Valentine's Day Hatch!!!

[pbjmaker]

Mahonri - No jinxing of my GIRL chick! If it now magically turns into a roo I am packing him up and mailing him to you!

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[schmmems]

One of the deformed quails has died, the other is hanging on...

 

[Lucindahart]

I have my 3rd hatch today, 17 so far and 2 more on their way - its amazing to watch so enjoy it all!!!!

I am putting more in the incubator next weeks as my orpingtons are laying so well at the moment.

Good luck with your valantines hatches.

 

[DANNY]

Have you ever tried using the egg carton method? It keeps all the eggs in their place I hear. This is my first hatch so I don't really know from personal experience.

I currently have one zipped about half the way out and two more pipped. I can see its fuzz sticking out thru the cracks! I think five out of the six that are left are b/b/s orpingtons and the sixth is going to be a RIR/orp cross https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/34758_0213001922.jpg

I am just trying to understand why people want to change everything even if something has been done for thousands of years. I am referring to hatching in egg cartons. Do you people realize how hard it is for a bird to get out of an egg on it's end versus it's side. How many eggs under hens have you ever seen hatch on their ends. All commercial hatcheries hatch them on their sides. It seems like there is a lot of playing going on with no reguard to what it does to a bird trying to be born. I am not blasting any individual. I just think that a lot of the time people don't consider everything involved.

 

[PandoraTaylor]

Day 20 AM Report

we have one out (Pure Light Brahma)

1 piped,

2 Light brahma/EE
1 Light Brahma/NH

the LB1 is playing roll all the eggs, temp & Hygrometers so I cant read them anymore.

ETA: pictures

 

[Egg_newton]

I have four so far. The two left haven't done anything. My first pip got stuck. He/she was dried inside. I helped get the top off but it still wasn't coming out. So, I read some related posts and took it in the bathroom and with a pair of tweezers and hot rag was able to get it out! It is a beautiful blue orpington. It is back in the bator drying poor little thing is so wore out. and is missing some fuzz from where it was struggling to get out. As soon as everyone dries out I will post pics. I'm going to give the other two another day or two. Today is only day 22.

 

[k2chickens]

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Good luck on your first hatch and all, but we do not need negativity in our thread. If the people on this forum have been using carton's to hatch for years and years now then that's what works for them. Again there is no need for someone to come here and try and "school" us on what hatching in a carton may or may not do to the ease of the chick hatching, especially coming from someone who has yet to even finish their very first hatch. But we are all here to be informative and help one another out, i have yet to try the carton method but might in the future, but as far as everyone else is goes...WE NEED MORE PIC'S!! lol

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Have you ever tried using the egg carton method? It keeps all the eggs in their place I hear. This is my first hatch so I don't really know from personal experience.

I currently have one zipped about half the way out and two more pipped. I can see its fuzz sticking out thru the cracks! I think five out of the six that are left are b/b/s orpingtons and the sixth is going to be a RIR/orp cross https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/34758_0213001922.jpg


How did your coronations turn out Koger?

Here they are. 15 went to lockdown, 9 hatched... with me helping 1 D'uccle out. It's not the best hatch rate i have had, but no wear near a bad one.

And for your viewing pleasure, i give you "Leon", our chick night watchmen. lol, he's been around chicks and chicken's since he was a new born kitten so he pays them no mind at all.

 

[Egg_newton]

Wow your chickes look so cute and fluff! My first two do but the second two especially the one I had to help still has a lot of stuff on its down. Can you bathe a chick? Not an actual bath but wipe her down with a warm rag. She also looks like she has a wound on her nose. I think it may be from the fluffier rowdier chicks. I saw one chasing her around pecking at her. I put them in the brooder and left her in the bator for a little while longer with the other one that just hatched this morning. I say her because I tried and used the feather sexing technique. I think I have two girls and two boys. Anyway enough rambling here they are.

 

[PandoraTaylor]

awesome


2nd Light Brahma is out!

Only 2 EE and 1 NH left to go

 

[Egg_newton]

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYCHICK!!!!