Changing goals and speed

[AClark]

Baby and baby chicken pics!

 

[Latestarter]

Your baby girl sure looks like a sweetie. Grats on the hatch.

 

[Mike CHS]

Our neighbor has their ducks laying eggs all over the place and when we told them they had an incubator they were thrilled to be able to try and hatch some. We have had some cold weather so we have no idea whether or not they are still viable.

 

[Baymule]

Only a BYH'er would post pictures of their baby and baby chicks on the same post!! Beautiful! Both of them!

 

[CntryBoy777]

She really has wide-open eyes....and "Ponies" on the Jumper, seems Mom is sending those subliminal messages....

 

[AClark]

Our neighbor has their ducks laying eggs all over the place and when we told them they had an incubator they were thrilled to be able to try and hatch some. We have had some cold weather so we have no idea whether or not they are still viable.

As long as they haven't frozen, it's probably ok, might not be a high hatch rate but I bet something does hatch. I kept the first batch of eggs on the counter for 2 days while I waited for the second to get here so I could put them all in at once. They're all hatching on time. I think I have 5 eggs that haven't hatched as of this morning, only 1 has pipped.

 

[Bruce]

There is someone on BYC that hatched out fertile eggs from Trader Joe's. I bet those weren't carefully stored to avoid low temps. Do your neighbors have NO birds that ever go broody? I have several chickens that I wish would NOT (except for starting about the end of the 3rd week of April, my next 7 chicks should arrive from Meyer the next Tuesday/Wed!!)

Only a BYH'er would post pictures of their baby and baby chicks on the same post!! Beautiful! Both of them!

Nah, they do it on BYC as well. But I agree, cute baby

 

[Mike CHS]

We are incubating eggs just to do it. We are getting some hens that are already laying tomorrow so eggs and chicks is just adding an item to give us something to try.

 

[NH homesteader]

Your daughter is beautiful!!

Hatching eggs is fun. I had amazing luck with ducks, which I didn't want very many of. They went broody all the time so I stopped incubating those. I thought one of my ducks was eaten once but she reappeared a few weeks later with 12 ducklings!!! Half of them weren't hers.

Now turkeys, which I want to hatch, are so much harder to make happen.

 

[AClark]

Hatching eggs is not only fun, it's addictive! Every time the baby woke up last night, I'd get up and check on the incubator and find more hatched out. Tons of fun to see what is going to come out of those eggs. I think I made it more fun by getting a mixed batch so it's like Christmas, you don't know what's in the package but you're pretty sure you're going to like it, even if it's socks from Grandma. (Side note, getting socks for Christmas as an adult is awesome! lol)
The down side? The smell from all those hatched eggs is pretty foul, no pun intended. It's pretty repulsive.

The baby likes looking at the chicks, they capture her attention pretty well.