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monita wrote:

i see you have a batch due to hatch on 11/3 as well. we can be hatch buddies.

Killer!

You'll love them all!
I have a millie egg I threw in the bator on Monday too. 

I need to post some updated pics. They are getting their hocks & foot feathers now. The 2 with curled toes are leaving for a new home soon, since I don't want to breed them. They can be spoiled pets LOL.

Of the 5 I set 10/14 I have 3 chicks. I think they must be the porcelain's chicks because the first to hatch has a more yellow underbelly than the first set. The other 2 are still drying off, so I don't know their colors yet. Will post some pics of those babes, too.

I set more eggs, due 11/15. They are the last of the blue eggs, as all the d'Uccles have quit laying for a while. These chicks will assuredly be the porcelain roos babes! Maybe by the end of this experiment I'll understand better how the lavender gene works.

Lori..... first i want to say that i am sorry. i think i almost failed miserably on hatching your eggs. all of them were fine for lockdown but yesterday was day 21 and i had a feeling a few of them had died so i candled last night and 2 had really really large air sacs and were not moving at all so i kinda drilled a hole in the airsac ( i know i shouldnt' have ) and sure enough 2 were dead then this morning i figured none had progressed as far as pips or anything so i drilled holes in the rest and 2 more had died. i had 3 that were barely hanging on. i opened the eggs on the dead ones and they were fully developed but the yolk wasnt' absorbed at all. i think i figured out my problem..... my temp has been at 92 the entire incubation. i had 3 thermometers in the bator and 2 were reading 102 while the other read 92 so i was going with the 2 that had 102.....ugh i am so mad. i upped the temp so the 1 that was reading 92 is now reading 102 and the other 2 are reading 112. but the chicks are now moving more and seem to be doing better. out of the 7 eggs that were locked down i have 1 self blue and 2 mille fleur left. i am checking on them like every 10 minutes and they seem to be thriving. i am praying that these 3 chicks make it. the blue one is doing better than the 2 mille fleur. i figure he will probably be hatched by tonight.he is pushing alot where the other 2 are just squirming. keep your fingers crossed for me, and again i am so sorry. oh yeah congrats on your babies. how is your hatch doing today?

Wow!!! They are stunning!

i'm wondering how could i missed this thread ??

congrats     for the blue babies, they will have beard just like their parents? that's so funny, we have no chicken that have beard or feather on their feet.

em, honestly, why they look more like gray than blue? or perhaps i'm wrong?