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PEEPS!!!
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Are you hearing quite a bit of peeping or just occasional peeping? If its quite a bit you could actually have one out and drying off under mom.PEEPS!!!
Occasional peeps. A tiny voice peeping out.Are you hearing quite a bit of peeping or just occasional peeping? If its quite a bit you could actually have one out and drying off under mom.
I'm sitting within a metre of the nest so when the chick.peeps, I can hear it clearly.This is the hardest part whether you are using a incubator or a broody hen. I've been known to sit right beside the incubator with a flashlight shining down on a egg that has pipped and sit beside the hen when I've heard peeping under her. Depending on the hen every now and then I will gently lift up the front of momma and take a peek under her with a flashlight. This is the paranoid side of me as I've had some issue's with the marans hatching. From my flock I can just about count on if a chick is mal-positioned its a marans chick.
Told you. Very exciting!It's gonna be a long day on the milk crate! I can't imagine doing anything other than sitting out here all day and counting peeps.
Told you. Very exciting!
I didn't mean to worry you, most time everything is fine and perfectly normal. I'd almost call it a fluke with my girls eggs. Almost every hatch I have to assist one after making the external pip and then nothing for almost 30 hours I'll intervene. Each time the chick has had its head tucked under a wing in such as way that it could not move to zip properly. They have also ended up being my largest chicks at hatch.I'm sitting within a metre of the nest so when the chick.peeps, I can hear it clearly.
I hope it's not mal-positioned. Should I check?