Very sorry, Jaye If you'd like a little friend or two for her, I've got some chicks just turning five days old, you're welcome to pick some out 
Baked goods - the day after hatch day
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windwalkingwolf
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Re: Baked goods - the day after hatch day
Very sorry, Jaye If you'd like a little friend or two for her, I've got some chicks just turning five days old, you're welcome to pick some out
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Re: Baked goods - the day after hatch day
I'm so sorry to hear that Jaye. We do our best and sometimes it just doesn't work.
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Re: Baked goods - the day after hatch day
Thanks, all of you, for your kind words.
WWW, that is a wonderful offer, and I'd like to take you up on it. I think that having a friend would be a big help for Biscuit. I will PM you.
WWW, that is a wonderful offer, and I'd like to take you up on it. I think that having a friend would be a big help for Biscuit. I will PM you.
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Re: Baked goods - the day after hatch day
Sorry jaye. I sure dont know what else you could have done!
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Happy
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Re: Baked goods - the day after hatch day
I've got a little one acting same as your wee Cookie right now. Hatched on Friday in the incubator. It's so hard because you spend extra time on them and can't help but get invested. She's holding her own in with 6 siblings and not being picked on or trampled so far. Started just this aft to ask for more food and actively take it from me rather than waiting to be fed. In the past I would have figured that meant we were home free. So thank you Jaye for sharing your experience.
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Jaye
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Re: Baked goods - the day after hatch day
Oh dear. I'm hoping that your little chick's behaviour means that she's is out of the woods instead of doing one last rally, as was the case with Cookie.Happy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2017 5:35 pmI've got a little one acting same as your wee Cookie right now. Hatched on Friday in the incubator. It's so hard because you spend extra time on them and can't help but get invested. She's holding her own in with 6 siblings and not being picked on or trampled so far. Started just this aft to ask for more food and actively take it from me rather than waiting to be fed. In the past I would have figured that meant we were home free. So thank you Jaye for sharing your experience.
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windwalkingwolf
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Re: Baked goods - the day after hatch day
It's the humidity and swinging temperatures this year I think. The broody hens are unsettled, humidity is too high for still-air incubators. Loads of babies getting too swollen to turn in the egg. I've started 'locking down' at 16 days and poking a hole in eggs at internal pip, now having much better results. I've got this down to such a fiddly science, I'd be scared to try an Incubator with a fan!
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windwalkingwolf
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Re: Baked goods - the day after hatch day
Lots have been hatching (or dying) at the wrong end of the egg... both under hens and in the incubator.
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