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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2014 22:38:42 GMT -5
I opened the incubator just for a second to get this picture that I like to call "Chaos". We have broken shells and blood, we have half hatched eggs getting kicked all around, we have lots and lots of peeping...
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Post by raeoflyte on May 7, 2014 22:57:17 GMT -5
So freaking cute!
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2014 23:18:54 GMT -5
I was thinking if I snapped a picture quick I could get a count, because it's freaking impossible to see anything through the windows anymore and they keep running around. Well, I must have missed a bunch in the pic because I know there's at least 5 black.
I THINK there's 10 eggs left and 5 are started, but they are just knocking everything around and I can't keep track. Tomorrow night they're moving to the garage and I'll assess what's left then.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on May 8, 2014 0:36:14 GMT -5
It would appear that the mere addition of a little piglet to the 31 eggs would leave one WELL prepared for a rousing rendition of "Green Eggs and Ham"! Smart A$$!!
All I see from your post is Breakfast! Ham & Eggs!!
(Kidding, minnesotapaintedlady - your "babies" are cute ! (I counted 15 hatched and one about to.
Do you live on an acreage or farm? Where I am farm animals are rare in the City. Haven't seen anyone raising them since I was a kid (though it may still be happening).
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OMG it's like a little chickie slumber party! How freaking cute! Its cray-cray adorbs!!! Yeah that!
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on May 8, 2014 7:36:08 GMT -5
MPL's got acreage but I'm not sure how much.
And those are freaking adorable. Please keep us updated as they grow into hens.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2014 7:41:30 GMT -5
It would appear that the mere addition of a little piglet to the 31 eggs would leave one WELL prepared for a rousing rendition of "Green Eggs and Ham"! Smart A$$!!
All I see from your post is Breakfast! Ham & Eggs!!
(Kidding, minnesotapaintedlady - your "babies" are cute ! (I counted 15 hatched and one about to.
Do you live on an acreage or farm? Where I am farm animals are rare in the City. Haven't seen anyone raising them since I was a kid (though it may still be happening). I'm in the country on 15 acres. Most everyone around me has hundreds, so nothing around me but cattle and corn fields.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2014 7:45:08 GMT -5
I opened it again this morning to yank shells to make more room and to try and get a count. It's easier to count the unhatched eggs than chick. I think there are 10 left and of those 4 or 5 have started hatching. If it is 10, then there are 21 chicks so far! Going to take them out tonight and move them to the pool unless they're obviously newly hatched. I was hoping they'd dry off more before then, but it's so humid in there, that I don't think it's going to happen. A few of them slipped out the back of the bator when I had it opened and one kind of got wedged under the lid when I put it back on. I hope I didn't hurt him.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2014 7:51:37 GMT -5
This morning when I opened it, they all "stormed the gate". Seriously, I had all these cute little things just running at me peeping. I think they're ready to get out. Only a few were laying there like drunken sailors trying to figure out what happened the night before (ex. guy in the front behind the shell in post #135. )
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on May 8, 2014 7:58:56 GMT -5
This morning when I opened it, they all "stormed the gate". Seriously, I had all these cute little things just running at me peeping. I think they're ready to get out. Only a few were laying there like drunken sailors trying to figure out what happened the night before (ex. guy in the front behind the shell in post #135. ) OH man, I'm picturing chicks running, running, running like the guys getting off the boats at Normandy. MPL, please, please, PLEASE have your old boy running a camera when you open it up tonight and get them storming you. And post it on YouTube so we can see it.
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Post by michelyn8 on May 8, 2014 11:03:33 GMT -5
Haven't read past p1 but my ex-BF would keep his newly hatched checks in a tote in the bathroom with a brooder lamp over it. He didn't ahve any cats or dogs indoors so this worked for him. I hated it simply because of the smell. At tractor supply they keep in them in the big water containers you'd put out for large farm animals with brooder lamps.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2014 11:09:06 GMT -5
Haven't read past p1 but my ex-BF would keep his newly hatched checks in a tote in the bathroom with a brooder lamp over it. He didn't ahve any cats or dogs indoors so this worked for him. I hated it simply because of the smell. At tractor supply they keep in them in the big water containers you'd put out for large farm animals with brooder lamps. I've decided to go the kid's swimming pool in the garage route. I knew the smell might be an issue in the house, but I hadn't counted on the NOISE. Holy crap. I was trying to watch TV last night and it was pretty bad. Between that and the geckos crickets chirping I was losing it.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2014 11:21:37 GMT -5
Another bad quickly snapped pic, but this is from this morning. A couple more slimy new hatches in there. Tonight I should be able to get some fluffy chick pictures. I like how they perch on their unhatched siblings eggs.
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Post by Bob Ross on May 8, 2014 11:24:39 GMT -5
So, I borrowed an incubator from someone so the kids could experience the "miracle of life" in our kitchen. Is that what you call it? I'd call it the "miracle of deliciousness".
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2014 11:32:02 GMT -5
So, I borrowed an incubator from someone so the kids could experience the "miracle of life" in our kitchen. Is that what you call it? I'd call it the "miracle of deliciousness". The kids call them Chicken Nuggets.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on May 8, 2014 11:33:33 GMT -5
I love it MPL.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2014 19:21:55 GMT -5
The chicken nuggets. 24 so far. One died hatching and there are six more eggs in the bator.
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Post by milee on May 8, 2014 19:36:02 GMT -5
They are beautiful!
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Post by raeoflyte on May 8, 2014 22:23:51 GMT -5
I love them! Now how can you send me 3 by 6/1?
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Post by busymom on May 8, 2014 22:31:14 GMT -5
Congratulations, Mama!
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Post by Nazgul Girl on May 9, 2014 2:29:17 GMT -5
They are so cute. I take it this is a sexed-color breed, where the boys are one color and the girls the other ? Their litle fluffy selves !!!
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 7:45:23 GMT -5
They are so cute. I take it this is a sexed-color breed, where the boys are one color and the girls the other ? Their litle fluffy selves !!! I wish. That would make it easy! I don't have any idea what we have here, but there are three distinct colors. The light yellows with black marks. The tannish ones with darker tan marking on their backs (look kind of like quail) and then the black and white ones. Plus, there is this little runty guy that looks more like a sparrow than a chicken. If he(she) wasn't so spry, I'd worry about him not making it, but he seems healthy just tiny and doesn't seem to want to fluff up either. There were two breeds of roosters and while most of the hens were dark brahmas, there was one little all black hen in the bunch that we didn't know what she was. The one rooster was young and the older dominant rooster kept him run off most of the time (actually killed him last week), but he might have got to some of the hens.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 7:46:24 GMT -5
This little black guy is not dead! LOL He was a fresh hatch yesterday and liked to lay on his back under the heat lamp.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 7:47:32 GMT -5
They're getting really fluffy, and they LOVE to be held and snuggled.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 7:52:22 GMT -5
I'll have to work on getting some cute pictures this weekend. If I try taking them with the brooder lamp on they turn all red, but if I shut it off they go into a panic in seconds.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 7:55:06 GMT -5
The are cute even when they look red! Thanks for sharing them with us!!
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 7:55:16 GMT -5
No more eggs hatched last night and the incubator is really starting to stink. I think there are dead in the shell ones. When I get home tonight I'm taking it outside, getting rid of them, and hosing it down.
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Post by taz157 on May 9, 2014 7:59:24 GMT -5
The chicken nuggets. 24 so far. One died hatching and there are six more eggs in the bator. Awww... Sorry you lost one, but the rest are adorable! Yeah that!
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Post by taz157 on May 9, 2014 8:01:16 GMT -5
The are cute even when they look red! Thanks for sharing them with us!! Yeah that! Love the one that wants to lay on its back and "heat"!!
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 8:04:58 GMT -5
This little black guy is not dead! LOL He was a fresh hatch yesterday and liked to lay on his back under the heat lamp. ROFL!!! I want him! How cute! We call him "Fluffy Butt" now. He's the fattest, fluffiest one of the bunch.
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