YYYAAAHHHOOO here we go a-hatchin for the first time!! Due 2/19

[sonew123]

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culling = killing Im so sorry If he looks that bad and has not improved or has walked or eating or drinking in your heart you know when...I use a pair of scissors when they are day olds..It is fast and painless if done with very sharp scissors:-( Im sorry if you have to do it. I do it over a paper bag and do the deed in the bag so I dont have to look...

 

[TinyBirds]

update here: 5 hatched so far, still the 1 slow-zipping but still alive, and around 5 more pips.

 

[reesepoultry]

I'm hatching too..........

Silkies from my flock and others.

 

[aceschix]

UPDATE!!

11/12 my cochin mixes
3/5 FLF Blue/Blk Ameraucanas (2 Black, 1 blue)
2/8 Chicken stalker (possibel pure lav. Ameraucanas) 1 split, 1 LAV!!
7/9 sonew (one olive and 1 silkie are quiet)

68% so far overall...not bad for a first time right???

I will think about the need to "cull" that one with the neck prob. tomorrow. He is spending the night in the bator.

I also left two in who are caked with "stuff" that dried on them and all their feather are glued down. They look like buzzards! How do you help with this? I am afraid the fluffies will pick at them.

I really wish that when i wake up some more of those Chicken Stalker eggs have pipped!

That last olive would be great too!!

 

[1mommahen]

Don't give up on Natalie's Olive Eggers! One of mine was the first to pip and one was the last to pip on day22!

 

[aceschix]

Half way thru day 22...no more pips. Do I eggtopsy sunday..Day 23?

 

[sonew123]

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I have only when I have another set waiting-Id leave till tomorrow

 

[aceschix]

Should I try to candle? What would I be looking for as full as they are?

 

[sonew123]

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no dont open bator---leave it-after lockdown keeping that bator closed even beyond watch day is very important if not moe so with late hatchers...

 

[aceschix]

Well i had to take the fluffies out twice.....Can that be helped?