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Hey, it’s Chickam time again, and this is our 12th year, yay! You can watch the hatch, with sound and chat, here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr7ICWyIMhWSp0UUJpAeTCw/live What The Hell Is *Chickam* You Ask? Why it’s a live webcam feed of baby chicks hatching in my ReptiPro incubator, in my dining room! After the hatch, we’ll move the cam to the brooder box for the next 8 weeks, it will run 24/7, with sound, so you can watch the chicks grow up! You will also hear our family, since the chicks are taking over my dining room for the next 8 weeks. If you have a question, fire away! Hope everyone is ready for some hot chick action, ‘cause we’ve got eggs pipped and chicks on the way… How Many? This year, we started with 36 in the incubator, a variety of standard and bantam sizes, some from our flock, some from a neighbot who has buff Brahmas and white Leghorns all running together! For some reason we had a high rate of fertile eggs that simply never developed. So now, we have for sure 7 embryos, with 4 more that are iffy due to the shells being too dark to see through when I candled them—so a possible hatch of 11, though it will likely be less than that. Mother Nature ultimately makes the call and sometimes pulls the plug at the last minute. Bantam eggs like to hatch several days earlier then the usual incubation period of 21 days, we have one egg that pipped (the chick pecked an airhole) already. Little bastards. Will There Be A Mama Hen This Year? MAYBE. Right now only 3 banty (small) hens in our flock have gone broody (gone over to the Dark Side and are in killer mama mode). One of them is Darling, a really tiny banty hen. Several mama hens would tend to fight over the chicks, so we’d only be able to use one hen for a foster mom. BUT--if all the eggs hatch, there may be too many chicks for one bantam hen, and when this happens mama gets pissy and can peck/hurt the chicks. So if roughly 7 or fewer chicks hatch, YES we can try to introduce a broody hen, if MORE than that hatch, no mama, sorry. Hopefully we can get the kids a foster mom, because watching a mama hen interact with her chicks is a blast. And no, broody hens don’t care if she laid those eggs or not, all she cares about is OMG CHICKS. What’s With The Missing Sequential Numbers Of Eggs? I candled (shined a bright light through each egg in a darkened room to see if there was an embryo inside) the eggs 10 days in and removed some duds, that’s why you’ll see a break in the number sequence of the eggs. In addition to being numbered, each egg is marked with an X on one side and an O on the other, this is for us to keep track of which egg was turned every time we turned the eggs—5 times a day for three weeks, by the way. What’s Taking So Long?! And ICK! Patience, little one. When chicks hatch they pip first, then hours later start to ‘unzip’ their shell (peck in a line as they rotate in the shell) then finally kick free all at once. It’s hours of waiting with a sudden payoff at the end, but once they start to unzip they can be out of the shell in anywhere from 1 hour to 20 minutes to 5 minutes later. And YES, they are icky and slimy and lay around like wet noodles when they first hatch, don’t worry they get cute and fluffy as they dry and get stronger. Also hatched chicks can be quite rough and step on each other, or flip over onto their backs and have trouble righting themselves—they’ll be okay, no damage is done; so don’t worry. Once dry and strong we move them and the cam to the brooder box, where mama will be installed overnight if we can use one this year. I’ll list the eggs that have pipped and hatched here, with their progress and names: #1— #3— #4—Pipped 4/10 9PM, hatched 4/11 at 8PM, named 'Boombox' by Fashionably Great. #7— #8—(Neighbor's egg) Pipped 4/9 11PM, hatched at 3:15PM, named 'Bobbie' #9— #10—Pipped 4/9 3AM, hatched at 6:40PM, named 'Carrie'. #25— #26— #32—Pipped 4/8 11PM, hatched at 9:30AM 4/10, named 'Rapunzel'. Chickam Phase Two courtesy of Uptown Bus and her hidden nest Seven eggs at the start, Bus broke one, leaving 2 large eggs, 4 bantam eggs Bantam egg hatched 5/26 10PM, named 'Caramel' Large egg hatched 5/27 2PM, named 'Downtown Taxi' by Spoggerific BTW—please keep the YouTube chat CLEAN. Lots of kids watch Chickam every year, likely moreso this year than ever. We have zero tolerance for over-the-top bad language, racism, hate or other things of that nature and will kick & ban anyone not being a decent human being. NOW FOR THE BEST PART: YOU GUYS GET TO NAME THE CHICKS! Post your name suggestions here, ONE per Goon, please--be advised we already have chickens named things like ‘Dinner’, ‘Burger’, etc.--so use your imagination and give us some good/weird/fun chicken names! These are CHICKENS after all, and should have silly names. As each chick hatches we will draw a name for it out of a hat! Velvet Sparrow fucked around with this message at 23:44 on May 27, 2020 |
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Apr 10, 2020 02:29
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 !Name one Sebastian. It's a dignified name. When he grows up he can be Sebastian Bawk
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Apr 10, 2020 02:38
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#10 is out! One of those 'pipped to popped' chicks, a VERY quick hatch!
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Apr 10, 2020 02:46
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gently caress yeah chickam!! Name : Peckerina
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Apr 10, 2020 02:51
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What a great time for Chickam! Let's throw "Ping" into the hat 'o names edit: the link in the OP takes you to a stream from last year rather than the livestream AF fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Apr 10, 2020 |
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Apr 10, 2020 03:05
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Always love that Chickam time of year. I'll toss Peepcorn into the hat.
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Apr 10, 2020 03:08
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Gobbler Escobar
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Apr 10, 2020 03:10
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Fluff Bagwell
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Apr 10, 2020 03:15
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Sisqo
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Apr 10, 2020 03:17
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Chet
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Apr 10, 2020 03:18
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Yes something fun to look at mindlessly all day long!! please name a chicken Bucky Badger, ty
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Apr 10, 2020 03:19
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AF posted:What a great time for Chickam! Let's throw "Ping" into the hat 'o names Oops! sorry about that, fixed it. And we've already had a 'Ping', sorry! Choose again!
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Apr 10, 2020 03:21
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i would like you to name a chicken "Paul Allen"
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Apr 10, 2020 03:29
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Hell yeah! I submit Lu Bu As I do every year, just in case.
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Apr 10, 2020 03:34
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Like every year, I nominate Dave Cluckstain 
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Apr 10, 2020 03:40
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Velvet Sparrow posted:Oops! sorry about that, fixed it. drat, guess I should have seen that coming after 13 years. Let's go with Quirky Purple then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyn6g6JFkIY
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Apr 10, 2020 03:45
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gonna suggest that one gets named Absolute Madlad
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Apr 10, 2020 03:47
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I'm going to suggest Nibbles.
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Apr 10, 2020 03:50
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Asdrubal Cabrera
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Apr 10, 2020 03:52
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Chickbyob
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Apr 10, 2020 03:54
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Asdrubal Cabrera I miss baseball  Gonna go with Robert Muldoon
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Apr 10, 2020 03:59
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SON OF EGG
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Apr 10, 2020 04:04
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Cluckintine
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Apr 10, 2020 04:13
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just tuned in, #36 is rocking pretty good right now
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Apr 10, 2020 04:22
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Submitting "Marvelous Chickster" to the naming pool.
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Apr 10, 2020 04:29
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Once again, throwing Omelette into the name pile.
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Apr 10, 2020 04:30
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Yay Chickam! The name I put forward to the pool is Speedy .
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Apr 10, 2020 04:38
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Has there been a Taters? If so then can I suggest the alternate Possum? Thank you for putting up with us all these years!
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Apr 10, 2020 04:41
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Tarzan is a good strong name.
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Apr 10, 2020 06:18
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This is my first chickam. Can you submit names? Or is it a  thing?
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Apr 10, 2020 06:21
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uh, please check on the chick
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Apr 10, 2020 06:52
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Piss Meridian posted:uh, please check on the chick Bout 5 minutes ago he scratched his right wing. Poor little dude. edit: I rewound, seems he got it caught in the gap between the fan and the wall. It doesn't LOOK too deep but he was just born like a few hours ago so you never know. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Apr 10, 2020 |
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Apr 10, 2020 06:55
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In honor of being locked inside, I propose the name: Rapunzel runners-up: A pair: Corona, and Lyme Buffalo MSM (Mechanically separated meat) Don Cheeto
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Apr 10, 2020 07:01
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syntaxrigger posted:This is my first chickam. Can you submit names? Or is it a Yep, one name submission per Goon, drawn out of a hat. Hoping the little one that has cut itself ends up okay  . I will submit Senor Floofypants, if that hasn't been done before!
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Apr 10, 2020 07:02
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might I propose Carrie for the newborn?
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Apr 10, 2020 07:03
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Piss Meridian posted:might I propose Carrie for the newborn? Oh lordy, I think we pretty much have to do this. I jokingly called her Manson, but that's a little too real-world gruesome. Mopping up that much blood on the first day of hatch is a first. #10 is OK, she just caught a wingtip feather on something and decided to paint the walls (and her siblings) with blood. I got out my jar of chicken leak-stop and fixed her. On the plus side, #8 has pipped, and was peeping angrily as I cleaned blood off it's shell.
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Apr 10, 2020 07:25
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Omelette, Tater and Senor Floofypants have all been used, choose again! Omelette was a chick years ago, Tater Tot Hotdish is currently terrorizing the flock (and is mother to Marble and Mothball) and Weedcat's full name was: Weedcat, His Majesty King Fluffypants/Floofypants.
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Apr 10, 2020 07:33
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Velvet Sparrow posted:...all been used, choose again! I had no idea about Weedcat's full name! In that case, will be proposing The Claw
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Apr 10, 2020 08:47
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Spartacus 
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Apr 10, 2020 09:21
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In honor of the holiday I'm currently celebrating and also my habit of giving my stardew chickens jewish food names, one chick should be named Matzah Ball
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