The Incubators Thread!!! Come Join And Learn!!!

[BlueBaby]

Hey, how much longer until this chick finishes getting out of this egg? I've been waiting for 5 1/2 hours already since it started breaking out of the shell.

 

[AustralorpsAU]

Hey, how much longer until this chick finishes getting out of this egg? I've been waiting for 5 1/2 hours already since it started breaking out of the shell.

Hey Blue! I've read it can take up to 24 hours since the pip... after that time period some people go in and help

 

[BlueBaby]

Hey Blue! I've read it can take up to 24 hours since the pip... after that time period some people go in and help

It's the waiting that is so hard. I'm glad that I don't have to sit on them for 21 days like the mother hens do.

 

[AustralorpsAU]

It's the waiting that is so hard. I'm glad that I don't have to sit on them for 21 days like the mother hens do.

Hehe it must be a hard job!! Do any of you guys want to be hosts???? @BlueBaby @RavynFallen ?? I want to get 4!

 

[BlueBaby]

Hehe it must be a hard job!! Do any of you guys want to be hosts???? @BlueBaby @RavynFallen ?? I want to get 4!

Not right now. I have something coming up this weekend, and then again the first weekend of Nov. I don't think it would be fair to agree and then be gone at those times when I couldn't help.

I did put a small bowl of water in the incubator when I was going into lock-down. That will be used if I need to help them out and they need to be kept moistened, as the water will be warm and same temp as inside of the incubator.

 

[AustralorpsAU]

Not right now. I have something coming up this weekend, and then again the first weekend of Nov. I don't think it would be fair to agree and then be gone at those times when I couldn't help.

I did put a small bowl of water in the incubator when I was going into lock-down. That will be used if I need to help them out and they need to be kept moistened, as the water will be warm and same temp as inside of the incubator.

Great thinking!!! I hope your little one pops out soon!

 

[BlueBaby]

Great thinking!!! I hope your little one pops out soon!

I hope so too, and that the other 3 get out of theirs soon too. Then I will be able to concentrate on the other 9 in Group #2. This first one peeps and moves around every now and then, so I know it's still alive.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Haha. Lorps is preferred but hey whatever you want to call me is A-OK! Have any little chickies popped out yet?

Lorps it is then...

Not from these sets, next one isn't due til this weekend, but had 3 hatch a few days ago...

 Hehe it must be a hard job!! Do any of you guys want to be hosts???? @BlueBaby
 @RavynFallen
?? I want to get 4!

Thank you very much for the offer, but no... I don't do well as a host, lol... and may or may not be on much for a while too...

 

[AustralorpsAU]

Lorps it is then...

Not from these sets, next one isn't due til this weekend, but had 3 hatch a few days ago...

Thank you very much for the offer, but no... I don't do well as a host, lol... and may or may not be on much for a while too...

Ohhhh they're too cute! Keep us updated!



Fair enough

 

[BlueBaby]

I finally did go get some sleep. When I woke up that chick was out of it's egg, but it is laying there resting now. It's still alive, though. The other 3 eggs from that batch haven't started to break out yet, that I can see. I have 9 more eggs due to hatch on next Monday. They are all going to be the blue Australorps. The mothers are the 1-year old black ones, and the father is my nice 6 month old Splash cockerel from the Rattlesnake Ridge Line (Kurt).