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| Posted: Wed Jun 2nd, 2010 12:50 pm |
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Vickies Chickies Addicted To Chickens 
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I have 15 eggs in the bator that went into lockdown on Monday..came home from taking Ayden to school on Tuesday and there was a chick in there. Immediately I get the flashlight and look at all the other eggs, no other pips, ok 15 minutes later I look again just in case I missed one, nope no others, about 5 minutes later I am frantic cause I dont remember where I sat the flashlight, and then I had to go out . Got back home and kept checking cause I am sure there is another one in there hiding from me, and sure enough by 6 pm there is another pip... I stay up and pretend to watch TV but I keep going into the other room to "check" on things, nothing and I am exhausted, I go up to bed at 2 am still nothing...This morning at 5 I hear peeping(now there are 11 other chicks in the house so the peeping is a constant ,but...well ya never know) so I jump up, barely brush my teeth, run downstairs and find the flashlight, look in and am filled with disappointment as the egg has done nothing since yesterday... but at the same time I am soooo excited cause 4 more have pipped. I know I replaced the batteries in the flashlight yesterday but am wondering if I should have back up batteries just in case.... I look around and see that the house is a mess cause I havn't cleaned anything in two days....so I frantically start cleaning, get laundry started, wash the dishes feed and water outside chickens and the inside chicks, take care of the dog and let bunny out, change litter boxes for bunny and cats, vacuum, pick up all toys, and get my son up to get ready for work...sooo EVERYTHING is done and why because I dont want to have to do anything except sit in front of that bator all day!!! I am obsessed absolutely obsessed!!! I am pacing the floor with the flashlight in one hand and the baby that hatched yesterday in the other...DH is off today he comes downstairs, looks at me and shakes his head....I say nothing but head over to check the bator again.."Their hatching" I say I knew that when you got up at 5 he said, and then he made a pot of coffee..I decided to take a break and log on to chickenchatter and see "whats up" with everyone... but I am going now cause I have been away from the bator for way tooo long..... This is normal right???
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| Posted: Wed Jun 2nd, 2010 01:16 pm |
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gypsy Hatching Queen 
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Vickies Chickies wrote: I have 15 eggs in the bator that went into lockdown on Monday..came home from taking Ayden to school on Tuesday and there was a chick in there. Immediately I get the flashlight and look at all the other eggs, no other pips, ok 15 minutes later I look again just in case I missed one, nope no others, about 5 minutes later I am frantic cause I dont remember where I sat the flashlight, and then I had to go out Of course its normal LOL. I do the same thing so it has to be normal, I think, well maybe, not but then again! I have been experiencing some very strange hatchings here too, I look in one bator with a full turner and eeep there is a chick on the side rail. look again later nothing, move the eggs due to a hatcher and wait, go abotu doing things and check again nothing, next day look in yep theres a chick ok well good, nothing else pipped ??? check all for the next 2 days and nothing third day a chick, wth? its been like this for a month, all eggs set on the same day checked the dates on the eggs, but yet I have had them hatch out a full week later than the first few. crazy crazy.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 2nd, 2010 02:11 pm |
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Vickies Chickies Addicted To Chickens
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one more chick, 6 pips....yep! Its crazy and I LOVE it...
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| Posted: Wed Jun 2nd, 2010 02:44 pm |
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Candyschickens LUV My Chickens! 
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I certainly hope this is normal behavior  . I did the same thing when I had eggs in the bator and now with a mama setting I go outside at least 6 times a day to make sure she is ok.. Congrats on the new chicks  . It is very exciting
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| Posted: Wed Jun 2nd, 2010 03:50 pm |
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Gordon hill farm Tammy B. 
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Oh I do it to am doing it now , we have 3 bators going still , just hatched out 50 R-I-R and bardrocks in 1 and hatching Royal Palms in another and just locked down 3rd with Seramas talk about stressing  I worrie all the time . Will they get out all right or need a hand ???? what if I'm a sleep ?? oh ya I can relate and Gypsy I had bantams that also took a little over a week to finish hatching . My man wanted to pull and clean but I stood ground and said not yetttttttt  . I've been baffled on that one . Anyone have ideas as to why they took sooooo long ?? Anyway Vickie Congrats on yer new babes stand your ground on your bator watch  them babes need us ( I don't care what mother nature wants I'm trying ):flwr:
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| Posted: Wed Jun 2nd, 2010 05:51 pm |
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Vickies Chickies Addicted To Chickens
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hee heee well its almost 2o clock, 5 have hatched and 5 more have pipped.....and Im still pacing the floor....These babies aren't even for me, but I get em for a couple days anyway so I need to be with them as long as I can...
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| Posted: Thu Jun 3rd, 2010 01:10 am |
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johnnyjack Administrator 
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 naaaa i don't have a problem with it.its normal and iv accepted that I'm a hatchaholic.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 3rd, 2010 02:22 am |
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chickn Forests mom 
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i am reading and laughing, normal, a lot of people think its not, but it is very to the members here anyway. we go nuts if we cant find the flashlight. and we have to actually open the cabinet incubator to see the cute chicks that are peeping and i just cant help myself got to get in and see.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 3rd, 2010 01:35 pm |
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Meghan Admin 
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My 'bator is set up in my dining room. I've gotten myself to the point that I don't check unless I hear peeping. Yeah that's progress. 
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26th, 2010 01:04 am |
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chickenlady81 Member
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I try and find things to do to keep me busy cause I will be checking all the time. one good thing is that the bator is up in my bedroom so I have to walk up and down the stair to check on them..LOL I have a new excersize routine!
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13th, 2010 07:46 pm |
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futility_acres The Dom's Mom 
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Oh thank God I'm not the only one! I still think it is so incredible that you can take an egg, and in three weeks you have a baby chick! I adore watching them hatch out- I'm also the idiot that stands at the plexiglass topped incubator at the county fair to watch them hatch much longer than most people. I'll never get tired of it! What I love is when the last couple days of the incubation, you can hear tapping and peeping from inside the eggs.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 26th, 2010 01:30 am |
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SundownSilkies *Sundown Silkies* 
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What I like about it is I put together a pair of chickens, and hatch out their babies, and its so exciting to see what they produced.
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