The oddest thing you do while eggs are in the incubator

[The Sheriff]

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I need that dog over here to scare these little guys out of the shells. One pip this morning, lots of peeping, mostly napping!

 

[Rin]

Well, mine haven't hatched yet, but almost every other night I sing to my babies. Yes. Sing. I put on my headphones and sing along to a variety that includes - Mika, Muse, Sonata Arctica, Poets of the Fall, A Perfect Circle, Tool, and various others. I even hum along to a few classical songs. During the actual hatch though I plan to whistle, chirp, talk to them, maybe not cheer - put pretty darn close, "Common! You can do iiiiiit! <3" and possibly squeal high-pitchedly at every little movement.

 

[neferset]

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I need that dog over here to scare these little guys out of the shells. One pip this morning, lots of peeping, mostly napping!

During the Halloween Hatch, our puppy got so excited about his peeps that he started to get me every time he heard one in the incubator. "Mommy! Mommy! You gotta take my chick out! What do you mean he has to stay in there until he dries off and that other chick has a chance to hatch?"

Then TaLani needed a baby chick or two for company for a lonely baby she hatched. After she chose two and left, I went inside with the puppy. I didn't think anything about it until I realized he was moping. I had to pick him up and show him the brooder so he knew he still had baby chicks and I didn't give them all away.

I am not sure he knows they grow up to be chickens.

I used to tap and whistle to my chicks when I would hear them tapping on the shell. I stopped because I started worrying I was encouraging them to hatch too soon. Before I started hatching in cartons, I had an awful lot of chicks still attached to their egg yolks or still attached to the shell at the pointy end and those didn't make it. For some reason, they were also the ones I tapped to. It may have been coincidence.

 

[riftnreef]

Tonight is lockdown for my first ever hatch...I get off work in 50 minutes, and I will now go STRAIGHT home and sing to my eggs after reading this post...

thanks so much every one for making me feel a little less crazy for the things I do!

 

[kathyinmo]

Nancy (bargain) ...
You just crack me up! I love it. Put me down on your list for that book!
I love that post you wrote!

This is a great thread. I have really enjoyed all your posts! Thanks for posting them!

 

[Countrywife]

I was standing over the bator hollerin "come out come out wherever you are," but it didn't help much.

I am the very proud owner of a 100 pound, 6 year old, vicous attack killer male german shephard, who stands in the mudroom next to the bater and CRIES HIS FOOL BLASTED HEAD OFF EVERY TIME A CHICK HATCHES!!! He is addicted to hatching, and cries like a newborn when he hears the babies peeping.

 

[rarebreedeggs4u]

I do the "hen cluck/purr" sound that Mama hens make to their babies. They love it~LOL I can hear them peeping away in there. Of course I had to go all bigger, badder, Tom turkey on a few of my young Toms they other day when they were bluffing a bit at my three year old. Scaring the butt feathers off of them for a few days in a row, flapping and squacking around the yard seems to have done the trick. My family thinks I've lost it

 

[Countrywife]

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I REALLY want to see video of that,. Think youtube sensation.

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

heh, i'll have to do the music thing this time around. but this time i'm using a broody hen to help the incubation. she already seems to like the music i've been playing in my coop. hope the little developing chickies will too!!

i used to whistle some classical music as i would walk by for a quick peek, and then change over to peeps and momma chirping/cooing. especially if i noticed movements in the eggs. my dog was getting that worried little poppa pacing back and forth on the day of my hatches last spring.

 

[rarebreedeggs4u]

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I REALLY want to see video of that,. Think youtube sensation.

It worked~LOL Of course, one of the hens was crouching down for me too, so it may have worked too well!