Pipd's Peeps!

[ronott1]

I opened the air cell on the last egg, just enough to see, and the little one is confirmed dead. Not sure why, as it was positioned correctly, but it just never broke through the inner membrane into the air cell.

So, 9 babies The last one is a bit matted still from being glued into her egg, so I brushed her gently with a toothbrush to help her fluff out more. She's still getting her legs underneath her, so I left her in the incubator for the time being so she wouldn't get trampled by the rest of them, who are starting to get more active now.

Here are the other 8 in the brooder! In pictures it looks like I got a bunch of Blacks, but in person, it looks like I got a bunch of Blues. Some of them are tricky to tell for sure, but I do think I got more Blues than Blacks based on how they look to the naked eye. We'll see once they start feathering!

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This little Blue baby is the one whose foot was by the shell when I candled at day 14 I've been calling her 'Wash' because I also had to wash her egg off a little bit before I set it. I thought it was kind of a cute homage to that.

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I'm sure there will be plenty more pictures to come, especially once baby 9 is out and about They are simply too precious!!

Cute!

Often they die between internal or external pip and hatching if the organs do not start up correctly. There is a switch from getting support from the yolk to getting it on their own.

It is a similar reason why some die at three days old but more related to kidney failure.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

That's sad. But, obviously, nothing can be done for it when it happens.

Here are the nine little ones this morning! Making a mess already But they're cute enough, I can let it slide.

I've got to get some pictures of them with the good camera today. Slightly grainy cell pics from above just don't capture the sheer magnitude of all this cuteness!

 

[ronott1]

The are very cute!

 

[hirundinidae]

Adorable! Can't wait for more pictures!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Here they are! Lethal levels of cuteness ahead!! They're in hatch order and I labeled each full-body picture with their color as well!

(Baby 7 I originally thought was Blue, but now that she's dried off further, I think she's actually a light-colored Black baby. Time will tell!)

And a few extras, here's baby Wash's booty

And a couple group shots! They're still young enough that they mostly stay where I put them, though getting them all to look at the camera at the same time proved to be a challenge

I'm in love already They're just so stinkin' cute!!

 

[ronott1]

Here they are! Lethal levels of cuteness ahead!! They're in hatch order and I labeled each full-body picture with their color as well!

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(Baby 7 I originally thought was Blue, but now that she's dried off further, I think she's actually a light-colored Black baby. Time will tell!)

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And a few extras, here's baby Wash's booty

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And a couple group shots! They're still young enough that they mostly stay where I put them, though getting them all to look at the camera at the same time proved to be a challenge

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I'm in love already They're just so stinkin' cute!!

How Sweet!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Babies today! We made the move to the big brooder because this is entirely too many babies for the baby bin and they were making a huge mess. After a couple of hours of reassurance, they seem to have accepted their new home and settled in.

The little one with the zoomies here is Harley, previously Baby 8. They all go to the waterer at the same time, no exceptions, to drink right now.

And the aftermath of zoomies to the waterer is a bunch of sleepy babies

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

It's hatch day for the Orpingtons, but it's looking kind of bleak at this point... Out of 15 eggs, I had a bunch of blood rings and failures to develop, leaving me with 6 eggs by day 14. One died just before lockdown, so down to 5. As of this morning, I have 2 internally pipped and one drawn down and moving a lot, but the last two appear dead. Three chicks, assuming they all three hatch. One Crele and two Chocolate Mottled. I sure hope I get at least one female out of them. I only got them to add a couple pretty girls to my flock and had no plans to keep any males.


The silkied Cochin babies are doing great, though! One week old today and I've started to move them over to pine shavings for bedding. They're rambunctious little stinkers who all want my constant attention when I'm in the room, and they're so cute that it's hard not to stare at them when I'm in there. I'll have to get pictures again today for their one week hatchiversary. I haven't been great at keeping up with weekly pictures so far this year, but I want to get back into that. I love having those pictures to look back on once they're older!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

One of the Chocolate Mottleds is now an air breather - we have an external pip! I can't get a picture because of the angle through the incubator lid, but that's one baby on the way!! The baby bin brooder is warming up as we speak!

 

[ronott1]

One of the Chocolate Mottleds is now an air breather - we have an external pip! I can't get a picture because of the angle through the incubator lid, but that's one baby on the way!! The baby bin brooder is warming up as we speak!

They will be out soon!