** Update pg.5 Makeshift Bator PIC** Prevailing after slight disaster!

[Bec]

The others have a few days to go it looks like. This baby was strong and loud! He/she did dry out fast! I didn't have time to make an incubator, so the eggs are in a pie dish with dish towels in it, on top of bricks IN the brooder! I have a ziplock bag filled with water so I can use it as a water wiggler to keep the temp right. Everything is going great and being that it has been doing nothing but raining here, the humidity must be ok because that baby hatched out fine! I keep the kitchen towel folded over the eggs with the water bag on top to simulate a momma hen sitting on them...don't know if it makes much of a difference but it makes me happy..LOL.

This will definitely be an adventure, but it was so fun to have one hatch! Especially in K's room!!!

This is the set up....lol....High tech I tell ya! The heat lamp is keeping the temps perfect for both the eggs (because they are raised up) and for the chicks!

 

[ranchhand]

Very ingenius and creative solution to a near disastrous situation! I

the little black chicks.

 

[ranchhand]

Any more action in the others?

 

[Bec]

Not yet, one looked like it would be any day now judging off of what I saw while candling. We'll see how it goes!!

 

[Bec]

OK!!! Today we had a baby!!!! I ended up with 2 eggs that had happy moving babies in them and one of the 2 hatched early his morning. It is the cutest little thing...I left my camera at the beach house

I will have to take pics when I get it back tomorrow!

1 down, one to go.....hatched under a heat lamp..thats it!

 

[ranchhand]

Whoa! Talk about different time of lay! Congratulations!