks]

This is exiting!! I've been lurking around countless incubator vs broody threads and how to build an incubator as I really wanna hatch chicks in the spring! I hope you have a good hatch....

 

[Ravynscroft]

I'm at the store, getting medicine for the sick folks at home (just bad colds), when I get a call--there's a beak!

I bet my six-year-old is no longer upset that I didn't bring her

 

[AmyPaperlady]

Someone was in a hurry!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Yay, chickie!!!! Now tell the rest to get their butts outta them shells!!

 

[Ren2014]

Someone was in a hurry!

Yay, chickie!!!! Now tell the rest to get their butts outta them shells!!

X2

 

[lazy gardener]

Bubbles, you gotta build a bator. Great winter project! Amy, congrats on the hatch! Hope you continue your thread re: integration of bator chicks with broody chicks.

 

[WalnutHill]

Yay!

 

[AmyPaperlady]

Bubbles, you gotta build a bator.  Great winter project!  Amy, congrats on the hatch!  Hope you continue your thread re: integration of bator chicks with broody chicks.

I'm actually not worried about that bit--when Frieda and the chicks she hatches are moved to the pen, she'll suddenly have more Any that hatch later will be moved in under cover of darkness. Frieda's adopted chicks before--granted, she got them all at once...

 

[AmyPaperlady]

Chick #1 is now all the way out of the shell! I think I scared it into getting out when I slid the tray open to add water to my sponges, since the humidity dropped to about 60%. In the escape from the scariness, the chick got between the inside end of the drawer and the side of the 'bator. Since I had to take the drawer out to rescue the chick (otherwise, closing the 'bator would crush the chick, I pulled the shell out and checked the others for pips. No pips yet.

I think that's poo in the shell...

 

[ronott1]

Chick #1 is now all the way out of the shell! I think I scared it into getting out when I slid the tray open to add water to my sponges, since the humidity dropped to about 60%. In the escape from the scariness, the chick got between the inside end of the drawer and the side of the 'bator. Since I had to take the drawer out to rescue the chick (otherwise, closing the 'bator would crush the chick, I pulled the shell out and checked the others for pips. No pips yet.


I think that's poo in the shell...

It looks like stuff the comes off of the naval in the chick. They usually do not poo for a while after they hatch.

What about the broody hatch?