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Broody or ?
mustangsaguaro:
--- Quote from: crystalcreek ---That\'s great news! But you jinxed me....I came home to not one but TWO broodies. Thanks !!! lol
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LOL. Sorry :(. I know we want them laying instead of sitting but I prefer to use my broodies instead of an incubator. They are way more reliable.
I had a disaster last night. Our power went out for a few hours and had 19 eggs in the incubator. Not sure how many are going to end up hatching now. Have 5 that hatched and out of shell w/ 2 or 3 more pipped. Not sure how many more may or may not still be alive.
Birdcrazy:
My neice had the power go off for about 6 hrs on her sportsman incubator in Feburary. They put blankets over the incubator until the power came back on. She still had 33 hatch out of 36 eggs hatch. Eggs were about 7-8 days from hatching when the power went out.
Beth C:
Kim: How\'s your hatch coming? Fingers crossed!
mustangsaguaro:
--- Quote from: Beth C ---Kim: How\'s your hatch coming? Fingers crossed!
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Pretty horrible. Had 10 out of 19 hatch. And now I\'m having chicks die left and right and don\'t know what\'s going one. Have had 3 chicks die so far. Two that were in the bator/hatcher last night fine when I went to bed. This morning when I woke up 1 of the 2 was dead. Then I had put 3 that were dry in the brooder appeared to be doing ok I went out an hour later and one was dead. I think I have 5 chicks left. Just hoping no more die over the night. I don\'t know why they would be dying.
Beth C:
I am so sorry - I know what that feels like. I\'ll spare you the details but my next to last hatch went horribly wrong. I\'m glad I didn\'t end the season on that one. I can\'t say for sure why they\'re dying, but I think sometimes when a hatch goes wrong they struggle too much and they just succumb to the stress. Small consolation, but I doubt there was anything you could have done differently - the timing of the power outage was just plain lousy luck. I hope the worst is over and the remaining ones thrive... ((hugs))
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