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Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 11 8:02 pm Post subject: New babies!!

I have 16 babies happily sleeping-and-cheeping-and jostling for position in the brooder. Whoop!! 16 out of 21, not bad. I'm leaving the remaining 5 eggs in the incy for another day or so, just in case (I'm hopeless at candling).

So, I have 5 out of 7 cream legbars hatched (4 female!!

), 5 out of 7 barnvelders hatched and 6 out of 7 Pekins.

One happy Vanessa!!

My previous 2 CLB babies got pinched from under the broody's nose, presumably by a rat

These babies are in a brooder in the house!!

Once they start getting too smelly, they'll be relegated to the "summer house" (was here when we bought) which is rodent-free, and eventually to a broody-coop.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 11 9:06 pm Post subject:
Jolly good news! ETA: Barnevelders are really difficult to candle if you don't have a high-powered lamp! Last edited by chez on Sun Jul 31, 11 9:14 pm; edited 1 time in total

T.G

Joined: 13 Sep 2009
Posts: 7280
Location: Somewhere you're not

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 11 9:10 pm Post subject:
Grand

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 11 8:42 am Post subject:

I assisted one of the CLB's ... she'd been pipped for ages, with a huge hole but as she was well behind the others, I think they'd dried the air out somewhat, and the membranes had started setting, threatening to shrink-wrap her.

I slowly took the shell off in a ring around, the way they'd normally do it themselves naturally. Then I tentatively unzipped the membrane, no blood

Gradually helped her out, and wasn't at all sure she'd survive, as she was VERY floppy. Popped her back into the incy, but the others trampled her ... so hastily took all the others out, leaving her with the unhatched eggs.

I really wasn't sure she'd make it. Once she was fluffed up, I held her for a while, cupped between my hands to make her feel "safe", and held her, talking to her, until she started being noisy!! Now, in with the others overnight, I cannot tell which one she is ... until she cheeps! She's is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO noisy!!!!!

Di Howes

Joined: 20 May 2006
Posts: 140
Location: Near Yeovil, Somerset

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 11 9:43 am Post subject:
Well done! Didn't realise you were so interested in poultry! My daughter has just hatched 2 Buff Orpington under my broody hen. They are such time wasters. Di

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 11 10:14 am Post subject:
Thanks Di. REAL time-wasters!! Especially in the kitchen, where I see them every time I pass by Chez, non-hatchers were; 2CLB = clears. 2 Barnies = clears. 1 Pekin = dead in shell, no pipping even internally, so a mystery. I DID cave and add some water once pipping started, just 1 of the channels in my Octagon20 plus a saturated, folded small microfibre cloth.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 11 12:11 pm Post subject:
That's a good number hatched. I have resolved to do just one more hatching this year (not counting the various guinea fowl eggs under the broodies )

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 11 12:13 pm Post subject:
Eggs under broodies don't count! It's just doing what's kindest for the broody

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 11 12:51 pm Post subject:
So Vanessa, sewing goddess and now chick midwife

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 11 1:45 pm Post subject:
I have an empty incubator here and I'm valiantly resisting filling it with eggs. That's because I already have 19 chicks of various ages cluttering up the place. It will have to stay emtpy now until next spring. If I set any more, someone smakc my wrist, pleasee.

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 11 1:47 pm Post subject:

gythagirl wrote:

So Vanessa, sewing goddess and now chick midwife

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 11 7:22 pm Post subject:
Still got 16 babies The assisted hatch is impossible to identify from her sisters now! Is it easy to identify the boys from the girls with Barnies and Pekins?

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