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Jonnyboy
Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 08 6:15 am Post subject: Chez! Chez! |
 
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I can hear pipping!
I don't do anything for at least 24 hours right? Just leave them to fluff up and dry in the incubator and then remove to the brooder tomorrow? |
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mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Location: mid-Wales
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 08 6:18 am Post subject: |
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 The title just made me laugh...
You'll have to wait for herself for an answer, though! |
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Jamanda
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: North Devon
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Don't forget to take photos! |
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Fee
Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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Location: Surrey Heath
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 08 7:24 am Post subject: |
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How exciting!
The title is funny, you can hear the little boy full of excitement in it  |
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Barefoot Andrew
Joined: 21 Mar 2007
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Bless
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mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 08 8:43 am Post subject: |
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How exciting!
The title is funny, you can hear the little boy full of excitement in it |
My thoughts exactly! |
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: Quantock Hills, Somerset
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 08 9:34 am Post subject: |
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Yep, just leave them to it. If it's getting a bit crowded in there I quickly open it up to take out the empty shells. And you don't have to wait until they've all hatched before fishing out the dry ones - it can sometimes take 48 hours for them all to come out. Put your brooder lamp on now, though, so it starts to warm your box up. And find something for them to drink out of that you can put stones in so that they don't a) drown and b) tip it over  .
Yay! |
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Jonnyboy
Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 08 9:58 am Post subject: |
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Thanks folks, and yes I was ridiculously excited when I opened the incubator and heard cheeping and saw a littel crack in one shell.
It's only 20 days so these ones must be a little early, only three showing cracks so far. |
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sean
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 08 10:23 am Post subject: |
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Are you taking time off work so that you can be present at the births? |
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Tavascarow
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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Location: South Cornwall
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 08 10:27 am Post subject: |
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Watch your temp doesn't spike.
I hatched a load of quail when I was a novice & all the books said leave alone/don't open.
As the chicks get active breaking out of their shells they give off a lot of body heat & humidity & if you have a lot hatching at once the temps can soar & they start dying.
So just keep an eye on the thermometer & if the glass has droplets of water condensing on it lift the lid a tad (Prop it up with a matchstick & let some dry air in.
Good luck dad. |
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Jonnyboy
Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 08 11:05 am Post subject: |
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It's a fan controlled so hopefully shouldn't get temp spikes.  Stuck in work so they are on their own for now |
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Jonnyboy
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 08 11:29 am Post subject: |
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One is out according to the midwife, three other shells show cracks. |
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wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: Bucks
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 08 11:48 am Post subject: |
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PICTURES! |
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: Quantock Hills, Somerset
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 08 11:50 am Post subject: |
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I'm almost as excited as I would be if I'd brooded them myself . |
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judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 08 11:54 am Post subject: |
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Keep us updated. I love this part.
What are they? Bought-in eggs or from your own birds? |
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