Tomorrow (11/11/11) is Lockdown!!!! Anyone else?

[teamsunbelt]

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Very cute! My little chick I was concerned about is the bandaid master today. Made a huge difference. I'm so happy to see him up running all over. Tomorrow night I think I'll cut as much of the bandaid off as I can and soak his feet in water. I'm afraid that adhesive will never come out of his cute foot feathers.
Can't wait to see more pics!

They say you have about 48 hrs to fix crooked feet. Take that one off and make sure they are straight. add a new one if neccesary.

 

[bikerchic]

I have 1 more out today, and 2 have pipped.

 

[bikerchic]

Make that 3, I am hoping to have a bator full of fluff when I get home from work!

 

[Lady EE]

You guys are so lucky! After our last hatch failed I want to try again but my dad is against cute fluffballs!

 

[Shayna]

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Against cute fluffballs????

Unbelievable!

Maybe in time he'll let you try again.

 

[Shayna]

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Sounds like they're coming along great!

 

[teamsunbelt]

Incubator unplugged and cleaned. Put up for the winter.

Using a LG still air with turner, I started with 13 eggs: 3 mixed, 8 BLRW and 2 Dominicker.

A few never started, some quit around day 10.

Locked down 7: 1 Dom, 3 mixed, and 3 BLRW

Hatched: 3 BLRW, 2 Mix. 1 BLRW died day of hatch, it did look weak after hatch and could not hold itself up.

Hatching 5 out of 7 i think is pretty good. All 7 had movement when they come of the turner. I opened the two that did not hatch today, day 24. The chicks were dead, looked normal, but had not absorbed the yolk sac. Looked like they died day 19 or 20. Temps and Humidity during lock down were stable, with only one little drop after 1st one hatched.

Good luck to all who still have eggs.

 

[bikerchic]

I have 8 fluffer butts! 4 b/b/s, 2 partridge, 2 silver partridge.

1 pipped a nice big hole then flipped completely upside down in the egg and died

 

[teamsunbelt]

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I had one pip on the lower half of the shell, never even opened air sac. I noticed it soon enough and laid it on its side. Chick hatched just fine and is doing well.

 

[Shayna]

Teamsunbelt and bikerchic, you both did very well! Congrats on the new babies! Mine are doing great also. I sounded like everyone that joined had some hatches and did pretty well.
This was such a great hatch thread, and thank you to everyone who contributed to it!
I have since collected 13 eggs that went in the incubator Monday, well a couple were added late, but they are developing well and I look forward to doing all of this again at the beginning of December!
My girls seem not to realize we're going into winter and they're continuing to lay so I'm putting some eggs up for auction.
I didn't realize how well this would go!

A big thank you again to everyone that made this so much fun!!